On Aug. 12, 1990, I published an article in The Jackson Sun which related historical information about land that was being developed into new subdivisions. In the article, I documented the following: "S. Caruthers is the name shown on the Southfork (name of the new subdivision) site on the 1877 landowners map. Until about 10 years ago an old house that was said to be a pre-Civil War house sat in the center of the beautiful pecan and cedar trees that Hickman (name of the developer) has managed to preserve. "This Caruthers was probably related to one of the founders of Jackson, James Caruthers. "'James Caruthers, one of the early surveyors and settlers, Dr. W.E. Butler, the father of Jackson, Robert J. Chester, Stokely D. Hays and Colonel Thomas Williamson, a senator from this district had all served under Jackson in the recent war against Britain (War of 1812),' wrote Emma Inman Williams, author of Historic Madison. "Since Robert J. Chester (known as Robert I. Chester) settled the area south of the South Fork of the Forked Deer River, owning the adjacent land to the S. Caruthers shown on the 1877 mpa, we can probably assume S. Caruthers was some kin to James." I also found out that "Miss Pearl Kirby, who lived in the old house untilher death in 1979, moved to th house with her father, Jim Kirby, in 1919. He died in 1924 and her aunt, Claudia Finch, lived with her until her death in 1944. With no descendents or relatives, Miss Pearl left her home and property to the American Red Cross at her death." I actually live about a half a mile from where this old house stood and I remember it being torn down (sometime before Hickman started in 1989 or 90 developing his new subdivision called Southfork). I had a Girl Scout troop that took food to Miss Pearl one Thanksgiving in the 1980s. The house was falling in at the front and she lived in one room in the back with at least 100 cats and no cat litter. Ha! You can imagine how it smelled. However, you could see that the house had at one time been a beautiful two-story mansion (mansion in terms of typical houses around here). Hope this helps your research in some way. Sorry that I was so long in getting back to you, but I had to dig to find copies or my newspaper articles from 1990. If you are a true genealogist, you will understand what I mean. You can obtain a copy of the 1877 property owners map on the Madison Co. Genweb site: http://www.tngenweb.org/madison/history/map-04e.jpg scroll over to the right and you will see S. Caruthers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ozark Backwoods" <ozarkbackwoods@hotmail.com> To: <TNMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:25 PM Subject: [TNMADISO] James Henry Carothers > I am looking for help and information about my 2nd Great Grandfather James > Henry Carothers. He was born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1832 and was said to > have lived in Tennessee from 1850 to 1873. He was married to Mary Susan > Neal in Arkansas sometime after that, and his children were Lemuel > Carothers, Joseph Roberta Carothers and Lucille Carothers-Jameson. > > Elderly family members have told me that he owned property in Nashville or > that his family did possibly before Nashville became a city. I would like > to find land records. He was said to also have lived in Western Tennessee > across the river from Caruthersville, Missouri on a plantation. He was a > schoolteacher and a carpenter and may have been educated at a University in > Tennessee. > > I would like to verify this information with school records, land records, > newspaper articles, etc. Also marriage records as I suspect he was married > in Tennessee before marrying Mary Susan Neal in Arkansas. > > Any help or information about James Henry Carothers would be greatly > appreciated. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Plan your next US getaway to one of the super destinations here. > http://special.msn.com/local/hotdestinations.armx > > > ==== TNMADISO Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Madison Co., TN list, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to TNMADISO-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest List > to TNMADISO-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >