Brief Life History of Malinda Caroline
When Malinda Caroline Sharp was born on 22 November 1852, in Plainville, Gordon, Georgia, United States, her father, Henry W Sharp, was 30 and her mother, Mary Strickland, was 36. She married Samuel Hogg Zuber on 28 November 1877, in Floyd, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in District 859, Floyd, Georgia, United States for about 20 years and District 1562, Floyd, Georgia, United States in 1900. She died on 28 September 1900, in Floyd, Georgia, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Shannon, Cherokee, Georgia, United States.
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- Clara Zuber in household of Samuel Zuber, "United States Census, 1880"
- Malinda Sharpe, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Melinda Zuber, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1973"
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World Events (8)
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.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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