U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Carroll, Sanford Bartlett (b. 1814) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Pages 509-511 The name of Carroll has long had a prominent association with the history of this town, though few members of the family yet remain here. Sanford Bartlett Carroll was one of the early pedagogues of the town. He was born in Harrison county, on January 27, 1814, but with his parents removed to Doddridge county in his youth, or in his early manhood. He married Miss Mary Flint, who was born at Hartford, Vermont on July 13, 1825, and who with her parents resided in Wood county at the time of her marriage. She was a school-teacher, also, and while thus engaged in Ritchie county she met Mr. Carroll and on Sunday, September 28, 1845, they were married at the home of James Terry, by the late Rev. James L. Clarke. Mr. Carroll at that time owned a farm on Arnold's creek in Doddridge county, and there the first few years of their married life were spent; and from there they removed to Cairo in the early fifties: and, here, he passed from earth at a ripe old age. Mrs. Carroll survived until August 11, 1907, when the lamp of her life went out at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Haddox, at Moundsville. Both sleep at Cairo. They were the parents of the following named children: Lydia, the eldest, died at the age of two years. Chapman married Miss Jennie Merchant, and died a number of years ago leaving two children: George F. resides at Fairmont. Caroline is the wife of the Rev. W. A. Echols, of the Presbyterian church of Ohio: Sanford B., junior, died in 1898, and Charles, too, has passed on; Ellen is the widow of the late C. E. Haddox, of Moundsville; and Emma is Mrs. Stonewall Taylor, of Parkersburg. The Carrolls are of Irish descent and they probably first settled in the Maryland colony upon their arrival in America. Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, who died at Baltimore on November 14, 1832, was born at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1737. And his Cousin, John Carroll, was the first Roman Catholic Bishop in the United States. He too, was a native of Maryland, and doubtless belongs to this same family. William Carroll, the father of Sanford B. Carroll, and his wife Lucinda Mott Carroll, were both natives of the "Old Dominion" and there they grew to maturity and married; and from there they emigrated to what is now Harrison county where the most of their family were born. They died at Cairo at the home of their son, he, on August 15, 1864, at the age of eighty-three; and she, on December 15, 1876, aged eighty-five years. Both sleep at Cairo. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------