Robert Donald Sharp Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-90

Staff Only

Content Description

Consists of letters and telegrams from Robert Donald Sharp who was stationed in army camps in Mississippi and Louisiana to his father, R.W. Sharp of Grenada, Mississippi.

Dates

1917 - 1918

Conditions Governing Access

Open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Any requests for permission to publish, quote, or reproduce materials from this collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian for Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Mississippi State University as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

Robert Donald (Donald) Sharp, son of Robert and Mary Sharp, was born in Grenada, MS, in 1898 and raised by his grandparents after his mother died when he was only two years old. His grandfather John Whitfield Sharp was a Civil War veteran and prominent physician. After his military service, Donald Sharp worked as a furniture salesman and a collector for the state of Mississippi. He died in Grenada in 1965, and was survived by his wife Alma Sharp and daughter Donna Jean Sharp.

Source: Federal Census, 1900-1940, via ancestry.com; https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?age=gr&GRid=31643874&ref=acom