My Genealogy Hound

JOHN N. SHARP, a native of Monroe County, Ind., was born November 9, 1827, and is the next to the eldest child born to James S. and Celia (Coffee) Sharp, both natives of Tennessee. He was reared in his native county and remained at home until the death of his mother which occurred when he was nineteen years old. He then came to Spencer County, where he has since resided. He received such an education as the schools of those primitive times afforded. September 28, 1864, his marriage with Mary Limber, daughter of Thomas J. Limber was celebrated, and to their union twelve children have been born, of whom there are now living, Albert N., Maria, John W., Sarah V., Nancy A., Hester, Susan, Hattie, Cora L. and Myrtle M., the last two of whom are unmarried. Mr. Sharp’s occupation has been chiefly farming, though he learned the carpenter and joiner’s trade under his father, and worked at it until 1854. He now owns a farm of two hundred acres. In politics he has for the past eight years been identified with the National party.