5. | Martha Smith Whitsett was born on 26 Aug 1828 in Tennessee (daughter of Rev. James Menees Whitsett and Martha Smith Anthony); died on 27 Mar 1856 in Franklin, Williamson Co, Tennessee; was buried in Robert Carothers Cem, Franklin, Williamson Co, Tennessee. Notes:
Dr. William Heth Whitsitt, Annals of a Scotch-Irish Family -- The Whitsitts of Nashville, Tenn, American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Jan., July, Oct., 1904, page 245:
Dr. Whitsitt records that Martha Whitsitt married William Carothers of Williamson County and had two sons, James Robert and William Whitsitt Carothers. "Of these, the elder married his cousin, Pallie Jordan, and they had two sons, William and Robert. The latter was killed by being thrown from a horse in the year 1897. James Robert Carothers is dead, and his widow, with her surviving son, William, is residing at the old James Whitsitt homestead, north of Mill Creek Church.
William Whitsitt Carothers, the youngest brother of James Robert, married a Miss Turner, and they had ten children...He was murdered some years since by an unknown man, whom he permitted to ride with him at night in his wagon on Nolensville Pike."
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Died:
"Martha Jr., died at the age of 28 and even at that young age outlived her husband by 6-7 yrs. He was about 10 yrs her senior, but still died very young. I am assuming that Martha Sr and Robert Carothers raised their orphaned grandchildren."
Priscilla M Thomas Bruce
Children:
- Mary E. Carothers was born on 19 Feb 1843 in Williamson Co, Tennessee; died in 1843 in Williamson Co, Tennessee; was buried in Robert Carothers Cem, Franklin, Williamson Co, Tennessee.
- James Robert Carothers was born on 16 Dec 1846 in Franklin, Williamson Co, Tennessee; died on 24 Oct 1878 in Williamson Co,Tennessee; was buried in Robert Carothers Cem, Cool Springs, Williamson Co, Tennessee.
- 2. William Henry Carothers was born on 30 Sep 1848 in Nolensville, Williamson Co, Tennessee; died on 23 Sep 1890 in Nolensville, Williamson Co, Tennessee.
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