My Wife is related to the North Carolina Carroll's. We have been researching for over forty years and Ruben and Temperance Carroll, both b. ca1804, are one of our many dead-ends. While Ruben was born in VA, his family certainly could have roots in NC, but we have not established a family link to Ruben from my wife's family. A number of the Southern Kentucky Carroll's came here from North Carolina after briefly living in Virginia, and many then migrated on beyond Kentucky to other mid-western states such as Missouri. Reuben is not an uncommon given name in the Carroll family and is present in the North Carolina Carroll family lines. Dr. Bill Rice, Kentucky