Biography:

Author; clubwoman. Born– February 16, 1885, Bullock County. Parents– Milton and Sarah Bass Tarver. Married– Major Oscar Carroll, November 25, 1902. Charter member of the Pen Women of Alabama and of the Ozark Study Club. Vice president of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs.  Awarded the Poetry Prize by the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs. Died January 12, 1955.

Source:

Owen’s Story of Alabama; Ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Keep My Flags Flying. Longmans, Green, 1945.

The Man Who Dared to Care; the Story of James Edward Oglethorpe, 1696-1785. New York; Longmans, Green, 1942.

The Man Who Would Not Wait; the Story of Aaron Burr. New York; Longmans Green, 1941.

Papers:

A small collection of the papers of Mary Tarver Carroll is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.