Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1917 — DEATH OF MRS. MARY SPARLING [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF MRS. MARY SPARLING

Body Brought Here From Arkansas City for Burial. Mrk. Mary Sparling, widow of Joseph Sparling and a resident of Rensselaer until about eight years ago when she went to Kansas to live with her son, F. E. Sparling, ■died Friday at Arkansas City. The body was shipped to this place for burial, and was accompanied by her son, F. E. Sparling. I and granddaughter, Mrs. Harvey Miller, and the latter’s two children. The body arrived herb at 1:57- Sunday afternoon and was taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton on College avenue. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Sparling jf Demopolis. Alabama, the former a son of the deceased, came Sunday evening to attend the funeral. Funeral services were held at the Thornton home at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon, Rev. E. W. Strecker of the Methodist church preaching the sermon, and burial was made beside the grave of her husband in Weston cemetery.