Rachel Samantha CARROLL^[1]

1846 - 1927  (81 years)

• Name	Rachel Samantha CARROLL  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Born	03 Jun 1846	Alabama, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9]
  Gender	Female
  ADOP	1877	Freestone County, Texas, USA
  		Adoption record for Samantha ANDERSON (nee CARROLL) and John + Nancy TIPPEN Know all men by these presents, that I Samantha Anderson for and in consideration as herein after set forth have this day given to John Tippen and Nancy Tippen - his wife, my three children names as follows: John. Mary and William and I hereby agree that the said John Tippen and wife shall have full control and management of said children as if they were their own, and to adopt them as their own if they see fit. Now the consideration of said gift is that the said John Tippen and wife agrees to take care of said children as they should be, and to see that they are properly brought up, and they agree to treat them as their own children, and also I not being able to take care of said children as they should will turn them over to the said John and Nancy Tippen that they may be properly cared for. Samantha Anderson Witnesses: C. Y. Mansing and R. T. Jones
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  ADOP	1880	Freestone County, Texas, USA
  		Adoption by Nancy TIPPEN (nee GORMAN) of Rachel Samantha ANDERSON (nee CARROL) children after the death of Nancy's husband, John TIPPEN Know all men by these presents, that I Nancy Tippen surviving widow of John Tippen deceased, and resident of said county and state, having no children or child of my own and being affectionately attached to Mary Ann, William and Rebecca Anderson and John Anderson, children of Samantha Anderson, also of said county and state, and alsining? to adopt said children of the said Samantha Anderson as my legal heirs, as it was the intention of my said husband John Tippen dead to have done for himself and jointly with myself adopting them as such, do therefore in accordance with the statute of said state in such case made and provided, here by this solemn act of writing for myself deliberately and firmly adopt the said Mary Ann Anderson, William Anderson and Rebecca Anderson and John Anderson as my true and lawful heirs and giving to them the name of myself and said deceased husband, to wit: Mary Ann Tippen, William Tippen, and Rebecca Tippen and John Tippen to have and to enjoy the right to assert all the rights, benefits, and privileges of legal heirs of myself both in love and equity, as fully, truly and perfectly in every respect, as if they were my own children and born unto my said deceased husband and myself during our marriage In testimony whereof I I have hereunto set my hand and seal using a ? for ? on this the 8th day of May 1880. Nancy Tippen
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  Died	12 Jun 1927	Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA   [3, 9]
  	Age: 81
  Buried	West, McLennan, Texas, USA   [9]
  Person ID	I60	Rosita's Family
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	James Humphus CARROLL,   b. Abt. 1792, Georgia, USA ,   d. Aft 1860  (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Nancy HARRISON,   b. Abt. 1811, North Carolina, USA
  Family ID	F633	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Andrew J. ANDERSON,   b. Abt. 1842, Alabama, USA ,   d. Texas, USA
  Children	1. Nancy Jane ANDERSON,   b. 16 Aug 1861, Alabama, USA ,   d. 02 Jul 1932, Mt. Calm, Hill, Texas, USA  (Age 70 years)   2. Alice ANDERSON,   b. Abt. 1866, Alabama, USA   3. John ANDERSON, Jr,   b. 23 January 1872,   d. 19 September 1876  (Age 4 years)
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F71	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Tippins or Tippens or LOPEZ
  Children	1. Beatrice or Biatrix or Biatriz LOPEZ,   b. Abt. 1872, Texas, USA
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F369	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	John A. TIPPEN,   b. 26 Nov 1825, Pendleton, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA ,   d. 05 Apr 1880, Upper Keechi Creek, Freestone, Texas, USA  (Age 54 years)
  Children	1. Rose or Rusia TIPPEN,   b. May 1874, Freestone County,Texas, USA ,   d. Abt. 1908, Texas, USA  (Age ~ 33 years)   2. William Thomas Anderson TIPPEN,   b. 29 Dec 1875, Texas, USA ,   d. 25 May 1958, Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas, USA  (Age 82 years) + 3. Marie or Mary Ann Carroll ANDERSON,   b. 02 Jan 1876, Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA ,   d. 02 Dec 1935, Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, USA  (Age 59 years)   4. Rebecca Anderson TIPPEN,   b. Abt. 1879, Texas, USA ,   d. 27 Feb 1958, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA  (Age ~ 79 years)   5. John W. Anderson TIPPEN,   b. 8 May 1880, Texas, USA ,   d. 15 April 1932, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F229	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 4	Angus FERGUSON,   b. Abt. 1843, Jones County, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 16 February 1924, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA  (Age ~ 81 years)
  Married	1884  [4]
  Children	1. Maud FERGUSON,   b. 1885, McLennan County, Texas, USA ,   d. 1955, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA  (Age 70 years)
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F668	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Wife of Angus Ferguson 1843-1924. Daughter of James H Carroll of GA & Nancy Harrison of SC. Angus Ferguson died in 1924 in the Confederate Home in Austin and is buried in the Confederate section of the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Rachel adopted out her children to John A C & Nancy Gorman Tippen around 1880 since she was unable to care for them. However she continued to live with the Tippen family and her children. She married Angus Ferguson in 1883 and they had a daughter Maud in 1885. Nancy Tippen is buried next to Rachel. http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ferguson&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1927&GSdyrel=in&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=17885391&df=all&

  
  

• Sources

  [S-449357937] The Waco News-Tribune at Newspapers.com, Found in The Waco News-Tribune in Waco, Texas on Mon, Jun 13, 1927. Rachel Samantha Carroll Ferguson Obituary. http://www.newspapers.com/clip/507568/rachel_samantha_carroll_ferguson?xid=637 [S-449534351] 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Year: 1860; Census Place: Corrs, Pickens, Alabama; Roll: M653_20; Page: 973; Image: 475; Family History Library Film: 803020. [S-449532241] Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S-478335831] 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1900; Census Place: West, McLennan, Texas; Roll: 1656; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1241656. Record for Michael Ferguson [S-449514151] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1880; Census Place: Freestone, Texas; Roll: 1304; Family History Film: 1255304; Page: 600A; Enumeration District: 057. [S-449488479] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1920; Census Place: Waco Ward 3, McLennan, Texas; Roll: T625_1830; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 119; Image: 1154. [S-449488386] 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1910; Census Place: Justice Precinct 3, McLennan, Texas; Roll: T624_1575; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0099; FHL microfilm: 1375588. [S-449488373] U.S. City Directories, 1822-1989, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S-453826864] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S-478333454] U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).