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Otha Tharp

1803 – Apr 1857

Birth	1803
Death	Apr 1857
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42688239

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My great, great, great, grandfather, Otha, was born to Theotha and Jane Caldwell Tharp of Halifax, Virginia. Otha was about 9 years old when his father died and about 13 years old when his mother died. Some information suggests he moved with his brothers and half brothers to Lincoln County, Tennessee when he was about 18, in about 1821. In 1824 he married Cynthia Harrison of South Carolina, daughter of John Harrison and Sara Middleton, and had the following children: Jane C. Thorp Joslin William Goodhope Thorp Susannah Parmele Thorp Joslin Mary R. Thorp Joslin Sarah J. Thorp Doss Baby Thorp Martha M. Thorp Perry Daniel Pleasant Thorp Some records indicate some of the above children were born in Alabama. They were living in Mississippi when Cynthia died in 1845 in Panola Co., and Otha then married Mary Jane "Polly" Doss (3rd great grandmother), daughter of John P.and Nancy Beauchamp Doss, about 1846 in Mississippi. They are listed in the 1850 Panola Co., Mississippi census. Otha was about 25 years older than Mary Jane. She cared for his younger children from his previous marriage and had the following children with Otha, all born in Mississippi: Nancy Elizabeth Tharp Hendley Malinda Adeline Tharp Franks Lydia Frances Tharp (Tharpe) Franks Henrietta Ellen Tharp Young (2nd great grandmother) Otha died at about age 54 in Panola Co., Mississippi After Otha died in April 1857, Polly married John Henry Davis Sr., a widower, about 1859 and they had 5 children: William Washington "Doss" Davis Jackson Doss Davis Jane Emmie Lee Francis Davis Annabelle Davis Roper Rice Davis They lived in Mississippi through the devastation of the Civil War caring for two young children during that time. John Davis died in Mississippi in 1876, and the 1880 Neals Stone, Chickasaw Co., Mississippi Census shows Polly widowed with her children, Jackson Davis, 18, Jane E. Davis, 12, Annabelle Davis, 10, and Rice Davis, 8. She moved to Texas with her younger and older children some time after that. She died in 1914 at age 86 at Travis, Falls Co., Texas.

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Family

Parents

• Theotho "Otho" Tharp 1750–1809 FaG
• Jane Caldwell Thorp 1771–1816 FaG

Spouse

• Cynthia Harrison Tharp 1804–1845 FaG
• Mary Jane Doss Davis 1828–1914

Siblings

• William Goodhope Thorpe 1797–1869 FaG
• COL Pleasant Earl Thorp 1809–1890 FaG

Children

• Daniel Pleasant Thorp 1842–1921
• Nancy Elizabeth Tharp Hendley 1847–1927
• Mary Adeline Tharp Franks 1849–?
• Lydia Frances Tharp Franks 1852–1923
• Henrietta Ellen Tharp Young 1856–1943

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