Sparks Settlement Cemetery

John and Melinda Sparks and their family came to southeast Texas from Tennessee in 1838. They settled on the Jeremiah Mixon headright on Lake Sabine and later set aside land for a family burial ground. The land was acquired by the Port Arthur Land Company in 1896. Although Melinda and John Sparks, along with family members and neighbors, were buried in the cemetery, all that remains to mark the site is a monument erected in 1948 in memory of a ten-day-old child, Arthur Stilwell Smith, who was born and died in May 1896.

Sparks Settlement Cemetery is a historical marker in Port Arthur, Jefferson County, dedicated in 1989. It is one of 109 historical markers documented in Jefferson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 137 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.8862, -93.9184 near Port Arthur. The nearest cataloged historic site is Morris-Booz-White House (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Sabine-Neches Canal, Site of Old Aurora, and The Woodworth House.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5245010569. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.