Obits:Sparks, Willie, died  Nov. 1955
Oct. 2002
Wolfe County, KY 

Submitted by: http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays
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Wolfe County news - Nov. 1955

FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR ACCIDENT VICTIM

Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon for Willie Sparks, 
38 son of the late Jasper Sparks of Tarr Ridge.  Rev. Herbert Hollon 
conducted the funeral in the First Church of God at Tarr Ridge.  Interment 
was in the Reynolds Cemetery under the direction of Hearne Funeral 
Home.

Sparks had been ill and after visiting his doctor started homeward late 
Monday evening.  It is thought in the darkness he stumbled and fell 
over a 100 foot cliff.  When some neighbors visited his home on Tuesday 
morning they did not find him and a serach was begun for him.  It was not 
until Thursday that Sheriff George G. Little and a seraching party of 
about 30 men found the mutilated body wedged between two large boulders 
on a small ledge about 100 feet from the top of the hill and about 500 
feet from the bottom of the canyon, near the Red River in Wolfe County 
about two miles from the victim's home.

He is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Roxie McClure, Dayton, Ohio, Mrs. 
Alice Blackburn, Booth, KY; Mrs. Sylvia Brewer, Rogers; and Mrs. Eunice 
Reynolds, Middletown, Ohio.  Also Floyd Sparks, John Sparks and Charles 
Sparks all of Rogers, Ky., Sam Sparks, Middletown, Ohio and Albert 
Sparks now a patient in the Good Samartan Hospital, Lexington.


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