Brief Life History of Nancy A
When Nancy A Sharp was born about 1854, in Georgia, United States, her father, Edward Cornell Sharp, was 52 and her mother, Nancy Kennedy, was 44. She had at least 1 daughter with Theodore Mollenbrink. She lived in District 1120, Floyd, Georgia, United States in 1860 and Floyd, Georgia, United States in 1870.
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- Angeline Sharp in household of Edward Sharp, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nancy A Sharp in household of Edward Sharp, "United States Census, 1860"
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1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English sharp(e) ‘sharp, quick, smart, acute, keen-witted’ (Old English scearp).
Irish: when not the English or Scots name in 1 above, an Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Géaráin ‘descendant of Géarán’, a personal name based on a diminutive of géar ‘sharp’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Scharf ‘sharp-cutting’ or of any of several other European names with similar meaning.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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