Sparks v. Spence

Gould, Associate Justice.

W. C. Sparks and wife, Sarah, at the time of her death in 1836, held as community property two leagues of laud ; one, on which they lived, in Brazos county; the other in Bell county; also a stock of cattle between fifty and one hundred in number. Five daughters and one son survived their mother, viz., Martha A., Harriet, Nancy, Elizabeth, Sarah and Stephen. In 1841 Martha A., the eldest daughter, was married to Isaac C. Spence, and at intervals after that, as in 1844, 1845, 1848, and-, the others appear to have married, and, with the exception of Haney, to have…