Morgan County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sharp, Jr., Hiram December 15, 1877
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 22, 1878 
 
OBITUARY OF HIRAM SHARP JR. 
 
"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea said the 
spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them." 
 
Hiram Sharp Jr. was born in Morgan county, Georgia on the __ day of April 
1825, and died at his residence in Carroll county on the 15th day of December 
1877, in the 52nd year of his age. His parents moved to Carroll county in 1828 
and the deceased had lived amongst us, all but three years of his life. At the 
time of his death, he was living with his third wife, having been married 
three times, and the first and second being dead. 
 
The writer has known the deceased for a number of years, and was very intimate 
with him, being thrown in his company a great deal of the time. That he was a 
true Christian was evinced by the interest which he manifested in the cause of 
Christ. No trifling event could keep him away from the house of God. His faith 
never failed him, because it was founded upon the Rock of Ages. 
 
His hope was ever bright; his confident expectation of God's blessing 
sustained him in every good word and work. He was ever ready to minister to 
the necessities of the poor and was given to hospitality. He was a safe 
counselor to the young and his advice was "remember thy creator in the days of 
thy youth." He was every ready to comfort and console the distressed. He 
proved his faith by his works. He was not a preacher, but the writer has often 
heard him with weeping eyes, plead, beg and beseech sinners to believe in 
Christ. 
 
As a citizen he was all that can be expected in that one word, "good". In the 
late war between the states, he responded to the call and went to fight the 
battles of his country. He was a friend to the cause of education believing it 
to be the duty of every man to educate his children to the extent of his 
ability. 
 
He was an affectionate husband, and kind and indulgent father. But he is dead. 
To the weeping family of the deceased we tender our sincere condolence; but 
while they mourn, it is not as those who have no hope, and though his body 
sleeps in the lonely "city of the dead", his spirit has been borne on angel 
wings to the "bosom of his father and his God." There let his body rest in 
peace, until the resurrection morn shall come and the last loud trump shall 
sound; bidding those who are in their graves to come forth; they that they 
done good unto the resurrection of life, then shall the prophecy of Job be 
fulfilled in him... J.L.C. 

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