Charles Frank Sharp

Obituary for Charles F. Sharp 3 Dec 1921

Hornell Tribune, Dec 3, 1921 (Hornell, Steuben Co, NY)

Charles Sharp, 66 years old, died very suddenly about 8:30 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. M. Granger, 140 Maple street. Death was due to an attack of heart disease. Mr. Sharp is survived by one son, Charles Sharp of Rochester, and one daughter, Mrs. Granger, this city. The funeral services will be held on Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the house and burial will take place in Rural cemetery.

Pension hearing affidavit

Jan 1878 , Schuyler County, New York

Note: The earliest papers in the penion file are part of Harlow's mother's 1863 application for his pension which had been declared moot by the government because she had died (in 1864, not 1861 as the Mecklenburg cemetery list indicates) before the application was processed.  The second set of papers represented 1878 claims by Harlow's siblings for the pension that had been denied to their widowed mother.  The named siblings were Lydia Irene Sharp and Charles F. Sharp.  Affidavits contained in the file included one from Dr. J. William H. Fish, M.D., the physician who had treated Harlow while ill from Nov. 11-21, 1862, in Mecklenburg (Hector Township).  Dr. Fish also testified that he had inherited the medical records of his father, Dr. Henry Fish, who had attended Elizabeth during the births of both Lydia and Charles and could therefore provide the exact dates of birth of the Sharp siblings.

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Affidavit of Parvis Elston, 1878, one of the documents included in the Civil War Pension record for Harlow M. Sharp.

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Parvis Elston of Mecklenburg Schuyler County New York whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn according to the law does depose and say that he was well acquainted with Elizabeth. B. Sharp Widow of Perry Sharp. who died in 1858 and Mother of Harlow. M. Sharp and Lydia I and Charles. F. Sharp. that the said Harlow M Sharp. Enlisted in the Service of the United States in Aug,1862. as a Private in. Co. E.161st Regt, NY, Inftry, Vols and while with his Regt at Elmira N.Y. in November 1862 he contracted Typhoid Fever from which he died some time in the said month of November 1862 at his mother's house near Mecklenburg N.Y. his friends having obtained a furlough for him to come home in order to receive better care than he could get in camp Hospital. That prior to the said Harlow M. Sharp enlisting he had worked for this deponent from the first of April til some time in or about the middle of August 1862 and that he had worked to the amount of $68.00 and further that the Mother the said Elizabeth. B. Sharp and family lived in a tenement house belonging to this Deponent and had lived in said house from the Spring of 1859 up til the time of the said Harlo. M. Sharp's death and that the said Son Harlow had always paid the rent of said house up til the time he died Deponent further says that for the amount of the $68.00 which the said Harlow M Sharp had earned of this deponent up til the time of his enlistment and by the order of the said Harlow. M. Sharp. he let the mother have a pig and some money at different times and produce for the family to live on and when the said Harlow. M. Sharp settled up with he deponent there was about $18.00 left in deponent's hands to pay for house rent fuel cow pasture and other things that might be needed in the family, til he could have some money from the Army. This Deponent further says that he well remembers being present several times when the said Harlow. M. Sharp would give his mother the said Elizabeth. B. Sharp. Some money to buy some clothes for the children and other articules for the use of the family. This Deponent does also certify from his own personal knowledge and observation that the said Harlo. M. Sharp. was the only support of the Mother and his Younger Brother and Sister the Mothers health being very poor which rendered her unable to earn anything by her own labor.

This deponent does also certify that to his certain knowledge the said Harlow M Sharp was a single man at the time he enlisted and died and that he had never been married and left neither widow nor child surviving him. This Deponent does also certify that at the time of the mother's death she was not worth any Real estate or personal property and that at the time of her death there were only two children surviving her (viz) Lydia I. and Charles. F. Sharp and that to his best knowledge and belief they are the only legal heirs of the Deceased Mother Deponent further says that his knowledge of the above facts. are derived from personal acquaintance with the family for many years...

Subscribed this 30th day of January 1878

Parvis Elton

Obituary for Charles F. Sharp

3 Dec 1921

Hornell Tribune, Dec 3, 1921 (Hornell, Steuben Co, NY)

Charles Sharp, 66 years old, died very suddenly about 8:30 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. M. Granger, 140 Maple street. Death was due to an attack of heart disease. Mr. Sharp is survived by one son, Charles Sharp of Rochester, and one daughter, Mrs. Granger, this city. The funeral services will be held on Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the house and burial will take place in Rural cemetery.

Pension hearing affidavit

Jan 1878 , Schuyler County, New York

Note: The earliest papers in the penion file are part of Harlow's mother's 1863 application for his pension which had been declared moot by the government because she had died (in 1864, not 1861 as the Mecklenburg cemetery list indicates) before the application was processed.  The second set of papers represented 1878 claims by Harlow's siblings for the pension that had been denied to their widowed mother.  The named siblings were Lydia Irene Sharp and Charles F. Sharp.  Affidavits contained in the file included one from Dr. J. William H. Fish, M.D., the physician who had treated Harlow while ill from Nov. 11-21, 1862, in Mecklenburg (Hector Township).  Dr. Fish also testified that he had inherited the medical records of his father, Dr. Henry Fish, who had attended Elizabeth during the births of both Lydia and Charles and could therefore provide the exact dates of birth of the Sharp siblings.

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Affidavit of Parvis Elston, 1878, one of the documents included in the Civil War Pension record for Harlow M. Sharp.

(Spelling and punctuation transcribed as recorded)

Parvis Elston of Mecklenburg Schuyler County New York whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn according to the law does depose and say that he was well acquainted with Elizabeth. B. Sharp Widow of Perry Sharp. who died in 1858 and Mother of Harlow. M. Sharp and Lydia I and Charles. F. Sharp. that the said Harlow M Sharp. Enlisted in the Service of the United States in Aug,1862. as a Private in. Co. E.161st Regt, NY, Inftry, Vols and while with his Regt at Elmira N.Y. in November 1862 he contracted Typhoid Fever from which he died some time in the said month of November 1862 at his mother's house near Mecklenburg N.Y. his friends having obtained a furlough for him to come home in order to receive better care than he could get in camp Hospital. That prior to the said Harlow M. Sharp enlisting he had worked for this deponent from the first of April til some time in or about the middle of August 1862 and that he had worked to the amount of $68.00 and further that the Mother the said Elizabeth. B. Sharp and family lived in a tenement house belonging to this Deponent and had lived in said house from the Spring of 1859 up til the time of the said Harlo. M. Sharp's death and that the said Son Harlow had always paid the rent of said house up til the time he died Deponent further says that for the amount of the $68.00 which the said Harlow M Sharp had earned of this deponent up til the time of his enlistment and by the order of the said Harlow. M. Sharp. he let the mother have a pig and some money at different times and produce for the family to live on and when the said Harlow. M. Sharp settled up with he deponent there was about $18.00 left in deponent's hands to pay for house rent fuel cow pasture and other things that might be needed in the family, til he could have some money from the Army. This Deponent further says that he well remembers being present several times when the said Harlow. M. Sharp would give his mother the said Elizabeth. B. Sharp. Some money to buy some clothes for the children and other articules for the use of the family. This Deponent does also certify from his own personal knowledge and observation that the said Harlo. M. Sharp. was the only support of the Mother and his Younger Brother and Sister the Mothers health being very poor which rendered her unable to earn anything by her own labor.

This deponent does also certify that to his certain knowledge the said Harlow M Sharp was a single man at the time he enlisted and died and that he had never been married and left neither widow nor child surviving him. This Deponent does also certify that at the time of the mother's death she was not worth any Real estate or personal property and that at the time of her death there were only two children surviving her (viz) Lydia I. and Charles. F. Sharp and that to his best knowledge and belief they are the only legal heirs of the Deceased Mother Deponent further says that his knowledge of the above facts. are derived from personal acquaintance with the family for many years...

Subscribed this 30th day of January 1878

Parvis Elton