. His date of death is unclear, it is listed as Jan. 3, 1864, but his will was probated on July 4, 1863.
(1832-1868)
« return to database listWilliam M. Carrigan married Burwell School Student Ann Eliza Moore . His date of death is unclear, it is listed as Jan. 3, 1864, but his will was probated on July 4, 1863.
William M. Carrigan was the son of William Adams Carrigan. His father was born in Georgia in 1813 and eventually moved to Arkansas. William M. was attending the University of North Carolina in 1850 but apparently did not graduate. While he was a student, he boarded at Nancy Hilliard’s boarding house along with over 95 other young men.
William M. married Ann Moore in 1852. By 1860 they were living with Julia L Moore, Ann’s eleven-year-old sister, on a farm in Ozan, Hempstead County, Arkansas where William M. owned $5000 in real estate and $16,700 in personal property which included 13 slaves.
[His family were wealthy planters in Hempstead County. His father William A. owned $4000 worth of real estate and $40,000 worth of personal property there in 1860. His younger brother Robert Adams Carrigan was born in 1835, graduated from UNC in 1855, became a lawyer, fought for the Confederacy, survived the Civil War, and moved to Ozan. In 1870 he owned $10,000 in real estate and $8000 in personal property. He died in 1877. Another brother, John M., lived in Ozan in 1860 and owned $9000 in real estate and $13,000 in slaves. He died in 1861.]
When William died in 1863 or 1864, he left his estate including land and slaves to his father, his brothers Alfred, Robert, and James, his sister-in-law Julia, and the Presbyterian Church. He appointed his brother Robert as his executor and as guardian for Julia.
References:
Source Citation
Year: 1850; Census Place: District 1, Orange, North Carolina; Roll: M432_639; Page: 279B; Image: 558
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Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Source Citation
Year: 1860; Census Place: Ozan, Hempstead, Arkansas; Roll: M653_42; Page: 703 and 710; Family History Library Film: 803042
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc,
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Original data: State of North Carolina. An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC, USA: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977.
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1860 Federal Census – Slave Schedules
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Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
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Will Records, 1826-1925; Author: Arkansas. Probate Court (Hempstead County); Probate Place: Hempstead, Arkansas
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Arkansas, Wills and Probate Records, 1818-1998 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Arkansas County, District and Probate Courts.
“Robert Adams Carrigan,” Sketches of the History of UNC, Together with a Catalogue of Officers and Students, 1789-1889, p. 97, in U. S. School Catalogs, 1765-1935. Ancestry.com
William Michael Carrigan was born about 1832, in North Carolina. He died after 1868, and was buried in Old Washington Cemetery.
(1831-1861), married on June 22, 1852. Married in Orange County, NC.
(sister-in-law, b. 1837).