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2. Henry Honas SHARP Sr. was born on 4 May 1735 in Germany.2,3 He died in 1814 in Harrison, Preble Co., OH.2,4,5,6 He was buried in 1814 in Euphemia Cemetery, Harrison, Preble Co., OH.5 Henry Honas Sharp was possibly born in Germany. Henry Honas Sharp was a native of Scotland but lived in Germany before coming to America. He and Barbara Graves lived in Orange County, North Carolina before 1785, and probably moved to Botetourt County, Virginia about 1782. He apparently left Virginia for Tennessee in 1789 , and moved to Preble County, Ohio in 1805, where he died in 1814. Source of information: History of Preble County, Ohio.
Information on Henry Honas Sharp Margaret Ann Thomason in a series of emails in March of 2010. margannals@aol.com (6th cousin once removed) Henry Honas Sharp was possibly born in Germany. He and Barbara Graves lived in Orange County, North Carolina before 1785, and probably moved to Botetourt County, Virginia about 1782. He apparently left Virginia for Tennessee in 1789 , and moved to Preble County, Ohio in 1805, where he died in 1814. Source of information: History of Preble County, Ohio.
The following information about Scotland is very likely wrong... History of Preble Co., OH, 1881, Henry Sharp was a native of Scotland but lived in Germany before coming to America. He and Barbara lived in Orange Co., NC before 1785,and probably moved to Botetourt Co., VA about 1782. He apparently left Virginia for Tennessee in 1789 and moved to Preble Co., OH in 1805, where he lived in 1814 .Henry Sharp made deeds to his sons called love deeds in Bold Valley in Claiborne County. Henry, Sr.; deeded land to five of his sons (the other sons were minor at this time, it seems). To Henry, he deeded 200 acres in Claiborne County; to Daniel, 277 acres in Claiborne County on the waters of Lost Creek; and similar amounts to Conrad, Jacob, and George, in the surrounding community.
Henry Sharp, b. in Germany cl735,son of Isaac & Margaret Sharp. Isaac was b. 1712 and d. Mar. 8, 1783 in Lancaster (now Lebanon CO.)PA He was tax collector for Hannover Twp. in 1756. This region suffered greatly during the French & Indian War, and many of the first settlers left the area. Henry and his brother, John, were made executors of their father's estate on Apr. 8, 1784, at which time Henry and his wife were apparently living in Montgomery Co., VA The Potts Manuscripts, Vol. IX, Tuipehocken Accounts for 1744 list George, Ernst and Samuel Scherb
(Sharp)as well as Johannes and Andreas Graff (Graves). About 1792 the Sharp, Graves, Gibbs, Snodderly and related families settled at Sharp's Station in what is now Union County, TN. This site is in Big Ridge State Park on the east shore of Norris Lake .Henry was a brother to John, Aaron and George Sharp and Mrs. Nicholas Countz (WCG) Sometime prior to 1785 he lived in Orange Co.,NC, as is indicated by a record stating that on June 3, 1785,Henry and Barbara
sharp of Botetourt Co., VA, deeded to one Michael Holt land situated in Orange Co., NC.
Henry's name appears on tax lists for Orange Co. for 1799 on property valued at $1480 and in 1780, 81 & 82 he was taxed on 225 acres of land in Orange Co. As his name does not appear on the tax lists after 1782, it is probable that he left Orange Co. about this time for Virginia. "In the Brief of Deeds of Montgomery Co., VA, Nov. 2,1795, appears this entry: 'Henry Sharp and wife, Barbara, to George Williams, 112 acres on Sinking Creek.' At this time Henry was a resident of Knox Co., TN. Tax records seem to indicate that he left Virginia for Tennessee in
1789. He is believed to have moved from Tennessee to Preble Co., Ohio, in 1805, where he died in 1814. The first death in the township was that of Henry Sharpe, a native of Scotland. After spending a great part of his life in Germany, he came to Ohio and died in Harrison township about 1814. He was buried in the Euphemia graveyard, and is said to be the first man buried on the spot now covered with tombstones. "2 Note: Euphemia was on the National Road, which was constructed by the Federal government starting in 1811 from Cumberland, MD, to
Vandalia, IL, at a cost of over seven million dollars. Today Euphemia is in the NW comer of Lewisburg, on the west side of SR 503. The cemetery is also called Rose lawn .Henry served with Count Pulaski's Light Dragoons during the American Revolution. His name during the time in the military was "Henry Shaup". June third 1785 Henry and Wife Barbary in Botetort Co, Virginia made a land deal listed as follows: This indenture made theirs 3rd day of June in the 9th year of the American Independence and in the year of our Lord 1785 between Henry Sharp and Barbary his wife, Botetor and in the Province of Virginia of the one part and Michael Holt
of Orange County in the Province of North Carolina in consideration of the sum of 175 pounds proclamation...a certain tract or parcel of land situate...in the county of Orange on the waters of Haw river Grate Allemance beginning at a hickory saplin on ..." Henry Honas SHARP Sr. and Barbara GRAVES were married in 1759 in PA.6 Barbara GRAVES was born in 1740 in Greenwich Twp., Berks Co., PA. She died about 1800 in Preble Co., OH.5 May have died in TN in 1796. Buried in what is now Union Co., TN.
Henry Honas SHARP Sr. and Barbara GRAVES had the following children: |