Hello, Lisa -
We are second cousins twice
removed (if my calculator is right). My grandfather
and your great-great grandfather were brothers; so our
common ancestor is my great-grandfather and your ggg-grandfather,
Nathan Carroll (and, of course, his wife Susan Sullivan).
I don't have a great deal on
my Carroll line; however, it is always good to hear from
relatives.
My Carroll line came from
West Virginia and were found in southern Indiana (Clark
County) in the mid-1800's. Later they moved to
Missouri (Carroll County), and before the turn of the 20th
century, my grandfather moved to Oklahoma, near Yale, then
Drumright, Oklahoma where he died in 1952. Your
great-great grandfather, John Wiley Carroll, was born
8/22/1861 in Ft. Wayne, Allen County, Indiana (per
daughter Stella). He married about 1886, Matilda
Carolyn Ryan. Looks like they had several children
born in Carrollton, Carroll County, Missouri. He
died 5/8/1947 and is buried in the same cemetery as my
grandfather, near Yale, Oklahoma. As I was looking
through my records, it looks like many of his children are
buried in California (around Porterville). There was
a lot of migration of the Carrolls to California; however,
most of my dad's immediate brothers and sisters stayed in
Oklahoma. Drumright is about 25 miles from Yale;
that's where I grew up and I still have a brother that
lives on the land my grandfather once owned there.
I've moved around some with
my job; so I'm now living in Goodlettsville, TN, near
Nashville.
I don't have a lot on your
grandmother, Florence Ellen Carroll - I show that she was
born June 16, 1896 in Carrollton, Mo; Died Feb 3, 1988 in
Chico, California. Most of what I have came from
another descendant of John Wiley Carroll, through a
brother of Florence Ellen - i.e. Charles Cambren Carroll.
She gave me a draft of a small book that was an output
from her genealogy program. There are what seem like
a lot of miscellaneous notes, but since I haven't studied
them in detail, I don't feel I know that much about your
grandmother and the Curtis link.
I have two or three
researchers listed on my website with their e-mail
addresses if you would like to follow with them.
Also, I have a picture of my grandfather's family, and
your great, great grandfather (John Wiley Carroll) is in
the picture. I have it digitized, so if you'd like
me to send it to you, I can.
Please visit my website for
a lots more information about me and my genealogy.
Thanks for writing.
James H. Carroll
