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Submitted: 5/9/13 • Approved: 5/19/13 • Last Updated: 5/22/13 • R877012-G0-S3
Nov 1886 - 1913
Sarah, called Sadie, Sharp was the daughter of Isaac Edwin and Nancy Jane Luce Sharp. She married into the large Brewer family of Cave City and surrounding area. Her husband, George Washington Brewer was the President of the Cave City Bank and they were very active in the social life of that city. Their only son, Elston Sharp Brewer, was a very intelligent and industrious young man. He ran a newspaper the 'Cave City Clarion', for a while and sold it to another party in Batesville. It was integrated into the Republican paper 'Observer' of that town. Then he joined the 'Observer' of Batesville. He was traveling from Newport to Vicksburg MS, on business, with a traveling companion and "friend" who murdered him. He was buried twice in Mississippi. Once in a potters field and tagged as unknown. Later, when he was identified, in a full Mason burial in Mississippi again.
Then his Brewer uncles went from Arkansas to Mississippi and got the necessary papers to bring him home to his grieving parents. He was once again buried, this time in his home town at Cave City Cemetery. Over 500 attended the funeral and 1,200 the grave side rites. For the money stolen, the confiscation of the large boat that belonged to Elston, and the murder, Mr. Sol Lucas Johnson, 2 years later, died on the gallows. He had beaten Elston, tied a rock around his neck and thrown him into the Yazoo Canal in Vicksburg. When the Uncles returned from Mississippi, with the body, a crowd of over 1,000 met them and walking, accompanied Elston's body to Cave City and his grieving parents. Elston's ambition was to be a candidate of some type for the Republican Party. Both of his parents, George Washington and Sarah C Sharp Brewer are buried in Cave City Cemetery.
His gravestone reads : Vengeance Belongeth To God
Sadie's sister, Fannie married George Washington Brewer's brother U. S. Grant Brewer)
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Information given by Ira Sharp Dennis aka Tootie Dennis
Thank you to Annette Shaw ashaw444@swbell.net for the photo
Contributed on 5/9/13 by tootied
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