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Perhaps this will help. The information I have on the 1860 census was the mother's
name was Adelaide B. as indicated below.
Chuck Carden
from the Arkansas Gazette, Thursday, January 11, 1900, published at Little Rock
The funeral of Mrs. Adelaide Brent Carden, who died yesterday, will take place at 11:00
o'clock this morning from the Old Ladies Home, southwest corner of 7th & Scott
Streets. Services will be conducted by Rev. Ben Cox, pastor of 1st Baptist Church. The
following obit is handed in by a friend. Mrs. Adelaide Brent (Noel) Garden, died in this
city at 5:25 AM, Wednesday at the Old Ladies Home, where she had been an inmate since
October 18, 1897, She was the widow of Dr. Joseph W. Carden, late of Kinderhook, Van Buren
County, Arkansas. Mrs. Carden was born at Tazewell, Clairborne County, Tennessee,
September 3, 1823 and was married May 5, 1849. Of this marriage 5 children were born,
three of whom survive - A.J. Garden, Paul S. Carden and Mollie Garden. Mrs. E.B. Harrison
and Kate, a child, went before her.
Dr. Carden was assistant surgeon of the 1st East Tennessee cavalry in 1846-47, during the
war with Mexico; also assistant surgeon of the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Riflemen, Pikes
Brigade, Price's Division, CSA., and did duty in northwest Arkansas Indian Territory
and was in service at the battle of Elk Horn. He died in 1862 at Kinderhook. Mrs. Carden
was a woman of fine qualities, loyal to her friends and devoted to her children and grand
children. She was a insatiate reader, and being thoroughly at home on all topics of the
day, was an interesting conversationalist. She was allied to some of the best families of
Virginia and Tennessee. She had been quite feeble for a long time and died peacefully in
the faith of a resurrection.