Chatham County NcArchives News.....An Old Grave November 15, 1883
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The Chatham Record November 15, 1883
   An Old Grave – Probably the oldest marked grave in this county is on the 
farm of Col. Isaac H. [?] Brooks in Hickory Mountain township.  The grave is 
covered with a slab of soapstone one foot thick and six feet long, the surface 
of which is entirely covered with letters of various forms and sizes rudely 
cut, which have been deciphered by our young friend, W. E. Brooks, and read as 
follows:
   “Here lies intered [sic] the body of Dr. James McCarroll.  He was born in 
the County of Ardmagh [sic], in the Kingdom of Ireland, in the year 1734, and 
departed this life on the 25th day of Oct., 1777, in the 43rd year of his 
age:  he was remarkable for his general knowledge of the arts and sciences.  
This monument was erected by Elizabeth McCarroll, his widow, the 16th of July, 
1778.”
   We doubt if half a dozen of our countrymen ever before heard of Dr. 
McCarroll, and yet he was one of the most prominent citizens of Chatham in the 
last century.  His daughter married Patrick St. Lawrance who kept a tavern in 
the “old yellow house” at this place, nearly a hundred years ago, and whose 
name was given to the post office, near which Dr. McCarroll is buried.  If any 
of their descendants now live in Chatham we are not aware of it.


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