MARRIAGE:Dodd, Jordan R.;Arkansas marriages;early to 1850, a research
tool;Bountiful, UT;Precision Indexing;1990;Call# US/CAN 976.7 V22am.BIRTH-DEATH:Cemeteries of Washington County, Arkansas;Fayetteville, Ark.;
Washington Co. Hist. Soc.;vol. 1;Call# US/CAN 976.714 V22ws.In GOODSPEED'S BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF NW ARKANSAS (1889 ed.), his
birthplace is listed as South Carolina & the year was 1794.
MARRIAGE:Dodd, Jordan R.;Arkansas marriages;early to 1850, a research
tool;Bountiful, UT;Precision Indexing;1990;Call# US/CAN 976.7 V22am.BIRTH-DEATH:Cemetery records of Washington County, Arkansas;Fayetteville,
Ark.;Washington County Historical Society;Call# US/CAN 976.714 V22w;Dates
given are 6 Feb 1795 and 3 May 1870.
He died without issue.
"James Carnahan died without issue. When the U.S. Government moved the Seminole Indians from Florida to their present home in Indian Territory, James Carnahan and James White took their teams and went to Des Arc on the White River to help move them to Ft. Gibson. James Carnahan had the honor of conveying 'Wild Cat,' the chief and successor to Osceola who was a prisoner in the east. James remained several days among them after their arrival. In this time scouts returned and reported 'enemies.' James attended the war council, heard Wild Cat harangue his followers, saw them paint and hold the war dance and give the war whoop. He afterward said the scene and the noise of the war whoop seemed to make the hair of his head stand, and to chill the blood in his veins.
"In 1849, James and John Carnahan, Rankin and Porter Pyeatt, and many other citizens of Cane Hill joined a wagon train for California. They arrived at Sutter's Camp in September 1850. Three weeks later (Oct. 3, 1850), James sickened and died. It was said that he was the first white man to be buried there. Major William Quesenbury cut his name on a stone, which he placed at the head of the grave." - The Pyeatts and the Carnahans of Old Cane Hill, by Reverand Alfred E. Carnahan, page 21.Sutter's Camp may be either Sutter's Mill near Coloma in El Dorado County, or Sutter's Fort in Sacramento County, California.
He went to California in 1849 & never returned to Arkansas. When last heard
from, he was living near Eureka, Nevada in 1882."John Carnahan never came back to ARkansas. When last heard from (1882) he was living near Eureka, Nevada." - The Pyeatts and the Carnahans of Old Cane Hill, by Reverend Alfred E. Carnahan, page 22.
She was John's twin.
Age approximated from census records; 1880-- Denton, Denton Co., TX.