SPARKSVILLE, Kentucky, population 100, is located in Adair County in the south central part of the state.

Sparkses were here before 1800 (probably from Pittsylvania County, Virginia) and here WILLIAM WALTER SPARKS was born about 1820. He had a son, CHARLES WEEDON SPARKS (commonly known as TIRED) born about 1844. Weed Sparks served in the Union Army and after the war moved to Texas.
He returned to Adair County and settled at a place which he named SPARKSVILLE.

Again he went to Texas, but returned to Adair County for the second time to settle in a different part of the county, at a place which he named for himself - WEED, Kentucky.

Source:
The article was written and published in The Sparks Quarterly, December, 1954 (Vol. 2, Number 4, Whole Number 8) by Paul E. Sparks.  He was president of the Sparks Family Association until his death in 1999.

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Charles Weeden Sparks born January 1844 (1900 census of Adair County, KY) Charles died March 15, 1905.
burial, Weed Cemetery, with a military marker. (one of the Sparks men has divided the cemetery with a fence, one side reserved for the Sparks family. In studying this family I  found out that across the Adair and Metcalfe County line there once a small community where the Sparks family lived. It was located across from Prices Creek in Adair County. -Per Margie Coffey.

ACR Note - according to the book, Kentucky Place Names, Sparksville is a hamlet centred at the junction of Ky 61 and 768, seven miles southwest of Columbia. It's now extinct post office was named from Charles W. Sparks (first postmaster), who is said to have established it on 11 Aug. 1884.

Source: Adair County Review, Columbia KY, Summer 2001, Page 48.

Webmaster Note - If Charles W. Sparks established Sparksville 11 Aug. 1884, there must be an error base on the two sources above having his birth date as 1884.