Judge Robert Looney Caruthers
1800 - 1882 (82 years)
Generation: 1
1. Judge Robert Looney Caruthers was born on 31 Jul 1800 in Carthage, Smith, Tennessee, USA; died on 2 Oct 1882 in Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court
- Religion: Elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
- Residence: 1828, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA; (The Beeches)
- _MILT: 1834; Brigadier General in the Tennessee militia
- Education: 1842; Established Cumberland University, serving as the first president of its Board of Trustees, and cofounder of Cumberland School of Law
- Census: 1860, Wilson County, Tennessee, USA; Age: 60; Married to Sallie
- _ELEC: Aug 1861; Represented Tennessee in the Provisional Confederate Congress
- Obituary: Oct 1882, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA; The Tennessean
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Buried:
Sarah Sanders and Robert L Caruthers, buried togetherRobert married Sarah 'Sally' Sanders on 16 Jan 1827 in Wilson County, Tennessee, USA. Sarah (daughter of James 'Jimmy Dry' Sanders and Mary Ann Michie 'Polly' Smith) was born on 11 Mar 1807 in Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA; died on 20 Oct 1870 in Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]