Carroll family, Florida

Ancient Faces

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It looks so hot and dusty . . . and those are not young people in the corn fields!

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Carroll Straus

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If anyone else kn iows about this branch if the Carroll family let me know. John Olover was birn Sampson County NC in 1820. I al told this ws taken in Florida . Supplied to me by Charles Carroll Slocum, of TX

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Lura Southard

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Carroll, I am also interested in the ten CARROLL families which lived in Sampson County around 1790-1800. I don't have this direct branch, but DNA has proven at least some of them were closely related.

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Trudie Cruey

I can only imagine

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Brigitte Cherubini

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That's a rough life.

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Doug Thomas

Real life photos are awesome.....love those kind of pics....

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Terri Allen

True meaning of hard work.

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Doug Thomas

Stirs my senses as to who are theses people????Gotta love it....

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Linda Haydell

Mom and dad working their land.

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Brenda Anderson

Had to work hard to survive in the 1800’s. They may have been younger than you think.

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Ross Griffin

Black face

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Ree Young

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What????

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Ross Griffin

Ree Young Every body talks about black face just a joke

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Ree Young

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Apparently, not everybody does because I don't get it at all.

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Linda Falls

Ree Young me either

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Maria Kozma Callaghan

Yes you worked till you died back then.

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Linda Woody

Maybe it was sugar cane??? But yes, probably corn.

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Nancy Thompson

I'm afraid I couldn't survive inland with that high humidity. They look like they could be in their late 30s-40s. Such a hard life.

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Lisa Barbieri-O'Sullivan

Most likely sugarcane. Note the fronds, no silk.

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Harmon Duke

Cool pic, but don’t think it’s corn.

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Bob Border

Super tough.

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John Binfield

1850 census [external link]

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John Binfield

From another source [external link]

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Laney Asquith

Such hard, exhausting work!

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Melissa Lowman

Doesn’t look like corn. Corn has wider and different shaped leaves. So, maybe sugar cane? Looks like Florida to me though. Hot and miserable unless you’re at the pool. 😂

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Nancy Trough

People were tough. I know I couldn't do what they did

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Ree Young

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I lived in Tampa and Hillsborough County and went to school in St. Petersburg. While corn was an important crop, especially during the Civil War, sugar cane, cotton, and rice were big cash crops.

I've seen sugar cane fields...these plants are still young, and the couple are probably hoeing down the weeds. The cane, when ready for harvesting, will be taller than these folks.

As far as what corn looks like in the fields, I am looking out my window (in rural NC where I've lived for over 30 years) right now at the corn growing in the acres in front of my home. There's a big difference between corn and sugar cane plants.

The photo definitely shows sugar cane fields.

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Elizabeth Grant

have to agree with you Ree Young I live in Bundaberg Queensland Australia and we are a sugar town and you are correct it is young cane as the tops are still close to the ground with not much stalk yet. don't know how tall a cane stalk was back then but modern canes would have the stalk taller than a person and the tops way above that so probably still has a good 9mths of growing to do yet

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Larry Cawley

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Ree Young I agree, looks like cane.

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Chad Ellis

White too

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Shirley K. Brown

They worked so hard usually for just food on the table. Once in a while they had money for kids shoes and a new pair of overalls. Maybe a length of material for mom and the girls. They had purity of spirit.
They were better people than we have today and more grateful!

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Dawne Zotz

Van Gogh would have liked to paint the scene.

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Becky Kelly

Love these old pictures.

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Carolyn Hoyt

Hard lives.

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