George Sparks & Vivian Retherford of Wisconsin - Family Ties:Information about Hannah Sparks
Hannah Sparks (b. May 18, 1848, d. January 01, 1917)
Hannah Sparks Pickering, abt. 1916(Photo provided by Kay Scholtz, Field's collection) |
Hannah Sparks (daughter of James Freeman Sparks and Sylvia Calkins) was born May 18, 1848 in Sullivan County, New York1859, and died January 01, 1917 in Crane, Richland County, Montana1859, 1860.She married Byron Potter Pickering on September 28, 1866 in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania1861, son of Potter Pickering and Silona (---?---).
Notes for Hannah Sparks:
CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN & PRESS, January 11, 1917, Page 1.Granton news.Mrs. Byron Pickering, Dead.Just at the dawn of a new day in the birth of the new year on Monday, January 1st, 1917, the soul of Mrs. Byron Pickering left its earthly tenement at her home in Crane, Mont., and passed on and into that higher life, beyond.
Deceased was born Hannah Sparks in Youngsville, Sullivan County, New York, on May 18th 1848.She was there married to Byron Pickering Sept. 28th, 1866.They came to Clark County very soon after and settled in the town of Sherwood where all but their oldest daughter was born.She is survived by her husband, eight children and nineteen grandchildren.Her children are Edith, Mrs. M. J. Wilson of Minneapolis, Minn.; Helen, Mrs. C. D. Stockwell of Spooner, Wis.; David of Sheldon, Wis.; Sylvia, Mrs. E. Watts of Fairview, Montana; and Myron, Earl, Allen and Jessie, Mrs. Earl Hull of Crane, Mont.The children with the exception of Earl are all married and in good homes of their own.
The family left Clark County about ten years ago and took up residence at Crane.Deceased came to her death as the result of the second stroke of paralysis she suffered last October.The majority of her children were with her in her last hours and all were home together at the celebration of their parents' golden wedding at Crane, Mont., last September.
In her youthful days she early sought a Christian life by affiliation with the Methodist church and has ever since been a true, loving charitable Christian woman.To know Mrs. Pickering was to admire her for she had had those traits of character which always command respect.She was of sympathetic nature, and no person in trouble ever went to her and was turned away.Her steadfast adherence to the highest ideals made her life an example and her memory as a fragrant blossom to be cherished by her friends and remembered with consoling thoughts by those to whom she was bound by family ties.With her there were no mysteries of life, for her abiding faith in the promises of a life beyond the grave have ever been unshaken and were so until the end.(copy in possession of Katherine Sparks, provided by Kay Scholtz, Sherwood Township historian).
More About Hannah Sparks and Byron Potter Pickering:
Marriage: September 28, 1866, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.1861
Children of Hannah Sparks and Byron Potter Pickering are:
- Edith Ethel Pickering, b. September 11, 1867, Great Bend, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania1862, d. February 06, 1965, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota1862.
- Helen Phoebe Pickering, b. August 10, 1869, Plainfield, Waushara County, Wisconsin1862, d. February 10, 1938, Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin1862.
- +Myron Potter Pickering, b. February 08, 1873, Plainfield, Waushara County, Wisconsin1863, d. September 18, 1966, Crane, Montana1863.
- +Sylvia Silona Pickering, b. April 14, 1875, Nevins, Clark County, Wisconsin1864, d. 1966, Montana1864.
- David Leon Pickering, b. July 14, 1878, Nevins, Clark County, Wisconsin1864, d. February 24, 1968, Wisconsin1865.
- Earl Wayne Pickering, b. February 28, 1881, Nevins, Clark County, Wisconsin1865, d. date unknown, Montana1865.
- Pearl Pickering, b. February 28, 1881, Nevins, Clark County, Wisconsin1865, d. February 28, 1881, Nevins, Clark County, Wisconsin1865.
- Chester Allen Pickering, b. March 15, 1884, Nevins, Clark County, Wisconsin1865, d. date unknown.
- +Jessie Eva Pickering, b. April 07, 1889, Nevins, Clark County, Wisconsin1866, d. 1955, Wisconsin1866.