Monroe-Chattooga-Columbia County GaArchives Biographies.....Harp/Harrup, Seaborn/Seborn 1800 - 1874
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Source: Family Records and Census Records
Author: T. Bradford Willis

Seaborn Harp was the son of Thomas M. Harp/Harrup (ca. 1762-1855) and Sarah 
Martin Harp/Harrup (born ca. 1768) of Virginia; Columbia County, Georgia; and 
Monroe County, Georgia. 

Seaborn Harp, who was a farmer, was born circa 1800 in Chattooga County, 
Georgia and died in 1873-1874 in Chattooga County. After his death, his wife, 
Feriba O'Rear Harp, and their children moved to Johnson County, Texas by 
covered wagon and settled in Sand Flat. Several of Feriba's brothers and 
sisters also settled in Johnson County, Texas.

The children of Seaborn and Feriba Harp were: Benjamin F., Mary, Sarah Jane, 
James, Elizabeth, Margaret, Thomas B., Daniel Franklin, Louronia Ellen (Ella), 
and Amanda Louise Harp. Sarah Jane Harp, born October 22, 1839 and died June 
22, 1881, married Nathaniel C. Boatwright. Daniel F. Harp, born January 24, 
1853 and died April 25, 1942, maried Martha Sugg Harville. Louronia (Ella) 
Harp, born 1856 and died 1921, married Daniel Wesley Teasley. Amanda Louise 
Harp, born August 8, 1857 and died November 30, 1912, married William Franklin 
Beck, born January 11, 1853 and died February 20, 1933. 

Feriba O'Rear Harp was the daughter of Benjamin O'Rear, who was born circa 
1789 in North Carolina and died in 1855 in Chattooga County, Georgia. Benjamin 
O'Rear and his father, Daniel O'Rear, a veteran of the American Revolution, 
are buried in the Macedonia Churchyard in Chattooga County. Benjamin and his 
first wife, whose name is unknown, had several children: Daniel Floyd, James, 
and Feriba O'Rear. After his first wife's death, Benjamin O'Rear married 
Elizabeth Cook on May 27, 1829, in Greene County, Georgia. They had the 
following children: Benjamin Franklin, Lewis B., Martha A., Monroe Berian, 
Elizabeth Susan, Mary, Emery, and Thomas O'Rear. After his second wife died, 
Benjamin O'Rear married Mary O'Donald on November 4, 1849 in Murray County, 
Georgia. Benjamin O'Rear was a farmer and a veteran of the War of 1812, 
serving as a private in the Georgia Militia.

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Thomas M. Harrup/Harp, his father, was born ca. 1762 in Brunswick County(?), 
Virginia.

He married Sarah Martin, daughter of James Martin of Columbia County, GA, on 
October 16, 1793 or October 16, 1799 (both dates are listed under Martin & 
under Harrup) in the Index to Marriage Bonds in Columbia County, GA.

He died in Jan. 1855 in Monroe County, GA.

They had at least 12 children:
Seaborn,
John M.,
Peyton (Paton),
Martha,
Lodusky (Loduska),
Fleming,
James, 
William J.,
Martin,
Russell,
Sam,
Tom,
Ariosto(?)


Additional Comments:
Additional information on the Beck, Harp, and O'Rear families may be found in 
The History of Johnson County, Texas published by the Johnson County History 
Book Committee in 1985 and Chattooga County The Story of a County and Its 
People by Robert S. Baker. 


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