Sharp Family Cemetery, Newton, Georgia http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/cemeteries/sharp.txt ==================================================================== USGENWEB PROJECT NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Project Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file is copyrighted and contributed by: Linda Sharpe MacArthur ==================================================================== February 2004 Sharp Family Cemetery 1742 Butler Bridge Road Covington, Newton County, GA Surveyed September 20, 2003 Information in parenthesis ( ) added by Linda MacArthur Last Name First & Middle Birth Date Death Date Comments Sharp Thomas 01/23/1798 11/11/1878 Husband of Ann Elizabeth Morton Sharp Blessed Are the Dead Which Die in the Lord From Hence Forth Yea Saith the Spirit, That They May Rest From Their Labor And Their Works Do Follow Them. Sharp Ann E. Morton 02/23/1797 05/10/1881 Wife of Thomas Sharp Though I Walk Through The Valley of the Shadow Of Death I will Fear No Evil For Thou Art With Me. Sharp H. T. 05/08/1824 12/14/1912 (Henry Thomas Sharp, Son of Thomas and Ann Elizabeth Sharp; Husband of Jane C. Dulin Sharp) The Righteous Shall Be In Everlasting Remembrance. Sharp Jane C. Dulin 03/18/1826 03/10/1906 Wife of H. T. Sharp She Was A Noble Wife, Loving Mother, A Kind Friend and a Christian. Blessed Are the Pure in Heart For They Shall See God Sharp Lemuel James 08/20/1832 05/18/1862 Son of Thomas and Ann E. Sharp, Died in Richmond, Va. (Confederate Soldier, Cobb's Legion, GA.) This Young Man Buckled on His Armor In Defense of Southern Rights, and Bore Himself As a Gallant Christian Soldier, Until He Fell A Victim on the Alter of His Country's Liberty. He Was a Dutiful Son, A Loving Brother and a Faithful Friend. He Who For His Country Dies, Shall Fill an Honored Grave. For Glory Lights the Soldier's Tomb, And Beauty Weeps the Brave. Sharp Sara Elizabeth 12/04/1827 04/01/1838 Daughter of Thomas and Ann Elizabeth Sharp Sharp William Oliver 05/29/1822 10/12/1823 (Son of Thomas and Ann Elizabeth Sharp No Tombstone, rocks mark head & foot of grave Born May 29, 1822, died Oct. 12, 1823) Sharp Thomas E. 1847 06/30/1864 Son of H.T. and J.C.S. Who Died in the Cause of His Country Aged 17 Years 2 Months & 26 Days Now Our Darling Son is Dead. He to Paradise is Fled. (Have not found record of Confederate enlistment) Sharp Little G. (?) no date no date Daughter of Henry Thomas And Jane C. Sharp Who Was Killed Nov -- ---- By Falling Out of a Door With a Knife in Her Hand. The Blade of Which Pierced Her Eye Causing Her Death In a Few Minutes. She Died in the - Year of Her Age. (Tombstone broken and unreadable in places) Smith William 09/03/1777 01/07/1886 This grave outside Sharp Family Cemetery enclosure, marked with upright tombstone. There are many other unmarked graves on this property