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Taken from the Cherokee Advocate, Oklahoma, 11 September 1895
DEATH OF COL. JOHN CARROLL
Col. John T. Carroll, one of the best known men in Northwest Arkansas, died at Eureka
Springs on the morning of Saturday, the 24th. He was 62 years of age. His funeral took
place on the following day and was attended by an immense concourse of people.
Col. Carroll had been a resident of Arkansas since 1865. He was born in the state of
Virginia, but the early years of his life were spent in the old Cherokee Nation east of
the Mississippi. In 1838 his father came west with the Cherokees and settled at Fort
Gibson. The subject of this sketch lived with the Cherokees until 1853, marrying a
full-blooded Cherokee lady. In that year he moved to Missouri. When the war broke out he
joined his fortunes with those of the confederate army, serving throughout the entire
struggle and participating in a number of battles. Before the close of the war he reached
the rank of colonel. Shortly after the close of the war he settled in Arkansas. He
served in the legislature and in the constitutional convention of 1874, and during
President Cleveland's first administration was marshal of the Western District of
Arkansas.
He was a descendant of the famous Maryland family of Carrols of revolutionary memory.
Ex.
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