720 The Sparrow Family
In the 1600’s, with other English royalists the Sparrow family came to Tidewater Virginia and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. By the mid-1700’s, many members of the family had settled in the Coastal Plains of North Carolina. The first to settle in Lenoir County was Patrick R. Sparrow, who was born ca. 1795. He served two tours of duty as a Lenoir County resident in the War of 1812.
First, from July 14-21, 1813, while New Bern was under the threat of seige, Patrick served as an infantryman in Captain James Cox’s Company. This was a company of Lenoir and Jones County Militia commanded by Major General William Croom.
Second, from September 29, 1814, until March 22, 1815, he served in Captain Joshua Mosley’s and Captain John Myer’s Company, Second Regiment (Tisdale’s), N.C. Detached Militia. During this second tour, he was stationed for the fall and winter of 1814-15 at Beacon (now Portsmouth) Island, N.C., where he helped prepare defenses against a British attach on Ocracoke.
After the war, Patrick Sparrow lived in Lenoir County, as the 1820 Census shows. However, in the 1820’s, he moved to South Carolina, where he appears as P. R. Sparrow in the 1830 Census of Chesterfield County. Family lore suggests that his death at an early age was connected to health damage sustained during his service in the War of 1812.
As records in an 1843 Sparrow family Bible indicate, Isaac E. Sparrow (September 6, 1822 – September 1885) was the son of Patrick Sparrow, Isaac appears in the 1840 Lenoir County Census, but spent a number of years after 1840 in South Carolina, where some of his children were born. Eventually, however, he settled as a farmer in he Deep Run Section of Lenoir County, where he acquired acreage from richard Noble and Fred Becton Loftin, as documented in the Grantee Index to Deeds, 1745-1880.
Isaac’s first wife was Susan Suggs (born April 21, 1823), by whom he had four children: Ava (1845), married Jenkins or Register; Elvy (1849), married Ira Heath; Nancy K. (1851), married George J. Turner; and Pinkney (1853), married Alcy Caroline Heath.
Isaac’s second wife was Ann Jane (born January 3, 1829), supposedly the daughter of Raiford Benton and Nancy “Pen” Baker, Isaac and Jane had twelve children: Charity Ruffin (1854), married (1) Maxwell and (2) George Washington Herring; N. Ann (1856); Louisa (1857), married Joe Hill; Iredell Swan “Ira” (1858), married (1) Sally Barrow and (2) Frances Elizabeth Stroud; Ansolona (1860), married Xavery Stroud; George Isaac (1851), married (1) Maggie Andrews and (2) Sudie Carter; Elvin Mack (1864); Basil MacGruder (1865), married Ada Hardison, Amanda Melvina (1867), married William Ivey Harper; Alpha Omega (1869), married Tyson Best; Furney Wilson (1871), married Marinda Catherine Houston, and Marge A. (1876).
Basil MacGruder “Mac” Sparrow (October 27, 1865 — June 9, 1933), the son of Isaac e. Sparrow, was a Lenoir County farmer. On January 14, 1886, he married Ada Hardison (December 25, 1867 — January 13, 1938), the daughter of thomas Hardison and his wife Rebecca Taylor of Lenoir County, Mac and Ada had six children: …
Fred Becton Sparrow ….
Wendall keats Sparrow …
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