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Mary Ann <I>Harmon</I> Sparks

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Mary Ann Harmon Sparks

Birth
Morgan County, Missouri, USA
Death
18 Nov 1917 (aged 65)
USA
Burial
Glensted, Morgan County, Missouri, USA
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Mary Ann Harmon Sparks was the daughter of Valentine Harmon and Sally Ann Jones. She married Thomas Lafayette Sparks and lived her entire life in the Glensted, Versailles area. She bore 12 children of whom eight lived to adulthood. After her husband died she sold the farm in Glensted and ran a boarding house in Versailles as a widow. She was a lady admired by those that knew her. She hand painted china and was a fine seamstress according to her Granddaughter Beatrice Morris Carpenter. Her life was saddened by the loss of so many she loved. Her father and two brothers died as Confederates in the Civil War. Her two sisters died young. She lost three infants and lost a daughter who died of Bright's disease when she was 7 months pregnant. She lost a son to a gun accident. She lost her husband to Bright's disease at an age just when they were enjoying the grown children they had raised.
Mary Ann Harmon Sparks was the daughter of Valentine Harmon and Sally Ann Jones. She married Thomas Lafayette Sparks and lived her entire life in the Glensted, Versailles area. She bore 12 children of whom eight lived to adulthood. After her husband died she sold the farm in Glensted and ran a boarding house in Versailles as a widow. She was a lady admired by those that knew her. She hand painted china and was a fine seamstress according to her Granddaughter Beatrice Morris Carpenter. Her life was saddened by the loss of so many she loved. Her father and two brothers died as Confederates in the Civil War. Her two sisters died young. She lost three infants and lost a daughter who died of Bright's disease when she was 7 months pregnant. She lost a son to a gun accident. She lost her husband to Bright's disease at an age just when they were enjoying the grown children they had raised.

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