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SPARKS, Jesse Wadlington<\/strong>, lawyer; born near Murfreesboro, Tenn., February 10, 1867; Scotch, Irish and French descent; son of Jesse Wadlington and Josephine (Bivins) SPARKS<\/strong>; his father was a lawyer and at one time American Consul to Mexico; educated common schools, Union University, Montgomery-Bell Academy and Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; graduated Cumberland University, LL.B., February, 1888; before entering the practice of his profession was Clerk in the office of the Clerk and Master of Chancery Court at Murfreesboro; he has been married twice, first to Octa J. HALE<\/strong>, January 26, 1901, and second to Lucile C. SATTERWHITE<\/strong>, June 16, 1909; is at present City Attorney of Murfreesboro and is also engaged in general practice; served in Volunteer Guards of the State of Tennessee for several years and was captain of Companies A and M, First Regiment; he was Quartermaster and Commissary General on the staff of Governor Peter TURNEY<\/strong>; he is a member of the K. of P., F. and A. M., B. P. O. E. and Knights Templar; a communicant of the M. E. Church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Murfreesboro SPARKS, Jesse Wadlington, lawyer; born near Murfreesboro, Tenn., February 10, 1867; Scotch, Irish and French descent; son of Jesse Wadlington and Josephine (Bivins) SPARKS; his father was a lawyer and at one time American Consul to Mexico; educated common schools, Union University, Montgomery-Bell Academy and Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; graduated Cumberland University, LL.B., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1259,45,88,410,4419],"tags":[1939,1134,3164,1535],"class_list":{"0":"post-8598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-montgomery-bell-academy","8":"category-rutherford","9":"category-surname-s","10":"category-union-university","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-bivins","13":"tag-hale","14":"tag-satterwhite","15":"tag-sparks","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8599,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions\/8599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}