Submitted by:
Bob Moffitt
103173.3023@CompuServe.COM
Pensacola, FL
Comments: Sparks and Nellie, as Ellen was known, moved to Oklahoma about 1905 and lived in Red Rock. He and his son John owned Shiflet & Shiflet Ranch and were noted
for their pure bred Hereford line of cattle. John at one time was, I am told, President of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association. I am looking for links back to Va. The family knows nothing about Spark's kin. Thanks for your help.
Sparks Shiflet b.15 May 1880, Charlottesville, VA, d. 18 Apr 1966 Ponca City, OK, son of Frances
Ann Shifflett b. abt 1848
married: 15 Jun 1904 in Philadelphia, PA
Ellen J. Austin b. 7 Apr 1876 in Philadelphia, PA, d. 1955 in Red Rock, Noble,
OK, d/o Archibald Austin (b. 12 Oct 1845 Scotland, d. 1917 in Philadelphia, PA) and Jane Denham
Austin (b. 7 Apr 1844 Scotland, d. 21 Dec 1885 Philadelphia, PA)
Issue with Ellen:
2. Elwood b. 9 Jun 1905 in PA, OK; d. 18 May 1983 Ponca City, Kay Co., OK
2. John Edward Shiflett, Sr. b. 11 Feb 1907, OK; d. Apr 1983, Red Rock, Noble, OK; m. Lorraine Unknown
2. Helen F. Shiflet b. 10 Mar 1911 in Renfro, Grant Co., OK, d. 29 May
2004 in Oklahoma City, OK m. 4 Sep 1932 in Ponca City, OK to William Thomas Bozarth
b. 14 Sep 1904, d. 27 Dec 1975, Both Buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Ponca City,
Kay Co., OK
3. Helen Joan Bozarth
3. William Thomas Bozarth, Jr. b. 7 Oct 1938, d. 22 Jan 1983, Buried: Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Ponca City, Kay Co., OK
Notes: Apr 11, 2003.
I talked to John E. Shiflet, Jr. and he told me he did not know the name of the father of his grandfather Sparks Shiflet but thought
it could have been Merriwether. Bob Klein
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