Surname:
Sharp and Lamont
Included
in our Vaughan project because there are close matches with Vaughan/Vaughn’s.
Micajah
Sharp was born
in 1806 in KY. He married Martha
(Stallings). She was born about 1808 in
TN.
His
son, William H. Sharp was born in 1838 in Fayette Co, IL. He died in 1926 in IL. He married Elizabeth (Betsy) Andrews. She was born in about 1843/44 in Fayette Co,
IL and died about 1881 in Fayette Co, IL.
His
son, Thomas H. Sharp (a.k.a. Clarence LaMont) was born in 1879 in
Patoka, Marion Co, IL or Vandalia, Fayette Co, IL. He died in 1961 in Kent, King Co, WA. He married 1st by 1906 to Laura Rusk. She died in 1907. He married
2nd in 1909 to Nellie Rusk in Idaho.
After Clarence LaMont 's mother died he went from one uncle to another
until about 1891 when he lived with his father in Patoka, Marion Co, IL. Clarence LaMont headed out west to make his
fortune as a cook sometime between 1895 and 1906.
His
son, Shirley A. LaMont was born in 1910 in Terre Haute, Vigo Co, IN.
His
son was the person tested.