Person:E Sharp (2)

Rev. Eron M. Sharp, 82, of 3477 Highland Cove, retired Methodist minister of the North Mississippi Conference died at 6:15 a.m. yesterday at Methodist Hospital after a long illness. Services will be at 2 pm tomorrow at St. Luke's United Methodist Church with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery in Iuka, Mississippi. Memorial Park Funeral home has charge.

Mr. Sharp served as a pastor for several Mid South churches during his career, including a stint as United Methodist superintendent of the Cleveland district. A native of Leake County Miss., Mr. Sharp was educated at Millsap College, Jackson Miss. and Duke University at Durham N.C. Among the churches he pastored were Hernando First United Methodist Church, Aberdeen First United Methodist Church, New Albany First United Methodist Church and Greenwood First United Methodist Church. He was conference secretary of the North Mississippi Conference and edited the church journal there for 16 years. He helped found Lake Stephens United Methodist Camp in Oxford, Miss., and was on its board of directors for several years. Mr. Sharp was an instructor of Bible studies at Grenada College and upon retirement, served as assistant circulation librarian at Memphis State University. He was the first chaplain of Wesley Highland Towers, a retirement home, and continued to serve there until his illness.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Alma Blissit Sharp, and a sister, Mrs. Louis Sharp of Oxford, Miss. The family request any memorials be sent to St. Lukes' United Methodist Church in Memphis, Lake Stephens United Methodist Camp in Oxford or to Wood College in Mathiston, Miss.

COMMERICAL APPEAL, Memphis, TN,
AUGUST 9, 1986

E. M. Sharp retired as the pastor of the First Methodist Church of Aberdeen, Mississippi.
In the summer of 1947, one hundred years after the death of John and Elizabeth, Mr. E. M. Sharp and his father visited the place and the cemetery at White Plains and stood at the foot of those two patriots. The place was then owned by a Mr. Thompson who took special pains to show them all points of interest. The cemetery was located in the middle of a patch where he was growing peanuts. Some years ago the Daughters of the Revolution erected a monument on his grave. These words, "JOHN MCGOUGH, A North Carolina REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER" are engraved. About 30 other graves are in the plot. Buried there besides the McGough, are the Nelsons and Griers.

Mr. E. M. Sharp states that in his efforts to trace the Sharp family, he went to Charlotte, North Carolina and searched the records for the Sharps. It was then that he discovered the McGough records. The two families seem to have had several intermarriages. John Sharp married Mary McGough. Marshall Sharp married Matilda McGough. Thomas McGough of Butts County married Nancy McClure whose mother was Mary Sharp, a daughter of Richard Sharp and grand daughter of Edward Sharp of Mecklenburg. Richard was a brother of John and James Sharp who is the ancestor of E. M. Sharp.