Wayne County, NC - Heritage Series Reprinted with permission of the Mount Olive Tribune and cannot be reproduced without permission. Transcribed by Barbara Kawamoto. The Carlton Family of Duplin "Our Heritage" By Claude Moore There are actually hundreds of descendents of the first John Carlton now living not only in Duplin County, but also all over the United States. The Carltons probably came from England to Pennsylvania and later to Virginia and then to Craven County, North Carolina. John Carlton was born around 1735; married and moved to Craven County. During the American Revolution he served in the Second North Carolina Regiment, and died in the service near the end of the war. He and his wife had six sons: David, Isaac, Peter, Lewis, Hardy and William. The Carltons moved to Duplin County in 1784 and settled near Beasley’s Mill, south west of Warsaw. David Carlton (1757-1845) married Burnita Porter and settled in Duplin County. They had the following children: Shadrack Carlton (1786-1859), who married Mary Sloan and finally settled in Texas; Tabitha Carlton, who married Ephraim Strickland; Henry Carlton (1797-1845), who married Susan Kennedy and lived near Warsaw, North Carolina; Catherine Carlton, who married (1) Leonard Hollingsworth and (2) Isaac Rogers; Rebecca Carlton who married Guilford Hollingsworth. Guilford and Rebecca Hollingsworth had the following five children: Kilby, Leonard, Alfred, Owen R. and William Dickson. Isaac Carlton, son of John Carlton (b. 1759) married and moved to Boone County, Kentucky. The Reverend Peter Carlton (b. 1761), son of John Carlton was a pioneer Methodist minister, and founder of historic Carlton’s Chapel Methodist Church, still located southwest of Warsaw. In 1793, he was married to his cousin, Elizabeth Carlton (daughter of Thomas Carlton). After her death, he was married to Elizabeth West. After his death, she was married to the Reverend Daniel Culbreath, another pioneer Methodist minister. Lewis Carlton (1763-1840), son of John Carlton, married and settled in Duplin County. They had the following children: Dicey, Mary, John Lewis, Alonza Wright, and Theroyal. Dicey Carlton (1810-1872) was married to Nicholas A. Mathis, a son of Jacob Mathis, Jr., of Duplin County. Their children were: David, John, Kader, Catherine, Railroad, and Mary, who married Fleet Matthis and lived in Sampson County. Mary Carlton (daughter of Lewis), (1815-1877) married Bass Beasley, a son of Austin and Mary Carroll Beasley of Beasley’s Mill, Duplin County. They lived at Beasley’s Mill in the log house, which I now use as the Cabin Museum. They had the following five children: Daniel James, Mary E., Major Austin, Nancy and Martha. Daniel J. Beasley was married (1) to Sara Taylor (2) to Sarah Hollingsworth. Mary E. Beasley was married to John T. Pope. Major Austin Beasley was married to Nancy Catherine Barden and they were the parents of the later Luther Beasley (attorney, Kenansville), Mrs. Ella Gavin, Mrs. Flossie Byrd, and Vance A. Beasley. Nancy Beasley was married to a Mr. Strickland. Martha Beasley (1836-1914) was married to a cousin, Hardy Carlton, a son of Hardy and Mary Carlton Beasley and lived at Moultrie, Georgia. John Lewis Carlton (1819-1884) was married in 1839 to Barsheba Mathis and lived near Warsaw, North Carolina. Their children were: Susan Elizabeth Carlton, who married O. A. Middleton; Jemima Carlton (1842-1916) who married the Reverend Rice Carroll, Confederate hero and Baptist minister; John Wright Carlton, Confederate soldier died in the service; Franklin King Carlton; William Chauncey Carlton (1847-1905) who married Cornelia Hollingsworth; and Sylvester Carlton (1850-1911) who married Virginia Wells. Alonza Wright Carlton (1823-1898) was married to Mary Jane Chesnutt, a daughter of Lemuel Chesnutt of Sampson County. They lived near Warsaw and had the following children: Elizabeth Carlton (1847-1897) who married Robert Wells; Thomas Wright Carlton; Mary S. Carlton who married Randolph Smith; Lewis Carson Carlton (1854-1934) who married Geneva Hollingsworth, and they were the parents of Mary Julia, Cornelia Adeline, Alonza Wright, James, Robert Carson, Emma, Janie, Chauncey, Lee, W. Bruce, Graham W., Margaret E., Ralph, David Herring, Clarence, Martha Ann Carlton (1856-1868); and Cornelia Jane Carlton who married Eugene Smith; after the death of his first wife, Alonza Wright Carlton, Sr., was married to Sallie Jane Smith and had two children: William Franklin Carlton; and Matthew James Carlton (1874-1895) who married Ada Elmore. Theroyal Carlton (1826-1897), North Carolina Militia, Confederate States Army, was married to Nancy Mathis. They had no children. Hardy Carlton, Sr., (born in 1760’s) was married to Elizabeth Sloan in 1796, and moved to Moultrie, Georgia, then around 1830 and finally died near Thomasville, Georgia after 1850. Their children were Isaac (1800-1876); Nancy (1803-1887); Jesse (1805-c. 1864); Phoebe, Temperance (c. 1812-c. 1870) and Hardy Jr., (1816-1894). William Carlton, son of John Carlton, Sr., lived in Duplin County, and died unmarried in 1802. I am indebted to a number of people for data in this article including the late Dr. William M. Carlton of the University of Georgia and Mrs. Mary Carlton of Warsaw. ============================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. 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