Spouse: Alyce .

Spouse: Evonne Homstad. Children were: John Peter Sebring.

Spouse: Margaret .

Spouse: Elizabeth Louise Brown. Children were: Ellen Louise Seddon, Kenneth Hale Seddon, Carol Elizabeth Seddon.

Children were: Arthur Hugh Seddon Jr..

Spouse: Douglas James Moeller MD. Children were: Gregory James Moeller.

Spouse: Dorothy Fullerton Hubbard. Children were: Laura Fullerton Segal.

Spouse: Katharine Harrison Riordan. Children were: Dean Segula, Katherine Harrison Segula.

Spouse: Miriam Elder. Children were: Sellender.

Spouse: Wade Jackson Taylor. Children were: Caroline Elizabeth Taylor.

Spouse: James Lea. Children were: Talluah Lea.

Spouse: Ann Payne "Nancy" Ware. Children were: Margaret Delphia Sergeant.

Spouse: Richard Austin. Children were: Jessa Austin, Seth Austin, Richard Austin, David Austin.

Spouse: Abigail Austin.

Spouse: Janet Fitch. Children were: Sewall, Sewall.

Spouse: Charlotte Noyes.

Spouse: Katherine McKormick Vance. Children were: Grant Clement Sewell, Emily Anne Sewell.

Spouse: Isaac Cook. Children were: Colonel Isaac Cook.

Spouse: Seth Austin. Children were: Horace Austin, Roderick Austin, Calvin Austin, Seth Austin, Jonathan Austin, James Austin, Thad Richard Austin.

Spouse: R B Smithey.

Spouse: Rebecca Green. Children were: Muscoe Livingston Shackelford, Rev. J. Green Shackelford, Shackelford.

Obituary in the Fremont Daily News, May 14, 1931, pg. 2 Parents: Benjamin Howard Shackelford and Rebecca Green.

Spouse: Delia S. Taylor. Delia S. Taylor and Muscoe Livingston Shackelford were married on 25 December 1896 in Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH. Married by Rev. Charles G. Adams, Presbyterian minister.

Spouse: John William Cox. Laura B. Parrish Shaffer and John William Cox were married after 1910.

Spouse: Samantha J. Cox.

Spouse: Christina Rubright. Children were: Lacy Shamel.

Spouse: Robert Toulmin Allen. Annie M. Shanklin and Robert Toulmin Allen were married on 23 November 1898. Children were: John Jouett Allen, Charles William Allen, Doris Irene Allen, Thelma May Allen, Elizabeth Mary Allen.

Spouse: Robert Swanton Platt. Harriet McClellan shanks and Robert Swanton Platt were married on 30 December 1922 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL. Married at the Holy Nativity Episcopal Church Children were: Robert Swanton Platt Jr., Nancy Field Platt.

Spouse: Roberta Marie Brown. Children were: Harriet McClellan shanks.

Spouse: Scott Cook Boggs. Children were: Boggs, Lucy C. Boggs, Boggs, Edna Scott Boggs, Howard Shannon Boggs.

Spouse: James Wilkin Houstoun.

Spouse: William Decatur Reed. Jane Maxwell Sharp and William Decatur Reed were married in 1839. Children were: Leander Sharp Reed, Dr. Paul Booker Reed, William D. Reed, Solomon S Reed, Eliza T. Reed, Jonathan Duff Reed, Anna K. Reed.

Spouse: Kate Collins. Children were: Katie Sharp.

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Will Book 2

1824 - 1854

Page 225
I make this my last will and testament revoking all others.
I will to Leander Reed of Frankfort, Ky eight shares of stock in the Bank of Louisville, Ky. To Booker Willie Reed, my two shares in the Mansion house stable. To Eliza S. Reed, the gold watch and pencil left me by her grandma, Eliza T. Sharp. To Solomon Reed and the baby, equally my three shares in the Frankfort and Shelbyville turnpike road.
I will to Solomon L. Sharp of Frankfort, Ky twenty shares in the Bank of Ky and Five thousand dollars in money. I also will him my boy Stephen, my horse and buggy and one third of my entire interest in the lots grounds and meadow above the Penitentiary and situated in the county of Franklin.
To John M. Sharp, of Warren County, Ky, I give my boy John, ten shares of stock in the Bank of Kentucky and one third of my entire interest in county of Franklin. I also give him the claim against Grizzle for the sale of a tract of land made by Thomas Strange.
To Jane M. Reed of Frankfort, Ky, I give ten shares of stock in the Bank of Ky my boy Sam and the one third interest in the lots, grounds and meadow situated above the Penitentiary in county of Franklin.
The balance of my estate, I wish to be divided equally between Jane M. Reed and John M. Reed.
I appoint J. M. and S. L. Sharp and W. D. Reed as executors this will. Witness by my hand this 8th April 1851.

Leander J. Sharp

Attest:
Dabney Todd
J. M. Mills

State of Kentucky Franklin County Court, May Term 1851
A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Leander J. Sharp, deceased was produced in Court and proven by the oaths of John M. Mills a subscribing witness thereof, and Dabney Todd the other subscribing witness being absent, Dabney Todd being sworn stated that the signature of the said Dabney Todd as a witness to said will hereby believe to be the handwriting of the said Dabney Todd. Whereupon it is ordered that the said will be recorded and the same is duly recorded.
A. H. Rennick, CFCC Parents: Solomon Porcius Sharp and Elizabeth T. Scott.

Spouse: Annie Grundy.

SHARP, Solomon P., a Representative from Kentucky; born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., in 1780; moved with his parents to Kentucky; pursued preparatory studies; engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1809 and began practice in Russellville, Ky.; member of the State house of representatives 1809-1811, 1817, and 1818; entered the War of 1812 as captain of a company which he organized and later was made a colonel of militia; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Fourteenth Congress); again a member of the State house of representatives in 1817 and 1818; resumed the practice of law; moved to Frankfort, Ky., in 1820; attorney general of Kentucky 1820-1824; again served in the State house of representatives in 1825; assassinated in Frankfort, Ky., November 7, 1825; interment in the State Cemetery.

Colonel Solomon Porcius Sharp (August 22, 1787 - November 7, 1825) attorney general of Kentucky and member of Congress and of the Kentucky legislature, was born in Abingdon Washington County, Virginia, in 1787, and died at Frankfort, Kentucky, on the 7th of November, 1825, meeting his death at the hand of Jereboam O. Beauchamp.

Sharp was considered one of the most gifted and noblest of Kentucky's statesmen. Traduced while living, the peculiar circumstances of his taking off have come down through the annals of time embellished with imaginary details and made the warp of a romance and of a drama. No more instructive or interesting life, no nobler or more elevating character, no brighter intellect and no more unselfish devotion to duty to family and to friends, can be found in the history of Kentucky's Lawyers and Lawmakers than is exemplified in the rehearsal of the life of Solomon P. Sharp. Without the influence of wealth he made his way from the obscurity of the farm to high and honored office. His indomitable will, his native intellect, his adherence to the right, his wonderful power and mastery of every subject with which he was connected, compressed into his brief life of thirty-eight years more of activity and of accomplished work than ordinarily is compassed by the "three-score and ten" allotment of man.

His father, Thomas Sharp of Washington County, Virginia entered the service of the united colonies and was commissioned captain. With two brothers he participated in the decisive battle of King's mountain, recognized now by students of history as the turning point in the war for independence, and in that engagement was severely wounded. These brothers were descended from good English stock, their father being a grandson of John Sharp, lord archbishop of the diocese of York, England. In the famous cathedral at that place there stands today a statue of that illustrious divine, the resemblance to the descendants of the American branch being easily traced. The wife of Captain Thomas Sharp was Jean Maxwell, a native of Scotland. They came to Kentucky at a very early day, enduring all the hardships of the pioneer, settling near Russellville in what is now Logan County, about 1798. The father died, leaving a family of eight children, and this necessitated young Solomon P. Sharp to work early and late in order to gain a livelihood and assist in the support of the family. It is a matter of history that he acquired a masterful knowledge of Latin and Greek while following the plow and became proficient in the branches usually taught today in high schools and colleges, having no assistance in this task, his determination to acquire a liberal education being accomplished by the indomitable will power which enabled him later to surmount all obstacles.

When very young, Mr. Sharp had fixed his mind on the law as the profession he should follow and addressed his every effort to achieve this end; and he did this with such success that in 1809 he was licensed to practice and admitted to the bar at Russellville. His ability and sterling qualities of mind and heart were even then of so marked a character that he was elected to represent Warren county in the state legislature in 1809 and again in 1810 and 1811. At the last session he had as a compeer on the floor of the house, Ben Hardin, then twenty-seven years of age, and for the first time a member of a legislative body. At this session of the general assembly Ben Hardin, with the aid of Colonel Sharp, secured the passage of a bill the object and effect of which was to discourage dueling and inaugurate a course of legislation that has contributed to rid the country of this great evil. In 1849, during the constitutional convention of that year, Mr. Hardin advocated the incorporation of a similar provision in the constitution then being framed, and said: "The act of the assembly of 1811 on dueling was drawn up by myself and carried through the house of representatives by the aid of a gentleman younger than myself, Solomon P. Sharp, one of the ablest and most eloquent men Kentucky ever knew." Thus, after a lapse of thirty-eight years, we find this statesman giving testimony unasked to the character of his deceased contemporary and friend.

In 1812, Solomon P. Sharp, with all the enthusiasm of youth and with the martial spirit of his forefathers of Revolutionary fame, organized a company for service in the pending war and was made captain thereof. He had a great fondness for military life, its spirit, its activity and its discipline strongly appealing to his nature. Later he was made a colonel of militia and earned his title by giving of his time and talent to perfect the volunteer organization of his state with which he was associated. Colonel Young Ewing, writing from Christian County under the date of January, 1827, says of Colonel Sharp: "I served with him in the army during the War of 1812, in which he volunteered his services as a private soldier, and was, in the organization of the army, preferred to the command of a battalion in the regiment I had the honor to command; and in no single instance had I reason to complain, for I always found him prompt, decisive and manly in executing all orders coming from the commanding general or myself."

Colonel Sharp's faithful service in the lower house of the state legislature led to his being called to broader fields of usefulness, his district sending him to congress in 1813 and re-electing him in 1815. In the four years in which he was one of Kentucky's representatives in the council chambers of the nation, from 1813 to 1817, he was the associate of Henry Clay, James Clark, Ben Hardin, R. M. Johnson and Stephen Ormsby, from his own state, while John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, was his intimate friend and room-mate in Washington. His career in the capital city was marked by earnestness and devotion to the interest of his people, and Calhoun pronounced him "the greatest mind that has come to congress up to his time from beyond the mountains."

Retiring from congressional life, Colonel Sharp, with renewed energy, resumed the practice of law, but was again sent to the state legislature in 1817 and 1818. His reputation for ability and integrity was as wide as the state, and the demands on his time as a member of the legal profession, in cases of large import pending in the United States courts and in the court of appeals at Frankfort, impelled him to take up his residence in that city in 1820. The following year he was appointed by Governor John Adair to the position of attorney-general of Kentucky and served under the administration, when he was re-appointed by Governor Adair on the 1st of June, 1821, and soliciting his acceptance of the office of attorney-general, was concluded in the following words: "I need not say to you that the office has fallen into disrepute in public estimation, and the salary been improperly reduced, more from an eye to the former occupant than to the office. It is my wish so to fill it at present that it may be again renovated and take its due stand in the government." The superior ability of Colonel Sharp not only raised the office to its old dignity, but even advanced it to a still higher standard.

In the spring of 1825 Colonel Sharp was one of the state commissioners appointed to do honor to that patriot and statesman, the Marquis de LaFayette, then on a visit to America, and as such, in the absence of the gentleman delegated to deliver the address at Louisville, was called upon to fill his place and made extemporaneously a most eloquent and touching address, extending to the French hero the hospitality of the state and welcoming him in the name of all its citizens. His ready wit, command of language and elegant presence enabled him thus readily to adapt himself to any and all circumstances and to acquit himself in a most creditable manner, reflecting honor on the state he represented.

In 1825 Colonel Sharp was elected representative from Franklin County to the general assembly, as choice of his party,--the "Relief" or the "New Court party,"--his opponent being the Honorable John J. Crittenden, who had been United States senator from Kentucky and was recognized as one of the most able and honorable citizens of the state. His majority, after a very hotly contested canvass, was sixty-nine, the vote case being one of the fullest ever polled in the county. Colonel Sharp's popularity among the masses, his acknowledge ability, his eloquent addresses and his sterling worth and adherence to the rights of the people against oppression, had made him a powerful force in the contest of Relief and Anti-Relief, which for five years (1820-1825) had been a live issue before the people of the state. Possibly no state in the Union has been so near to internecine war as was Kentucky in those days of depression and panic.

Mr. Sharp was regarded as one of the most active and powerful of the advocates of the Relief party and its candidate for speaker of the house, for which high office he had received the caucus nomination on the night of his death. In the prime of life, in possession of every faculty, the center of a charming home circle, loved and respected by his fellow citizens, entrusted by them with the care of their interest in the important session just begun, named by his party as their standard-bearer and chief, while in the enjoyment of a large and lucrative practice and possessed by a handsome competence accumulated by his industry, and in the midst of political triumphs and domestic happiness, he was cut down in the dead hour of midnight! Jereboam O. Beauchamp called him from his bed to the door, asking shelter for the night and using the name of an intimate friend to lure him and to shield his own identity. While extending one hand to his victim in simulating friendly greeting, with the other he thrust the deadly knife into Colonel Sharp's body and fled away into the darkness of the night, leaving him expiring on the threshold of his hospitable home! No event in the history of Kentucky had been more tragic, none had so stirred the state, nor indeed the nation, for Solomon P. Sharp was no ordinary man, and his service in congress had given him a national reputation. With him died the Relief party.
Source
Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.

Franklin County, KYGenWeb

J. O. Beauchamp was executed July 7, 1826 for the murder.

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Will Book 2

1824 - 1854

Page 6
I, Solomon P. Sharp, constitute this my last will and testament, revoking all others. I appoint my wife, Eliza T. Sharp, my sole executrix and request the Court not to require from her any security for the execution of this trust.
I release her from any obligation that the law might impose on her to sell any part of my personal estate. I hereby authorize and empower my said executrix to sell any portion of my real estate or slaves for the support and advancement, of my family, my trunk spring farm and farm near bowling green only, except but in the execution of this trust. She is to take the advice of one or more of my brothers whose aspiration is to be given in writing - all the powers confirmed by this will on my executrix are to continue only during her widowhood and at her death this will is absolutely to cease in all its operations - and no one appointed by any courts are to acquire the power by law to execute and trust, in this will. In relation to ally my property it is my will that it pass according to the provisions of the Law; my wife and children to receive there respective proportions of and interest in my estate as they would be entitled to by Law, had this will never have been made. In testimony whereof I hereby set my hand and seal this fifteenth day of September 1824.

Solomon P. Sharp

Test:
Joel Scott
P. Price
Leander J. Sharp

Franklin County, December Court 1825
A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Solomon P. Sharp, decd.. was produced in court and proven by the oath of Joel Scott and Leander J. Sharp, two of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded, which is done accordingly.
A copy test:
A. H. Rennick, Clk, CFCC

Submitted by Anne H. Lee

Spouse: Elizabeth T. Scott. Elizabeth T. Scott and Solomon Porcius Sharp were married on 17 December 1818 in Franklin Co., KY. Children were: Kate Sharp, Jane Maxwell Sharp, John Scott Sharp, Solomon Leander Sharp.

Spouse: Norma Mae Rhoads.

Spouse: Robert Read Schmidt.

Spouse: Michelle Lynn Malone.