OBIT: Charles Elmer SHARP, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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CHARLES ELMER SHARP.

  At 9 o'clock Thursday night Charles Elmer Sharp, the last of the twin 
brothers adopted by Mr. Paul Sharp, of 950 Seventeenth street, died of 
consumption after an illness of over a year.  He was born near Bellwood 
August 2, 1876, and was an apprentice in the foundry of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad company when taken sick.  His parents are dead.  
He is survived by his foster father and four brothers, one of them 
being Howard Holland, of this city, also by two sisters.  The deceased 
was a member of St. John's Catholic church.  Funeral services will be 
conducted in the church of which he was a member to-morrow afternoon at 
2.30 o'clock.  The remains will be interred in St. John's cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, August 12, 1899