Samuel Caruthers

1767 - 1813  (46 years)

• Name	Samuel Caruthers  [1]
  Birth	1767	Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
  	Rocky River
  Gender	Male
  DAR/SAR	Sons of the American Revolution: # P-129770
  Elected	Represented Sullivan County at the constitutional convention of the State of Franklin in the 1780s  [2]
  Military Service	Abt 1776  [1]
  	American Army - Revolutionary War
  Death	29 Nov 1813	Trousdale County, Tennessee, USA
  Burial	Trousdale County, Tennessee, USA   [1]
  	East fork of Goose Creek
  Person ID	I12624	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Jimerson Robert Caruthers,   b. 1715, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland d. 1811, Sumner County, Tennessee, USA (Age 96 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret Gillespie,   b. 1715, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland d. 1806, Sumner County, Tennessee, USA (Age 91 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1762	Scotland
  Family ID	F4470	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Jane Looney,   b. 1764, Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA d. 1803, Smith County, Tennessee, USA (Age 39 years)
  Children	1. Judge Abraham Looney Caruthers,   b. 14 Jan 1803, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA d. 5 May 1862, Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, USA (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Judge Robert Looney Caruthers,   b. 31 Jul 1800, Carthage, Smith, Tennessee, USA d. 2 Oct 1882, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F4473	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1767 - Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA Death - 29 Nov 1813 - Trousdale County, Tennessee, USA Burial - - Trousdale County, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Seal-SAR Sons of the American Revolution

  
  

• Sources

  [S602] Hatcher, Patricia Law, Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 1999;), Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots; Volume: 1; Serial: 10468-A; Volume: 23. [S1281] Wikipedia: Robert L Caruthers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Caruthers. Robert Looney Caruthers (July 31, 1800 – October 2, 1882) was an American judge, politician, and professor. He helped establish Cumberland University in 1842, serving as the first president of its Board of Trustees, and was a cofounder of the Cumberland School of Law, one of the oldest law schools in the South. He served as a Tennessee state attorney general in the late 1820s and early 1830s, and was a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court in the 1850s and early 1860s. He also served one term in the United States House of Representatives (1841–1843). In 1863, he was elected Governor of Tennessee by the state's Confederates, but never took office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Caruthers