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Author: TBarley3000
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This family seemed to have traveled a lot in the span of 10 to 20 years and it wasn't
a matter of county boundaries moving. Eunice White was the daughter of Joel White, who
was from Guilford/Randolph North Carolina, the son of Joseph White and Ann Clark.
Quaker records had Joseph White and his family in Tennessee and 1803 and then in Guilford
County (Springfield Quaker meeting)later than same year. Joel married in Guilford County
in 1826. He was condemned from the church in 1829 and appears in Davie County, NC in 1847
when his daughter Eunice marrited Hezekial Cariway in April of that year. He is also
listed in the tax records of Davie county. By 1850
he is in Surry County as is Hezekial and Eunice. William Riley Caraway was born circa
1848 in Surry County NC. The family starts showing up in Roane County, TN around 1857 in
the school records.
I have yet to find any mention of any Caraways in Surry County, so I believe Hezekial
migrated there with the White family and was not necessarily from there but I have no
proof other than the absence of records.
There were Caraways (various spellings) all over NC. Of particular interest is Hillery
Caraway who seemed to have been in Darlington SC in 1810, then in Burke County NC in 1820
and in Wake County in 1840, so I suppose he could have been traveling. If Hillery is
connected to the Carraway's from South Carolina, it is interesting that there was an
Ezekial Caraway residing there in the early 1800's. William Riley named one of his
sons that name.
Unfortunately with the family traveling as much as they did, they very seldom put down
roots long enough to appear in records that would prove connections.
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