This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Eej.2ACIB/2904.1 Message Board Post: There was a Paulina C. Self (sometimes read as Priscilla), born 1840 in Newton county, AR, who was daughter to Nathaniel Self and Ursula Burleson. Her next youngest sibling was spencer Marion Self (1843-1918). Thier older sister Letitia/Lucretia Self (1833-1911) married James Simpson Holt. With at least one other sibling, David Bailey Simpson Self, these relocated to Hood County, TX, while others in the familyremained in Johnson county, AR, and the surrounding area. I would try out the tentative theory that Paulina C. Self married a Sparks man and is your Plina Caroline Sparks, and if so, the likely mother of your grandfather William Marion Sparks. Even if this proves to not be true, you have at least whittled down the possibilities.