Anastasia Carroll (1864 - abt. 1910)

Chasm Falls, Owls Head Legacy for Mrs. Joseph Johnston. Feb. 12—In 1868, two little girls named, Carroll, whose parents had died were placed in a Catholic Orphans' Home in Boston, One of them, Mary Frances, aged five years, was adopted from the Home by Francis McDermott then of Lawrence, Mass., but who spent most of his life in Chasm Falls, N.Y. She grew up to womanhood and in 1886 married Joseph Johnston, also of Chasm Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston are most worthy people, highly respected by their neighbors and by all who know them. They are the parents of eight children. The other little Carroll girl, Anastasia, was adopted by a lady in Haverhill, Mass. She never married and recently died in Orange, N. J., leaving, we understand, some property which will now go to Mrs. Johnston of this place. This is the first that Mrs. Johnston has heard of her sister since they were separated at the Orphans' Home, away back in 1868. Steps are now being taken to ascertain further the life history of the long unheard of Anastasia and to secure whatever she may have left to her sister.