While reading microfilmed copies of the Daily Advocate, St. Clair county, Belleville, IL. I came across this obit which I thought might be of interest to members of the list. Nancy Giles Ivan Sharp's Brother Dies Suddenly; 59 Floyd C. Sharp, 59, for 18 years a telegraph operator for the L. & N. railroad here and brother of Deputy County Recorder Ivan Sharp, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at his home at Mount Vernon [Ill.] Sharp, who had a total of 42 years of service with the L. & N. and was last employed at Mount Vernon, died shortly after returning home from work yesterday. He had been under treatment of a physician for a heart ailment for some time. Sharp, a native of Dahlgren, Ill., is survived by his widow, Mrs. Alda Abshier Sharp, a native of Evansville, Ind.; a son, Richard Sharp, New York City, and a daughter, Mrs. Fern Lamb, Lebanon. Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Clara Johnson, Dahlgren; Mrs. Alice Finney, Springfield and Mrs. Bessie Greenwell, Denver, and two brothers, Herschel Sharp, St. Louis and Ivan Sharp, here. funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday at the Pully funeral home at Mount Vernon. The Daily Advocate, Belleville, St. Clair county, Illinois 18 Jul 1949