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| 説明 | Company C, 70th Indiana Infantry From his Memorial Record at his local G. A. R. Post 145, Neodesha, Kansas:William Sharpe was born August 26th, 1842 in Hendricks County, Indiana. He was enlisted in Company C, 70th Regiment Indiana Infantry Volunteers on the 22nd day of July 1862 at Clayton, Indiana. He served in the 20th Corps, 1st Brigade, and 3rd Division and participated in the following battles and skirmishes to wit:Russellville, Kentucky, September 30, 1862Resaca, Georgia, May 14 & 15, 1864Cassville, Georgia, May 18 & 19, 1864New Hope Church, Georgia, May 25 to June 5th, 1864Marietta, Georgia with combats at Lost Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, Brush Mountain and other points from June 10th to July 3rd, 1864.Peach Tree Creek, Georgia, July 20th, 1864Atlanta, Georgia, July 22nd, 1864 to Sept. 2nd, 1864Siege of Savannah, Georgia, December 11 to 21st, 1864Bentonville, North Carolina March 19 to 21st, 1865Marched with William T. Sherman from Atlanta to the sea and from thence onwards to Washington D. C. and was present at the Grand Review on Pennsylvania avenue in said city. Where he was honorably discharged from the military service of the United States on the Eighth day of June 1865.The Neodesha Register, Friday, January 22, 1909, Pg. 1Volume XXVI, Number 4William Sharpe Passes Away.______ William Sharpe, who had lived in Wilson county since 1870 and who was one of the most widely known and highly respected pioneer citizens, departed this life , after a lingering sickness, at his home, corner of Fourth and Mill streets, in Neodesha, Sunday morning, January 17, 1909, aged 66 years, 4 months and 21 days. The cause of death was Bright’s disease. No better man ever lived than William Sharpe. As a husband and father he was all that could be desired. As a man and citizen, Wilson county honored him. No father ever loved his family more than he. In all his business relations he was absolutely fair and honest and he fulfilled every promise. His good deeds are many and the acts of kindness he has shown toward his neighbors of the earlier days in this county will never be forgotten. His memory will be cherished to the end. To his devoted wife and children the profound sympathy of all is extended. Funeral services were held from the home Tuesday morning at 8:30, conducted by Rev. W. F. Grierson of Parsons, an old friend of the deceased and former pastor of the New Light church in Pleasant Valley township. The attendance at the funeral was large. One room was filled with comrades of the deceased and to see these white-haired heroes of the Civil war paying their last respects to one who had been with them through that unpleasantness was a touching scene. Near the casket was the grand old star spangled banner, the flag that William Sharpe loved so dearly. The hymns so impressively sang by the choir were favorite selections of the departed. After the funeral ceremonies the remains were taken overland to Pleasant Valley township for interment. L. W. Duncan’s history of Wilson county, published in 1902, has the following to say of Mr. Sharpe: It is with satisfaction that we are permitted to record in this article the life of one who has been so prominently connected with the agricultural interests of Wilson county and whose early settlement in Pleasant Valley township places him in the list of prairie pioneers. It was in July, 1870, that William Sharpe came to Wilson county and entered a part of the public domain preparatory to the career which awaited him as a home builder in the wiles of “Sunny Kansas.” He was a settler from Indiana but came to this state by the way of Ringold county, Iowa, whither he went about the close of the civil war. Mr. Sharpe was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, August 26, 1842. His father was William Sharpe, and his mother before her marriage, Sarah Harmon, both of whom were natives of East Tennessee. The parents moved to Central Indiana about 1835 where they died ten years later leaving a family of six children, the youngest of whom was the subject of this sketch, then in his third year. Bereft of parental guidance at so tender an age William Sharpe enjoyed but few of those advantages and pleasantries proper to childhood, and grew up to manhood with the stern responsibilities of life most deeply impressed upon his mind; for these were taught him, not by precept but by actual experience in his own career. His education was necessarily much neglected, but as he found an abiding place in the home of a neighbor of the Sharpe family, Benjamin Pickett, so in the public schools of the community he received the rudiments of a common English education. He entered the Union army, July 22, 1862, enlisting in Company C, 70th Indiana volunteer infantry, commanded by ex-President Benjamin Harrison, with which he saw three years of hard service. The 70th Indiana was organized in August, 1862, and proceeded at once to Kentucky, which was then common battle ground between the contending forces of the Union and Confederacy. After spending a little better than a year in Kentucky and Tennessee in a sort of miscellaneous service, made up of guard duty, chasing bushwackers, intercepting the enemy’s supplies and affording protection to the loyal people of that section, it entered the Atlanta campaign in the spring of 1864 and from that time on till the close of the war did its full share towards crushing the rebellion and was not excelled by any regiment in the gallantry displayed and took rank with those sustaining the heaviest losses. At the battle of Resaca, Georgia, its casualties amounted in killed and wounded to 172 men, being a third more than that of any other regiment in that engagement, and not a man reported missing. Its total death loss during the term of its services were 203, nearly half of whom were killed outright on the battlefield. This regiment formed part of the First brigade, Third division of the Twentieth army, corps commanded by Fighting Joe Hooker, and was among the restless and sleepless not only on the Atlanta campaign but in the march to the sea, and the campaign through the Carolinas, closing its service with the engagements of, Averbororough and Bentonville, North Carolina. With the exception of a few months spent in the hospital at Gallatin, Tennessee, where he was down with fever, Mr. Sharpe was with his regiment from the date of his enlistment till the close of hostilities, receiving his discharge June 8, 1865. He was engaged in eleven hard fought battles namely: Russelville, Kentucky; Resaca, Georgia; Casville, Georgia; New Hope church, Georgia; Lost Mountain, Georgia; Bentonville, North Carolina; Pumpkin Vine creek, Georgia; Kennesaw mountain, Georgia; Savannah, Georgia; Aversborough, North Carolina. The war over Mr. Sharpe returned to the farm and after residing a short time in Indiana went to Ringold county, Iowa where, on the 16th day of September, 1866, he married Miss Sarah E. McAninch, who was born in Hendricks county, Indiana and was a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth McAninich, who moved from Kentucky their native state, to Indiana, thence to Iowa, about 1866. Mr. Sharpe moved from Iowa to Kansas, as stated, in July, 1870, at which time he became a resident of Pleasant Valley township, Wilson county, where he has lived for the past thirty-two years. The first years of his experience in Kansas almost persuaded him that the state was not intended for the habitation of man. Settlers were everywhere struggling for the bare necessities of life, and in spite of their best efforts starvation often seemed inevitable. The season of 1874 was particularly dark and hopeless. The drought ruined the crops and there was scarcely anything left to sustain life. In the spring of 1875 the ground was yet dry and plowed up in great chunks occasionally rolling back in the furrow on the bare ankles of the plowman as he trudged on in a half-hearted and dazed sort of way. One day when the outlook was the gloomiest, weak from want of food and blue beyond consolation, Mr. Sharpe “turned out” and laid the situation before his wife; the family hungry, sick and with a failure the previous year and the prospect of a worse one to follow , his case seemed almost as hopeless as it could well be; and he was, as he expresses it, “fully ready to take the back track.” While in this dilemma lying on the floor at the hour of midnight with sleepless eyes, it began pouring down rain; morning came, and hearts gladdened to see old mother earth had taken on a new appearance. The ground was put in fine condition, the planting of the crop was finished and while the yield was not bountiful there was sufficient to keep the wolf from the door, and succeeding years brought better returns. When the early settlers felt the first touch of prosperity it was an experience never to be forgotten. They had lived so long on hardships and had become so accustomed to some form of destitution that it seemed almost an encumbrance to have a surplus of anything. It was fortunate that the change came on gradually for they were thereby thus prepared for the success that was to follow. Mr. Sharpe not only improved his homestead but as his means would allow bought other land which he improved until at one time he owned over six hundred acres a good part of which he put in cultivation thus doing his full share toward the development of the country and not buying and holding the land simply for the rise in value. Ad his children came of age he settled each one on a farm or expended its equivalent in educating them and thus securing them a start in life, until his holdings are now cut down to three hundred and twenty acres in which is included the original homestead and which with improvements, natural attractiveness and wealth of artificial growth, is one of the choice spots in Pleasant Valley township and in fact of Wilson ccounty. Mr. Sharpe built against the south side of a mound which rises more than a hundred feet above the surrounding country sloping gradually to the south, thus affording a beautiful building site and one upon which he has improved with rare skill and judgment. His house stands back from the public highway a distance of two hundred yards and the lawn is covered with fine growth of cedar, pine, catalpa maple, poplar and tulip trees, besides much shrubbery and an abundance of plants and flowers. There is more than an acre of lawn and joining at immediately on the east is a maple grove of about an acre, making a choice bit of scenery and one of the noted picnicking places of Pleasant Valley township. Mr. Sharpe has been a very busy man and the evidences of his activity are visible on every hand at the farm. He was formerly a heavy cattle feeder, and shipper, buying of the surplus stock and grain in his locality which he turned in good account in his own business while he made a market these products near the doors of his neighbors. For some time past, however, he has practically retired and contents himself now with exercising only a general supervision over his place which he rents out, living off the proceeds. On another page will be seen a cut of Mr. Sharpe’s residence with himself and wife and youngest son Bert, in the foreground, of which said cut poorly represents the beauty and grandeur of his home. In February, 1882, Mr. Sharpe lost his first wife, she having borne him two sons and two daughters. The sons are Alvin V. Sharpe, attorney, and Dr. O. D. Sharpe, both of Neodesha. The daughters are Mrs. W. R. Newman of Santa Anna, California, and Mrs. Enoch Wiggans of Pleasant Valley township. October 30, 1883, Mr. Sharpe married Mrs. Cornelia A. Starr and to this union was born one son, Bertram B. Sharpe, who is also a resident of Neodesha. In religion Mr. Sharpe was raised a Quaker. His foster mother, Mrs. Pickett, lost her reason while Mr. Sharpe was still a boy and he and his Quaker foster father built a separate room for her in their house and Mr. Sharpe as a boy, assisted in caring for her until the war broke out. In Pleasant Valley township Mr. Sharpe became a member of what is known as the New Light church and was one of those who helped build a church house there. In 1904 Mr. Sharpe and wife and youngest son moved to Neodesha, purchasing a handsome residence property on South Fourth street. |
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