Roll of Honor
Patrick Cleburne Sharp
Incident
Federal Prohibition Agent Patrick Sharp died after being exposed to fumes in a room that contained an old still. He and four other agents had gone to a Texas farm and located the still behind a trap-door in a barn. The basement was filled with toxic fumes know as "black damp" which occurs when a hole in the ground has been sealed up. Officer Sharp was overcome by the fumes and died.
Officer Sharp had been in law enforcement for 15 years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and four children.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Federal Prohibition Agent Sharp gave the United States Department of the Treasury 15 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Federal Prohibition Agent Sharp.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Federal Prohibition Agent Patrick Cleburne Sharp is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In DC, 453 of 1,418 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.9% of this state's fallen. That is 31.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At United States Department of the Treasury - Internal Revenue Service - Bureau of Prohibition, 16 of 37 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 43.2% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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