CARROLL, James H.

  General Notes:

Photo: The monument for James H. and Sophia Jane (Allum) Carroll is at Enon Cemetery, Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Here we see the inscription for James that reads,

JAMES H. CARROLL
DIED
SEPT 1, 1888
AGED
45 YRS 10 MS
23 DAYS

Wife Sophia Jane (Allum) Carroll's inscription is on another side of the monument.

Seen to the left ... in the background ... is the tall, substantial stone for James "Jimmy" Allum and his wife, Rebecca Sermon. "Jimmy," son of Charles W. Allum and Jemima Barnhart, and Sophia Jane Allum (wife of James H. Carroll and daughter of Jonathan Allum and Ellisabeth Supler) were first cousins once removed.


Photo taken by Lou Emeterio, gifted to ALLUM in 2008



1842 BIRTH of James H. Carroll

James' date of birth of "October 9, 1842" is calculated from his age at death on his tombstone: "45 years 10 months 23 days"

James' year of death in the Dorothy Hennen cemetery book that includes Richhill Township (Volume 11) is provided as 1882, which would calculate to his birth in 1836. However, throughout their census years together, James' age and that of his wife Sophia are virtually the same or one year apart. She was born in 1842.

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, Morris Township (September 25) ("James," age 8, with parents) ("Carrol" in some census indexes)

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, East Finley Township, P. O. East Finley (June 29) ("James," age 18, with parents)

1865 MARRIAGE of James H. Carroll and Sophia Jane Allum on January 5 in Greene County, Pennsylvania by Rev. George Loar


See "Sophia Jane Allum" for additional information

James married Sophia Jane ALLUM, daughter of Jonathan ALLUM and Ellisabeth SUPLER, on January 5, 1865 in Greene County, Pennsylvania. (Sophia Jane ALLUM was born on February 2, 1842 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, died on December 6, 1904 in East Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania and was buried on December 8, 1904 in Enon Cemetery, Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.)