Andrew CAROTHERS

  General Notes:

Both were natives of the Keystone State, and the former was born in 1783. At the age of nineteen he went to the South; and was engaged in teaching school among the planters in different States for seven years. Then returning home he was married, and in 1809 located in Ohio township, Beaver county, where he purchased 100 acres of land and carried on farming for a period of years, at the same time he conducted a hotel and taught school for ten years. Latter he was employed at school teaching in various places in Columbiana and Crawford counties, Ohio, following that pursuit until seventy-five years of age. His death occurred in 1878, and his wife died in Morrow county, Ohio, about 1873. The first two children of the family died in early childhood, and the others are W. R., Eliza Jane, wife of Andrew Morrison, of Tuscarawas county, Ohio; Jonathan who died at the age of twenty-two; Dr. James Henderson, of Martinez, Cal.; Samuel, who died young; and Dr. John, who died in California.

Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Whetstone, Crawford, Ohio; Roll: M432_671; Page: 26; Image: 344
Same Page Andrew Morrison and Eliza

1850 United States Federal Census
about Andrew Carothers
Name: Andrew Carothers
Age: 68
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1782
Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Whetstone, Crawford, Ohio
Household Members: Name Age
Andrew Carothers 68
Jane Carothers 66
Jno Carothers 20

Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: North Bloomfield, Morrow, Ohio; Roll: M653_1017; Page: 253; Image: 510; Family History Library Film: 805017.

Andrew married Jane FITZSIMMONS in 1809 in Pennsylvania. (Jane FITZSIMMONS was born in 1784 in Pennsylvania and died in 1873 in Morrow Co., Ohio.)