DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Julia Margaret Nichol Sharpe
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		Mrs. Percy Sharpe’s Funeral Held Today
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	  Heart Attack Claims Wife of Former Nashville Mayor
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     Funeral services for Mrs. Julia Nichol Sharpe, 56, wife of Percy Sharpe, 
former Mayor and retired furniture dealer, who died Saturday night following a 
heart attack at their summer home in Montague, were conducted from the 
residence of her sister, Mrs. E. T. Noel, 3001 Belmont Boulevard, Monday 
afternoon at 3 o’clock, with Dr. George Stoves of West End Methodist Church 
officiating.  Burial was in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
     Honorary pallbearers were Judge Frank Langford, Charles Litterer, W. S. 
Hooten, D. Paul DeWitt, W. E. Drake, M. B. Morton, Ed Hart and Randolph 
Hughes.
     Active pallbearers were Judge R. B. C. Howell, R. W. Bratton, Fisher 
Coles, R. T. Creighton, Thomas Demoss, Ike A. Nunn, David Huggins, Dr. L. W. 
Edwards and James Hirsig.
     Mrs. Sharpe was born in Davidson County, the eldest daughter of the late 
Harry D. and Lizzie Nichol, and was a descendant of a family which settled in 
this section in 1798.  She was born March 1, 1875, at Bell Aire, the estate of 
her grandfather, William Nichol, who was at one time Mayor of Nashville, and 
for years a prominent merchant-broker. 
     She received her education at Soule College, in Murfreesboro, and at the 
old Baskerville College in Nashville.
     On December 3, 1892, she was married to Mr. Sharpe.  In addition to her 
husband she is survived by two children, Percy Sharpe, Jr., of Camden, N.J., 
and Mrs. Richard G. Deener, of Searcy, Ark.  She is also survived by five 
sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Edwin Noel, Mrs. Elizabeth Spicer, Miss 
Roberta Nichol, Mrs. Sam Sweeney, Jr., of Nashville; Mrs. G. N. Keeling of San 
Antonio, Texas; J. Searcy Nichol and Wendel Nichol of Nashville; and H. D. 
Nichol of Paducah, Ky.
     Mrs. Sharpe was a member of the West End Methodist Church.
     Since her husband’s retirement from business several years ago, they have 
traveled extensively at home and abroad.  A summer home was maintained at 
Montgue, and during the months Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe had been accustomed to 
staying at the Homestead.
     She had attended the Vanderbilt-Tulane game Saturday afternoon and had 
appeared in her usual good health Saturday evening, however, she suffered a 
heart attack after her return home and the end came a few minutes later at 
10:30 o’clock
     Mrs. Sharpe was widely known and admired and was possessed of those 
attributes of mind and heart which endeared her to an ever-widening circle of 
friends.

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Submitted by Margaret Nolen Nichol
(Julia Margaret Nichol Sharpe died October 17, 1931.  This original clipping 
is from my files.)