Eliza A (Hewlett) Sparks (1850 - 1913)

Born 20 Mar 1850 in Abaco, Bahamas

Ancestors

Died 27 Jul 1913 at age 63 in Queens, New York City, New York

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Biography

Eliza (Hewlett) Sparks is part of a Bahamian family.

Eliza A Hewlett was born 20 March 1850 in Abaco, Bahamas to Townsend Hewlett and Sarah Key. She was listed as a child of Townsend Hewlett in the two wills of her uncles - Charles and Samuel Hewlett - who both passed away in the mid-1870s.

Eliza married William Sparks about 1865 and they had two surviving children both born in the Bahamas: Alice Sparks and George Martin Sparks.

The Sparks family moved to New York in 1874. They were living with Eliza's older brother, John Alexander Hewlett, and his wife, Susan Rocilli Saunders Hewlett, in 1880, in Good Ground, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. They later resided in Jamesport and Riverhead.

After her husband's death in 1907, Eliza lived with with her daughter, Alice Sparks Leek, in Southampton, Long Island.

Eliza Hewlett Sparks passed away 27 July 1913 in Queens, New York City. She was buried in Southampton Cemetery, Long Island, New York.

Sources

"Bahamas Births, 1850-1891", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLSQ-3HX : 16 December 2019), Eliza Hewlett Sparks in entry for Sparks, 1866.

"Bahamas Births, 1850-1891", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLM5-1JT : 16 December 2019), Eliza Hewlett Sparks in entry for Sparks, 1868.

New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 for Charles Hewlett, Queens, Wills of Real Estate, Vol 0021-0024, 1874-1876. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=2060567&dbid=8800

New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 for Samuel Hewlett, Queens, Real Estate Wills, Vol 0024-0025, 1876-1878. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=4104618&dbid=8800

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZN9-WMT : 14 January 2022), Eliza Sparks in household of John A. Hewlett, Hampton Bays, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

"United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSGJ-3WT : 1 December 2021), Eliza A Sparks in entry for William A Sparks, 1900.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M59F-8HR : accessed 2 February 2022), Lora A Sparks in household of Richard Leek, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1391, sheet 13A, family 283, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1082; FHL microfilm 1,375,095. Eliza was living with her daughter, Alice Leek, in Southampton.

"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WQQ-2NH : 3 June 2020), Eliza Hewlett Sparks, 27 Jul 1913; citing Death, Queens, New York City, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,434.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22318524/eliza-a-sparks : accessed 02 February 2022), memorial page for Eliza A Hewlett Sparks (20 Mar 1850–26 Jul 1913), Find a Grave Memorial ID 22318524, citing Southampton Cemetery, Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, USA ; Maintained by a2 (contributor 46812011) . Eliza's date of birth varies from document to document - I have chosen to go by date carved on her gravestone.