The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
A CORNER IN ANCESTORS
By FRANCES COwLEs. THE COROTH FRS FAMILY
By FRANCES oowLEs

James Carruthers and His Four Chill
 dren-Two Spellings of the Name.
 Evans Coat of Arms-The Rhode Is-
 land Green FamiIy-Virginia Ran-
 dolphs-ROss Heraldry.
 (Copyri ght, 1916, by Mcclure Newspa-
 per Syndicate.)
 About 1720 James Carruthers and his wife went from Scotland to the north of Ireland They had four children John, Sarah, James and Andrew. James and Andrew were twins and looked so much alike, it is said, that their fond mother could only tell one from the other by a small mark on the fore head of one.
 In 1765 the children of this family all came to America. They settled in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania.
 John was in the French and Indian wars and was severely wounded. He had four daughters, Mary, Isabella, Sarah and Eleanor.
 James married Mary Nicely, and their descendants are now known by the name of Carothers instead of by the old Scotch form, Carruthers.
 James was born in 1739, so he was about 26 when he reached Pennsyl- vania. He was fighter in the French and Indian wars, like his older broth CT John He was in General Arm strong's command at the battle of Xiii taining Point. He made his home eventually in Huntingdon county, where he lived on a farm called the Loop. His wife Nancy died in 1776, and later he married Abigail Henderson. Altogether he had IA children. The matter of the spelling of this name is interesting. In the early days both spellings were used by the same persons interchangeable, and 1t is only within comparatively recent times that one form has been adhered to by any branch of the family. The spelling of this name was only an instance of the general disregard of fixed rules about spelling among the early colonists. Even a simple name was spelled half dozen different ways by as many different men who bore it; it is hard ly to be wondered at that name as complicated as Carothers, or Carru- thers. should be spelled several differ ent ways.
 The arms illustrated, those of the Caruthers family, of Howmans, are de- scribed Gules, two chevrons engrailed between three fluer- de-lis or. The crest is a seraphim volant proper. Mot to, Promptus ct Fidelis.
 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS To J. E. N, who asks for the coat-of- arms of the Evans family: The arms borne by the oldest branch of the Evans family are blazoned: Ar gent, a chevron between three boars' heads couped sable The crest is: On a ducal coronet or. a boar's heard fessway | erased, sable. The motto is Libertas. 
 To Interested Reader who asks for the name of the founder of the Rhode l Island Green family:
 | John Greene. who came from Sans bury. Eng, in 1885, settled in Rhode Island. His son, also John, was deputy governor of Rhode Island. In the sixth l generation from the first settler was | George Sears Greene. born In Warwick l R. l., in 1901, West Point graduate | who built the Croton aqueduct and wor | the brevet rank of major general of vol urteers. In the seventh generation was | George Sears, Jr., well known engineer | and Samuel Dana Greene, the naval of 1 ficer, who was in charge of the Monitor after the wounding of her commander 1 Lieutenant Worden. Francis Vintor I Greene, third son of George Sears, was l also a famous soldier.
 Another John Greene, also 8 settler | of Rhode Island. a surgeon. was ar l original proprietor of Providence ant | Shawmut. Nathaniel Greene, fifth ir descent from this settler. was a famous revolutionary soldier. His family had al.
 ways been Quakers. but the Quakers dis
 owned Nathanael because of his partici | patton in the war.
 l To R. M. R., who asks for the coat-of arms of the Virginia Randolph 6amily | The coat-of-arms belongs to the Vir ginia family of Randolph and the Eng l fish family of the name seated at Bade-
 lesmer county Cambridge. This coat-of
 arms was confirmed March IS, in the thir teenth year of the reign of Queen Eliza ! beth. It is blazoned: Gules. on cros al gent five nlullets pierced sable. Int 1 crest used by the American family is al
 aDtelope's head couped holding in it
 mouth stick or. The motto is: Far quae sentiat''
 To T. l.. R., who asks for a full de | scriptiOn of the coat-of-arms and mot
 toes of the Ross family.
 The Ross coat-of-arms granted 1881, i or, on chevron counter-emba attled. be
 tween three water bougets sable. this