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Genealogical History of Some Carsons, Johnsons, and Related Families

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Appendix II

Some Other Carsons

In a study of Carson ancestry, one may come across one or more of the following Carsons. Many of the names are similar to those of “our” Carsons – John, William, and Sarah, for example – so the record is confusing. The connections between these other Carsons and “our” Carsons are unproven.

James Carson and Family

James Carson married Rebecca Hazard. Among their children were John Carson, James Carson, Jr., and Catherine Carson. Catherine Carson married Thomas Wilson, and she immigrated to America.

Colonel John Carson, son of James Carson and Rebecca Hazard, born March 24, 1752, was an immigrant from Ireland, born in County Fermanagh. He married Rachel McDowell. He settled in Burke County, NC, about 1773 and about 1790 he constructed his home near Marion, NC, of twelve-inch walnut logs. Later, he doubled the size of his home by building a nearly identical structure next to the original, and connecting the two with a breezeway or porch. The house was a social center and stagecoach inn, and when McDowell County was organized in 1843, the house served as the seat of county government until the courthouse was built. Among famous visitors to the house was Andrew Jackson, who lost money betting on horse races at the house. The Carson House is now open to the public.

John Carson operated an 8,000-acre plantation, and he was a colonel in the local militia. He was a slave owner. He was also a representative to the Fayetteville Convention, where the North Carolina Delegates ratified the United States Constitution, and he represented Burke County in the legislature in 1805 and 1806.

John Carson died March 5, 1841.

Children of John Carson and Rachel McDowell were James Carson, Jason Carson, Joseph Carson, Rebecca Carson, John Carson, Charles Carson, and Sally Carson.

Rachel McDowell, above, was the daughter of “Hunting” John McDowell and Annie Edmisten. “Hunting” John McDowell was the son of Charles McDowell and Rachel ----. Rachel McDowell died in April, 1795, and John Carson married again in 1799, this time to Mary Moffet, widow of Colonel Joseph McDowell, who was a son of “Hunting” John McDowell. Their children were Samuel Price Carson, William Carson, Matilda Carson, George Carson, and Jonathan Logan Carson.

Samuel Price Carson was a son of John Carson and his second wife. He was born on January 22, 1798, in Burke County, NC. He was a three-time member of the North Carolina State Senate, and Democrat member of the United States House of Representatives for eight years, where he became a close friend of President Andrew Jackson. Accompanied by David Crockett, Carson killed Dr. Robert Vance at Saluda Gap early in 1827 in a duel which resulted from the congressional campaign of 1826.

What was the duel about? In September, 1780, during the American Revolution, British General Patrick Ferguson decided to supply his army with beef by raiding the herds of the Rebels, and not to molest the herds of Tories. Rebel Colonel Joseph McDowell (mentioned above) proposed that the Rebels should pretend to side with the British so that their herds would be protected. Of course, this plan could not be told to the populace at large lest the British find out about it, so many of the Rebels refused to participate in order to protect their reputations among the people, choosing instead to hide their cattle in remote mountain coves. Others, including John Carson, father of Samuel Price Carson, did participate, and some with tongue in cheek even swore allegiance to George III.

Ferguson took a force of British soldiers into the field to search for Rebel cattle, and John Carson, a noted Indian fighter, accompanied them. They found a large herd and, assuming them to be the property of Rebels, began to slaughter them. Carson knew that they belonged to Tories, but kept his mouth shut until more than a hundred cattle had been slaughterd. Then he suggested that the cattle might belong to Tories. Too late, Ferguson realized he’d been tricked. The owners of the cattle were incensed, and the Rebels made propaganda from the incident.

John Carson’s good name had been temporarily sacrificed for the Rebel cause, but when Dr. Vance revived the issue during the Congressional campaign of 1826, Samuel Price Carson avenged the insult by killing Vance in the duel.

Samuel Price Carson’s friends, Davey Crockett and Sam Houston, persuaded him to go to the new frontier of Texas, where he became a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and became Texas’ first Secretary of State.

Samuel Price Carson had a daughter, Emily Carson, with a woman named Emma Trouts.

On May 10, 1831, Samuel Price Carson married Catherine Wilson. She accompanied him to Texas, but returned to North Carolina after his death in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1840. Samuel and Catherine adopted Emily Carson, and they had another daughter of their own.

Emily Carson married a Whitson, and their daughter, Emily Carson Whitson, married James Wynn Baker in 1889. Emily Carson Whitson and James Wynn Baker had six children, all born in Kymulga, Alabama:

William Baker (born November 29, 1890)
Lewis Carson Baker (born February 1, 1893)
Rebecca Whitson Jervey Baker (born July 9, 1894)
Emmie Catherine Whitson Baker (born February 10, 1896)
James McDowell Baker (born October 30, 1897, married Almeda Tinney)
Celia Parson Baker (born January 22, 1899)

Another son of Colonel John Carson was Jonathan Logan Carson, who later inherited the Carson House and made extensive modificationns to it.

James Carson, Jr., son of James Carson and Rebecca Hazzard, married Sarah McDowell.

Henry Carson and his Descendants

Henry Carson was born about 1720. He married Susannah ----- in Augusta County, Virginia. Their children were:

Isaac Carson (See below)
William Carson (Born 1745, married Mary Alexander in 1765)
John L. Carson (married Mary Snodgrass in 1800)

Isaac Carson, son of Henry Carson and his wife Susannah -----, was born in 1743. He served in the American Revolution in Captain Tremble’s Company 1776-1779. He married Rebecca Hogshead, daughter of John Hogshead and Nancy Wallace. Their children were:

Abraham Carson (see below)
Agnes Carson (born 1773)
Mary B. Carson (born 1773, married Abraham Hanna March 15, 1793)
Isaac Carson (born December, 1783)

Abraham Carson, son of Isaac Carson and Rebecca Hogshead, was born in 1771. He married Catherine Griffith on June 2, 1802. Their children were:

James Harvey Carson (born 1801, married Lavinia T. ----- in 1823)
Abel Carson (born 1803, married Rebecca Gardner October 17, 1832)
Isaac Carson (born 1805, married Elizabeth Shave or Shaffer)
William Addison Carson (born 1807, married Nancy A. Pickeral February 7, 1832)
James Carson (married Jane Lyon January 17, 1827)
Peyton Carson (born Augusta County, Virginia, 1812, married Anna Hildebrand January 20, 1834. Moved to Gilmer County, VA, now WV, between 1843 and 1849)
Robert Carson (born 1814)
Margaret Carson (born 1826)
Elizabeth Carson (born 1828)

Andrew Carson and Descendants

Andrew Carson (1744-1799) had a son named John Carson.

John Carson (1768-1839) had a son named Andrew Carson.

Andrew Carson (1788-1869) had a son named John Carson.

John Carson (1817-1862) had a son named Robert Jackson Carson.

Robert Jackson Carson was born in 1853 and died in 1893.

Alexander Carson

Alexander Carson was born about 1808 in Pennsylvania, and moved to Ohio by 1831. He married Elizabeth Disney in Ohio in 1833. They had a son named William Theodore Carson.

Theodore Carson

Theodore Carson was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1660, and married a woman named Rebecca. Their children were:

Alexander Carson (born 1685)
Sarah Carson (born 1687)
George Carson (born 1689)

Alexander Carson, son of Theodore Carson and Rebecca, married Elizabeth Disney (1680-1717). They were married in 1709 in Ireland. They went to England, and then to America. Their ship left England August 17, 1717, and arrived in Philadelphia October 10, 1717. Elizabeth Disney died in 1717, perhaps at sea, perhaps in childbirth. Their children were:

John Carson (born 1710)
Samuel Carson (born 1712)
William Carson (born 1715 in Ulster, Ireland, died 1773 in Concord, Pennsylvania)
James Carson (born 1717)
Robert Carson (born 1717)

Uriah Carson

Uriah (or William Uriah) Carson was born in 1743 in Surrey County, North Carolina, and died in August, 1780, in Surrey County. He married first Mary Cook, who was born in 1747 or 1749 in York county, Pennsylvania. He married second Mary Ballard, born about 1747 in Surrey County, died August 31, 1806, in Stokes County, North Carolina.

Children of Uriah Carson were:

Sarah Carson (born 1766)
John Carson (born 1768)
Ruth Carson (born 1770)
Jacob Carson (born 1772)
Bowater Carson (born 1775)
Uriah Carson (born 1777)

Samuel Carson and Family

Samuel Carson married Jane Patterson. Their children were:

William Carson , who lived in York Town County, South Carolina
Walter Carson
Francis Carson