OF THE SPARK~IA FAMILY

 He saw service in the Indian war of 1835 and in that of
 1856-7. In the latter war he was a first lieutenant of Flor-
 ida mounted volunteers. He married Sarah Mizell. They had
 two children, Simeon E. (see below) and George Bascom. (See
 page 60.)
 Simeon E. Sparkman was born in Hillsborough County Aug-
 ust 9, 1851. He attended school'in his native county and al
 so in Thomasville, Georgia. Later he attended Eastman Busi-
 ness College at Poughkeepsie, New York, returning to South
 Florida, where he taught school for several terms, and later
 settled withinn a few miles of Plant City, following farming,
 and ten years afterward moved to Plant City, whare he has
 lived ever since.
 He was tax assessor of Hillsborough County in 1881-2;
county commissioner, 1883-4; represented Hillsborough County
in the state legislature at the session of 1891; was again
elected tax assessor in 1907, which office he at present hol s.
He is a member of the Masonic order.
 Simeon 2. Sparkman married Mary C. Lackney, who was bo
 in Orange County, Florida. She is a daughter of James S. an
 Mary (Crissman) Hackney. They have had six children, as fol
 lows:
 (1) Lovick D., unmarried.
 (2) James M., who married Agnes Walden. They have
 four children-Seymour, Imoiry B., Mary and Bascom.
 (3) Walter B., who married Ida Boyett. They have three
 children--Flossie, Heyw ood and "alter B., Jr.
 (4) William S., unmarried.
 (5) SarahR.
 (6) Amos L.
 George Bascom Sparkman was born near Dover, Florida,
 September 20, 1855. He died August 30, 1898, in Tampa. He
 received hie early education in the schools of his native
 county, and later attended the law department of the Univer-
 sity of Virginia, from which he was graduated with high hon rs
 and immediately commenced the practice of his chosen profes
 sion in copartnership with his cousin, Hon. Stephen M. Spar -
 man, in Tampa. He continued the practice of the law until is
 untimely death, except a short time when he occupied the be ch
 of the Sixth judicial circuit. He was mayor of the city of
 Tampa in 1883-4 and again in 1887-8
 George Bascom Sparkman married, April 26, 1883, Mary .
 Kershaw, of Jackson, Tennessee. She was born in Virginia, d
 was a daughter of Thomas B. and M. Evelyn (Underhill) Kersh w.
 He was-a native of England and she of Virginia. They were he
 parents of five children. of whom Mrs. Sparkman was the sec nd
 Ielfd and nold0 t daughter 3 and thA only one living in Tmpa