YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Jarrett-Sparks Cemetery ----¤¤¤¤---- Location: From Burnsville turn onto 197N and go to Brush Creek, continue on to the right and go about 1 ½ miles to a two story brick house on a bank on the left side of the road. Go up past the barn and continue on up thru a meadow, then go left up the hill by an apple tree to the top of the ridge and then go out the ridge to the left to the cemetery. Condition: Fenced but needs mowing SURNAMES: GARLAND, JARRETT, SPARKS 1. Jane Elizabeth, Wife of S. M. Jarrett, 08-7-1850 - 7-10-1912 2. Samuel M Jarrett, 10-12-1850 - 2-26-1931 "Rest, Father, Rest in quiet sleep while friends in sorry ore thee weep" 3. rock 4. rock 5. rock 6. rock 7. rock 8. rock 9. Jack (Jackson) Sparks, 5-18-1848 - 1-5-1934, (4-28-1859 - 1-5-1934 - 85 yrs. 8 mo. 7 days - S/o Samuel & Polly Stewart Sparks) 10. Tennessee Woody Sparks, 9-29-1854 - 3-3-1918 (W/o # 1, D/o G. B. & Catherine Phillips Woody) 11. S.B. Sparks, Sr., 1-25-1822 - 2-11-1902 12. Robert N. Sparks, 1857 - 1935 (4-4-1857 - 4-3-1935, S/o Samuel & Mary Stewart Sparks) 13. Infants of Bert and Desta Garland, 2-21-1918. Footstones: "Son" "Daughter" 14. Claude R. Sparks, 5-1-1907 - 7-23-1943 "Sleeping with Jesus" (Info in parentheses is from Death Records or other sources. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Bodford gbodford@yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________