Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1909 — WOMAN 100 YEARS OLD [ARTICLE]

WOMAN 100 YEARS OLD

Mrs. Eliza Sharp’s Birthday Celebrated at State Soldiers’ Home. Lafayette, lnd., Jan. 12. Seated in an invalid chair, Mrs. Eliza Sharp was the guest of honor at a party at the Soldiers’ Home to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of her birth. Mrs. Sharp was bom Jan. 10, 1809, in Licking county, Ohio. Her first husband was George Bigley, and later she married Henry Sharp. Her first husband fought in the Mexican war and the civil war. Mrs. Sharp, who is a member of the home, has been an Invalid for several years, and the party was given in the infirmary.