1. There was a Burkhardt ancestor who fought in the American Revolution and surprise surprise he was on the American's side. The Burkhardts are actually eligible to be in the DAR. Benjamin Schoonover was a captain in the Pennsylvania company and served several years. All of us grew up having heard they were in America but were probably Hessians.
2. Twins - There have been consecutive generations of twins on the Sharpe side since at least Betsy's mother. Betsy, Gussie's mother, appears to have had twin siblings. They were a girl and a boy and only the girl lived to adulthood. The boy twin died as a baby in Junction City during the family's immigration. Because he died they decided to stay in Kansas. Betsy had twins, Gussie and her twin. Then Betsy's daughter had twins, but as has been the trend only one lived to adulthood.
3. Baptism by a famous pastor. Although I believe the Sharpes were raised Methodists in England, having come to America at the suggestion of their local Methodist pastor, I found something I wasn't expecting. They had their oldest child, William Sharpe, Jr, baptized by a prominent Baptist minister in London when he was 18 and the year before they came to America. The pastor, C H Spauldling, was serving the Metropolitan Baptist Church in London, not far from Parliament. I have a copy of the Sharpe Bible with the handwritten note indicating the baptism. Lee had heard of C H Spaulding and the church is still there and his sermons are still published. Below is the picture identified as the Methodist church near Marehem le Fen that the Sharpes usually attended in England.
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