Unknown County GaArchives Biographies.....Tharp, Vincent 1760 - 1825
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Author: J. 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 gunsmith'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. Benevolence and hospitality were
prominent traits in his character. He was always "careful to entertain
strangers," and his house was the home of God's people, of every name. He
delighted in the society of certain brethren, Polhill, Franklin, Ross, Rhodes,
Baker, Maginty, Mercer and others, by whom he was frequently visited. He died in
1825, in the triumphs of that faith which he had BO long preached to others. His
end was peace.


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GEORGIA BAPTISTS: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
BY
J. H. CAMPBELL,
PERRY, GEORGIA.


MACON, GA.: J. W. BURKE & COMPANY. 1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
J. H. CAMPBELL,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.



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