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 1762 - 1835 (73 years)
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| Name |
John Sharp |
| Birth |
2 Mar 1762 |
Southampton County, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
7 Oct 1835 |
Tatnall County, Georgia |
| Person ID |
I133 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
1 Mar 2009 |
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| Headstones |
 | Sharpe, John
GPS: N31 deg 58.662 min, W082 deg 17.319 min |
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| Notes |
- John Sharpe, Jr. was born 2 March 1762 in Southampton Co., Virginia. At the age of 4, he moved with his family from Virginia to St. George Parish, Georgia, which became Burke County in 1777. He died 7 October 1835 (173 years ago) in Tattnall County, Georgia.
Jeanette Holland Austin recorded in her book, Deaths of Revolutionary War Soldiers Who Died in Georgia and their Widows, that in Burke County about 1792, John Sharpe married Elizabeth “Betsey” Wynn, six years his senior. She was born in 1755 in Virginia and died 25 October 1835 in Tattnall County, Georgia, just 18 days after the death of her husband.
John and Betsey had three children:
1. John Thomas Sharpe, born 1 November 1795 in Burke County, Georgia
2. Susan Elizabeth Sharpe, born 1800 in Burke County, Georgia
3. Hamilton Wynn Sharpe, born 10 April 1807 in Tattnall County, Georgia
John Sharpe moved in 1802 with his wife and their first two children to bounty land in Tattnall County that he received for his service in the Revolutionary War. Their third child was born in Tattnall County.
John took an active part in the newly formed county and its government. He served two different terms as Sheriff; Justice of the Peace in the 43rd District of Tattnall County 1816-1818; and Major in the 10th Battalion Georgia Militia 1830-1834. As administrator of his father’s estate after 1806, he defended himself in court a number of times. He maintained a tavern of some sort, as several times he was granted license to sell liquor for 12 months. Several different times he was accused in court of wrongful activities. Sometimes he won the case - other times he lost.
A death notice for John Sharpe was published in the Milledgeville, Georgia newspaper, The Southern Recorder, issue of 10 November 1835 as follows:
“Another Revolutionary Patriot Gone! Died at his residence in Tattnall County on October 7th of bilious fever, Major John Sharpe in his 73rd year. At an early age he took up arms in defense of his country. In all his dealings, honesty and truth were strictly adhered to. He left an aged widow, but not for long as she died on 25th of October following. They had been married over 48 years. They leave behind two sons”.
In his book Sketches of By-Gone Days, Mr. Joseph T. Grice lists 44 names of Revolutionary Soldiers who made their homes in Tattnall County soon after its creation. He listed John Sharpe among them. Mr. Grice states of these men, “They made substantial contributions to the development of our county, many of them being large property owners and filling places of responsibility and trust among their fellows.
As their service to the Nation contributed to the winning of our war for independence, so did they contribute to the building of a good civilization here, and their descendants in the county today can well point with pride to the activities of their ancestors who came here in the long ago”.
On page one of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume III, Mrs. Howard H. McCall pays homage to our Patriot ancestors:
“Many years have rolled away since the stirring scenes of the Revolution were acted, but the brilliant events of that period will live on the pages of history.
The names of those Revolutionary Soldiers, who espoused the popular cause and threw the whole weight of their power and influence on the side of Liberty, are on the Nation’s Roll of Honor.
While the Revolutionary Army of Georgia was small compared to many other Colonies, it was our State, Georgia, which offered land in quantity as an inducement to Revolutionary Soldiers of all the States to settle in Georgia.
Truly we can say these Revolutionary Soldiers from Georgia and the other Colonies helped to secure for us our glorious heritage.”
Barbara Jo Mills Baker
4th-Gr-Granddaughter of John Sharpe, Jr., R.S.
On the occasion of his Dedication of Revolutionary Soldier Grave Marker, Clifton Family Cemetery, Toombs County, Georgia.
9 October 2008
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