Third Generation

3. Sarah Stevens MULFORD was born on 5 Jul 1812 in Montgomery Co. , Ohio.^39,40 She received a letter from from Jane H Mulford to Dear Children Sarah S M Sharp and Charles M. Sharp on 12 Jul 1845.⁴¹ She died on 27 Jul 1888 in Washington Twp. Darke Co., Ohio her death record states she was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio.⁴² She was named after Dr. Jacob Mulford's mother Sarah Stevens.³³ In the 1820 census there were 2 females under age 10 in the Jacob Mulford household, in 1820 Sarah would have been 8⁴⁰.

There were many facts which pointed to them as the parents, for example Sarah Stevens was the name of Jacob Mulford's mother. Sarah Mulford was born in Montgomery Co. home of Jane and Jacob and her maiden name was Mulford. Also Charles was co-owner of a lot with Jacob Mulford .

The direct proof that Sarah Stevens Mulford was the daughter of Jane Hole and Jacob Mulford is the letter from Jane Mulford to her children Sarah Stevens Mulford and Charles M. Sharp.In the letter Jane tells Sarah of the problems she is having closing her father Jacob Mulford's will.See the Mulford/Sharp Letter.

Sarah Stevens MULFORD and Charles SHARP were married on 24 Aug 1833 in Montgomery Co. , Ohio.⁴³ Charles SHARP⁴⁴ was born on 7 Dec 1812 in Camden, NJ.⁴⁴ He was asked by the administrator's of the Jacob Mulford estate for a lot to be sold and balance to widow Jane Mulford on 15 Apr 1846 in Montgomery County.⁴⁵ He died on 14 May 1891 in Hillgrove, Darke Co., Ohio.⁴⁴ He is identified as Martha Kester/Sharp's father on Martha's death certif.( Charles was born in NJ) on 14 Oct 1928 in Randolph County, IN in an auto accident..⁴⁶ He was a minister.⁴⁴ According to his obituary, Charles Sharp was an orphan born in Camden, NJ in 1812 and came to Ohio in 1824 with a man named Haines. The book "Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickitt, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton and Engle Families. Compiled from notes of the. Pub. by Sinnickson Chew & Sons Co., Camden, N.J., 1902" by Richard Haines gives lots of Haines , Sharp inter marriages in the Camden area.

The most probable Haines I think, is Haines Sharp brother of Benjamin Sharp who died in Philadelphia in 1811 who might be Charles's father. Nothing is said of children of Benjamin. Haines Sharp went to Ohio. Sarah Stevens MULFORD and Charles SHARP had the following child:

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Martha SHARP.