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unfortunatley the information given by Alloa in her book is not all true,for many reasons. The first Sarah Caviness arrived in NC Randolph Co with her children in 1799,as a young woman perhaps she was the widow of Matthews son William.She bought a farm.She died in 1803.I have a copy of the papers involved with her estate.It names four children, and only four.The document read.The children of Sally Cavinist are ,it went on to name Benjamin age 15 Susannah 13,Elizabeth 11,and Polly age 9 (If you read the
caviness book by Alloa you also read that the 9 year old was coexecutor of her mothers estate )
.These children and only these four sign off as adults after the sale of some of her property. If William and John were her sons why would they not have signed off on her property also ?,Why would they not be mentioned?They would have in all likely been named executors of her estate especially William he would have been 21 if they were truly her sons,There is never any mention of William or John,never any signature of theirs in relation to her estate or in any of her papers.I have researched this family ad nauseum,according to the book by Alloa tradition stated that Richard was the father of these two William and John ,as well as Joab,cretia and Mary (Polly) .every thing I found verifies this .
The William son of Matthew was a younger man born in 1765 to young to have fathered William born in 1781 even in those days.Whoever the young Sarah was that died in 1802 or 1803 she was from the area of Granville NC or Mecklenburg Co Va .Remember Matthew and all of the Caviness were in the are of Mecklenburg Co Va. Granville Co NC .Where would he as a young man have met or married Sarah Carr,?she and her family lived in Randolph Co NC since the Revolution. There is documentation of the marriage of this Sarah Carr at age 16 to David Fanning the notoriuous Torie who raised so much turmoil in that area of Randolph Co according to his autobiography he married the 16 year old sister of his lieutenant William Carr in a double wedding with William Carr.
I do not know why William Carr and Rolly Spinks (his brother in law) were named executors of Sarah Caviness's estate.I suspect they were men of prominence in the community and nothing more. I believe that this shows that the only children were minors . (Yes I personally saw the document it was William Carr and Rolly Spinks that were named as executor and co executor not William Carr and Polly Caviness Years later the court ordered Tidance Lane ,and Hugh Moffitt to see to the estate of the orphans and check with executor William Carr re this .
I don't know who Sarah Caviness Was.She was not Sarah Carr . I believe she waws born about 1771 , she would have married probably Matthews son William in about 1787 in Mecklenburg Co.Va or in Granville Co NC . If this William son of Matthew was her husband he died about 1795 .Her children started to be born in 1788.I descend from William born in 1781 he descends from Richard,simple math and common sense,and all records verify this People think if it is found in a genealogical book it is gospel even if it is impossible or very unlikely.This book also lists Fredrick (Richards brother) as married to a Susannah Carr,the author theorizes that she must be a sister to the deceased Sarah because she and Fredrick took in two of Sarahs orphans.There are the same problems with this theory, there is absoloutley not any evidence that she was a Carr,she again would have came from the Mecklenburg Co area of Va. The Carr family was living in the Randolph Co area of NC.Lastly Sarah and William Carr did not have a sister Susannah.There is no record of a Susannah Carr she is certainly not mentioned in Joseph Carrs will ,then neither is Sarah.Perhaps because Sarah and her husband David Fanning are by then exiled to Nova Scotia.All This is easy to verify.It is laziness when people use this genealogical book and don't research their own families to see if it even makes sense. I am not referring to you with that statement. I Thank you very much for the response I do appreciate the time it took to respond
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