Martha Virgin Sparks

b. 27 October 1893, d. 19 February 1973
  • Martha Virgin Sparks was born on 27 October 1893 in Georgia.
  • Daisy Huff and Martha Virgin Sparks appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, at 553 Walnut Street.
  • Daisy Huff and Martha Virgin Sparks appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, at 663 Mulberry Street.
  • The following appeared on 18 August 1911 in The Macon Daily Telegraph: Mrs. Daisy Huff Sparks, of Atlanta, will come to Macon to join Miss Martha Sparks, who has been visiting here for several weeks, and they will leave Saturday for Warm Springs to spend some time.
  • The following appeared on 1 August 1919 in The Macon Daily Telegraph: (Dublin, July 31) An important case involving a number of Macon parties has just been decided in Laurens Superior Court by Judge J. L. Kent directing a verdict against four of the plaintiffs and for one of them, a minor. The case involves a deal in Laurens county farm land.
         Suit was brought by the heirs of Mrs. David [sic] Sparks, of Macon, to recover 100 acres of land which had been sold for her by W. B. Sparks, acting as trustee, several years ago. Mrs. Sparks inherited the land from her grandfather, and at her death it was to go to her children living at that time. She died a year or two since, and her children brought suit to recover the land alleging that the legal process granting W. B. Sparks the authority to sell was irregular and not binding. The heirs bringing suit were Robert L. Sparks, W. B. Sparks, R. L. Sparks, Miss Hattie Sparks, Miss Martha Sparks, all of Macon.
         It was held by Judge Kent, in the trial of the case, that the legal process under which the land was sold was plainly irregular, and for that cause was not binding. Three of the heirs, however, who had attained their majority, agreed to the sale, and the late Ovid G. Sparks, of Macon, also well known in Dublin, signed one of the deeds as witness after he had attained his majority, but was a minor at the time the sale was consummated. All of these, it was held, had voluntarily forfeited their rights in the land, but Robert L. Sparks, who is yet a minor, had not forfeited his rights, because he was not of age to sanction any such sale, and was therefore entitled to recover one-fifth undivided interest in 100 acres of land, also rents amounting to $140.
         The case will be carried to the Supreme Court on appeal by the plaintiff, J. D. Moore, of Macon. W. J. Wallace, of Soperton, and I. N. Eubanks, of Dublin, represented the plaintiffs, while Judge J. K. Hines, of Atlanta, Judge ? S. Adams, of Dublin, and M. H. Blackshear, of Dublin, represented the defendants.
  • Daisy Huff and Martha Virgin Sparks appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, at 238 Hardeman Avenue.
  • She was employed as a filing clerk in an insurance office, according to the 1920 census.
  • Martha Virgin Sparks died on 19 February 1973 at age 79 in Bibb County, Georgia.
  • She was interred at Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
  • Last Edited: 30 Apr 2011