He was a sgt. in Company H 2nd Miss. Infantry, CSA Army of 10,000. Information sent by Art (Bud) Anderson, his website, prepared by Vance G. Wingfield, 2912 Owenwood Dr., Ft. Worth, TX 76109-1613
Richmond Carroll, by David N. Stickland (195)
Richmond Carroll was the son of a revolutionary war vet. He was born in NC in 1784 and spent the rest of his life moving steadily but slowly west. He first came to Freestone Co., (TX) in the late 1850's and remained until his death in 1868. He is buried in an unmarked grave in the Cotten Gin Cem.
Richmond and his wife, Sally Driver, were the parents of 13 children: John, Washington, Martha, Betsy, Mahala, George, Jane, Alabama, Frank, Allen, Evan, Sarah and Harvey. Only the oldest, John Carroll, lived with his father in Freestone Co., TX, the others settled at Way Stations in Hancock Co, GA, Salisbury, TN, Vicksburg, MS and Union Parish, Louisiana. One of Frank Carroll's descendants, sponsored a Carroll family reunion in Spearsville, Louisiana in 1967 that was attened by over 500 people.
John D. Carroll was a blacksmith and farmer. He and his wife, Julia Steadman, were the parents of Steadman D., Mary Pulman, Martha, Thomas and Sarah Carroll. Sarah married James Yankie in 1873 in Fairfield and soon left the county. Thomas died young. Martha married Benjamin Echols and they farmed in the county until the turn of the century. Mary "Molly" married Franklin Grover. They were farmers and the Connell family in Limestone Co. are their descendants.
Steadman Carroll attended Tulane Medical School in the late 1850's and served in the Confederate Army during the duration of the Civil War. He was assigned to Lee's headquarters for a short time as a Physician and often told the story of being with Gen. A. S. Johnson when the General was mistakenly shot by his own troops. After the war, Steadman rode the train to Houston, at that time the last point west and walked to Fairfield to join his father and grandfather in Freestone Co., TX. He soon married Ginnie Echols, daughter of Chamness Terry Echols and began practicing medicine near the Luna Community. Chamness Echos was a farmer and Baptist preacher. He had come to Freestone County prior to 1860 and setteld south of present Teague. He helped found the Salem Baptist Church and donated the land on which the present cemetery now sits. Steadman Carroll's picture is now in the Teague Museaum along with a brief history of his life written by his grand daughters, Helen Hunt and Walda Mae Morris of Waco.
Steadman and Ginney had 10 children: Charles, Julia, Martha, Julias. Warren, Terry, Evan, Daisy, Mamie, and Viola. One by one they married and moved away. Finally in teh Fall of 1903, Steadman Carroll moved too. He had just established his practice at Dundee, Texas at the time of his death on Dec. 31, 1903. He was the last of the Carroll family to reside in Freestone Counmty, TX.
Charles and Julia settled near Waco, Julias and Terry settled near Dallas. Warren and Mamie went to Camanche County. Warren was the County Jailer and until her marriage to Moses Srickland in 1910, Maimie lived at the jail with her brother. He often teassed about courting his wife at the jail.
Changed the spelling of his name to Yarboro.
Changed the spelling of his name to Yarboro.