When James A Sharp was born on 5 August 1850, in Floyd, Georgia, United States, his father, Henry W Sharp, was 28 and his mother, Mary Strickland, was 33. He married Sarah Elizabeth Leak on 10 October 1876, in Floyd, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in District 859, Floyd, Georgia, United States in 1860 and Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States in 1880. He died on 18 March 1886, in Floyd, Georgia, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Shannon, Cherokee, Georgia, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1852: Floyd, Georgia, United States
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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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