Thomas Carothers

His Wife is Ann Stewart Carothers.

They were Married about 1795 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

His Parents are Andrew Carothers, Born in Dumfries, Scotland; and Margaret Neeley Carothers. They are Buried at Poplar Tent Cemetery in North Carolina.

DOCUMENTED:

1. 1 >: Mecklenburg County, NC was formed in 1763 from Anson County, NC.
2. 2> Correction on Date of Marriage to February 10, 1797, and the location of Marriage to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (not VA) was submitted on Sunday, February 20, 2011, by grblancett@gforcecable.com - a visitor to Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35574840/thomas-carothers

Thomas was born in Pennsylvania, The only existing record, the 1850 Census, says Virginia. He grew up in Mecklenburg/Cabarrus, North Carolina, and married Ann Stewart in Mecklenburg County February 10, 1797 (220 years ago today, as I write this). Some years later he moved his family to Flat Creek, near Shelbyville, in Bedford County, Tennessee, where he remained until he was an old man. He and his family were members of the old Providence Presbyterian Church in Bedford County. It is from those church records that we have the date of Ann's death in April, 1833, there in Bedford County. In 1848, old and widowed, he moved with his son William Stewart Carothers, Stewart's wife Jane Hastings, and their children, to McNairy County. He was alive for the 1850 census, which lists him as 80 years old, Blind, and born in Virginia. This was the last surviving record of him. He died sometime between the 1850 and 1860 censuses, and was buried at Mars Hill cemetery. A small marker was placed on his grave perhaps a hundred years later, by his grandchildren, but was destroyed in the aftermath of a tornado some years ago. --Dell Carothers 10 February, 2017.

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