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Moved to the Busby Community (Painterhood Twsp.), Elk Co., Kansas, then to British Columbia, Canada.
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From "On the hills of Home" by Cal Sharpe (1972):
Page 3
"Frank married Ellie McCarley before moving to Kansas and later to Canada. He and several of his children have visited back in Alabama. Their names were Charles, Odessa, Luther, Bertha, Otis, Ursula, Preston, Gladys, and Ruth by his first wife. By his second wife his children were Faye, Hobert, George and Ferne. Frank has eighty living descendants."
Pages 22-26
"Uncle Frank belonged in the younger family group, born in 1854 before the turbulent days of the Civil War, being a boy of six at the beginning, and ten at the close of the war, he remembered much that happened since four of his older brothers took part in the struggle. Several of the boys and girls were old enough to work, yet not old enough for service. So the work on the large farm was carried forward without too much interruption except for the lack of supplies. Throughout the duration of the war, growing crops for the family's use came first. The war created a considerable demand for wheat, and as a young man, Frank began to explore the possibilities of growing wheat, and about this time he married Ellie McCarley and lived on the old homeplace in Chambers County. After several of his children were born, they moved to Kansas where farming was done on a larger scale, and wheat was grown in abundance.
Frank, like his father and mother, early learned in life that wherever one sojourns, there must be a place of worship, so he set to work and built a church on his own farm.
Aunt Ellie died soon after their ninth child was born, and in 1899, Uncle Frank married a school teacher, Alice Rule. They moved to Bashaw, Canada in 1911 after a severe drought in Kansas that year. Land was cheap in this part of Canada, and some of his children had satisfied their pioneering spirit by pushing northward. Here again, true to his religious convictions, he helped build an evangelican church near his farm in Canada.
Upon his return visit to Alabama, his southern kith and kin sat and listened with breathtaking awe as Uncle Frank, in his wonderful story-telling style, would relate his many interesting and unusual experiences of his childhood and through later years. Uncle Frank was a likable Christian gentleman, and his burst of heart-warming laughter and humor bound everyone to him. He died in 1933 after years of hard work, having lived a complete life of devotion to God, family and country. In his 90 living descendants, there are these children: Odessa Shipely, Bertha Davidson, and Ursula Nash living in Calgary, Canada; Luther on Vancouver Island, B. C; Preston in Vancouver; Hobert, George and Ferne residing in Bashaw. From their interesting letters we know that they have received a heritage from their forebears which they are proudly carrying forward to oncoming generations."
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1880 Chambers Co., AL
Franklin P. Sharp - 1854 - AL
Mary E. - 1860 - AL
C. - 1878 - AL
Odesso - 1880 - AL
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1900 Painterhood Twsp., Elk Co., KS (Busby Community)
Frank P. Sharp - Aug 1853 - AL GA TN - m. 0 years
Alice E. - Jun 1869 - IA PA ENG - 0 born, 0 living
Theodore C. - Dec 1877 - AL
Odessa E. - Apr 1880 - AL
Luther H. - Aug 1882 - KS
Bertha O. - Apr 1885 - KS
Sula S. - Jul 1889 - KS
Preston R. - Jan 1892 - KS
Gladys - Jul 1895 - KS
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1910 Painterhood Twsp., Elk Co., KS (Busby Community)
Franklin P. Sharp - 56 - 1854 - AL GA TN
Alice E. - 41 - 1869 - IA PA ENG
Preston - 18 - 1892 - KS
Gladys - 14 - 1896 - KS
Hobart - 7 - 1903 - KS
George F. - 4 - 1906 - KS
Fern E. - 2 - 1908 - KS
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Brother Marse was in Howard. Marse moved to Bashaw, Alberta, Canada.
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