--part1_ea.eabe6118.25a8af09_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_ea.eabe6118.25a8af09_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <INMONROE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yg04.mx.aol.com (rly-yg04.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.4]) by air-yg02.mail.aol.com (v67.7) with ESMTP; Sat, 08 Jan 2000 09:10:54 -0500 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-yg04.mx.aol.com (v67.7) with ESMTP; Sat, 08 Jan 2000 09:10:48 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA08528; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 06:10:27 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 06:10:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <001301bf59e2$4ba13400$68c066ce@pavilion> Reply-To: "Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel" <kanichi@theriver.com> From: "Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel" <kanichi@theriver.com> Old-To: "INMONROE" <INMONROE-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Bio for Thomas J. SHARP, including JOHNSTON, PARKS Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 07:09:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Resent-Message-ID: <FL4B3.A.DFC.SV0d4@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: INMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: INMONROE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <INMONROE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2734 X-Loop: INMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: INMONROE-L-request@rootsweb.com Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Richland Township, p. 638-639 Thomas J. SHARP, farmer, was born September 8, 1817, in Sulivan County, Ind., and is a son of George and Sallie (JOHNSTON) SHARP, natives of Virginia and of German descent, who early moved to Kentucky, and thence to Know County, this Territory, in 1814. George SHARP was a farmer and surveyor, and in 1817, purchased 320 acres, and became one of the earliest settlers. He was a public-spirited citizen, and died at the age of sixty-three, his wife at the age of seventy-eight years. Thomas J. SHARP has continued to reside on the homestead. When his father died, he was thirteen years old, and he then became manager of the farm. October 15, 1840, he married Miss Sallie, a daughter of George and Catherine PARKS, to which union succeeded six children, five of whom are living - George P., James C., Sarah C., Amelia A. and Mary M. Mr. Sharp, by industry and frugality, has acquired 219 acres, now improved and valuable, and has also assisted each of his children. In early life he was a Whig, but became afterward a Republican. He has served as guardian and administrator for several estates, having given bonds of $80,000. Mr. SHARP is an old-fashioned gentleman, and retains many relics of the olden time, among them the first corn-cracker operated here, the same having been brought hither by his father. Mr. and Mrs. SHARP are members of the Presbyterian Church. Data Entry Volunteer - Linda Jenkins Wensel ==== INMONROE Mailing List ==== Monroe County references books and lookup volunteers can be accessed at <http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmonroe/monroelu.html>. --part1_ea.eabe6118.25a8af09_boundary--