2(i). William Lewis Sharkey born 12 Jul 1798; He became Governor of Mississippi
"William Lewis Sharkey, son of Patrick Sharkey, was probably born in Knox County, Tennessee, on August 12, 1798. Sharkey moved with his family, including younger brothers Jacob Rhodes and James Elliott, to Warrenton, Warren County, Mississippi, around 1800. Both of Sharkey’s parents had died by 1813, leaving him to support himself and his brothers by farming. During the War of 1812, Sharkey enlisted in a Mississippi military unit that participated in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. After the war, Sharkey continued farming and began reading law. He became a member of the Mississippi bar in 1822 and thereafter established a law practice in Vicksburg, Warren County. Sharkey was elected to the Mississippi legislature in 1827 and served until becoming a circuit judge in 1831. On March 15, 1832, Sharkey married Minerva Steele Wrenn, widow of Belfield Wrenn of Warren County, Mississippi. The couple divided their time between homes in Vicksburg, Warren County, and Jackson, Hinds County. They also spent time at Bogue de Sha, the Hyland family plantation near Yokena, Warren County. Minerva Sharkey had two children from her first marriage: Peterson Goodwin Wrenn (b. June 18, 1823) and Emily (Fannie) Steele Wrenn (b. January 14, 1825), whom William Lewis Sharkey adopted. Sharkey served as an associate justice (and later as chief justice) of the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals from 1832 until his resignation in 1850. He briefly served as consul of Havana, Cuba, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore in 1852. Sharkey returned to Jackson and resumed the practice of law before being appointed to an 1854 committee, including William L. Harris and Henry T. Ellett, which was responsible for revising and codifying the laws of the state Mississippi. The resulting work was the Revised Code of the Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi, 1857. In 1865, Mississippi governor Charles Clark appointed Sharkey and William Yerger as commissioners responsible for proposing a state Reconstruction plan to President Andrew Johnson. After a plan was adopted, President Johnson appointed Sharkey as Mississippi provisional governor on June 13, 1865. He served in that capacity until December 14, 1865. Sharkey was later elected as a United States senator, but the Mississippi congressional delegation was never seated because of the state’s failure to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment and its passage of the Black Codes. William Lewis Sharkey continued practicing law until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1873. He was interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson." - Mississippi Department of Archives and History
married Minerva Cage; She was b. 28 Sep 1808, Sumner Co. TN and d. 28 Jul 1884, Jackson, Hinds Co. MS
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