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Surnames: Carroll, Spain, Balch (Somerset, England), Vance (Fermanagh,
Ulster>Scotland), Greer (Derry, Ulster >Scotland), Douglas (Galloway, Scotland),
Vickers (South Kirkby, West Yorkshire)
Classification: Query
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Message Board Post:
Looking for any information about my gg grandfather James Allen Carroll who married
Lucinda Balch of Tennessee.
Lucinda Balch's great grandfather was Hezekiah James Balch, a Presbyterian minister
who graduated from Princeton in 1776 and founded Tusculum College in Greeneville, TN.
Rev. Hezekiah J. Balch, Rev. William Graham and Rev. Samuel Houston were also noted for
their involvement in the establishment of the Lost State of Franklin (now located in
Tennessee/North Carolina.) Lucinda's father, Reverend John Tennant Balch, had two
first cousins ... Hezekiah Benjamin Balch II and John T. Balch, who fought at San Jacinto
with Sam Houston.
James Allen Carroll and Lucinda Balch had a daughter, Ruth Allen Carroll who married John
Henry Spain. These are my great grandparents. John Henry Spain and his father Edward
Thomas Spain were born in Alabama. So it is possible that James Allen Carroll was from
Tennessee relocated to Alabama. He would have been born in the mid 1800s.
Hope some of this sounds familiar to someone here on the board.