----- Original Message ----- From: "James/Cora Carroll" <JCARROLL13@woh.rr.com> To: <tncampbe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE] TNCAMPBE Felding Lowe > Dear Gerald, thank you for the information on Elihuew Carroll. Yes, most > of > the Carrolls of Sarah and Morton,Sr Carroll were born there and later they > moved to Habersham. Elihuew's brother named James C born in 1857 on > Stinking > Creek like Morton and Mourning are buried in Hall Cemetery. James C. is my > husband's Grandfather. He married Jane York and had 4 girls and died unk > and > then married Morning Branham in 1885; and had 5 > boys-Wm,Lewis,Horace,George > and Floyd. Floyd is my husband's father.We are wondering if the volumes of > "Cemeteries and Tombstone Inscriptions From Campbell CountyTennessee by > Paula Gammell and Edith W. Hutton" are still published and if so where > might > we purchase it and how much? I have a book by Edith W. Hutton with some > cemeteries of Campbell County and wonder if it might be an older edition? > You have been such a big help!!! Thanks and keep up the good work! > Sincerely, Cora Carroll jcarroll13@woh.rr.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elizabeth Smiddy" <ebsmiddy@hotmail.com> > To: <tncampbe@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 11:21 PM > Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE] TNCAMPBE Felding Lowe > > >> Dear Gerald: >> >> There is an Elihew Carroll buried there. Dates on old >> fieldstone: >> 17 Feb. 1862--17 Sept. 1883. According to the 4th Volume of "Cemeteries >> and >> Tombstone Inscriptions From Campbell County Tennessee" Compiled by Paula >> Gammell and Edith W. Hutton, and I quote "On 15 June 1867 Fielding Low >> sold >> to Parley and Becky Low (his daughters, my note), 100 acres, and Elias >> Low >> (who was his son, also my note), 200 acres. Witness to each of these >> three >> transactions were Elcana Ayers and Morton Carroll. These deeds were not >> recorded at the time of sale. The sale to Parley Low was recorded July >> 1886; sale to Elias Low, Feb. 1874." end quote. >> >> Elcana "Cain" Ayers was our gr.grandmother, Sarah "Sally" Ayers >> Smiddy's Uncle. Brother to her father, John Ayers who married Elizabeth >> "Betty" Snodderly Ayers. Parley Lowe married Mamaw Sally Ayers Smiddy's >> brother, Jackie John Ayers. It gets more tangled as it goes, so I won't >> go >> into it here, but here is another quote that might help from the book: >> "Elihew Carroll appears to be the son of Morton (or Martin) and Morning >> Wilburn Carroll. Morton and Morning are buried at the Hall Cemetery." >> end >> quote. >> >> There has been a house built above the cemetery in the past few >> years, and the drive cuts almost through the middle of the cemetery. A >> logging road was cut through it before that, and destroyed and moved >> around >> many stones. Several were completely broken by trees falling on them. >> The >> persons who did that will remain nameless here, but the house road does >> cut >> right through the middle of the old cemetery, although it probably didn't >> do >> any more damage than was already done by the dozers and logging equipment >> years before. To get there, we used to climb the mountain up an old >> water >> cut, full of rocks, which did turn into an almost waterfall in rainy >> weather. Now, all you have to do is walk up the driveway toward the >> house >> and go either left or right before reaching the house. The drive splits >> the >> cemetery. The part where the rock cairn is, and most of the stones that >> are still legible, is on the right side going up. Best time to go is >> after the leaves and underbrush die down in the late fall or early >> winter. >> It is abandoned, grown up in forest ,and crawling with snakes. The >> stones >> are all hand-carved fieldstones, and very hard to find, since a lot are >> lying on the ground under leaves, and a lot are broken. Our 4X >> grandfather, >> Jonathan Branam's stone has a tree that has partially grown around it. >> His >> wife, Sarah Lowe Branam, also a daughter of Fielding Lowe, is buried over >> on >> Hickory Creek, in the old Ayers Cemetery (not to be confused with the Hen >> Ayers Cemetery on Stinking Creek Rd.), at the very back. That cemetery >> is >> also virtually abandoned. We try to cut some of the tangle out to >> decorate >> she and our 2X gr.grandfather, Granville Walker Braden's graves, but it >> is >> almost a lost cause without more help. >> >> Libby >> >> >> >> Gerald Lay" <slim@jellico.com> >> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 9:07 PM >> To: <tncampbe@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE] TNCAMPBE Felding Lowe >> >>> Cora, >>> >>> Sorry but I can not tell you the names of the Carroll family that is >>> buried there. >>> >>> Libby Smiddy do you have any info in this respect? >>> >>> >>> Gerald Lay >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: James/Cora Carroll >>> To: tncampbe@rootsweb.com >>> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:18 PM >>> Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE] TNCAMPBE Felding Lowe >>> >>> >>> Hi Gerald, in this cemetery you speak of can you tell me the Carroll >>> kinfolk >>> who are buried there? I know that Sarah Bowman Carroll Lowe is buried >>> close >>> to Fielding Lowe. I am curious as to anyother Carrolls who might be >>> there. I >>> am looking particularly for Morton Carroll,Senior. He passed away just >>> around 1840. He supposedly died in Anderson County,Tenn-much confusion >>> lurks >>> about his burial. Many thanks for past information. Regards, Cora >>> Carroll >>> jcarroll13@woh.rr.com >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> TNCAMPBE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNCAMPBE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNCAMPBE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >