Indian Territory Map 1890
Reverend William C. Sparks and his wife Sarah Rebecca (Justice) Sparks settled in the Chickasaw Nation in Springer, which eventually was in Carter county, while their oldest son, Samuel Nathan, settled his family a little farther East in what would later become Johnston County. Sarah R. Sparks died in Springer in August of 1896 and is buried in the Springer Cemetery.
W. C. Sparks moved to Jefferson County to be near his daughter Mary Elizabeth Sparks Montgomery. He died there in 1897 and is buried in the Ryan Cemetery in the Chickasaw Nation in the area that became Jefferson county after statehood.
Robert Donnell Sparks, the youngest son of W. C., and the brother of Samuel N. and Mary Sparks Montgomery, was found living in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Lands, on a lease in what was to become Caddo County. Robert Donnell is found on the first Federal census taken in the State of Oklahoma in 1910, in Caddo County.