Biography of Major Carroll, Dale, Alabama ================================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Christine Thacker ==================================================================== October 2000 Source: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1911, page 108-109 Legislative Department, Dale County MAJOR CARROLL, of Ozark, Ala. was born near Ozark, Dale County, Ala. April 25, 1851, and is the son of James and Penny Elizabeth (Kennedy) Carroll, and the grandson of James and Rhodie (Stevenson) Carroll, of Johnston County, N.C. and of Benjamin Kennedy and his wife of Leonora County, N.C. James Carroll, Sr. came from Scotland first to Ireland, thence to America. His name there was James McCarroll, being the son of Duncan McCarroll. The Mc was left off when James Carroll came to this country. He first stopped on the Virginia coast, then moved to Johnston County, N.C. where he became a large planter and slave holder. James Carroll, Jr. was born in Johnston County, N.C. He lived at Smithfield in that County until 1837, when he moved to Dale County, Ala. He served in the Indian War. Major Carroll was educated in the schools in and near Ozark, Ala. He has been a farmer since 1869, and is the President of the M.O. Carroll Grocery Company. He was a Director of the Alabama Midland and Plant System of Railroads until they were sold to Atlantic Coast Line. He has served several times on the Board of Aldermen. He is an active Democrat, and Methodist, a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a Knight of Pythias. He was married Jan 11, 1872 near Echo, in Dale County to Sarah Elizabeth Branch, the daughter of John W. and Emma (Hook) Branch, of Echo. Mrs. Branch's father served in the Mexican War and the War of Succession.