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98. Catharine (Catherine) Garrett (Garret) (Married Sebastian (Boston) Bostian Sharp (99) in 1793 in Alamance County, North Carolina according to LDS) [Source for the gray information is research done by Michael Cavenaugh (Glass family genealogist denoted on the Guilford County Genealogy Association Website)

Born: 10 Oct. 1768 of Henry Garret (195) & Margaret Clark (196).

Died: 26 July 1849 in Orange County, North Carolina. She was buried at Stoner's Church in Alamance County, North Carolina. She was 80 years, 9 months and 16 days. The burial ceremony was conducted by Dr. George W. Welker on 28 October 1849. Source of the blue information on this page is Calvin Hinshaw's transcription of Rev. D. I. Offman's translation, copied by Larry Noah in 1998. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/NCOrange/stoner.htm

 

[Her siblings included:

Henry Garrett (Married Barbara Albright in 1810 in North Carolina) Born: 15 January 1778 in Guilford County, N.C., Died: 5 June 1864,

John Garrett (Married Barbara Ingold on 12 February 1804) Source of information that he was the son of Henry Garrett pg. 94 of Brick Church Records transcribed from the original records by Rev. D. I. Offman.Typed from a carbon copy of Rev. D.I. Offman's translation by Calvin Hinshaw, and proof read by said Hinshaw and David Hold in 1959.]

 

Miscellaneous: She was from Henry County, North Carolina.

From Calvin Hinshaw's transcription of Rev. D. I. Offman's translation, copied by Larry Noah in 1998. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/NCOrange/stoner.htm

"Catherine, widow of Sebastian (Boston) Sharp.
Born 10 Oct. 1768. Died 26 July 1849.
Aged 80 years, 9 months and 16 days. An aged
member of Stoners. The old are passing away.
Sermon Rev. 14:13
[She was a daughter of Henry Garrett]"

 

[Note: There are many unanswered questions by Susan Snyder (#2): In addition to Catherine being buried at the Stoner's Church, Henry Garrett died in his 69th year on 18 August 1815 and is buried there. Is this Henry Garrett, Catharine's father? There is also a Margaret Garrett listed in the church records and buried next to Henry. Is she related directly to Catharine?

In Brick Church (Alamance County, North Carolina) records transcribed from the original records by Rev. D. I. Offman and typed from a carbon copy of Rev. D. I.. Offman's translation by Calvin Hinshaw, several Garretts were listed. John Garrett, son of Henry Garrett, and Barbara Ingold were married 12 February 1804. Is John... Catherine's brother? Henry Gerhart (Garrett) and his wife Barbara were sponsors at the Baptism of Obadia, a son of George Clapp Jr. and his wife Eliabeth in December 1810. Is this Henry Garrett... Catharine's father? Could Barbara be Catharine's mother?]

 

Catharine and her husband had 8 children William Graves (#49), John, Isaac, Eli, Daniel, Benjamin, Polly (Mary), and Sally (Sarah).

 

On April 26, 2006 Norman Sharpe (Great Great Great Grandson), Helen Leach (#4) (Great Great Great Granddaughter) and Sandra Henson, Mary Lue Finch, and Susan Snyder (#2)... all Great Great Great Great Granddaughters.... visited Stoners Church Cemetery located in a pasture on Rufus J. Dale's farm in Alamance County on Bellemont-Kimesville Rd. near the village of Belmont (near Graham) just off highway 49. While referring to a map that showed the location of tombstones in the cemetery, Catharine's stone was found buried in the earth. (The source of the map is in the document Investigations at Historic Stoner's Cemetery (31 AM 174,174***), June 21, 1998 by Dr. Linda France Stine, PO Box 268, Julian, NC 27283 and Prepared for Stoner's Cemetery Preservation Fund Board, PO Box 2191, Burlington, NC 27216-2191.)

 

 

Catharine's tombstone reads

"IN MEMORY

CATHARINE WIFE

OF BOSTON SHARP

BORN ???

DIED JULY 2? ,1849"