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/GKB.2ACE/1679 Message Board Post: I am looking for Sparks descendants in Douglas County. My great-grandfather, John Richard "Jack" Sparks, was born somewhere in Missouri on Oct. 18, 1857, to Thomas Sparks and Martha McDowell. He had a brother, Isaac (or Issac) Rigdon Sparks, who was supposedly born in Douglas County on March 2, 1860. I'm wondering if Jack might have been born there, too. And possibly, Thomas and Martha were married there? The only reference I have found to them as a family was in the 1860 Pulaski County census, when they were living with Martha's brother. I have no idea how they got there, or when. At that time, Thomas was listed as being 50 and a native of South Carolina. Martha was 20, Jack was 2 or 3, and Ike was a baby. I do know that Jack died in 1906 in Webb City, and was buried there. He was living with Ike at the time of his death. Ike died in Los Angeles in 1930. Does anyone have any ideas? Jayne