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| Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 800 items) |
| Abstract | John McKee Sharpe (fl. 1903-1941) and his ancestors, Amos Sharpe, Ebenezer Franklin Sharpe, Silas Alexander Sharpe, and John H. McKee were all from Iredell County, N.C. This collection contains the papers of John McKee Sharpe, the Sharpe family, and John H. McKee. The Sharpe family papers, 1781-1890, are bills, receipts, buisness papers, and correspondence of the Sharpe family, principally relating to Amos Sharpe, Ebenezer Franklin Sharpe, and Silas Alexander Sharpe, along with other family members. The papers include material related to Silas Alexander Sharpe as a colonel in the North Carolina Home Guard, 1863-1865, that address militia activities in Iredell County and Alexander County, especially with conscription, apprehension of deserters, slaves detailed to work at Fort Fisher, and local defenses; and his business papers in connection with the Atlantic, Tennessee, and Ohio Railroad. Other papers include items related to slavery bonds, 1793; family news, the prosperity of Kentucky farmers, 1817; the estate of John H. McKee, family correspondence; slave sales, 1849; letters regarding political and economic conditions, as well as race relations during Reconstruction in North Carolina, 1871. The John H. McKee papers, 1820-1870, chiefly contains the scattered business and legal papers of John H. McKee, as well as extensive family correspondence with relatives spread across the South. Topics include the legal separation of McKee and his second wife, Rececca Reese (Caldwell) Carson; the successes and failures of son Thomas Jefferson McKee (b. 1855), who settled in Shelby County, Tex.; crops; debt; slave sales, 1846, 1854; the death of uncle John Stevenson and the manumission of his slaves, 1850; the move of John Stevenson's slaves to Liberia, 1854; family news, including marriages, deaths, and estates; William McKee's service during the Revolutionary War, and compensation rights from the United States government to his heirs, 1850, 1853; life among United States army troops in Tennessee, 1863; and an account of the planned but never established Western College, 1870. The John McKee Sharpe papers, 1903-1954 chiefly consists of correspondence and genealogical materials of John McKee Sharpe relating to the history of the Sharpe and McKee families and members of the related Caldwell, Mills, Moore, and Murdock families, and to Iredell County history. |
| Creator | Sharpe, John McKee. |
| Language | English |
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Members of the Sharpe family moved from Cecil County, Md., to Rowan, later Iredell, County, N.C. Prominent family members included the sons of Thomas Sharpe Junior, namely Amos, John, and William (member of the Continental Congress from North Carolina); along with Amos's son Ebenezer Franklin Sharpe. Ebenezer Franklin Sharpe married John Sharpe's daughter, Adalicia, and their son, Silas Alexander (fl. 1863-1865), married John H. McKee's daughter, Sarah Jane.
John H. McKee was a farmer in Iredell County, N.C. He first married Tirzah McKnight, with whom he had Sara Jane and Mary Emeline. He later married Rebecca Reese (Caldwell) Carson, whom he later divorced. McKee had four brothers: Archbald, who married Ethel Baggerly and moved to Tennessee; Eli, who married Mary E. Sherrill, and lived in Macon County, N.C.; James, who married Hannah Patton, and lived in western North Carolina, including Asheville; and Thomas Jefferson (b. 1855), who lived in Alabama and Texas. He also had two sisters: Margaret (Peggy) who was married to a man named McKnight; and Nancy, who was unmarried and lived with McKee. His daughter Sarah Jane married Silas Alexander Sharpe, and one of their sons is John McKee Sharpe (fl. 1903-1941). His other daughter, mary Emaline married Silas Alexander Sharpe's uncle, Leander Quincy Sharpe.
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This collection contains the papers of John McKee Sharpe (fl. 1903-1941), the Sharpe family, and John H. McKee. The Sharpe Family papers, 1781-1890, contains the bills, receipts, buisness papers, and correspondence of the Sharpe family, principally relating to Amos Sharpe, Ebenezer Franklin Sharpe, and Silas Alexander Sharpe, along with other family members. The papers include material related to Silas Alexander Sharpe as a colonel in the North Carolina Home Guard, 1863-1865, which address militia activities in Iredell and Alexander counties, especially with conscription, apprehension of deserters, slaves detailed to work at Fort Fisher, and local defenses; and his business papers in connection with the Atlantic, Tennessee, and Ohio Railroad. Other papers include items related to slavery bonds, 1793; family news, the prosperity of Kentucky farmers, 1817; the estate of John H. McKee, family correspondence; slave sales, 1849; letters regarding political and economic conditions, as well as race relations during Reconstruction in North Carolina, 1871. The John H. McKee papers, 1820-1870, chiefly contains the scattered business and legal papers of John H. McKee, as well as extensive family correspondence with relatives spread across the South. Topics include the legal separation of McKee and his second wife, Rececca Reese (Caldwell) Carson; the successes and failures of son Thomas Jefferson McKee, who settled in Shelby County, Tex.; crops; debt; slave sales, 1846, 1854; the death of uncle John Stevenson and the manumission of his slaves, 1850; the move of John Stevenson's slaves to Liberia, 1854; family news, including marriages, deaths, and estates; William McKee's service during the Revolutionary War, and compensation rights from the United States government to his heirs, 1850, 1853; life among United States army troops in Tennessee, 1863; and an account of the planned but never established Western College, 1870. The John McKee Sharpe papers, 1903-1954 chiefly consists of correspondence and genealogical materials of John McKee Sharpe relating to the history of the Sharpe and McKee families and members of the related Caldwell, Mills, Moore, and Murdock families, and to Iredell County history.
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Series 1. Sharpe Family Papers, 1781-1890 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
This series contains the bills, receipts, buisness papers, and correspondence of the Sharpe family, principally relating to Amos Sharpe, Ebenezer Franklin Sharpe, and Silas Alexander Sharpe, along with other family members. The papers include material related to Silas Alexander Sharpe as a colonel in the North Carolina Home Guard, 1863-1865, which address militia activities in Iredell and Alexander counties, especially with conscription, apprehension of deserters, slaves detailed to work at Fort Fisher, and local defenses; and his business papers in connection with the Atlantic, Tennessee, and Ohio Railroad. Other papers include items related to slavery bonds, 1793; family news, the prosperity of Kentucky farmers, 1817; the estate of John H. McKee, family correspondence; slave sales, 1849; letters regarding political and economic conditions, as well as race relations during Reconstruction in North Carolina, 1871.
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Series 2. John H. McKee papers, 1820-1870 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
This series chiefly contains the scattered business and legal papers of John H. McKee, as well as extensive family correspondence with relatives spread across the South. Topics include the legal separation of McKee and his second wife, Rececca Reese (Caldwell) Carson; the successes and failures of son Thomas Jefferson McKee, who settled in Shelby County, Tex.; crops; debt; slave sales, 1846, 1854; the death of uncle John Stevenson and the manumission of his slaves, 1850; the move of John Stevenson's slaves to Liberia, 1854; family news, including marriages, deaths, and estates; William McKee's service during the Revolutionary War, and compensation rights from the United States government to his heirs, 1850, 1853; life among United States army troops in Tennessee, 1863; and an account of the planned but never established Western College, 1870.
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Series 3. John McKee Sharpe Papers, 1903-1954 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
This series chiefly consists of correspondence and genealogical material of John McKee Sharpe relating to the history of the Sharpe and McKee families and members of the related Caldwell, Mills, Moore, and Murdock families, and to Iredell County history.
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Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, February 2011
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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