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Benjamin Sparkes 1882 - 1967

Benjamin Sparkes of Saint Louis, Saint Louis City County, Missouri was born on August 28, 1882, and died at age 85 years old in November 1967.

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In 1882, in the year that Benjamin Sparkes was born, on September 4th, the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the U.S. - at 255-257 Pearl Street - was flipped by Thomas Edison. It lit one square mile of lower Manhattan and was powered by coal. The "electrical age" had begun.
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In 1890, Benjamin was merely 8 years old when on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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Sparkes, Carlene (Dec 3, 1927 - Jun 15, 2001) Sparkes, Helen (Mar 18, 1934 - Oct 1975) Sparkes, Emma (Mar 24, 1904 - May 1967) Sparkes, Robert (May 30, 1911 - Dec 1963) Sparkes, Thomas (Jun 2, 1918 - Nov 10, 2004) Sparkes, Charles (Dec 1, 1895 - Aug 1977) Sparkes, Herbert (Oct 26, 1908 - Jul 1982) Sparkes, William (Dec 19, 1906 - Jul 1987) Sparkes, Lucie (Dec 13, 1901 - Nov 1988) Sparkes, William (Jan 19, 1918 - Nov 2, 2005)
Sparkes, Alice (Mar 18, 1922 - Mar 17, 2001) Sparkes, Lawrence (Sep 1, 1919 - Apr 25, 1997) Sparkes, Richard (Aug 6, 1884 - Feb 1964) Sparkes, Charles (Jun 28, 1894 - Oct 1962) Sparkes, Frances (Nov 15, 1919 - Jul 1991) Sparkes, Alice (Jul 26, 1916 - Jun 3, 1996) Sparkes, Thomas (Apr 18, 1918 - Aug 22, 2000) Sparkes, Thomas (Feb 9, 1933 - May 1, 2007) Sparkes, Emma (Oct 24, 1898 - Oct 1969) Sparkes, Betty (Sep 13, 1918 - Mar 22, 2009)
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