Jim I have Rufus as the son of Eli Sharp b 1823 and Syntha Miller b 1824. They lived in Anderson C in 1850 but then after 1860 he is in Union C. Penny ----- Original Message ----- From: "jimlwall" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [TNANDERS] William H. Sharp > Was William H. Sharp, Henderson Sharp grandson? > Jim Wallace > susiebullock wrote: >> Clinton Courier Jan. 22, 1981 >> A man described once as a walking history book of Anderson County, >> William H. Sharp, 91, of Lake City, died Monday at Harton Hospital in >> Tullahoma. Sharp and his twin brother, Gordon H. Sharp, were born in a >> log cabin near Andersonville.Their father, Rufe Sharp, was a coal miner >> and the family moved to Briceville in 1899 so he could be closer to his >> work in Coal Creek Coal Co. Mines. At age 12, the Sharp twins went to >> work as water boys in the mines.Their first jobs were at the Fraterville >> Mine on May 19, 1912, the day 184 miners were killed in an explosion, in >> one of the nation's worst mine disasters.Their older brother, Alexander, >> 29, was one of those killed. Nearly a decade later, the Sharp twins were >> working in the Diamond Mine when an explosion took 84 lives.Sharp >> continued to work in the mines for 52 years. Gordon left the mines to >> work for L&N Railroad in Knoxville in 1914.Sharp's twin brother died in >> 1970. Sharp retired in 1954 as a mine foreman for Southern Collie! > ri! >> es at Beech Grove. Sharp married Elizabeth Massengill in 1919 and the >> couple had five children. Mrs. Sharp died in 1936 and Sharp was wed again >> in 1951 when he and Irene Pemberton married.She died in 1960. Sharp was >> honored by the Masons in 1969 for being a member 50 years of Coal Creek >> Lodge 492 F&AM. Sharp was a member of First Baptist Church of Lake City. >> He is survived by two sons, Leon Sharp of Maryville and Kenneth Sharp of >> Detroit, two daughters, Mrs. Helen Hakals of New Jersey and Mrs. Mildred >> Vowell of Manchester, six grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Nola George >> of Lake City. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Martin Funeral Home >> in Lake City with the Rev. Wayne Markham officiating. A Masonic service >> was held Tuesday. Burial was in Leach Cemetery. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message