The son of John & Magdalene (Kessler) Carson, he married Hannah Walker in 1846, fathering Rachel A. (b. @1847), Arnold (b. @1850), Wilbert O. (b. 10/??/51), George (b. 1853), Margaret A. (b. @1858), Emma E. (b. 09/26/60 - married Pemberton Myers), Elizabeth (b. 07/07/62 - married Edward McKinley), and Clara Ellen (b. 06/05/67 - married John W. McNew). In 1860, he was a blacksmith living in Butler Township, Adams County, and stood 5' 7" tall with brown hair and black eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Adams County October 16, 1862, as a substitute for Henry Roth, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 6 as a private with Co. I, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
He at his daughter's home from "exhaustion and debility" caused by "dysentery."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Adams County October 16, 1862, as a substitute for Henry Roth, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 6 as a private with Co. I, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
He at his daughter's home from "exhaustion and debility" caused by "dysentery."
The son of John & Magdalene (Kessler) Carson, he married Hannah Walker in 1846, fathering Rachel A. (b. @1847), Arnold (b. @1850), Wilbert O. (b. 10/??/51), George (b. 1853), Margaret A. (b. @1858), Emma E. (b. 09/26/60 - married Pemberton Myers), Elizabeth (b. 07/07/62 - married Edward McKinley), and Clara Ellen (b. 06/05/67 - married John W. McNew). In 1860, he was a blacksmith living in Butler Township, Adams County, and stood 5' 7" tall with brown hair and black eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Adams County October 16, 1862, as a substitute for Henry Roth, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 6 as a private with Co. I, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
He at his daughter's home from "exhaustion and debility" caused by "dysentery."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Adams County October 16, 1862, as a substitute for Henry Roth, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 6 as a private with Co. I, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
He at his daughter's home from "exhaustion and debility" caused by "dysentery."
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