WHITE COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Mrs. Nancy Sparkman - March 28, 1885
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Obituary of Mrs. Nancy Sparkman
From The Nashville Christian Advocate, March 28, 1885

Mrs. Nancy Sparkman, daughter of James W. and Elizabeth Copeland, was
born in White County, Tenn., June 14, 1822.  Sister Sparkman professed
religion and joined the Methodist Church in the year 1840, in which she
lived a consistent member until her death.  She was married to Lewis
Sparkman in 1843, and died near Flint, Ala., Dec. 23, 1884, from
pneumonia.  Her body was deposited in the Forest Chapel cemetery on
Christmas-day.  She was sick only a few days, but bore her intense
suffering with great patience.  She was the mother of twelve children,
five of whom have gone to live in a bright world beyond this vale of
tears, where she has now gone to reunite with them.  The seven children
that are left here to mourn with her bereaved husband and aged father
are all members of the Church.  Sister Sparkman was conscious to the
very last hour of her life, and begged her children not to weep for her,
that she was not at all alarmed at death, nor afraid to die.  She was a
kind, indulgent mother; a loving and devoted wife; a precious
grandmother to her many grandchildren.  Our Church has lost a faithful
member.
Mrs. E. M. Isley