| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Third Generation13. Sarah "Sallie" SHARP was born in July 1774 in Orange Co., NC.9,28,29 She appeared in the census in 1850 in District 7, Claiborne Co., TN. Living with her son, John Graves, in 1850; Sarah "Sallie" SHARP and John "Clinch John" GRAVES Jr. were married in 1792 in Orange Co., NC.30,31 John "Clinch John" GRAVES Jr. was born on 8 March 1772 in Orange Co., NC.28,30,32 That part is now Alamance Co. He in 1801 in Claiborne Co., TN.28 John Graves' name appears in the records of Claiborne County in 1801 as one of the witnesses to a "love" deed from Henry Sharp, Sr. to his son Henry Jr. He signed a will on 2 September 1844 in Tazewell, Claiborne Co., TN.28 Claiborne County Will Book A, p. 404 This will bequeaths "unto my son John all my lands...all my personal property...and to give my wife comfortable support and to take good care of her during her natural life...My will is that my grandson Hugh H. Graves have a dark blue rone horse that I allowed for him, also a saddle." Other children mentioned are 3 youngest next to John and 3 next oldest. Sons John and Eli were appointed executors. Clinch John died on 6 September 1850 in Sharps Chapel, Union Co., TN.28,30,32 Ref. page 127 UCHS Pathways, December 1989. He married his first cousin Sarah Sharp. They built the brick house once owned by Patrick Graves and last owned by John Baker. This is from "Big Valley and Lost Creek - memories" by W.H. Thomas. Dates from Buddy Dalton-Vance. Sarah "Sallie" SHARP and John "Clinch John" GRAVES Jr. had the following children:
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