b. abt. 1820 - d. 1897 / Married Margaret Mitchell / From the book "History of the City of Washington and Wash. Co. PA" page 887: William Sprowls, father of Dr. Sprowls was born in Finley Township, lived there and in Chartiers Township and at Bentleyville and died in Somerset Township in 1897, aged seventy-seven years. He was one of a family of twelve children.