Hoping to find info on the Carothers in Blair Co. PA, especially William, b.
abt. 1820 & his wife Anne Maria, b. abt. 1830, who lived & raised their family
of 8 children. They may have had more children later on. The oldest child,
Joseph Erb Carothers, b. 1840, supposedly in Wyoming Co. PA., is my G.
grandfather. [He m. Alice Kephart from Decatur Twp. Clearfield Co. PA.] There may have
been more children. They lived in Antis Twp. Blair Co. Wm worked in Tyrone.
His father, William, is listed as 70 yrs' old and a painter, living in the same
household in the 1860 Antis Twp. Blair Co. Census. Among the children's names
were Joseph, Jacob, Margaret, (who later m. Perry C. Kephart) Robert, Elmira &
Baby Jackson. Am willing to pay someone to find info for me. Would really
like to know where they came from and which line of Carothers are they from?
Would much appreciate any thoughts or idea's. Dorothy