BIO:  CARRITHERS, Robert, s/o George & Jane (Weir) Carrithers

Submitted by: "Diana Flynn" <ivie@tima.com>

CARRITHERS,   WEIR,   DAUGHERTY,   GAMBLE

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA  TURMAN TWP.  PAGE 798
ROBERT CARRITHERS passed his early years without noteworthy event, continuing
with his father until the age of twenty-three, working with his brother in
common for lands to be equally divided between them.  He was born in Turman
Township June 4,1831, and is the second son of seven children born to George
and Jane (Weir) Carrithers, the father a native of Kentucky and the mother of
Tennessee, and both of Irish extraction.  Robert's education was very limited,
as opportunites for acquiring the learning of the schools were far inferior 
to what they are at present.  Notwithstanding, this, he secured sufficient
education to carry on the ordinary affairs of life, and by industry, ecomony
and integrity, now owns 251 acres of fine land and has an unsullied name.  He
and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.  He is a Democrat and a 
member of the Odd Fellows fraternity.  His wife, Eliza, daughter of Thomas 
and Nancy (Daugherty) Gamble, to whom he was married January 9, 1855, was 
born January 9, 1835, and has borne her husband this family:  Alice A., 
December 18, 1857;  Ed G., May 8, 1860; George T., July 18, 1862;  James, 
November 25, 1865;  Nancy J., July 21,1869, an an infant December 22, 1873.
Of these only Ed G. and George E. are now living.  Mr. Carrithers owns a 
fine property in Graysville. His father was one of the very first settlers
of the county, arriving when the Indians were yet occupying the soil and 
when the woods were full of wild animals.
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