John Wesley Carroll Jr (1815 - 1897)

Born 30 Jul 1815 in Franklin County, Georgia

Ancestors

Husband of Hulda Smith (Hearn) Carroll — married 20 Dec 1838 in Franklin County, Georgia

Husband of Lucinda (Bond) Carroll — married 10 May 1857 in Campbell County, Georgia

Descendants

Died 3 Jan 1897 at age 81 in Brooklyn, Jackson Parish, Louisiana

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Biography

"John Wesley Carroll was born July 30, 1815 in Franklin County, Georgia. He was the son of John W Carroll, a Methodist minister. His mother was Elizabeth Redwine, the daughter of Jacob Redwine Sr, also a Methodist minister. "John Wesley married Hulda Hearn, daughter of Stephen Hearn and Jane Ballard, about 1838. They lived and farmed in Coweta County, Georgia, living in a log house that was near the Widow Varner's Ferry on the Chattahoochee River. To John Wesley and Hulda five children were born, the oldest dying in infancy. There were three son. John Franklin married his first cousin Mary C Carroll. Stephen Blynn married Susan Bullard, and James Craton married Mary Jane Covington Tate. A daughter, Nancy Jane (Sis), married George Lantrip. In 1855 John Wesley and Hulda moved to Jackson Parish, Louisiana, about eight miles from Chatham. He rented a farm near Hood's Mill, working hard planting a big cotton crop. The worms ate the cotton, and typhoid fever claimed the life of his wife Hulda, leaving him with the four small children. After his return to Georgia he married Lucinda Bond Jordan on May 10, 1857 in Campbell County. "Before the start of the Civil War, John Wesley and Lucinda became the parents of two daughters, Francis Carolyn, who married Henry Sutton and Emily Katherine, who married Thomas S (Bob) Head. On June 23, 1870 Lucinda died and is buried in the Brooklyn Cemetery. John Wesley and the younger children kept the home together, until some years later when he married again, a widow, Charity Elizabeth Browder Thompson. Charity and John Wesley were to become the parents of one son, Lewis Wesley, who was married to Sue Hazel Moore. John Wesley died when Lewis had just turned twelve years old. Charity of 'Little Granny' then moved to Texas. She is buried in the Hopwell Cemetery in Upshur County. "Lewis Carroll and Sue Moore Carroll have four children: Durand Wesley, Hazel, James (Buddie) and Beth. They have one grand daughter, Judy Carroll Marshall." [Source: Photocopy from the book, Palmetto: A Town and Its People, page number did not copy. This book was on the shelves of the Family History Library at Salt Lake City, Utah, during May 1989].

Military Service: War of Northern Aggression (Civil War), Corporal, Company B, 1 Special battalion (Wheat's), Louisiana Infantry, Confederate States of America. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was present on the Rolls to December 1861].

Sources

• Cemetery Records. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Jackson Parish, Louisiana, <http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/jackson/cemeteries/mtpleasa.txt>. Page 1, as viewed on 27 December 2001.

• Palmetto: A Town and Its People. Photocopy of biographical sketch of John Wesley Carroll, page number did not copy. Note: This source gives his birth year as 1815, and his tombstone gives it as 1816. [This book was on the shelves of the Family History Library at Salt Lake City, Utah, during May 1989].

• Family Records. Stephen Mayfield, Mayfield Family Records, Unpublished collection of genealogical records and correspondence.

• Cemetery Records. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Jackson Parish, Louisiana, <http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/jackson/cemeteries/mtpleasa.txt>. Page 1, as viewed on 27 December 2001.

• Find A Grave, John Wesley Carroll Jr <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58624104/john-wesley-carroll> as viewed 10 May 2019.