On 5 January 1779, when she was in her mid-forties, she married Jacob Eckle in Rowan County, North Carolina. The Rowan County, North Carolina, marriage bond was dated January 5, 1779, and Mary's name appeared as Anne Mary Little. The bondsman was John Lewis Beard. The bond witness was William R Davis. There were no children born to this union.
On 5 September 1786, when she was about fifty-one. she married Jonas Sparks. Jonas Sparks obtained a marriage bond in Rowan County, North Carolina, to marry "Mary Eakle" Sparks's bondsman was Peter Little, while Hugh Magoune witnessed the bond.[1] There were no children born to this union.
According to a tradition among the descendants of Jonas Sparks's son, David, Mary was a Dutch woman and David, who would have been about eighteen years old at the time, strongly objected to his father marrying her. Later, however, David married the Dutch woman's pretty daughter, whose name was also, Mary.[2]
Jonas Sparks executed his will 11 May 1805 in Rowan County, North Carolina
I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Mary Sparks, the dwelling house where I now live and a sufficient maintenance of the plantation during widowhood or lifetime, one desk, a bar mare and six pewter plates, two pewter basins, one flax wheel, one bottle, one pot, one old small pot, one looking glass, one coffee mu, one corner cupboard, one griddle, one old copper kettle. [3]
In 1805, when she was about seventy, Mary died in Rowan County of unknown causes.
↑ “North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979,” Abstracts of Rowan County Marriage Bonds, p. 412, Jonas Sparks and Mary Eakle (5 September 1786); digital image, FamilySearch, image 438; citing North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
↑1.2.5.6 Jonas Sparks (died 1805), of Rowan County, North Carolina and his descendants; Russell E Bidlack, Sparks Family Quarterly, sparksfamilyassn.org, accessed 30 Aug 2018.
↑ Russell E. Bidlack, “Jonas Sparks (died 1805 of Rowan County, North Carolina And His Descendants,” Sparks Family Quarterly, number 45, pp. 790-807.
Samuel James Ervin Jr., A Colonial History Of Rowan County North Carolina (1917).
Family Notes, Reba Little Inzer
1759 Rowan County Militia List, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
Ruth Curtis Snyder, compiler, The Fosher girls (Fascher) daughters of Daniel Fosher and Marillis (Eckel) Fosher (1785-1970) (Lincoln, NE: Ruth (Curtis) Snyder, 1982). A very amateurish and poorly organized production, but Snyder tries very hard to be as accurate as possible. Not good at being specific in citing sources. Many careless mistakes with spelling, punctuation, and the like. pph20080311-1935 Call Number: 929.2 Sn92 H.A.G.S.
Acknowledgments
Tanya Breese imported the data for Anne Mary (Lewis) Sparks (1735-1805) from breesefam.ged on 9 May 2011.
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