Hello,
Does anyone else have information on the subject below?
Best Wishes,
Harvey Carrouth
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In a message dated 3/1/01 2:48:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
phoenix(a)wnonline.net writes:
You said you've found records which make Elizabeth Anderson questionable as
the wife of Robert Carruth. Now does this make her just questionable or have
you decided to drop her altogether? Anything you'd care to share, I'm
interested in hearing - even if it's just hypothesis.
In a message dated 3/1/01 3:34:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
phoenix(a)wnonline.net writes:
Got info from John Brinkerhoff that Robert married a second time on 6 Apr
1815 to Mary Hitchcock. Then Robert died in May 1815.
Lisa
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Hey Lisa,
Robert's marriage to Mary for a very short time is documented in "Carruth
Story" and "From Whence Ye Came." However, in researching what I thought
was
our Anderson family history, I discovered that at least so far I am unable to
find where Elizabeth Anderson was married to Robert Carruth (our line) except
in the books that show that marriage. I can not find the supporting
documents. I did find supporting documents from the Wilkes County, Ga., Deed
Books A - V V, 1784-1806, that on "20 Nov. 1796, Robert Carruth and Martha,
his wife, of Wilkes Co., Ga.," sold there 200 acres located on Dry Fork of
Long Creek and signed the document, "Robert Carruth, Marthey (n) Carruth."
Robert probably had received this 200 acres as a result of his participation
in the Revolutionary war as others did in this same area which helped him to
decide to move from N. Carolina to Ga. in the early 1790's away from where
the area the Carruth family had lived for many years since their arrival in
America in Pa. and subsequent move to N. Carolina. After finding this record
I began to wonder about the validity of Elizabeth Carruth being Robert's wife
and searched for, but could not find anything supporting her as being his
wife. I soon sent a letter to the family e-mail list asking if anyone else
had anything showing Martha as Robert's wife instead of Elizabeth and
received a very interesting and promising reply. The sender told me that,
"the Heritage of Lawrence County, Alabama" vol. 40, has information
concerning the above and shows Robert marrying Martha Huggins in about 1770.
Also, the summary shows that Martha was the daughter of Robert's first
cousin John Huggins, Jr., and Elizabeth Henderson. Elizabeth Henderson was a
sister of Major Lawson Henderson who married Robert's sister Elizabeth. John
(or James) Huggins, Jr., the son of John (or James, names used
interchangeably) Huggens and Mary Carruth (Robert's aunt and sister to
Robert's father Adam). I do not have proof of the above in the way of
marriage records or some other sort as I do not have for a marriage of Robert
Carruth and Elizabeth Anderson. I do know that Anderson family historians
had a marriage documented to Robert Caruth for Elizabeth Anderson, but after
checking this out further I believe this marriage is for Mary Anderson and
Adam Carruth (Robert's first cousin, son of Alexander, Robert's uncle and
brother to Robert's father Adam). I am not certain on either Martha or
Elizabeth being the wife of Robert and presently still show Elizabeth on my
family reports. Yet another fact to be proven or not :-)
Best Wishes,
Harvey Carrouth
Information below found at:
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&
db=patander73&id=I04555
ID: I04555
Name: Adam Caruth
Sex: M
Note:
Subj: Elizabeth Anderson
Date: 99-04-15 19:11:03 EDT
From: HARVEY33
To: SKRAFT
CC: PatAnder73
<Hello Christine,
I have some news about one of the descendants of John Anderson found on
your page at: <A
HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/others/johna.html"...
here: Descendants of John Anderson</A>
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/others/johna.html
I wrote to you last month and told you of finding Elizabeth Anderson there
and thinking she was my fifth great grandmother who married Robert Carruth
(listed there as Caruth). Elizabeth is listed as number 36. I have since
figured out that even though the information for Elizabeth (#36) does not
match my fifth great grandmother's, it does match for another
Anderson/Carruth union. I will copy notes from another letter I wrote to
the Carruth E-mail list for this subject below. You will see that the
information I have is for a Mary Anderson instead of Elizabeth Anderson. I
hope that maybe there was a combining of Mary and Elizabeth's information
on marrying someone named Caruth or Carruth and you may have something on
Elizabeth Anderson that married Robert Carruth. I look forward to hearing
back from you on what you think of this.
Best wishes,
Harvey Carrouth
notes from other letter (can view full letter at: <A
HREF="http://carruthfam.email.listbot.com/">
http://carruthfam.email.listbot.com/</A>
message number 328.)
<< I found one thing knew to report that may interest some of you. Adam
Carruth's son Robert Carruth married Elizabeth Anderson. Robert lived in
Rowan Co., N.C. on the plantation of his father until he was 16. His father
sold the Rowan Co. plantation in 1762 and moved to Mecklenburg Co., N.C.
buying land along Paw Creek of close to 1000 acres. As an adult, Robert
bought and sold land in soon to be Rutherford, Lincoln, and Polk Counties,
N.C. He married Elizabeth Anderson in 1770 and they lived early married
life in Rutherford Co., N.C. before moving to Ga. They are found on the
1790 Census in Rutherford Co., N.C. They moved to Ga. within a few years
where Robert is found paying taxes as early as 1793 in Wilkes County, Ga.
I have thought that Elizabeth's family could be found documented at the
following address: <
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/others/johna.html>
There is an Elizabeth Anderson listed as number 36. Her father is listed
above her as number 7. He was Robert Anderson (John2, John1) and died in
Abbeville Co., South Carolina. He married Ann Thompson in November 1765 in
Virginia. This Elizabeth would not be Robert's wife if she were born after
1765. Elizabeth is listed here as:
36 iii. Elizabeth Anderson. She married (1) Robert Maxwell. She married (2)
Caruth.
Notes for Robert Maxwell:
!(1) "Gleanings of Virginia History," by William Fletcher Boogher (19 65)
p.314.
FHL #975.5 H2bw.
(1) "Of the Revolution."
After checking for other possibilities of who this Elizabeth may have
married I found that she did marry a Carruth and this was her second
marriage. This is documented in Mrs. Lela Grant Carruth's book, "From
Whence Ye Came" published in 1982. On page 106 and 107 Adam Carruth-3
(Alexander-1, Robert-2) is shown marrying Mrs. Mary Anderson Maxwell
Carruth before 25 Jan. 1810. There is also a short history about Mary's
family shown here. Mary's first husband Colonel Robert Maxwell was an
officer under General Robert Anderson (Mary's father). Robert Maxwell was
the first sheriff of Greenville Co., S.C. and was killed from ambush 10
Nov. 1797. So this information matches for the above except the information
from the web page was for Elizabeth. Perhaps the Elizabeth Anderson that
married Robert Carruth is on this page as well and I have not found her
there yet. The information for this Anderson family matches pretty closely
with the information for the Carruth family. It is noted for Robert
Anderson that Anderson Co., SC was named for him. I found a couple of web
sites with information to back this statement of the naming of the county
at:
<
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/ande.html>
<
http://www.andersonsc.com/community/anderson.asp> >>
____________________________________________
Subj: Elizabeth (Anderson) Carruth - Robert's wife
Date: 99-03-02 09:19:53 EST
From: HARVEY33
To: CarruthFam.EMail(a)Listbot.Com
CC: SKRAFT, PatAnder73
Hello,
I've found a web site I wanted to share with you that has Elizabeth
Anderson married to "Caruth" (second marriage). I believe this Elizabeth is
Robert's wife. Robert Carruth (often found as Caruth in Virginia and N.
Carolina) was a son of immigrating ancestor Adam Carruth. Robert and
Elizabeth are my 5th great grandparents (Carruth). Also, I believe
Elizabeth's father Robert or her brother Robert, also found at this web
site, is the Robert Anderson that Adam Carruth mentioned in his will. The
web site is found at:
<A
HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/others/johna.html"...
Descendants of John Anderson</A>
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/others/johna.html
Many thanks go to Mrs. A. Christine Davidson Kraft who provided the
information for the above page. Also, many thank go to Patrick Anderson for
adding the above to his web site at:
<A
HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/virginia.html">...
Virginia ANDERSON Families</A>
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/virginia.html
One more stone unturned and so many left to find.
Best wishes to all of you,
Harvey Carrouth
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HREF="http://www.bnpages.com/hobbies/carrouth/index.html">
http://www.bnpages.com/hobbies/carrouth/index.html</A>
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