Husband David Carson 1 2 3
Born: 1750 - northern Ireland 1
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Died: 10 Sep 1823 - Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA 1
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Marriage: 28 Jul 1788 - Ireland
Wife Jean Oliver 1 2 3
Born: 1760 - Donagheady Parish, County Tyrone, Ireland 1
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Died: 5 Aug 1839 - Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA 1
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Father: Rev. James Oliver ( - ) 3
Mother: Jean Fisher ( - ) 3
Children
1 M William Carson 1
Born: 1789 - Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA 1
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Died: 31 Jan 1840 - Chillicothe, Ross Co, OH 1
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Spouse: Eliza Faulkner Claypool ( - ) 1
Marr: 30 Nov 1824 - Chillicothe, Ross Co, OH 1
2 M Thomas Carson 1 2
Born: 6 Aug 1791 - Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA 1 2
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Died: 17 Apr or 26 Apr 1857 - Mercersburg, Franklin Co, PA 1 2 4
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Spouse: Agnes Craig King (1788-1862) 1 2
Marr: 23 Mar 1815 - Mercersburg, Franklin Co, PA 1 2
3 F Elizabeth Carson 5
Born: 1793 - Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA 5
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Died: 26 Nov 1851 5
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4 M James Oliver Carson 3 5
Born: 4 Feb 1796 - Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA 5
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Died: 14 Jun 1870 - Mercersburg, Franklin Co, PA 5
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Spouse: Rosanna Marshall White (1791-1879) 3 6
Marr: 2 Jan 1821 - Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD 6
5 M Rev. David Carson 7
Born: 25 Oct 1799 - Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA 7
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Died: 25 Sep 1834 - Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA 7
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Spouse: Jane Gillespie ( - ) 8
Marr: 1827 8
General Notes: Husband - David Carson
He and his wife were of Scotch ancestry, but both were born in the North of Ireland. In 1784 he emigrated to America and settled at Greencastle, Pennsylvania. He afterward visited Ireland, and there married. The same year he returned with his bride to Greencastle, where both continued to reside until death.
The quaint certificate of good character brought to America in 1784 by Mr. Carson, and signed by the "dissenting clergyman and other inhabitons of the Parish of Donaghadee and neighborhood of Londonderry, Ireland," and the equally quaint marriage certificate of David Carson and Jean Oliver certify that they "were bred and born of honest dissenting parents devoted to ye covenanted work of ye Reformation." Hence their piety, both by inheritance and by reason of their own convictions, was of that earnest, sturdy sort which characterized the followers of John Knox. They were covenanters "after the most straightest Sect" of that religion, but at Greencastle placed themselves under the pastoral care of the Rev. John Young, of the Associate Presbyterian Church, whose death occurring in 1803, he was succeeded by the Rev. John Lind. Under the care of these earnest and learned divines, the family of David and Jean (Oliver) Carson received not only ministerial instruction, but decided educational advantages. Their intelligence and moral worth commanded the highest respect and confidence of the community in which they lived. They were not in affluent circumstances, but by industry and frugality prospered sufficiently to educate and qualify their children for positions of usefulness and influence in life.