Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Scharb, David 1845 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   DAVID SCHARB, undertaker and dealer in furniture, is the son of Obed and
Catherine (Miller) Scharb, natives of Pennsylvania, They came to Indiana in
about 1857, and settled in Greene County on a farm, where they remained until
Obed Scharb's death in 1874. To them were born three children—Sarah (Mrs. Edward
Pennell), David and Joseph M. David Scharb was born in Wayne County, Ohio, March
1, 1845, and came with his parents to Indiana and remained with them until the
breaking-out of the late rebellion, when he enlisted in Company E, Fifty-ninth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. A. G. Cavins, and remained in the
service until 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was a brave and gallant
soldier, and participated in some of the severest campaigns and hardest fought
battles of the war. November 12, 1867, he married Miss Mary Taylor, and to them
were born three children—William Sherman, E. Algon, and one that died in infancy
unnamed. The mother died September 1, 1881, since when Mr. Scharb has married
Mrs. Angeline (Smith) Pickerd, the widow of Isaac Pickerd. He is a member of the
Methodist Protestant Church and a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity. Mr.
Scharb established himself as an undertaker and furniture dealer at Newark in
1879, and has since continued successful in business.

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Beech Creek Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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