Bibb County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Sharpe, Marie Byas ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: James W. Allen jallen46@cox.net July 23, 2005, 5:53 pm Cemetery: Linwood Cemetery Name: Marie Byas Sharpe Date Of Photograph: June 25, 2005 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/bibb/photos/tombstones/linwood/sharpe6772ph.jpg Image file size: 89.8 Kb Marie Byas Sharpe b: 25 June 1905 d: 5 April 1961 "Wonderful mother of Robert, Ulysses, Sarah, Richard, Carl, William, Albert & Emily" Additional Comments: On 26 June 2005 the eight Byas family siblings celebrated their late mothers 100th birthday. In the paper was a photo of the headstone of Marie Byas Sharpe. There was also a photo of Sarah Cotton, 79, and her brother Albert Sharpe, 69, standing in the street and yard of houses on Short Moughon Street where they grew up. The gathering of six brothers and two sisters also included Carl, 74, William, 72, Richard, 77, Ulysses, 81 ,Robert, 82, and Emily Proctor, 64. Taken from the news article by Jake Jacobs of the Telegraph staff, the article stated "We are here to carry out one of mother's wishes", William Byas said. Marie Byas Sharpe would have been 100 years old Saturday. She died in April 1961, but she lived long enough to see all her sons graduate from high school and even some from college. All graduated from Hudson High school or Ballard Hudson High School in Macon. Ulysses obtained a masters degree and a doctorate in education and became a principal at schools and was superintendent at Tuskegee, Alabama. In the town of Roosevelt on New York's Long Island is th Ulysses Byas Elementary School, named for the former superintendent. All of the other children became what their mother concieved in her mind they should be, educated and able to carry themselves with stature and being thought of well in the community. It was obvious Marie Byas Sharpe was well thought of in the Pleasant Hill Community and her children appreciated all the struggles she endured to make sure they wouldn't have to go through what she did. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/bibb/photos/tombstones/linwood/sharpe6772ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb