May
1996 / Carroll Chronicles / Volume 1
PULITZER PRIZE -
SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Charles Henry Porter,
IV
Charles works in the Liberty
Bank in Oklahoma City. He was on the 8th floor of the
Liberty Bank when a terrorist exploded the bomb that
destroyed the Alfred E. Murray building in Oklahoma City
on April 19, 1995. The blast knocked Charles off his
feet, yet it did not injure him. Realizing that a major
catastrophe had occurred, he raced to his car for his
camera and went down to the street. Arriving there within
about 5 to 7 minutes after the explosion, he began taking
pictures. His photograph of a fireman carrying Bailey
Almond, one of the children killed in the explosion, was
published around the world. In April 1996, Charles
received the distinguished Pulitzer Prize for Spot News
Photography.
Charles is the
great-grandson of Nora Gertrude Carroll, grandson of
Geraldine Gray Flagler, son of Connie Porter. Geraldine
told me of Charles’ experience at our last reunion;
I was so thrilled to read of his award in USA Today at
the announcement of Pulitzer winners in April.
June 8, 1996
Don’t fail to attend the
upcoming Carroll Reunion at the Drumright Senior
Citizen’s building in Drumright, Oklahoma. See you
there!
Family History
Nathan Carroll, son of David
Carroll of North Carolina, was born in Greenbrier County,
Virginia, September 17, 1777. He had one brother and a
sister. His mother died when he was quite young, and his
father remarried. There may have been children of the
second marriage. Nathan, however, left home at the age of
sixteen and went to sea. Some years later he returned,
and went to Kentucky, and then to Indiana. On April 27,
1833 he married Mary A. Bonny, who died in 1874. Nathan
died June 4, 1870, age 93 years. Nathan and Mary Carroll
were the parents of six children - Moses, Malinda
Margaret, Eliza Jane, Joseph Martin, Nathan, and Polly
Ann.
Little is known of the children,
with the exception of Joseph and Nathan. Joseph was born
January 8, 1832 in Clark Co., Indiana. He died July 16,
1889 in Carroll Co., MO. On April 20, 1856 he married
Martha Jane Biggs, daughter of Samuel and Catherine
Walker Biggs. Martha was born April 13, 1835, and died
October 27, 1892 in Carroll Co., MO. Joseph and Martha
were buried in Old Mount Carmel Cemetery in Carroll Co.
They were the parents of nine children all born in
Indiana. The two oldest children, Charles Carrollton
Carroll and William Martin Carroll, who died in infancy,
were buried near Henryville, Indiana. In Indiana Joseph
was a Hoosier Schoolmaster, farming in season and
teaching school during the winter months.
Nathan, Joseph’s
brother, was born in Indiana in 1835. As a young man, he
married Susan C. Sullivan, who was born in 1837. Susan,
though reported by one family historian as dying in 1857,
must have lived for a number of years beyond that. One
son, Henry Hamilton, though not very communicative about
his parents to his children, did reveal that his
mother’s name was Susan. Henry was born in 1868, so
we feel confident that the earlier report was not
accurate. It is said, however, that after Susan died,
Nathan remarried a woman named Martha Hudson.
The 1860 Federal Census in
Southern Indiana lists the free inhabitants in Monroe
Township in the County of Clark, State of Indiana
enumerated on the 12th day of July 1860, Post Office -
Henryville. The enumerator listed, in dwelling houses
numbered in the order of visitation, the following
individuals: Nathan Carroll, age 86, Mary Carroll, age
65, and Eliza Jane Carroll, age 26. In the following
household: J.M. Carroll, age 29; Martha, age 26, and
Martha, a baby of four months. The next household: Nathan
Carroll, age 25; Susan Carroll, age 23, and Mary, 2 years
old.
Family tradition says that Joseph,
his brother, Nathan, and their families left Indiana with
two covered wagons and extra horses for Missouri in 1879.
They crossed the Mississippi River on the ice on November
21, 1879. They arrived at Miami Station in Carroll Co.,
Mo. in December. In the spring of 1880 they traveled on
to Baum’s Mill located on Big Creek. The mill
rebuilt in 1869 was owned by Joseph Baum and Charlie Steinestsky. The settlement included a store, post
office, blacksmith shop, and the mill. Joseph and his
family remained in the area. In 1901, Nathan and his
family moved on to Oklahoma.
Thus the families of Joseph Martin
Carroll and Nathan Carroll were separated. And although
there may have been a few contacts between family members
for a number of years following, the family connection
was broken. In the spring of 1995, that’s over 90
years later, Ernest J. "Nibbs" Carroll of
Oklahoma City, great grandson of Nathan Carroll, made
contact with the Carroll County, Missouri Carrolls. Much
of the information provided here regarding the
descendants of Joseph Martin Carroll, even the
information regarding Nathan Carroll of Greenbrier
County, Virginia, son of David Carroll of North Carolina,
came from them.
In the years after all the
children of Nathan and Susan had passed on, the Oklahoma
Carrolls had grown apart as large families often do in
our twentieth century culture. In 1994, the descendants
of Nathan and Susan Carroll, mostly born or raised in
Oklahoma, began to renew acquaintances. That spring a
Carroll reunion was announced in Drumright, Oklahoma.
Attending were over fifty descendants of the three known
sons of Nathan and Susan: George, John, and Henry (Ham).
Family History
Researchers
James Hamilton
"Jimmy" Carroll
Carolyn Jane Carroll Williams
Ernest J. "Nibbs"
Carroll
Barbara Sue Haley Holland
These individuals are
interested in gathering available evidence to
document our lineage. If you have information in
the form of pictures, documents, newspaper
articles, or memories, these folks would like to
hear from you.
In Memoriam:
Sylvia
Whitehead Campbell
Sylvia Whitehead Campbell, 90, a long-time former
resident of Drumright, Oklahoma, died Thursday, February
1, 1996, in Georgetown. She had moved to Georgetown 15
months ago to be with her daughter.
Services were at 10 a.m.,
Tuesday, February 6, in Michael's Funeral Home Memorial
Chapel with the Reverend Jeff Connett officiating. Burial
was in Drumright North Cemetery.
Mrs. Campbell was born June
26, 1905, to the late Henry Hamilton and Eliza Jane
(Rorabaugh) Carroll in Indian Territory, which later
became Drumright. She attended the Tiger School in
Drumright and was a member of the First Assembly of God
church. she was also a member of Pitheon Sisters, the
Pleasant Hill Birthday Club, and the Womans Missionary
Union.
She was married to T.H.
Tippit in Winfield, Kansas, on September 1, 1920, and
they remained together until his death on October 3,
1961. She later married Earl Whitehead on July 21, 1969,
and he passed away on April 21, 1971. After his death,
she married Monte Campbell in January 1982, who preceded
her in death on April 19, 1988. She also was preceded by
five brothers and six sisters.
Survivors are her son and
daughter-in-law, Ralph E. and June Tippit of Spring;
three daughters and husbands, Dortha and Venson Doyal of
Guymon, Oklahoma, Ruth and Lee Branstetter of Georgetown,
Shirley and Lloyd Matthews of Tulsa, Oklahoma; five
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; one brother,
Woodrow W. Carroll of Stroud, Oklahoma; and several other
relatives and many friends.
Funeral arrangements were
entrusted to Michael's Funeral Home of Drumright, and the
local arrangements were by the Gabriels Funeral Chapel.
OBITUARY FROM LOCAL
NEWSPAPER, GEORGETOWN, TEXAS.
Services Held for
Carroll
Clyde Carroll, 75, of Perryton died April 7, 1996.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday, April 10, at First Christian Church with Rev.
Roy King, pastor, and Rev. Todd Dyess, pastor of First
United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in
Ochiltree Cemetery under the direction of Boxwell
Brothers.
He was born Oct. 3, 1920 in
Drumright, OK, and had lived in Perryton since 1977,
moving here from Balko, OK. He married Emma Fae Bull on
Aug. 29, 1940 in Perryton.
He attended Spartan School
of Aeronautics in Tulsa, OK, and was a member of First
Christian Church. He was a farmer.
He is survived by his wife, Emma Fae, of Perryton; two sons, Harold Carroll of Burlington,
CO and Dennis Carroll of Perryton; two sisters, Alma
Shropshire of Drumright and Pauline Lawrence of Tulsa,
OK; and six grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to
the Perryton Senior Citizen Center.
OBITUARY FROM LOCAL NEWSPAPER, PERRYTON,
TEXAS.
Miscellaneous
New Arrival: Emily Anne Cherry
Born May 7, 1996, she’s one of our newest family
members! Congratulations to the proud parents: Steve and
Jill (Carroll) Cherry.
Sarah Elizabeth Carroll was named
Salutatorian of her graduating class at Hunters Lane High
School, Goodlettsville, TN. Sarah completed her studies
with a 97.5 grade point average. Sarah has been accepted
at Oral Roberts University and will begin her freshman
year there this fall.
(These above are my girls.
I’m proud of all three of them!!! And my son-in-law
as well. JHC)
Wanted: A descendant of
George Carroll for collaberation on completing that
branch of the "family" tree?
Does anyone remember Aunt Mae's
birthdate? Jan ? 19?? Where born ? Marriage date to Uncle
Bryan?
I use FAMILY TREE MAKER , a
Windows-based computer program, to keep my family history
data. By entering the data only once, I'm able to
minimize the errors made in copying. FTM for Windows
sells for from $45-$65 depending on the version
purchased. I have over 1,600 names in my database (not
all Carrolls). FTM can output data in GEDCOM format for
exchange with other genealogy programs.
Allied
Family: Rorabaugh
In 1888 Ham Carroll married Nancy J. Rorabaugh. After her
death in 1903, he married Nancy's sister, Eliza Jane .
Last summer, while on a business trip in Oklahoma City, I
chanced to meet Berniece Thompson of Bristow, OK. She is
the wife of Bobby Thompson, a grandson of Nancy and
Eliza’s sister: Anna Carlotta Rorabaugh. Berniece
has done extensive research on the Rorabaugh family.
Those who have access to it love
to get e-mail. It’s fun and convenient for writing
short messages. If you have an e-mail address, I’d
like to publish it in the next newsletter, along with
telephone numbers.
Thanks for taking the time to read
this. Hope you have enjoyed this first Chronicle. If you
don't want to receive it in the future, please say so. If
you did like it, please consider sending me some family
news for the next issue. God bless each of you.
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