Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....SHARP, B. A. 1840 - 
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Author: S. EMMETT LUCAS, JR
B. A SHARP, cotton broker and guano dealer, Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ga.,
Son of Andrew and Martha (Elliott) Sharp, was born in Alabama in 1840.
His father, John Sharp, was born in the emerald isle, and came to the United 
States in 1818. He stopped in South Carolina a short time, and then, when 
about fifteen years of age, came to Georgia in an old-fashioned block-wheel 
cart, in which he afterward made many trips to South Carolina and back. He 
came as a teacher and followed that calling for many years. Mr. Sharp's 
mother, born in South Carolina, was a daughter of John Elliott, a soldier in 
the war of 1812, came from South Carolina to Georgia about 1835, lived in that 
state a few years, and then moved to Alabama, where her parents passed their 
lives. Mr. Sharp was reared on a farm in Alabama, and was educated in the 
historic log cabin school house. Thus equipped, he "opened school" himself, 
and was making a satisfactory record when the civil war broke out and he 
enlisted in 1861 in Company K-(Capt. E. B. Smith), Thirteenth Alabama regiment 
(Maj. Marks, Co1. B. D. Fry), which was assigned to the command of Gen. 
Raines. Among other engagements, he participated in the following important 
battles: Williamsburg, Seven Pines, and Richmond, and others in northern 
Virginia, was at Appomattox at the surrender, and walked all the way from 
there to Washington, Ga. He now began life in  earnest, without a dollar, 
farming on shares. He was industrious, saving, successful, and now has a 
choice 365-acre farm in the county, and an interest in forty acres close to-
partly inside-the corporate limits of Carrollton. He is engaged also in buying 
cotton and selling guano. He served four years satisfactorily as county 
commissioner. Mr. Sharp was married in Alabama in 1866 to Aphra A., daughter 
of Asa W. and Eliza Roundtree. To them four children have been born: Emmett 
A., Belle, Leila, and Bertram. Mr. Sharp is a member of the Farmers' alliance, 
a Knight of Honor, a member of the I. O. O. F., and a Royal Arch Mason. 
Himself and wife are members of the Methodist church. No citizen is more 
esteemed than he for business capacity and integrity, and no family enjoys a 
more enviable social position than his.


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