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JIM: Joe K. Sparks, U.S. Soldier Wherein a young Gradyvillian joins the Army to see the world but winds up in half-knee-deep sand, where he writes of meeting up with horned toads and sand burrs; of becoming an eyewitness to the Battle of Juarez; and of standing on the darkling plain of Texas and missing the vastness of Adair County By Jim In the January 25, 1911 News (a Gradyville newsletter): J.K. Sparks left here last Friday for Edmonton, where he expects to enlist as a soldier for the next three years.[Joseph K. "Joe" was a son of Charlie W. and Laura Akin Sparks of the Gradyville/Keltner area. At the time of this departure, Joe was about three weeks short of his seventeenth birthday; upon enrollment, he stretched his age to 18.] In the March 29, 1911 News: Fort Bliss, Tex. In the April 5, 1911 News:
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A brief epilogue: In the fall of 1912, Joe was given a dishonorable discharge and (apparently) served almost two years in a military prison, reason(s) unknown. The next mention of him in the News didn't appear until the December 2, 1914, edition, in which Mr. Wilmore of Gradyville noted that "Jo K. Sparks has engaged in the blacksmith business at Sparksville."Shortly thereafter, Joe became a citizen of Gradyville but in the late spring of 1916 came the announcement of his intention to join his brother Walton in working in an automobile shop in Ohio. By 1920 he resided in Jeffersonville, Ind., and at the time of his passing in 1970, he was a resident of Texas. This story was posted on 2011-04-10 07:21:12
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