Ancestry of
Carrie Underwood

Country Music Singer and Songwriter

Thomas C. Shatswell

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Carrie Underwood — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 96 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Shatswell 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Rowell   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1806 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Jan 1871 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Parker Ridge--Shatswell, Deer, Newton, Arkansas 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Peoples
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1847 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Arkansas 
  • Child:

  Thomas C. Shatswell (Ahnentafel No:48 )

  • Notes: 

  • In 1835, Thomas Shatswell enlisted at Boston in the U.S. Army. He served a term of 3 years as a blacksmith at Fort Gibson in Arkansas, and was discharged 21 NOV 1839.

• Sources for Thomas C. Shatswell

  • ¹ Army Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, Register of Enlistments, 1835-1839, p. 182, Record for Thomas Shatswell.
  • ² Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, Guardianship papers for minor children of Thomas Shatswell.
  • ³ Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, 1850, Spadra, Image 17 of 25.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, AR, Newton County, 1860, Union, p. 52, Image 3 of 3.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/10/2018).
  • ⁶ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing, Marriage record for Thomas Shatwell and Elizabeth Peoples.

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