Elizabeth Jane Sharp, daughter of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Yoder) Sharp, was born in 1840, in Amity, this county. In early womanhood she became the bride of James A. Bebout. Her husband enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Fortieth P. V. I., and was killed July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, in the charge across the wheat field, and no one knows his burial place. The heartbroken widow toiled for herself and two little ones until they were old enough to care for themselves, when her strength gave way, the needle fell from the nerveless hands, and she died a victim of consumption. She was a true Christian, modest and retiring in disposition, and deeply mourned by her friends.
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