Dr. Alexander R. Sharp and Ellen Dent

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Husband Dr. Alexander R. Sharp ^{1 2}

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         Father: Rev. Alexander Sharp (1796-1857) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Bryson (1797-1870) 4 5

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Wife Ellen Dent ⁶

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            AKA: Nellie Dent 2 7
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         Father: Frederick Dent (      -      ) 8
         Mother: Ellen Wrenshall (      -      ) 8

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1 M Alexander Sharp ⁶

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         Spouse: Josephine Hand (      -      ) 2

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2 M Frederick Dent Sharp ^{2 9}

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         Spouse: Ellen Beverly (      -      ) 2

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3 M Ulysses Grant Sharp ^{2 9}

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4 M Louis Dent Sharp ^{2 9}

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5 F Elizabeth Bryson Sharp ²

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         Spouse: Maj. James Pettitt, U.S.A. (      -      ) 2

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6 F [Unk] Sharp

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         Spouse: Capt.  Nolan (      -      ) 9

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7 F [Unk] Sharp

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         Spouse: Capt.  Bennett (      -      ) 9

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8 F Nellie Dent Sharp ²

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9 M Julius Dent Sharp ²

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10 F Julia Dent Grant Sharp ²

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Alexander R. Sharp

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He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, and removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he married Ellen Dent, a sister of Mrs. U. S. Grant. After practicing his profession for a while in St. Louis, he removed to Auburn, Missouri. This was at the beginning of the Civil war and sentiment in that locality was divided, the dominant part favoring secession. One day, on his return from a visit to a country patient, he found a Confederate flag floating from his house, which was the highest in the village, and a crowd
standing around awaiting the outcome. In reply to his inquiry his wife explained that the boys wanted to put a flag upon their house, and as it was the first they had raised she thought it would be nice and gave her consent. Dr. Sharp then informed the crowd that as the house was his he would take the flag down, and return it to them, which he did in the face of threats that his life should pay for the act. In fear and trepidation his wife called out: "Boys, the hen coop is mine, you can put it on the hen coop." This ludicrous attempt at conciliation brought a shout of laughter from the Union element in the crowd, and acted like a shower bath on the Secessionists. Their ardor was cooled, and loyalty to the Union began to assert itself and crystalize about Auburn.
The rebel element, however, made it uncomfortable for him and his family at Auburn, and he removed to Louisiana, Pike County, where he was permitted to practice his profession unmolested. But the war called for his services, and for some time he was acting assistant surgeon in the army hospitals at Cairo and Mound City. At the close of the war he was made special agent of the Post Office Department, and reorganized the mail service in the States of Virginia and North Carolina. Afterward he was postmaster of Richmond, Va., and when General Grant was elected President he appointed him United States marshal of the District of Columbia. At the close of Grant's second term he was appointed pay-master in the army, which position he held until 1889, when he was relieved on account of the infirmities of old age. He died at "The Presidio," California, of ailments caused by much horseback exercise in early life.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 20, 67.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 67.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 18.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 66.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 19.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 20.

7 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 67.

8 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 629.

9 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 21.