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Surnames: Carrier, Clark, Shirley,
Classification: Query
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According to a local History, " Watauga, An Unusual History of the Watauga Tennessee
Area" by Howard N. Campbell pub 1986. In 1889 two Carrier brothers Charles F. b. Jul
1862 and Thomas H. b. Jan 1869 moved to Tennessee from Pennsylvania , and started a
logging and sawmill operation on the Watauga River, in the Watauga community of Carter
county adjacent to Sullivan County. The Company originally The Watauga Boom and Lumber
Company, included local business men, but was taken over by the Carrier, Mossein Company a
Pennsylvania Company. The accounts of the operation indicate a booming operation (pun
intended) until a big flood washed the boom away and thousands of logs. The 1900 Carter
County census list Charles F. wife as Margaret D. and a 9 year old son Fred all born in
Pennsylvania. Thomas H.'s wife is named Sarah b. Aug 1869 in PA. their daughter
Blanche B. b. July 1896 in TN. Thomas H. mother in law Emma Clark b. Sep 1849. was
living with them . A society page not!
e included in the history indicate the Carriers had a relative Dr. John Shirley visit
them from Clarion Pennsylvania. Does anyone know which line of Carriers these Carriers are
from I can't find any connection between them and the Sullivan County Carriers from
the Shenandoah Virginia line.