David Carson and Mary E. Patterson

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Husband David Carson ¹

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           Born: 23 Mar 1824 - Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD 1
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           Died: 13 Sep 1862 - Baltimore, MD 1
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         Father: James Oliver Carson (1796-1870) 2 3
         Mother: Rosanna Marshall White (1791-1879) 3 4

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       Marriage: Sep 1845 1

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Wife Mary E. Patterson ¹

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Children

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1 M John L. Carson ³

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           Born: 13 Oct 1860 - near Mercersburg, Franklin Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Ellen Thompson Taggart (1861-      ) 5
           Marr: 25 Oct 1888 3

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General Notes: Husband - David Carson

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At the time of his death he was a soldier in the Union Army, Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary E. Patterson

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She was the granddaughter of Gen. William Patterson of Pennsylvania, a Revolutionary officer, who received a silver service from Congress for his military achievements. Her father, Thomas Patterson, married Elizabeth Burns, daughter of John Burns, of Old Westmoreland, Pennsylvania. who made the first cannon for the Revolutionary War. It was seized by the British, taken to London where it is said it came to repose in the British Museum. John Burns was a cousin of Bobby Burns the poet. Thomas Patterson was a second cousin of "Glorious Betsey" Patterson of Baltimore, who married Jerome Bonaparte.

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 852.

2 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 849.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 187.

4 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 850.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 182.