Brief Life History of William Riley
When William Riley Sharp was born on 15 November 1876, in Tennessee, United States, his father, William Alexander "Jack" Sharp, was 24 and his mother, Cynthia Parlee Cheek, was 24. He married Delina Marshall Thompson on 5 September 1920, in Marshall, Tennessee, United States. He lived in District 6, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 15, Henry, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 25 November 1929, in Lewisburg, Marshall, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Lone Oak Cemetery, Lewisburg, Marshall, Tennessee, United States.
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- William Sharp in household of William A Sharp, "United States Census, 1900"
- W R Sharp, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- William Riley Sharp, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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