My line starts with William born about 1791 in NC (although I think it may have been what is now Dekalb Co, TN now since that section was originally NC). - he married Rachell Suzanne (unknown last name). William & Rachell had Joshia, James C., Mary, David, Jackson, Rebecca, Samuel, Henry, Braxton, William Carroll (my direct), & Robert C. It appears that Williams' family was pretty well divided during the Civil War -- some fought for the Union and some for the Confederates. I know my William Carroll (went by Carroll on some reports) moved to Texas (probably before the Civil War). He and his wife, Emaline Simms were on the TN Census for 1850. He enlisted in Terrell's Texas Cavalry in I believe 1862. At any rate he fought for the Confederates in Texas and applied for pension in Kaufman, TX in 1865. All Carroll's children were born in the 1850s in TN, with the exception of my ggrandfather, Thomas Jefferson who wasborn 4/15/1868 in TX. We don't know when Carroll died. Our family was told that he died in an Indian Massacre around Carthage (not sure which state)- actually they said when he was moving his family from TN to TX in a wagon train, but that's hard to figure out. Unless he left his family in TN while he fought in TX in the Civil War and moved them later, but there is still the fact that Thomas was born in TX in April of 1868. There is a small window of time that the Indian raid story could have worked because of Thomas's birth. We do know William and his wife died when Thomas was a child because he was adopted by a Clark family in Van, Texas. Tom either refused to take the Clark name or as an adult changed his name back to Malone, and giving up a nice inheritance. He said he was born a Malone and he would die a Malone. Three of Tom's brothers lived and died in Texas: William Wiley in Myrtle Springs, TX, John W in Mineral Wells, TX and James Buchannan in Wills Point, Texas.