Athens Weekly Review
April 26, 1901

Another Pioneer Gone.

Died- At the residence of her son, E. A. Carroll in Athens, Sunday the 21st inst. at one o'clock in the 
morning Mrs. Emma D. Carroll. She was sixty-six years in December, last. Mrs. Carroll's maiden
name was Butcher. she was born in Kentucky, December 15, 1834. Her Mother who was then
a widow removed from Kentucky to Arkansas and in 1844 removed to Lamar county, Texas and
from there to Henderson county Texas in 1848 before Athens was founded, Old Buffalo then being
the county seat. She has resided since then near and in Athens until her death.

In 1852 she was married to Mr. E. A. Carroll, who was from North Carolina. Her husband died in
1880. She has had eight children, four sons and four daughters. Two sons and tow daughters
survive her, W. T. Carroll county clerk, E. A. Carroll, of the firm Miller, Carroll & Spencer, Mrs. C. F. 
Scott and Mrs. Maggie Spencer. It is a singular circumstance that before her death, the father, two
sons and two daughters had died the mother, two sons and two daughters were living. She was
a niece of Rev. W. B. Stirman of this county. She was a devoted and faithful member of the Christian
church, loved her religion and her God zealously.

She lived in Texas when it was a Republic and has seen it pass all the political revolutions it has 
experienced. Mrs. Carroll had suffered all the privations, hardships and dangers incident to pioneer
life. She was so accustomed to dangers in her early life from wild indians and savage beasts that
she knew no such feeling as fear. Notwithstanding her early life was spent in a frontier country,
yet she was a woman of vast information and her reading in history and current events was
extensive. She was perfectly familiar with English history and when Edward VII came to the throne
she could give the genealogy of his house.

She was known and loved by all for her kind and gentle treatment of everybody. She was on of
those grand women who are the mothers of the country and the honorable character and usefulness
of her children show she was a true mother and one whose children make the best men and women
of the country. She has suffered for years with spells of asthma, but none thought of her end being
so near. She was sick less than a week. She, as her habit nearly every Sunday, visited the grave
yard the Sunday before she died. It was a fitting thing that her burial occurred on Sunday. The 
services were held at the cemetery, conducted by Rev. L. D. Anderson, pastor of the Christian
church.

A landmark has gone, a good woman has departed, a faithful Christian has joined the band on
the other side, a wise and loving mother is taken from her children. She leaves them a shining
example of one faithful to every trust and station in life.

The REVIEW with her host of friends extends condolences to the bereaved.

Emma D. Butcher Carroll is buried in the Old Section of Athens City Cemetery.

1870 Henderson Co., TX: REEL NO: M593 PAGE NO: 33
household/dwelling #224/224 

CARROLL, Elias A 49 M W Hotel Keeper 3,000 1,113 SC 
CARROLL, Emma 36 F W Keeping House AR
CARROLL, William 12 M W At School TX 
CARROLL, Fannie 10 M W At School TX Census shows sex as M
CARROLL, Stonewall J 7 M W TX
CARROLL, Edward 5 M W TX
CARROLL, Maggie 2 F W TX

1880 Census page 104a Henderson Co., TX
27/36 
CARROLL, Elias W M 58 Farmer SC SC NC 
CARROLL, Emma W F 45 W Kp house MO KY KY 
CARROLL, William W M 23 S Dept. sheriff TX SC MO 
CARROLL, Stonewall W M 16 S TX SC MO 
CARROLL, Eddie W M 14 S At school TX SC MO 
CARROLL, Maggie W F 10 D At school TX SC MO