Bienville Families: John Carroll Family, Bienville Parish Louisiana Submitted by Donna Sutton ladyhawke1214@hotmail.com ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Carroll - Sutton Family History This Carroll family married into the Sutton family of Bear Creek, Louisiana. The following research was sent to me many years ago by Robert Carroll, a college professor originally from Monroe, LA, who, at that time, was researching the family and writing a book. Absalom Carroll was born about 1745. His wife’s name is unknown (one researcher states her name as Harriet Hara). Absalom came to Baltimore, MD around 1767 from Cork, Ireland; he later moved to Colleton District, SC. According to family legend, Absalom was related to Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence. I have found no proof of this, but it is interesting to note that both Absalom and Charles came to Baltimore, MD, from Ireland. Absalom and his wife both died some time during Revolutionary War period, leaving 5 children as orphans: Britten Carroll, born about 1768 Absalom Carroll Jr., b. abt. 1770 Jonn Carroll, b.abt. 1771 (our ancestor, see below) James Carroll, b. abt. 1773 Moses Carroll, b. abt. 1775 John Carroll (Carrel) was born about 1771 in Colleton District, SC, and died about 1810 in Catahoula Parish, LA. Around1802 he married Mary Scoggins, daughter of Jonas and Catherine Scoggins who were in the Adams Co., MS, area before 1790. Mary was most likely not John’s first wife as his three sons (John, William and Thomas) were all born between 1790-1800, according to census records. John Carroll is found on the1792 MS Early Census Index in the Natchez District, and on the MS 1810 Territorial Census Tax List. He was listed as an original owner of 204 acres on Fairchild’s Creek on March 30, 1798 in the Mississippi Territory. On that same date, a Benjamin Carroll (unknown relationship) was listed as the original owner of 535 acres of Buffalo Creek. John Carroll and his wife Mary Scoggins received a gift of 100 acres of land in Catahoula Parish from her parents on Feb. 2, 1805. On the same day the Scoggins also gave 100 acres in the neighborhood of Pine Ridge to Moses Carroll and his wife Amelice (Amelia) Scoggins. Amelice and Mary (also listed as Polly) are named as daughters of Jonas and Catherine in his will. John and Moses were brothers. Moses was found on the MS 1810 Territorial Census Tax List. Absalom Carroll is mentioned in several Catahoula Parish records with Johh Carroll. It is possible that this Absalom, who died about 1829 in Jones Co., MS, was also John’s brother After John’s death his widow Mary married James Wright. On April 5, 1810, she bound her son Thomas into the care of John Bowie for 10 years. Bowie was to teach Thomas writing and arithmetic fundamentals and at the end of his tenure was to supply him with two suits of clothes and a horse, saddle and bridle. Mary appointed her son William Carroll as her attorney to sell the land belonging to the heirs of John Carroll in 1813. John had at least three sons (Mary was most likely not their natural mother): William b. between 1790-1800, SC (m. Martha Unkown), found in Ouachita Parish by 1820; involved in several land transactions. Rev. John “Jack” Carroll (our ancestor, see info below) Thomas b. between 1790-1800, SC; d. between 1844-1850 in Ouachita Parish, m. Esther/Sarah Unknown, found in Ouachita Parish by 1830. Rev. John “Jack” Carroll was born August 5, 1795 in Natchez Post, MS (now Adams County). He died November 1, 1873 in Jackson Parish, LA, and is buried in Springhill Cemetery, Wyatt, LA. On January 17, 1817, he married his first wife, Susannah Martin. Susannah was born April 4, 1802 in French Territory. She died January 27, 1842 in Jackson Parish, LA, and is buried in Hickory Springs Cemetery. Children: Elizabeth Louisa, born November 3, 1817 in Catahoula, LA, date and place of death unknown. On November 6, 1838 she married Thomas Liles. Her second husband was Zephaniah Pyburn. Amanda M., born October 11, 1819 in Catahoula, LA, date and place of death unknown, buried in Ryans Ch---(illegible) Cemetery in TX. On January 15, 1842, she married Robert Washington. On April 1, 1844 she married Honneycut W. Pyburn. Zachariah, born January 2, 1822 in LA, date and place of death unknown. On September 21, 1842, he married Susan Clark. John J., born May 3, 1824 in LA, died in 1842. Sarah Ann, born August 13, 1826 in LA, died 1870, buried near Winnfield, Titus Co., TX. On November 21, 1844 she married Christopher C. Trussell. Henry, born February 28, 1828 in LA, date and place of death unknown, buried in Hickory Springs, Jackson Parish, LA. In 1858 he married Zylphia Malinda Grantham. Mary (our ancestor), born February 23, 1830 in LA, died 1902 in Bienville Parish, LA. On December 22, 1848 she married John Sutton in Caldwell Parish. Their children settled in Bienville Parish, LA. Charles Wesley, born July 27, 1831 in LA, date and place of death unknown. He married Elizabeth Brinkley. Susan, born July 31, 1838, in LA, date and place of death unknown. On July 3, 1871, she married John J. Warner. Fletcher Carroll (may or may not be their child) John Carroll’s second wife was a widow named Jane Carrick Squires, born 1808 in KY, died December 5, 1866. Her first husband was Sidney Squires. Her father’s name is unknown, but her mother’s name was Susan Mattox. John and Jane’s children were: George Washington, born January 18, 1844 in LA, died March 4, 1913, buried in Como, Hopkins Co., TX. He married Elizabeth Lantrip. Andrew Jackson, born 1846 in LA, died January 6, 1848. He is buried in Hickory Springs, Jackson Parish, LA. John Carroll’s third wife was Elizabeth Jane Hamilton Webb. SOURCE: Walter E. Dantzler, Jr., Route 1, Holland, TX 76534 (November 18, 1968). He used the following sources of information: U.S. Census, 1830, 1840, Ouachita Parish, LA US Census, 1850, Caldwell Parish, LA US Census, 1860, Jackson Parish, LA Mrs. Pearle Carroll Jordon, Como, TX (deceased) Mrs. Elizabeth Jordon Wigas, Chattanooga, TN Family Bible, Mr. Clinton C. Meek, Pearsall, TX John Carroll was a veteran of the War of 1812. The following information came from the Widow’s Pension Application Packet on file at the National Archives, NNRG, Washington, DC 20408. The pension and bounty land claim was originally filed by John Carroll. His widow, Elizabeth Jane Hamilton Webb Carroll, continued the filing process. According to the application papers, John Carroll served as a Private in Captain R.J. Sackett’s Company, Louisiana Militia. He enlisted October 6, 1814 and was discharged April 20, 1815. His places of residence were: 1853, Caldwell Parish, LA 1855, Jackson Parish, LA 1871, Jackson Parish (PO Vernon), LA. According to the Bounty Land Claim filed in 1855, John Carroll was drafted during the latter part of 1814 in Baton Rouge for 6 months of service. He was honorable discharged in New Orleans in March 1815. His bounty land claim was for 80 acres. The claim was witnessed by Thomas Sutton (John’s daughter Mary Carroll married Thomas Sutton’s son, John.). Also according to the Bounty Land Claim, Mary Carroll Sutton was the custodian of the Family Bible of John Carroll. She stated that the Bible had been in her father’s family for more than 50 years. The following information, quoted directly from the bounty land claim, was submitted by Mary to prove that her father’s former wives were deceased: Susannah Carroll wife of John Carroll departed this life on the 27th day of January AD 1842. Jane Carroll wife of John Carroll departed this life 5 day of December AD 1866. John Carroll departed this life on the 1st day November AD 1873. The Bounty Land Claim packet also contained a newspaper clipping of John Carroll’s obituary. The following is a full transcript of the clipping: REV. JOHN CARROLL was born August 5, 1795 in Adams county, Mississippi, and died in Jackson parish, Louisiana on the first day of November, 1873. He lived to the good old age of seventy-eight years, two months and twenty-seven days. He was a member of the Methodist Church for fifty years. He found peace with God through our lord Jesus Christ one year before he had an opportunity of connecting himself with the church, and during that time he erected the family altar, on which holy incense burned unto the Lord until he saw fit to call his servant from labor to reward, unless in case of illness; and at times he had to be assisted from his knees on account of bodily affliction. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in the fighting around New Orleans in 1815. He was among the first ministers to preach the glad tidings of salvation to dying men and women in these regions, and he deserves more honor as a faithful soldier of the cross than in any other way, as he was a local preacher without reproach or stain on his character, offical or private, for thirty years. He was faithful to his commission until disease brought hjm down. For four years he endured affliction as only those who wait for the appearing of their Master can. I had the privilege of knowing him, and it was truly refreshing to talk with a man who walked with God and whose conversation was in heaven, from whence he continually looked for the Lord, who had loved him and had washed him in his own blood. He seemed to be buried to this world and alive only to Jesus, and one could see in him the spirit of his Master by his daily walk. A short time before his death, as I sat by his bedside, he was in ecstasies of joy to think he was nearing the place where there would be no more pain, disease or death, and he said to me: “Bud, I’ll never grow old, but will always be young;” and as he talked he wept for joy. Among his last words were that he had been laboring a long time for a home in heaven, and now he was going to reap the reward. The door was open; he had been with Jesus. His was truly a life of prayer, and he could be heard talking with God in his room when he was not able to retire to his usual place. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. May his children serve their father and mother’s God, and make an unbroken family in heaven. PHILLIP ALLEN.