Sorry folks. Am posting this again. Jackson County is in North
Carolina. Cocke County is in Tennessee.
Gene
>Hi Barbara and Carson List folks,
>
>Results from recent trip to library and other work:
>
>1860 Jackson County Census, Webster Tnship pg 315, dwelling 521
>J. T. Carson, 32, land value 400
>L (?) Carson, 37, F
>W. T. Carson, 6, M
>L. J. Carson, 4, F
>J. Carson, 2, M
>H. Carson 1/52(?), f
>
>1870 Jackson County, pg 292, dwelling 36
>Charlotte Carson, 48, F
>William, 15,
>Lydia Jane, 14
>Julius, 11, M
>Haseltine, 9, F
>
>The Cemeteries of Jackson County, pg 49 Carson Cemetery
>
>Charlotte Carson (11-27-1821 12-8-1913) w/o J. T. Carson
>Rev. J. T. Carson (6-7-1858 7-24-1944)
>
>Notes:
>1. The Rev. J. T. Carson appears to be the SON of Charlotte (check
the
>age in Cemetery book and on census). I do not see a record of
his
dad's
>grave. His dad may have died about 1860, since no children born
after
>Haseltine.
>
>2. Lydia Jane married Joseph Queen, son of Alfred at Charlotte
Carson's
>on 3-4-1873 with W. T. Carson as witness. I'm betting that
this was
>Charlotte's SON W. T. who would have been about 18. For some reason
I
>had always expected it was an older man. Anyway, in 1870
Charlotte
(and
>Lydia Jane) lived in dwelling 36; Alfred in #41.
>
>3. John Cogdill with family, including daughter Matilda J. (age 4 in
>1870) lived in house #39. Alfred's son, Samuel Queen,
married
Matilda,
>age 14, on 8-11-1880 at John Cogdill's.
>
>4. Thomas Stiles with family, including son Isaac E.(age 17 in 1870)
>lived in house #40. Alfred's dau, Martha, married this young
man on
>3-31-1874 at Mary Queen's with J. H. Queen and W. T. Carson as
>witnesses.
>
>5. Levi Wood with family, including son A. J. Wood, age 12, in 1860
>Jackson County census, pg 292. The age is about right for the Anda
Jack
>Wood who married Alfred's daughter, Arta on 12-10-1885.
>
>6. Probably totally unrelated to all this, but looking at 1850 Cocke
>County census again: Drucilla Carson, age 52, head of house
family
>#1179. In House 1181 is Andrew Carson, age 30, married with children
>including daughter, Drucilla, age 3.
>
>7. And, as fate would have it, there is a Solomon Messer, age 48 in
the
>1860 Jackson County census, pg 279.
>
>Comments, anyone?
>
>Gene
>