Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - John Sharp

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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John Sharp, cotton planter, of River Township, was born near Little 
Rock, [p.1191] in Pulaski County, Ark., in 1851, and is a son of James 
M. and Nancy (Temple) Sharp, natives of Tennessee and Mississippi, 
respectively. They were married in the latter State, and moved from 
there to Pulaski County, Ark., and when our subject was but an infant 
went to Tipton County, Tenn., where the father died in 1856. The 
mother afterward returned to Arkansas, married, and is now living at 
Little Rock. The grandfather, John Sharp, was born in North Carolina, 
and died in Tipton County, Tenn., in 1868. Our subject was the second 
child of a family of four, and was educated at the Tabernacle in 
Tipton County, Tenn. He began life for himself by farming when 
fourteen in Pulaski County, and in 1880 came to Crawford County and 
took charge of the farm he now owns, which was then the property of D. 
E. Jones, of Little Rock. Four years later he purchased the 
plantation, which contains 873 acres of the finest bottom land, and is 
one of the best known and finest plantations in this section of the 
county, as well as the oldest. Although Mr. Sharp came to the county a 
poor man, he is now one of its rising citizens, his success being due 
to his business sagacity and industry. He has 600 acres of land under 
cultivation, and has twenty-six families on the plantation. He raises 
on an average 300 bales of cotton annually, does his own ginning and 
shipping, and also raises on an average 200 acres of corn. In 1886 he 
married Ella R., daughter of G. N. and Martha Wright, of Rome, Ga., by 
whom he has one son. Mr. Sharp is a Democrat, cast his first 
presidential vote for Greeley, in 1872, and since 1886 has been 
justice of the peace of River Township. He is a member of the K. of 
H., and himself and wife are Methodists. 

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