John Sharp

John Sharp
JOHN SHARP. Among the thousands I have met, it gives me great pleasure to mention my old friend, John Sharp, not old in years, but in the standing of the friendly relations between us. Mr. Sharp was born August 31, 1841, in Salem township, Delaware county, Indiana. He was raised upon a farm, and, owing to the fact that his father died when he was thirteen years old, enjoyed but few educational advantages. He remained upon the farm with his mother until past nineteen years of age, when he went to Frankton and clerked one year in a general store. Retiring from that position he returned home, where he enlisted August 10, 1862, in Company H, 69th Regiment Indiana Volunteers. Was with his regiment in the battles of Richmond, Kentucky, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge and Vicksburg, and was mustered out of the service June 29, 1865, He was married to Miss Jane Quick, of Frankton, Indiana, on the 9th of November, 1865, and has never had any children. In the spring of 1867 he moved on a farm near Elwood, Indiana, and remained until the fall of 1870, when he moved to Frankton, and shortly after engaged in mercantile business with C. and Wm. H. H. Quick, under the firm name of C. Quick & Co., with which firm he remained until September, 1878, when. he engaged in the grain trade for a period of three years. Since that time he has been engaged in farming and breeding short-horn cattle. Mr. Sharp is a Mason, having joined the order at Elwood in 1868. He joined the G. A. R. in the spring of 1874, being a charter member of Frankton Post No. 349, and its commander the three first years of its existence. My first acquaintance with Mr. Sharp was at Middletown, Indiana, where we enlisted together in Company H, 69th Indiana Volunteers, now over a quarter of a century ago. Oh, how time flies! We were then young and active, but time has wrought great changes in us both. I have often met him since our first acquintance, and have found him at all times a worthy comrade and friend.
Those I Have Met or Boys in Blue Samuel Hardin, Anderson, Indiana, 1888

JOHN SHARP. Among the thousands I have met, it gives me great pleasure to mention my old friend, John Sharp, not old in years, but in the standing of the friendly relations between us. Mr. Sharp was born August 31, 1841, in Salem township, Delaware county, Indiana. He was raised upon a farm, and, owing to the fact that his father died when he was thirteen years old, enjoyed but few educational advantages. He remained upon the farm with his mother until past nineteen years of age, when he went to Frankton and clerked one year in a general store. Retiring from that position he returned home, where he enlisted August 10, 1862, in Company H, 69th Regiment Indiana Volunteers. Was with his regiment in the battles of Richmond, Kentucky, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge and Vicksburg, and was mustered out of the service June 29, 1865, He was married to Miss Jane Quick, of Frankton, Indiana, on the 9th of November, 1865, and has never had any children.

In the spring of 1867 he moved on a farm near Elwood, Indiana, and remained until the fall of 1870, when he moved to Frankton, and shortly after engaged in mercantile business with C. and Wm. H. H. Quick, under the firm name of C. Quick & Co., with which firm he remained until September, 1878, when. he engaged in the grain trade for a period of three years. Since that time he has been engaged in farming and breeding short-horn cattle. Mr. Sharp is a Mason, having joined the order at Elwood in 1868. He joined the G. A. R. in the spring of 1874, being a charter member of Frankton Post No. 349, and its commander the three first years of its existence. My first acquaintance with Mr. Sharp was at Middletown, Indiana, where we enlisted together in Company H, 69th Indiana Volunteers, now over a quarter of a century ago. Oh, how time flies! We were then young and active, but time has wrought great changes in us both. I have often met him since our first acquintance, and have found him at all times a worthy comrade and friend.

Those I Have Met or Boys in Blue
Samuel Hardin, Anderson, Indiana, 1888