Person:John Carrothers (1)

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John Carrothers
b.1807 Ireland
  1. John Carrothers1807 - 1883
m. 1833
  1. George M. Carrothers1839 - 1922
Facts and Events
Name[1] John Carrothers
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1807 Ireland
Emigration[1] 1813 United StatesVessel wrecked; lost family belongings
Marriage 1833 Crawford, Ohio, United Statesto Elizabeth Laird
Emigration[1] Guernsey, Ohio, United States
Emigration[1] Crawford, Ohio, United States
Death[1] 1883 Crawford, Ohio, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Carrothers, George, in A Centennial biographical history of Hancock County, Ohio: embellished with portraits of many well known people of Hancock County, who have been or are prominent in its history and development. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Photocopied by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988)
    p 12, 1903.

    John Carrothers, son of the last mentioned, was born in North Ireland in 1807 and came to America with his parents in childhood, the vessel in which they sailed being wrecked and causing a loss of all the family belongings. They made their way to Guernsey county, Ohio, where the fa ther of our subject grew up and later made his way to Crawford county, where he died in 1883. In 1833 he was married to Elizabeth Laird, by whom he had eight children.