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Marshall Cunningham Sharp Marshall Sharp was the fifth child of James and Margaret Sharp. He was born in Mecklenburg County, NC about 1796. Marshall married Matilda McGough on Nov. 30, 1819 in Greene County, GA. Marshall and Matilda lived in Greene County for only a few years, and than moved to Montgomery County AL during the time that his brothers and cousins were settling there. The Sharps were among the earliest settlers in the Montgomery area. Initially they lived on the river in the place where the city of |
Montgomery later grew up. Considering that area unfit for cultivation, they later moved about 10 miles south, to an area now known as LeGrande. At one point in the 1850's there were so many Sharps in that area that it was called Sharpsburg, and you can find the Sharpsburg post office on old maps of that area. Around 1840, after a treaty was signed which resulted in many Indians being removed from Alabama, Marshall and Matilda settled in what was then part of Tallapoosa County, AL. Not long after the move, Marshall died of pneumonia, about 1845. |
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