Biography of Alexander B Carruth, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Alexander B. Carruth was born November 4, 1820, in Lawrence County, Ala., and
is a son of Alexander and  Nancy (Elkins) Carruth, both of whom were of Irish
descent. The father was born in South Carolina, and being  reared upon a farm,
devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits. He immigrated to Georgia, and
after living  there some years went to Alabama, where he died at the age of
seventy-four. Mrs. Carruth bore nine children,  three of whom are living: James
H., our subject and Eliza. Those deceased were named William, Jesse, Joseph,
Thomas, Martha and John. Mrs. Carruth was born in Georgia, and died in North
Alabama in 1862, where she  had gone in 1818. Alexander was reared upon his
father's farm in Alabama, and during his youth received a common-school
education, and learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he [p.1300] worked
twenty years. He  began life for himself when eighteen by buying land in
Alabama, and in 1844 married Jane Roberts, by whom  he had ten children. Mary
A., Joseph P., Jesse J., William, John, Nancy and Harriet are living, and
Absalom,  Harry and Matthew are dead. Mrs. Carruth died in Illinois in 1864,
and the latter part of the same year Mr.  Carruth married Sarah Balom, who came
to Kentucky from England when small. She afterward moved to  Illinois, and
there was married. She is the mother of three children, Belle, Emma and George.
After farming in  Illinois two years, in 1857 Mr. Carruth settled in Sebastian
County, Ark., where he has a farm of sixty-five acres  in cultivation. Mr.
Carruth is a Democrat in polities, and is greatly interested in the educational
advancement of  the county, being a school director. Himself and wife belong to
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.