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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

      W. A. SPARGER, proprietor of the Bristol Cotton Mills, was born at
   Mount Airy, N. C., in 1844, the son of MURLIN and BETHANIA (COOK)
   SPARGER, the former born in North Carolina. in 1817, the son of WILLIAM,
   and was both a farmer and millwright, wheelwright and wagon maker. He
   also operated a saw and grist mill, and was a prominent magistrate,
   and chairman of the board of county commissioners for several years.
   He died in 1878. The mother was born in Surry County, N. C., in 1816,
   the daughter of JOHN COOK, and deceased April, 1884. Both were Metho-
   dists, and the former a class leader. Our subject is the third of ten
   children, and began a three years’ course in college, but his plans
   were changed owing to the war. After the war he farmed in North Caro-
   lina, for two years, and then, with his father-in-law, engaged in manu-
   facturing tobacco near Mount Airy. In 1874 he began the erection of the
   Bristol Cotton Mills, which have been in operation since 1875, the
   second venture of the kind in this county, The mill consumes about 500
   bales of cotton annually, and about thirty hands are employed, and a
   capital of about $40,000. Besides this he owns and farms 300 acres of
   land. In 1867 our subject married MARY E., a daughter of WINSTON and
   MARY FULTON, of Mount Airy, N. C. Eight of their nine children are
   living. He and his wife are Methodists.

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