"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
RAY TOWNSHIP
PAGE 291

WILLIAM A. SHARP is a native of Ellettsville, in this State;  was born April 10, 1855,
and is the third of the five children of George W. and Agnes (Ashbrook) Sharp, both
natives of Indiana.  William A. was reared on a farm, and obtained some education from
the common schools.  His father died when he was seven years old, after which he lived
with his grandfather until May 13, 1877, when he married Theresa, daughter of Gideon
Holiday, by which union were born two children--Ida and Roy C.  After his marriage,
Mr. Sharp moved to Ellettsville, where he labored as a quarryman for thirteen years.
In July, 1883, he moved to Paragon, to take charge of his mother's farm of ninety-
three acres on White River bottoms.  Mr. Sharp is in comfortable circumstances, 
having a house and two lots in Ellettsville.  He is a member, and was First Commander
of Sons of Veterans' Camp, No. 2, and is a Republican in politics.  His father,
George W. Sharp, was a soldier of the late war, and died in the service.  Mrs. Sharp
is a member of the Baptist Church.

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