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CARROLL, Charles Thomas

City: Morristown

CARROLL, Charles Thomas, minister of the Gospel; born in Cabell Co., West Va., Feb. 27, 1842; son of Samuel and Lucinda (Swan) CARROLL; father’s occupation, farmer and teacher; paternal grandparents James Tillman and Sarah (Black) CARROLL, maternal grandfather Thomas SWAN; educated in High School of Cabell, West Va.; D.D. was conferred on him by Rutherford College, North Carolina, in 1875; in early life was a farmer boy, then entered the Confederate Army during Civil War; he preached to the soldiers, but was not commissioned Chaplain; was appointed Chaplain to the prison hospital while a prisoner of war, which was nearly two years; married Elizabeth Esther SHIELDS, Dec. 18, 1867; member of Masonic Lodge, Bristol, Va., and Councilor, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Democrat; member of M.E. Church, South, and Holston conference; was pastor of church in Knoxville, Tenn., immediately after close of war, then Bristol (now State St.); Chattanooga (now Centenary), Central church, Asheville, N.C., Morristown Sta., Broad St., Knoxville, Tenn.; twice Presiding Elder of Chattanooga and Morristown districts, four years in the Asheville District, N.C., and four years of the Knoxville district, and during the time served other appointments on circuits; he is now superannuated.

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