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Henry Haston Sharp
Born: 16 Nov 1835 in Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tennessee
Died: 15 Jul 1921 in Brown County, Kansas
Married: Rachel Cawood
Born: 31 Jan 1833 in Claiborne County, Tennessee
Died: 23 May 1933 in Brown County, KansasMother: Winnie Beeler
Father: Stephen Cawood, Jr.
Children:
- Leeroy Sharp
m. Alice Sweeney - Campbell Thornburg Sharp
b: in Tennessee
m. Virginia A. Jesse - Cordelia Sharp
m. B. G. Dichison
Sources and Additional Information:
Stephen Koger wrote in Oct 2005 email: Kennekuk Cemetery is right on the County line between Atchison and Brown County. The village of Kennekuk is in Atchison county. It is not very far from Horton Kansas, or Everest Kansas which are in Brown County. Kennekuk is where Stephen Cawood was living in 1880. The Pony Express went through Kennekuk, but the railroad didn’t....so the town quickly died.
Census: 1880, Doniphan Iowa Twnship KS1900 census Mission twnship Brown Co KS. Rachel states that she had 5 children and 3 survive
Brown County World, May 26, 1933
MRS. SHARPE DIES AT 100
25 Presidents in Span of Her Life
She was 32 when Lincoln was Shot
Mrs. Rachel Sharpe, who attained the age of 100 on Jan 21, died at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning at the home of Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Dennison, 1006 Kickapoo street, where she had been living.
Surviving are her son, Lee Sharp, 73, at Highland, a brother, Harrison Cawood, 93, in Tennessee.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Henderson funeral parlors at Horton, in charge of Rev. Mr Denison. Burial was in Kennekuk cemetery.
Mrs. Sharpe's husband, H.H. Sharpe, died in 1921 at Everest, where they had lived together a number of years.
A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Cawood, Mrs. Sharpe was born in a 2-room log cabin near the famed Cumberland Gap in Tennessee, at a time when Abraham Lincoln was fighting Indians in the Black Hawk war.
She was married when she was 22 years old, her parents having moved from Tennessee to a claim near Highland. Not many years before his death her husband bought a farm near Everest. After the death of her husband Mrs. Sharpe lived in Highland but of late years lived with the Dennisons in Hiawatha.
Andrew Jackson was president of the United States when Mrs. Sharpe was born. 25 men were elected president during her lifetime, 23 states were admitted to the Union after her birth. She was 14 years old when Thomas A Edison was born, was 32 years old when Lincoln was killed.
Notes for HENRY HASTON SHARP:
KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS William G. Cutler's History of the State
of Kansas
BROWN COUNTY, Part 31 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - MISSION TOWNSHIP
HENRY H. SHARP, farmer and stock raiser, Section 15, Township 4, Range 17, P. O. Willis, was born in Claiborne County, Tenn., in 1835, and lived in his native State until his twenty-first year. In the fall of 1856, he removed to Doniphan County, near Iowa Point, where he resided until the spring of 1883, when he removed to Mission Township, Brown County, where he has resided since. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South). He was Treasurer of the Board of School District No. 56, Doniphan County eight years. He was married in Claiborne County, Tenn., in 1854, to Miss Rachel Cawood, a native of Claiborne County, Tenn. They have three children - Campbell Thornburg, a native of Tennessee and a resident of Brown County, married to Miss Virginia A. Jessee, a native of Missouri; Cordelia, married to B. G. Dickinson, a native of Virginia, and a resident of Washington Township, Brown County, and Leroy, married to Miss Alice Sweeney, a native of Doniphan County, Kan. Mr. Sharp is the fortunate owner of a fine upland farm containing 160 acres, lying two and a half miles southeast of the prosperous town of Willis. The farm is all enclosed, is in a good state of cultivation, has a good supply of water, and is finely improved by a new and elegant residence 16x32, with an L 14x16, with three handsome porticoes on the north, south and east sides of the building. Mr. Sharp devotes his attention chiefly to raising corn, hogs and cattle. He grows 4,000 bushels of corn yearly, feeds two car loads of cattle, keeps a dozen head of milch cows, 100 to 150 stock hogs, and 6 head of fine horses. Mr. Sharp is an old resident of Kansas, a hardworking and practical farmer, a good citizen and an honorable, upright man.
H.H. Sharp, a pioneer of Doniphan, Brown counties died at his home in Everest Friday, aged 86 years. His death was due to a fall suffered in which his hip was broken. Mr. Sharp was born Nov. 16, 1835, at Taswell, Tenn. On Nov. 16, 1854, married Miss Rachel Cawood. 2 years later came to Kansas, settling near the old Indian mission in Doniphan county, lived there until 1879, moved to a farm near Willis in Brown County. Moved to Everest 6 years ago. He was a member of the Methodist church, South, lived a faithful Christian life. Mr. Sharp is survived by his widow, one son and one daughter.
Source: Brown County World, Hiawatha County, KS, July 22, 1921
More About HENRY SHARP and RACHEL CAWOOD:
Marriage: 16 Nov 1854, Claiborne CO Tennessee
- CAMPBELL THORNTON21 SHARP, b. 15 May 1855, TN; d. 13 May 1902, Kinnekuk Cem, KS
- CORDELIA SHARP, b. Aug 1856, KS; d. Bet. 1921 - 1933.
- LEROY (LEE) SHARP, b. Aug 1860, KS; d. 1935, Martin Cem Doniphan Co, KS
- WALTER SHARP, b. Abt. 1862, Kansas; d. 08 Feb 1881, Martin Cem Doniphan Co, KS
- UNKNOWN SHARP, d. Died young.
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