My Descending from Gov. - D. A. Sharpe

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Register Report for William Bradford Notes for Mattie de Noailles Simons: General Notes: Generation 7 Mattie de Noailles Simons, my grandmother, was born August 20, 1876, our nation's centennial year. Novelist Jack London was born that year. The National Baseball League was founded. Mattie was born the year that Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876. One month following Mattie's birth, on September 20,1876, Robert Ingersoll (R-IL), a former state attorney general, told a veterans organization: "Every man that loved slavery more than liberty was a Democrat ... I am a Republican, because it is the only free party that ever existed." Sources: http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96mar/bell.html http://www.grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/ "The Timetables of History" 3rd Revised Edition, Bernard Grun, Simon &Schuster, New York 1991, pages 436-437 Mattie had that beautiful French middle name of de Noailles. It apparently came from her grandmother, Anastasia de Noailles Lafayette Hewlett. Also that lovely French name was passed on to her granddaughter, Martha de Noailles Sharpe, who was my sister. Indeed, Mattie's brother, Verner, named a daughter, de Noailles Anastasia Simons. The source of that name in this non-French family is a mystery. However, oral tradition has it that the name was taken from a friend of the family. If such is true, that friend probably was a friend to Lemuel Green Hewlett or Rebecca J. Harvey, the parents living in Hopkins County, Kentucky at the time of the birth of Anastasia de Noailles Lafayette Hewlett (Fannie) and all of her siblings. Mattie lost her Mother when she was only two months old. Her young Mother was only age 20. We do not know the cause of this premature death. Mattie's Father remarried about five years later, but we do not know who, if anybody else, took up the maternal duties for Mattie and older brother, Verner, till the remarriage. It may have been a single-parent task by Jim Simons to care for his son and daughter. However, I suspect he solicited outside help. After Jim remarried Martha Townes, they bore five sons and a daughter, which were halfsiblings for Mattie and her brother, Verner. Jim, Martha and the family moved to Fort Worth in 1908, but that was eighty ears after Mattie had married Harry Seth Sharpe. Mattie and her family (my father and his brother) continued to live in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas the rest of her life. Mattie was a strong wife, mother and was industrious around the house. During the 1930's, when the nation was in the throws of a national economic depression, we are told of two businesses she operated out of their home. First, she cooked and packaged potato chips for sale. They had a little out building behind their home that was called the Potato House. The potato chip inventor was a cook named George Crum, allegedly in August 1853. From many brief tellings, that is all I could find out about the man. But other sources mention his racial background, e.g. "Crum was part Indian, part black, a former guide in the Adirondack s (New York state), and in his own way a rather colorful figure in this area" (Gribb 1975). Other times, only his Indian heritage is mentioned (Snack Food Association 1987; Barrett 1941). He is occasionally mentioned in histories of significant African-American figures, but not as often in collections dealing with native Americans. There appears little doubt that he actually existed, was a cook at Moon's Lake House on Saratoga Lake, New York and later, he purchased his own restaurant on the lake. Source: http://www.geography.ccsu.edu/harmonj/atlas/potchips.htm Page 56 of 182 Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:29:07 AM

Register Report for William Bradford Generation 7 Secondly, Mattie created a boarding house setting in their home, whereby she served noon meals to paying customers. Their home was just a couple of short walking blocks from the Williamson County Courthouse square, and so much of the business and courthouse community around the county square patronized this food service. Their clientele included doctors, lawyers and judges. Mattie lived a full and loving life. She died in 1944 when the nation was in the concluding throws of World War II. Her younger son, Dee Dee, had gone off to the Navy just prior to her death. In that year, the June 6th lading on Normandy shores was made, the Battle of the Bulge took place, Tennessee Williams wrote the "Glass Menagerie," the popular songs that year were "Don't Fence me In," "Rum and Coca Cola," and "Sentimental Journey." (Source: "The Timetables of History" 3rd Revised Edition, BernardGrun, Simon & Schuster, New York 1991, pages 522-523) I remember Mattie in a couple of my family's visits to Georgetown in the early 1940's. My recollections of her are from fond memories. Mattie was a credit, both to the Simons family and to the Sharpe family. I was only age five when she died. Knowing her face probably was kept going for me through photographs, thankfully, that our family had and displayed of her and her husband. She was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, and had a lot to do with my father's spiritual upbringing that resulted by his going into the Presbyterian ministry. Mattie lies beside her husband in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas. Both of her sons and their wives also lie next to their husbands. Henry Seth Sharpe and Mattie de Noailles Simons were married on 07 Jun 1900 in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas[44].They had the following children: 59. i. Dwight Alfred Sharpe was born on 04 Sep 1901 in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas. He married Martha Dixon Chapman on 31 May 1926 in Lufkin, Angelinia County, Texas[72]. He died on 02 Aug 1981 in Alamo Heights, Bexar County, Texas[73, 74]. 72. ii. Harry Simons Sharpe was born on 19 Dec 1904 in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas[75]. He married Virgie Lois Stapp on 25 Jun 1926 in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas. He died on 23 Sep 1977 in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas[76]. 81. Mary May Heath-7 (Aaron-6, Lydia M.-5, Joel-4, Samuel-3, Mary-2, William-1) was born on 06 Jan 1875 in Plato Township, Illinois. She died on 24 Nov 1945 in Elgin, Illinois. Thomas Elbert Welch was born on 02 Apr 1870 in Elgin, Illinoise. He died on 08 Mar 1951 in Elgin, Illinois. Thomas Elbert Welch and Mary May Heath were married on 02 Apr 1890.They had the following children: i. Cecil Hattie Welch was born on 19 Jan 1892 in Elgin, Illinois. ii. Athol Dudley Welch was born on 22 Sep 1893. He died on 22 Oct 1893. Page 57 of 182 Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:29:07 AM

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