Margaret SHARPE
1755 - 1811 (56 years)
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Name Margaret SHARPE Born 1755 Cumberland County, England 
[1] Gender Female Died 1811 [2] - late in the year
Buried Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, NC [2] Notes - Educated at a Roman Catholic convent in Calais, France. After witnessing her husband's shooting death in 1781, she raised her two young children alone. In 1784, in recognition of her husband's services, the state granted her a tract of land. She never ceased to mourn her husband, wearing black until her death in 1811. A strict mother, she forbid her daughter to look into a mirror or to let her shoulders touch the back of a chair in her mother's presence. Margaret nursed indigent sailors, but never missed her teatime daily at 4pm. http://www.americanrevolution.org/women45.html
Person ID I3396 Doddridge County Roots Last Modified 21 May 2006
Father ___ SHARPE Family ID F24522 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Alexander GASTON, b. 1727, Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland , d. 20 Aug 1781, New Bern, Craven Co, NC (Age 54 years) Married May 1775 [1, 3] Children 1. (Male) GASTON, b. Bef 1778, d. IN INFANCY + 2. William Joseph GASTON, b. 19 Sep 1778, New Bern, Craven Co, NC , d. 23 Jan 1844, Raleigh, Wake Co, NC (Age 65 years)+ 3. Jane GASTON, b. CA 1780 Family ID F1190 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Sources - [S557] William Gaston: Carolinian, J. Herman Schauinger, (Bruce Publishing Company, 1949), p. 3.
- [S557] William Gaston: Carolinian, J. Herman Schauinger, (Bruce Publishing Company, 1949), p. 201.
- [S1867] The Bolling-Gay-Gaston-Brawley Paper Trail with Allied Families and Friends, Dorothy Perry Brawley, (1995), p. 109.
- [S557] William Gaston: Carolinian, J. Herman Schauinger, (Bruce Publishing Company, 1949), p. 3.