Brief Life History of William Epperson
When William Epperson Sharp was born about 1814, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas P Sharp, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Berry, was 29. He married Margaret Carr on 9 March 1838, in Meadow Creek, Whitley, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870. He died on 10 January 1891, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Ridener Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky, United States.
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- Wm P Sharp, "United States Census, 1850"
- William Epperson Sharp, "Find A Grave Index"
- Epp Sharp in entry for John N. Sharp, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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