Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Sharp was born on 3 June 1844, in Indiana, United States, her father, George Washington Sharp, was 40 and her mother, Martha A Johnson, was 25. She married Jacob Jefferson Creek on 6 November 1866. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Montgomery Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Van Buren Township, Madison, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. She died on 5 February 1901, in Gibson, Indiana, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Montgomery Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States.
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- Rebeca Creek, "United States Census, 1870"
- Rebecca Sharp, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Rebecca Creek, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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