J.S. Sparks
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri
Biographies of Scott County, 1888
Dr. J.S. Sparks, of Blodgett, Mo., was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., October 10, 1834. He is a son of William G. and Nazey (Daffron) Sparks, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. William G. Sparks emigrated from the "Old North State" to Tennessee, thence to Georgia, where he lived until his death in 1857. He was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife died in 1887. They had ten children, four living: Dr. J.S., Susan J., William G. and Joseph. The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life, chiefly in Georgia. He made farming, his sole occupation until 1855, when he began studying medicine. He began the practice of his profession in Georgia, but removed to Scott County, Mo., in1857. Locating at Richwoods, he practiced medicine about three years, when he purchased a farm about three miles below Blodgett, and engaged in farming in connection with his practice. When the war broke out he removed to Santa Fe, Ill., and resumed the practice of his profession, but three years later removed back to Scott County. In 1882 he graduated from the Medical University of Tennessee at Nashville, soon after which he located at Blodgett. He has been married four times; first, on March 6, 1859, to Sarah C. Bennefield, by whom he has three children: Dr. Richard A., Henrietta and Louisa C. He was married the second time on October 18, 1868 and the third time on October 6, 1876. On August 6, 1884, he was united in marriage with Bettie Goode, by whom he has one child, Frederick D. The Doctor is a Mason, and a member of the I.O.O.F.
Submitted by Connie Perkins
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