Becky where did your Sharps come from? I have a Rufus Sharp in my Sharpe Genealogy Book...Rufus Sharp, b. Dec.4,1855, could this be him? Have info on him,his father and grandfather. Let me know if this might be him and I'll send info. Billie bjshaffer@prodigy.net --- Original Message --- From: SRPTWS@aol.com To: SHARP-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SHARP-L] Sharp's > I am new to genealogy. I have been trying to find information on my >sharp's for some time now but seem to be going nowhere. If anybody could send >me some kind of info to keep me going I would greatly appreciate it. This is >the information I have as of now. > > Rufus Sharp wife Martha Estrich their children > Artey Sharp > William Arlee Sharp b. Jan. 23,1899 d. Mar. 5, 1972 wife Bessie >Lee Jones > George (Cleo) Sharp > Pearl Sharp Bagley > William Arlee Sharp wife Bessie Lee Jones their children > Albert Arlee Sharp b. July 1, 1920 d. Dec. 19, 1986 wife Nellie >Ruth Jenkins > (they are my grandparents) > William Otto Sharp > Rufus Levy Sharp > Lillie Katherine Sharp Whitehurst > Richard Cleveland Sharp > Joyce Faye Sharp Braley > Grace Sharp ( was told she died when infant) > Ernest Sharp ( also died when infant) > > Like I already said anything to keep me going would greatly be >appreciated. I got this information from my mother. She is Albert's daughter. >Everything I look under I come up empty so any hints on how to do it would >also be greatly be appreciated. > > Thank You, > >Becky > > >==== SHARP Mailing List ==== >Rootsweb has searchable archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > Billie Shaffer

I am also searching for a Rufus Sharp. He was born ca 1833 in Alabama. The 1860 census of Russell Co., AL shows Rufus A. in the household of his father, John F. Sharp. Rufus was age 27. His occupation was school teacher. A Rufus Sharp enlisted in the 1st City Battalion, Ga. Infantry at Columbus, Ga. which is just across the state line from Russell Co. Is this the same Rufus? Did he survive the War? The 1866 state census of Alabama shows that two members of John F. Sharp's family did not survive the War. I have not been able to find any reference to Rufus A. Sharp after the 1860 census.

>Becky where did your Sharps come from? I have a Rufus >Sharp in my Sharpe Genealogy Book...Rufus Sharp, b. >Dec.4,1855, could this be him? Have info on him,his >father and grandfather. Let me know if this might be >him and I'll send info. >Billie This sounds like Rufus Sharp, son of John W. Sharp and Margaret Safford of Waddington, St. Lawrence County, New York. A brief look at this family was published in W. C. Sharpe's SHARPE GENEALOGY & MISCELLANY in 1880. This Rufus Sharp moved to Maquoketa, Iowa, where he married Lena Shrigley and had several children. I have a great deal of information on this family, including their ancestry in Germany and elsewhere. Bill Hull