Born about in Tennessee, United States
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Thomas Sparks
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 74
in Walker County, Alabama
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Biography of Ruth B White
Ruth B White Sparks was born in 1799. She passed away in 1873.
1850 Federal Census record:
- Name: Rutha Sparks
- Event Type: Census
- Event Year: 1850
- Event Place: Lawrence county, Lawrence, Alabama, United States
- Gender: Female
- Age: 50
- Race: White
- Birth Year (Estimated): 1800
- Birthplace: Virginia
- Household ID: 78
- House Number: 78
- Line Number: 30[1]
- Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
- Rutha Sparks F 50 Virginia
- Thomas W Sparks M 22 Alabama
- Stephen Sparks M 18 Alabama
- Eli Sparks M 15 Louisiana[2]
1860 Federal Census record:
- Name: Ruth A Sparks
- Event Type: Census
- Event Date: 1860
- Event Place: Western Division, Walker, Alabama, United States
- Gender: Female
- Age: 60
- Birth Year (Estimated): 1800
- Birthplace: Tennessee
- Page: 92
- Household ID: 607[3]
- Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
- Eli Sparks M 25 Alabama
- May K Sparks F 19 Alabama
- Ruth A Sparks F 60 Tennessee [original reads Rutha Sparks]
- S P Baker M 23 Alabama[4]
Burial:
- Name: Ruth B White Sparks
- Maiden Name: White
- Event Type: Burial
- Event Place: Hillard, Walker, Alabama, United States of America
- Affiliate Record Identifier: 13587444
- Cemetery: Steadman Cemetery[5]
Sources
- ↑ The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Publication Number: M432, Film Number: 8, GS Film Number:2350, Digital Folder Number:004187298, Image Number: 00015
- ↑ Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH5S-3MW : 12 April 2016), Rutha Sparks, Lawrence county, Lawrence, Alabama, United States; citing family 78, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)
- ↑ The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Publication Number:M653, Film Number:26, GS Film Number: 803026, Digital Folder Number:005165597, Image Number:00096
- ↑ Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1B-H96M : 13 December 2017), Ruth A Sparks in entry for Eli Sparks, 1860
- ↑ Citing this Record: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVZ-Q36N : 11 July 2016), Ruth B White Sparks, ; Burial, Hillard, Walker, Alabama, United States of America, Steadman Cemetery; citing record ID 13587444, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com
- Biography by Carolyn Murray Greer
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Joseph Richardson
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Is there any documentation of Ruth's connection to the connected parents, Samuel White (1774-) and Nancy C (Rankin) White (1775-1857)?
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