The
Carrigans
by Lenora Routon Cross 1945
Transferred to
digital form October 10, 1998
Contents
Family Tree: Moores & Carrigans
Family Tree: Carrigans 1716 - 1900
Family Tree: Carrigans and Descendents:
1900-1998
Excerpt from History of the Southwest Trail
1755, The Carrigans, Ireland, the
Revolutionary War
1717, The Holts, Germany, Black Michael
1827, William Carrigan marries Nancy Holt
1852, Alfred Settles in Washington, Arkansas
1853, Stephen Moore Arrives in Washington
1854, William Buys a Farm of His Own
1856, Robert Carrigan Arrives in Arkansas
1857, Picking Cotton, A New Burying Ground
1858, A Steamboat Trip to New Orleans
1861, Hempstead Cavalry, First Family
Casualty: John
1861, All the Carrigan Boys in the CSA
1862, War Shortages, Wounded, Vicksburg,
Hardship
1863, Union Troops Fire on Washington,
Carrigans Board Soldiers
1864, William Dies, Skirmishes
1864, Third Son -- James -- Dies
1865, Lee Surrenders, Slaves Freed
Foreword
This narrative is the true story of the Carrigan family and the founding of the Carrigan homes in Arkansas.
Three
members of the family -- Bettie Moore Carrigan, William M. Carrigan and Robert A. Carrigan, kept remarkable diaries. It is
from their Journals that most of the incidents are taken.
This
story was written in the hope that it would bind together the incidents of the
three diaries and prevent their stories from being lost to future generations
of the family. There is no fiction here; most of the facts came directly from
the diaries, the background information from old clippings, histories and the
personal memories of members of the family.
I am indebted to my mother, Lillian Carrigan Routon, who did the arduous "spadework" by copying in longhand most of the three Journals to keep them for her children and thus aroused my interest in them, and to Dr. Pinckney B. Carrigan who graciously loaned me the William M. Carrigan and Bettie