Details for Sparks Settlement Cemetery
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5245010569
Data
| Marker Number | 10569 |
| Atlas Number | 5245010569 |
| Marker Title | Sparks Settlement Cemetery |
| Index Entry | Sparks Settlement Cemetery |
| Address | |
| City | Port Arthur |
| County | Jefferson |
| UTM Zone | 15 |
| UTM Easting | 411451 |
| UTM Northing | 3306220 |
| Subject Codes | cemetery; pioneers |
| Marker Year | 1989 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | in traffic mall of DeQueen Blvd. at 2500 blk. of Lakeshore Dr. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | John and Melinda Sparks and their family came to southeast Texas from Tennessee in 1838. They settled on the Jeremiah Mixon headright on Lake Sabine and later set aside land for a family burial ground. The land was acquired by the Port Arthur Land Company in 1896. Although Melinda and John Sparks, along with family members and neighbors, were buried in the cemetery, all that remains to mark the site is a monument erected in 1948 in memory of a ten-day-old child, Arthur Stilwell Smith, who was born and died in May 1896. |