Bio: David A. J. Carathers, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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David A. J. Carathers.  In the State of Alabama, in 1836, there was born to
Jonathan and L. (Goodwin) Carathers, a son, the subject of this sketch, being
one in a family of four children.  Both parents were born in Tennessee, but
after residing in Alabama for some time, they, in 1845, came to Camden, Ark.,
and three years later to Claiborne Parish, La.  In 1861 they went to the Lone
Star State, and in Tarrant County the father died in 1873, at the age of
seventy-two years.  He was the fourth in a family of twelve children, the
father of whom, Jonathan Carathers, was born in the Emerald Isle, and he and
three brothers came to America, and during the Revolutionary War served in a
company under Gen. Washington, coming safely through that struggle, and
afterward settling in Tennessee.  In Claiborne Parish, La., David A. J.
Carathers enlisted in Company K, in 1861, but at Huntsville, Ala., he was
captured, with the most of his company, but he succeeded in making his escape,
and afterward rejoining the Confederate Army, this time enlisting in Company
F, Ninth Louisiana Infantry, and served the cause he espoused faithfully and
well until the close of the war.  He was wounded in the battles of Sharpsburg,
Winchester and at Rappahannock Station, being captured at the last named place
and sent to Washington City.  Mr. Carathers was one of the few Confederate
soldiers who saw the Goddess of Liberty raised.  Upon the termination of the
war he immediately returned to Lisbon, and this place has since been his home. 
His marriage to Miss Sarah E. McCasland took place in 1869, and has resulted
in the birth of eight children: Lee J., J. Clay, Benjamin F., Minnie, Julia,
Mack, J. David and Laura.  They are both members of the Missionary Baptist
Church, and socially he belongs to the A. F. & A. M. and the I. O. O. F.  He
has always been an ardent Democrat, and has served as bailiff from 1867 to
1872, and has also been justice of the peace from that time up to present. 
Mr. Carathers is quite well fixed financially, and besides owning a nice
residence and seventeen acres of town property he has a plantation of 400
acres.

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