Leroy Sparks

SPARKS, STEVENS

Posted By: County Coordiantor
Date: 11/18/2006 at 23:04:31

Leroy Sparks, farmer, Sec 11, P O Boone, was born in this county February 9, 1853, wher e he has always lived and received the advantages of a good common school education, supplemented with quite an extensive self-culture, at the age of seventeen he commenced teaching, which he followed for three years, and since he has been engaged in farming, in 1877 he was elected clerk of the township, which office he has since held, he was married September 13,1874, to Miss Iowa Luella Stevens, a native of Iowa City, they have one son: Brownie (born October 8, 1877)

1880 Boone Co History Book