MARY (POLLY) FIELDER was the daughter of William L. Fielder and Elizabeth (Betsey) Nall. She was born ca 1770 in Virginia. She married William Sparks in Jackson Co., GA in 1791. She and husband William moved with a party of settlers on a Governor's Passport from GA into the Creek Indian Territory that would become the State of Mississippi along with her sister Sarah/Sally (Fielder) Noble and husband Stephen Noble and their family. The families were prominent in settling what would become Lawrence Co., MS and were active in the Baptist Church. The Sparks, Noble and Nall family names appear in early Baptist Church records in the area. Religion was an important part of the Sparks' life and they donated land to the church wherever they settled. Many of Mary and William Sparks' children moved on westward, finally settling in the part of Old Mexico that would become the Republic of Texas in 1836. After Mary's death in about 1833, William moved west to be with his children in the Nacogdoches area of old Texas. Their first son, Richard Sparks, was killed in March 1838, and son James H. Sparks died about that time following a brief illness. Husband William lived with his remaining children until his passing in 1848. He applied for a Revolutionary War Pension when he was in his 80s, but was rejected by Congress despite a lengthy testimony full of pertinent facts about his service. He was honored with a Revolutionary War Grave Marker on his headstone in the Old North Baptist Church Cemetery in Nacogdoches, TX.