Twiggs County GaArchives Biographies.....Tharp, Vincent 1760 - 1825
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Author: Jesse H. Campbell
                           VINCENT THARP

     A native of Virginia, was born in 1760, and bore arms in the cause of his 
country towards the close  of the revolutionary war.  His first wife was a Miss 
Rogers, by whom he had two children, a son and a daughter.  During his first 
marriage, he removed to South Carolina, and thence with his second wife, a Miss 
Persons, to Warren County, in this State.  Owing to the  hardness of the times, 
and his being a poor man,  he learned the gun-smith's trade, and was said to be 
a superior workman.  Before he entered upon the ministry, he acted as a 
magistrate in his neighborhood.  He was baptized into Briar creek church, 
Warren county, and was also licensed and ordained there about the year 1800.  
He served that church as pastor several years, also Sweetwater and Rocky creek, 
in Burke county.  Soon after the Purchase, which extended to the Ocmulgee 
river, he removed to Twiggs county, where many of his descendants are still to 
be found, and who are among the most respectable and wealthy citizens of the 
county.  Among these may be mentioned Rev. Charnick Tharp, a son, and Rev. B. 
F. Tharp, (now of Houston county,) a grandson.

     He was a member and the pastor of Stone creek church, now one of the most 
flourishing churches in the state.  That church was gathered under Rev. Henry 
Hooten, who resigned in favor of Mr. Tharp.  His labors here and elsewhere 
were  owned of the Lord in the salvation of many souls.  To the time of his 
death he was moderator of the Ebenezer Association.  Benovolence and 
hospitality were prominent traits in his character.  He was always "careful to 
entertain strangers," and  his house was the home of God's peoople, of every 
name.  He delighted in the society of certain brethren, Polhil, Franklin, Ross, 
Rhodes, Baker, Maginty, Mercer and others, by whom he was frequently visited.  
He died in 1825, in the triumps of that faith, which he had so long preached to 
others.  His end was peace.

"Georgia Baptists: Historical and Biographical." 
by Jesse H. Campbell, Twiggs County, Georgia
Richmond: H. K. Ellyson, 176 Main Street
1847


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