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Submitted: 4/7/19 • Approved: 4/8/19 • Last Updated: 4/11/19 • R191440-G0-S3
William Elias
Born: 1811
Died: 1873
Father of Thomas Carlton
Note:The early Carltons were in Virginia by 1642 in Albermarle County, until ten years before the Revolutionary War, when they moved to the newly opened area of North Carolina. They lived in Wilkes County, North Carolina for a time and then moved to Jackson County, Alabama, which was their home almost twenty years before moving to Texas in 1849.In 1849, William Elias Carlton, son of Henry Carlton and Prudence Brookshire and his son, William Hastings Carlton by his first wife, Mary Hastings, along with his new wife Callens Shumate and their baby, Amanda moved to Texas.
Other children born to this union included: John Wood, Margaret Elizabeth, and Thomas Christopher.
(History of Cass County People, By Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta, Texas)
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Contributed on 4/7/19 by gr2rumble
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