NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Rev. Joseph Tharp (1887)

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Transcribed by Deb Murray.

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Rev. Joseph Tharp, well known to old residents, was born in Baltimore
County, Md., October 16, 1776, and died in Muskingum County, Ohio, May 12,
1866. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church early in life. In 1792 his
parents removed to the vicinity of Morgantown, W. Va. In 1796 Joseph
responded to a call for volunteers to protect the frontier settlements
against the Indians, and served for six months under Captain Dent. For this
service he received a land warrant for 160 acres. In 1803 he married Jemina
Van Camp, who died in 1867, in the eighty-fifth year of her age. In 1804 he
came to Ohio, following an old Indian trail up the Captina, across Will's
creek and on to the Muskingum. He settled where Nashport now is and raised
a crop of corn. The following September he brought his wife from Virginia
and in 1805 removed to Licking County. In 1810 he settled in the southwest
part of Muskingum County, where he continued to reside until his decease.
For nearly sixty years he preached the Gospel without any fixed
remuneration. He was the father of twelve children, eleven of whom are
still living. Two are ministers of the Methodist Protestant church - Rev.
Joel Tharp, of Adrain, Mich., and Rev. Israel Tharp, of Coshoction County.
Rev. Joseph Tharp was licensed before leaving Virginia. In 1805 he helped
organize a Methodist church in Licking County and in April, 1806, the first
quarterly meeting in that vicinity was held at his cabin. On the
organization of the Methodist Protestant church he attached himself to it
and adhered to it through life.

History of Noble County, Ohio Published by 
L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887
Brookfield