James Humphus CARROLL

Abt 1792 - Aft 1860  (~ 69 years)

• Name	James Humphus CARROLL  [1, 2]
  Born	Abt. 1792	Georgia, USA   [1, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Aft 1860
  Person ID	I55	Rosita's Family
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Unknown CARROLL
  Mother	Unknown UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F541	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Nancy HARRISON,   b. Abt. 1811, North Carolina, USA
  Children	1. Isaac Edward CARROLL,   b. Abt. 1839, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 4 February 1917  (Age ~ 78 years)   2. Madison H. CARROLL,   b. Abt. 1842, Alabama, USA + 3. Rachel Samantha CARROLL,   b. 03 Jun 1846, Alabama, USA ,   d. 12 Jun 1927, Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA  (Age 81 years)   4. Amanda G. CARROLL,   b. Abt. 1847, Alabama, USA ,   d. 24 Jun 1922, Denison, Grayson, Texas, USA  (Age ~ 75 years)   5. Pleasant C. CARROLL,   b. 19 Mar 1850, Alabama, USA ,   d. 21 Mar 1930, Kennedy, Lamar, Alabama  (Age 80 years)   6. Selina Hasseltine CARROLL,   b. Abt. 1852, Alabama, USA ,   d. Bet. 1920–1930, Texas, USA  (Age ~ 78 years)   7. John W. C. CARROLL,   b. Abt. 1855, Alabama, USA
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F633	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Nancy ASHCROFT
  Children	1. Lucinda CARROLL,   b. Abt 1826, Alabama, USA ,   d. 1867  (Age ~ 41 years)   2. James Monroe CARROLL,   b. 13 Jan 1826, Alabama, USA ,   d. 09 Dec 1902, Pickens County, Alabama, USA  (Age 76 years)   3. Mary CARROLL,   b. Abt 1830, Alabama, USA
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F490	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Family historians believe that the first Carroll to come to Pickens County was James Humphus Carroll, born in 1790. He left Gwinnett County, Georgia, and settled in Alabama before the birth of his son James Monroe Carroll in 1826. After his first wife died, he married a woman 21 years younger and fathered 11 more children, the ninth being Pleasant C. Carroll, born in 1850. We do not know if James Humphus was a fiddler but we know that most of his children played. Plez’s half-brother James Monroe Carroll had a fiddling daughter who moved with her second husband to Amarillo, Texas, where she was featured in the Amarillo News (9/21/48) on her 89th birthday. Eleanor (Ellen) Carroll Dollar told the reporter that she came from "a fiddle-playing family. I was raised on that kind of music. My father and all his brothers were famous fiddlers. . .that is all but one of the brothers, Uncle Isaac Carroll. Uncle Isaac couldn’t fiddle but he sure could dance. He was a slim kind of man and he used to say he didn’t have time to learn fiddling for he was too busy dancing." She continued, "Oh, I played the fiddle when I was young, played for many a dance . . . yes sir, many a dance . . . I guess I’ve had more fun and more trouble than any woman my age, but I’ve kicked trouble off every time I could." Ellen Dollar gave her reasons for a long and healthy life: (1) Smoking her pipe "whenever I feel like it…I like this Sir Walter tobacco," (2) Playing her fiddle "whenever I want to"; (3)Working hard "whenever I feel like it"; and (4)"Dancing by myself to radio tunes when they play a good break-down." Ellen’s Alabama kinfolks remember when she came home for a visit in the late 1930s and played her fiddle and danced for them.http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-7/7-8/legacy.html

  
  

• Sources

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