... Mary Jane Simpson, fourth child of William Wells and Nancy Garlington Simpson, born 1819, and married May 26th, 1836, to H. P. Sharpe, of North Carolina, and settled near Young's Store, Laurens County, S.C., where Mr. Sharpe died on ________. Mrs. Sharpe and some of her children removed to Rutherford, N.C.
They had the following nine children:
William Simpson Sharpe, dead
Amos Leander Sharpe
John Franklin Sharpe
Hugh Parley Sharpe
Edwin Wuincy [Quincy?] Sharpe
Nancy Garlington Sharpe
Mary Jane Sharpe
Martha Rebecca Sharpe
Susannah Sharpe
Amos Sharpe, second child of H. P. Sharpe and Mary Jane Simpson Sharpe, was a gallant soldier in the Confederate War and was killed. ...