JAMES HOWARD CARLOUGH “Josie” was born on May 23, 1893, in Patterson, New Jersey to James and Mary Carlough. He arrived in Alaska in the early 1900s. He married Aphanasia “Jessie” Moonin on September 26, 1921, in Seldovia, Alaska. They had seven children in 16 years. He was a pile driver and had an accident and died on February 11, 1935, in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 41. He was originally buried in the Russian Orthodox Church graveyard in Seldovia, but was part of the reburial in the Seldovia City Cemetery after the 1964 earthquake that demolished the original Russian Orthodox graveyard.
Children of James Howard Carlough and Jessie MOONIN Carlough include:
• James Brook CARLOUGH, “Jim b. January 31, 1914; married Minnie YAKNAK; d. August 1966
• Patrick Mike Carlough b. November 22, 1917, Port Graham, AK; occupation best man for a salmon tanker in 1940 and continued to work on ships; residences Seldovia (1930) Portlock, AK (1940), Washington. He married Betty L. Davies (1966-1991).
• [Elsie Catherine CARLOUGH Marrs] (./Marrs_Elsie_Catherine_Carlough.md) • Louise CARLOUGH
• Joseph CARLOUGH
• Howard CARLOUGH, b. 1930, Alaska; occupation crab fisherman, residences Portlock (1940), Tumwater, WA (2004); married Alyce Ollestad