About this book

This book is based on an eighty-page three-ring binder that my mother, Mae Annette Fox Sharp, put together to show the results of her research into the history of the family of my father, Frederick James Sharp. In completing this work, I have relied on genealogical work by my sister, Carolee Renae Sharp, and my cousins, Crystal Sharp Burnette and Cynthia (Cunningham) Baxter.

—Tom Sharp

Cover. Portrait of Mathias Schaup, provided by Crystal Burnette.

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