When George T Sharp was born on 17 November 1859, in Arkansas, United States, his father, James Alfred "Jim" Sharp, was 31 and his mother, Martha Lowery, was 37. He married Mary Ellen Wingo on 10 November 1881, in Dallas, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Dallas, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Benton Township, Dallas, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 29 May 1927, in South Benton Township, Dallas, Missouri, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Udall, Ozark, Missouri, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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