Wolfe County news - Nov. 1955 FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR ACCIDENT VICTIM Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon for Willie Sparks, 38 son of the late Jasper Sparks of Tarr Ridge. Rev. Herbert Hollon conducted the funeral in the First Church of God at Tarr Ridge. Interment was in the Reynolds Cemetery under the direction of Hearne Funeral Home. Sparks had been ill and after visiting his doctor started homeward late Monday evening. It is thought in the darkness he stumbled and fell over a 100 foot cliff. When some neighbors visited his home on Tuesday morning they did not find him and a serach was begun for him. It was not until Thursday that Sheriff George G. Little and a seraching party of about 30 men found the mutilated body wedged between two large boulders on a small ledge about 100 feet from the top of the hill and about 500 feet from the bottom of the canyon, near the Red River in Wolfe County about two miles from the victim's home. He is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Roxie McClure, Dayton, Ohio, Mrs. Alice Blackburn, Booth, KY; Mrs. Sylvia Brewer, Rogers; and Mrs. Eunice Reynolds, Middletown, Ohio. Also Floyd Sparks, John Sparks and Charles Sparks all of Rogers, Ky., Sam Sparks, Middletown, Ohio and Albert Sparks now a patient in the Good Samartan Hospital, Lexington. Carole