William Alexander Caruthers was born 23 December 1802 in Virginia and died 29 August 1846 in Marietta, Georgia.  He was my second cousin five times removed. This marker is in Savannah, Georgia, at the intersection of Hull Street and Bull Street.

William Alexander Caruthers was a physician and an author.  He attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) from 1817 to 1820; and attended the medical college of the University of Pennsylvania from which he received a medical degree in 1823. He practiced medicine in Lexington, Virginia;New York City; and Savannah, Georgia.  

He also wrote several popular novels and is considered to be the first important Virginia novelist.  His works include  

• The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns, by a Virginian
• Cavaliers of Virginia; or, The Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion
• The Knights of the Golden Horse-Shoe, a Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion
  

In 1823, he married Louisa Catherine Gibson of Savannah, Georgia, who was from a wealthy family there.