Richard SHARP

Sources:

Ancestry.com
Kentucky Marriages 1802-1850
Public Member Trees
FamilySearch.org/FamilyTree
Virginia Marriages 1740-1850
Ancestry.com - Missouri Marriage Records
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application
United States Dept. of Interior National Registry of Historic Places
Google Books: "Granddad, Did You Wash Your Hands," by Ned Sharp
History of Sharpsburg
Wills of Marion County, Missouri (FHL 977.8353 P28n)
Marriages of Marion County, Missouri
Monroe County, Missouri Marriages (FHL 977.8325)
1850 Census - Marion County, Missouri
1840 Census - Monroe County, Missouri
1830 Census - Oldham County, Kentucky
1820 Census - Shelby County, Kentucky
1810 Census - Wood County, Kentucky
Monroe County Missouri Paris Mercury Abstracts (FHL 977.8325)
Marriage Records of Jefferson County, Kentucky (FHL 976.944 V2j)
FamilySearch.org/FamilyTree
History of the United Methodist Churches of Missouri

Notes:

                   Note: Richard Sharp was ordained a deacon in the Methodist Church in 1812 in Richmond, Virginia.  In 1818 he was elevated to the office of Elder in Louisville, Kentucky.  After serving as a preacher in Virginia for more than 20 years, he came to Missouri in 1831.  He was one of the earliest settlers in Madison, Shelby County.  He then moved to Palmyra.  Later he purchased a homestead 4 1/2 miles NW of Monroe City.  He built a log church in 1833 called Sharpsburg Church.  The community that grew up around it is called Sharpsburg.  Rev. Sharp lived on the old homeplace there until his death in 1850.  (History of the United Methodist Churches of Missouri)

Other Marriages:
          6 Mar 1832   Mary SAFFORD

Child :  William M. SHARP
       SOURCES:   1. 1850 Monroe Co., MO Census (FHL#443615)
       Other marriages:  Ann M.

Child: Thomas P. SHARP (2nd marriage to Rebecca Enoch)
       SOURCES:   1. 1850 Monroe Co., MO Census (FHL#443615)