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Author: JudyCav55
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I believe you are correct that Erastus Carson is you great grandfather. I had found this
obit that I had attached to Ella Carson (my great grandmother) She was in attendance at
the service for your great grandfather.
Wellsboro Agitator May 11, 1938
Albert S. Carson
Albert Sidney Carson, aged 74 years, of Wellsboro, died at 3 o'clock Friday morning at
his home on Purple Street. He was born in Monterey, NY, Feb 12, 1864, son of Erastus and
Tryphena Rockwell Carson. He married Olive Hildebrant in 1887. He had lived in Wellsboro
since 1905. For many years he was an engineer on the New York Central Railroad, and for
the last 20 years by the Wellsboro Electric Company. Surviving are his widow, three
daughters and a son. Mrs. Harold Kimball, Mrs. Hary Wingate, Mrs. Hugh Glennon and Albert
S. Carson, of Wellsboro; a sister and two brothers, Mrs. Ella Chapman and William Carson
of Rochester, and Chester, of Dresden, NY, and three grandchildren, Carson and John
Kimball, and Cynthia Ann Glennon, of Wellsboro.
Funeral services were held Monday at the Evans Funeral Home; Rev. C.W. Sheriff,
officiating; burial in the Wellsboro cemetery.
The following from out-of-town attended the funeral: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robinson and
daughter, Virginia, of Cortland; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chapman, son Alan, and William Carson
of Rochester; Chester Carson, of Waverly; Mr. and Mrs. Chester Carson and Mrs. Meeker of
Dresden, NY; George Carson and son, Charles, of Erin, NY; Edward Thornton and Mrs. Tessie
Dickinson, of Elmira; Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Hapalee, of Ithaca; Mr. and Mrs. Calude Bentley
and daughter, Edith, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Longear, daughter, Sylvia, Mrs. John Larde, of
Penn Yan; Mr. and Mrs. Myron Matthews, of Hector. N.Y.
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