Leonard Sparks ^62,65,68

  Research Notes:

Per the research of David Rogers: Perhaps the strongest evidence of their relationship comes from the memory of Mrs. Hettie Hudgins of Albertville, Alabama. Mrs. Hudkins, a great-granddaughter of Leonard and Zeriah (Sparks) Sparks, remembers clearly being told by her grandfather, Tom Garrett, that William W. ["Billy"] Sparks and Moses Sparks (sons of Zerah Sparks) were her mother's great-uncles.

This information from Mrs. Hudgins was more or less corroborated by testimony from Mrs. Lula Banks of Anniston, Alabama, prior to her death in 1986. Mrs. Banks, also a descendant of Leonard and Zeriah (Sparks) Sparks, recalled that older generations of her family visited the family of William W. ["Billy"] Sparks in Boaz, Alabama, thus indicating a close relationship. ⁶²