Affidavit made by Rosanna Sparkman, widow of William Sparkman, in connection with a claim under the Bounty Land Act of 1855:

State of Tennessee, County of Williamson

On this 23rd day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and 55, aforesaid, ROSANNA SPARKMAN, aged 84 years, a resident of Williamson County in the State of Tennessee…….declares that she is the widow of WILLIAM SPARKMAN, deceased, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain McMahan, in the regiment of Volunteers commanded by General Coffee, in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812, that her said husband enlisted in Maury County on or about the 15th day of September A.D. 1816, for the term of six months and continued in actual service in said war for the term of six months and was honorable discharged at Nashville, on the (blank) day of April, A.D. 1815.  She further states that she was married to the said WILLIAM SPARKMAN in Hertford County and State of North Carolina on the 3rd day of December, A. D. 1789 by one ROBERT MONTGOMERY, a Justice of the Peace, and that her name before her marriage was ROSANNA WILLIAMS; that her said husband died at his residence on the 15th day of March, A. D. 1832, and that she is now a widow.

                                                                                                                             Signed: Rosanna [her mark] Sparkman

Seth and Thomas W. attested as to Mother.