A John McCarroll died in Spartanbury County, North Carolina on March 5, 1800. His Will contained the names of three sons: Nathaniel, John, and Thomas; and two daughters: Genrot and Ruth. It also appears that this John was the son of Nathaniel McCarroll who died in Surry County, North Carolina in 1779. His Will shows a wife Elizabeth; two sons, Thomas and John; and one daughter, Mary.

Nathaniel McCarroll was born in Surry County, North Carolina on September 27, 1765, and died in Lawrence County, Arkansas in early 1835. He was married in Spartenburg County, South Carolina in the mid-1790s to Martha who was born in South Carolina in about 1765. Both died prior to April 6, 1835. Nathaniel was called to served in the Revoluntary War in 1781 while living in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. After the war, he remained there until 1807 when he moved his family to Caldwell County, Kentucky. He remained in Kenturky until 1815, before coming to Arkansas.

The first Arkansas Tax List of 1819 to 1829 names Nathaniel McCarroll as a property owner on Cooper's Creek about two miles south of Smithville, Arkansas on what was later known as the J. N. Hillhouse place. Nathaniel's farm was about three miles north of the famed "Old Taylor Mill" which was built on the Strawberry River about five miles south of Smithville. Nathaniel and Martha McCarroll are thought to be buried in the Hillhouse Cemetery.

NathanielÂ’s children were: Thomas born 1795 South Carolina died 1844 Arkansas; James born 1797 South Carolina died 1872 Arkansas; Elizabeth born 1799 South Carolina died 1853 Arkansas; John born 1800 South Carolina died 1825 Arkansas; Martha born 1812 Kentucky died 1890 Arkansas.

John McCarroll was born in Surry County, North Carolina in about 1770, and died in Lawrence County in Arkansas Territory between July 29, 1833, and the end of that year. He was married in Spartanburg County, South Carolina in the early 1790s and had three young sons when his wife died in Spartanbury County or in Caldwell County, Kentucky between 1800 and 1815. He married again in Spartanburg County, North Carolina or Caldwell County, Kentucky before 1817 to Nancy, born in South Carolina in 1793. John and Nancy moved to Lawrence County in Arkansas Territory between 1818 and 1820, settling in the Spring River area, north of where Nathaniel had settled a few years earlier. This part of Lawrence County later became Randolph County.

JohnÂ’s children were: William born 1791 South Carolina; Nathaniel W. born 1793 South Carolina died 1843 Arkansas ; John M born 1795 South Carolina died 1844 Arkansas; James born 1817 Kentucky died 1877 Arkansas; Martha born 1821 Arkansas died before 1860 Arkansas; Mariah born 1823 Arkansas died 1857 Arkansas; Jane born 1825 Arkansas died before 1860 Arkansas; Esther born 1827 Arkansas; Margaret born 1829 Arkansas.

More information can be found in "The Descendants of Nathaniel and John McCarroll" written by the late John Richard McCarroll of Waco, Texas.