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Sharp Family
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Still a cattle ranch with a house and two barns, this place is on both sides of Ostrom Road, the east border of the Shenandoah
Valley. The house shown here was built in 1897, and is still lived in by Mr. Martin Waverek, who is 94 years old. The old barn near the house shows its age in the rusty roof. The
younger barn is across the road. Big Indian Creek is on the south border of this ranch. The properety is still owned by the Sharp family.
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Elsie E. Dixon, who compiled the excellent genealogical book on the Shenandoah Valley for the years 1854 to 1904, was a niece of
John Sharp and came here for vacations and also lived here as a small child
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Among her personal childhood memories, she recalled, "riding in a cart belonging to my grandparents and listening to the clip
clop of old Dolly's hooves as they sought solid ground through five or six inches of red dust (mud in winter), then grimacing in dismay at the cloud of red dust which settled
over face and body." She also remembers when, on her grandparents who lived just outside the valley to the east. She also mentions, "stopping at the Crains well and of
Susan, Olive, and Wilma Crain coming to greet my mother and father. We are all old friends."
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