Amanda Jane Hull Tharp
Iowa

Amanda Jane Hull Tharp 18 Dec 1914 Bluff Creek Township Iowa
Son Harvey Tharp built her house.

Stone hard to photograph.

Amanda J. Tharp
Feb 10, 1839
May 16, 1919

Shares stone with T.S. Tharp.

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Amanda Jane Hull, the daughter of John P. And Elizabeth Hull, was born in Highland County Virginia, February 7, 1839. She was United in marriage to Timothy S. Tharp, September 1, 1853 and moved same year to Keokuk Iowa. In the spring of 1854 they moved to Monroe County, settling near Blakesburg, where she resided until 1889, when she removed to Bluff Creek Township where she resided up to the time of her death.

Mrs. Tharp was the mother of nine children. Charles W. Tharp, Sarah E. Bomar, Mrs. Alice J. Bone, B. F. Tharp, Mrs. Laura Gutch, John H. Tharp, Harvey S. Tharp, Mrs. Fanny B. McVey and one child died in infancy. Her husband, Timothy S. Thorpe, died about 30 years ago in this County. Mrs. Tharp was 80 years, three months and nine days of age at the time of her death.

She was truly one of the early pioneer settlers of Monroe County. At the time she and her husband came to this County they brought with them all of their worldly possessions in a small box and lived for quite a while in a small cabin, doing their cooking outside. She was a devoted wife and mother and always took a vital interest in the welfare of her children and neighbors.

Although she lived to the ripe old age of four score years. Yet her children, grandchildren and great great-grandchildren feel and mourned the loss of mother as keenly as they would, had she been called from them many years sooner. She leaves surviving her one brother Peter L. A whole in Lewis County West Virginia, her two sisters and one brother preceded her in death.

Mrs. Tharp was baptized in the Methodist church when she was quite young, but the past several years she has been a faithful member of the Christian church.

(From the Monroe County News (Albia, Iowa) May 15, 1919)