Chadwick Carson, M.D., was born in Greensboro, Ala., January 26, 1846.
He was educated at the Southern university and the university of Alabama. He
left the latter school in March, 1863, and went into the war with a company of
cadets, who afterward rendered efficient escort duty to both Gens. Pillow and
Adams, and also participated in the battles and skirmishes of Fayette Court
House, Ebenezer Church, Selma and Montgomery. While acting as escort to Gens.
Forrest and Adams at Ebenezer Church, they were attacked by a squad of Gen.
Wilson's (Federal) raiders, seventeen in number, all of whom were killed,
Forrest slaying three of them in a terrible hand to hand encounter, Dr. Carson
receiving a saber cut on the shoulder. Later, the doctor did some dangerous
and important duty as a carrier of secret dispatches between Confederate
generals, viz.: from gen. Adams, then at Tuskegon, Ala., to Gen. Dick Taylor at
Meridian, Miss., and from gen. Taylor to the war department then in Georgia.
At the close of the war he clerked for his father in Greensboro till 1871. He
studied medicine from 1871 to 1873 and went to the Louisville medical college
one year later, and then to the Tulane university at New Orleans, graduating
there. The first five years of his practice was in St. Clair county, and the
succeeding then years in Greene county. In 1888 he went to Bessemer, his
present home. He is a member of the Jefferson county (Ala.) Medical society
and the Alabama state Medical association, and has been vice-president and
president of the Jefferson and Greene county societies, respectively. June 22,
1869, Dr. Carson was united in marriage to Annie Burt Ridgway, the estimable
daughter of B. H. Ridgeway, of Eutaw, Ala. They have no children. Dr. Carson
is an elder in the Presbyterian church. His father was Thomas K. Carson, of
North Carolina, and was a successful merchant in Greensboro, Ala., for nearly
fifty years. He died in 1890, aged seventy-eight years. The mother's maiden
name was Adelaide L. Chadwick, of Kentucky. She died in 1885, aged sixty-five
years. There are for living children of this union, as follows: Mary, wife of
R. B. Douglas, of Greensboro, Ala.; Dr. S. C.; Maggie, wife of G. W.
Shackelford, of Birmingham, and Fannie, wife of H. M. Lovelace, Crescent City,
Fla. Dr. Carson's brother, John R. Carson, was captain of Company K, Forty-
fifth Alabama regiment, and was killed in the battle of Franklin in 1864.
Cause of death cerebral hemorrhage.
He was educated at the Southern university and the university of Alabama. He
left the latter school in March, 1863, and went into the war with a company of
cadets, who afterward rendered efficient escort duty to both Gens. Pillow and
Adams, and also participated in the battles and skirmishes of Fayette Court
House, Ebenezer Church, Selma and Montgomery. While acting as escort to Gens.
Forrest and Adams at Ebenezer Church, they were attacked by a squad of Gen.
Wilson's (Federal) raiders, seventeen in number, all of whom were killed,
Forrest slaying three of them in a terrible hand to hand encounter, Dr. Carson
receiving a saber cut on the shoulder. Later, the doctor did some dangerous
and important duty as a carrier of secret dispatches between Confederate
generals, viz.: from gen. Adams, then at Tuskegon, Ala., to Gen. Dick Taylor at
Meridian, Miss., and from gen. Taylor to the war department then in Georgia.
At the close of the war he clerked for his father in Greensboro till 1871. He
studied medicine from 1871 to 1873 and went to the Louisville medical college
one year later, and then to the Tulane university at New Orleans, graduating
there. The first five years of his practice was in St. Clair county, and the
succeeding then years in Greene county. In 1888 he went to Bessemer, his
present home. He is a member of the Jefferson county (Ala.) Medical society
and the Alabama state Medical association, and has been vice-president and
president of the Jefferson and Greene county societies, respectively. June 22,
1869, Dr. Carson was united in marriage to Annie Burt Ridgway, the estimable
daughter of B. H. Ridgeway, of Eutaw, Ala. They have no children. Dr. Carson
is an elder in the Presbyterian church. His father was Thomas K. Carson, of
North Carolina, and was a successful merchant in Greensboro, Ala., for nearly
fifty years. He died in 1890, aged seventy-eight years. The mother's maiden
name was Adelaide L. Chadwick, of Kentucky. She died in 1885, aged sixty-five
years. There are for living children of this union, as follows: Mary, wife of
R. B. Douglas, of Greensboro, Ala.; Dr. S. C.; Maggie, wife of G. W.
Shackelford, of Birmingham, and Fannie, wife of H. M. Lovelace, Crescent City,
Fla. Dr. Carson's brother, John R. Carson, was captain of Company K, Forty-
fifth Alabama regiment, and was killed in the battle of Franklin in 1864.
Cause of death cerebral hemorrhage.
Chadwick Carson, M.D., was born in Greensboro, Ala., January 26, 1846.
He was educated at the Southern university and the university of Alabama. He
left the latter school in March, 1863, and went into the war with a company of
cadets, who afterward rendered efficient escort duty to both Gens. Pillow and
Adams, and also participated in the battles and skirmishes of Fayette Court
House, Ebenezer Church, Selma and Montgomery. While acting as escort to Gens.
Forrest and Adams at Ebenezer Church, they were attacked by a squad of Gen.
Wilson's (Federal) raiders, seventeen in number, all of whom were killed,
Forrest slaying three of them in a terrible hand to hand encounter, Dr. Carson
receiving a saber cut on the shoulder. Later, the doctor did some dangerous
and important duty as a carrier of secret dispatches between Confederate
generals, viz.: from gen. Adams, then at Tuskegon, Ala., to Gen. Dick Taylor at
Meridian, Miss., and from gen. Taylor to the war department then in Georgia.
At the close of the war he clerked for his father in Greensboro till 1871. He
studied medicine from 1871 to 1873 and went to the Louisville medical college
one year later, and then to the Tulane university at New Orleans, graduating
there. The first five years of his practice was in St. Clair county, and the
succeeding then years in Greene county. In 1888 he went to Bessemer, his
present home. He is a member of the Jefferson county (Ala.) Medical society
and the Alabama state Medical association, and has been vice-president and
president of the Jefferson and Greene county societies, respectively. June 22,
1869, Dr. Carson was united in marriage to Annie Burt Ridgway, the estimable
daughter of B. H. Ridgeway, of Eutaw, Ala. They have no children. Dr. Carson
is an elder in the Presbyterian church. His father was Thomas K. Carson, of
North Carolina, and was a successful merchant in Greensboro, Ala., for nearly
fifty years. He died in 1890, aged seventy-eight years. The mother's maiden
name was Adelaide L. Chadwick, of Kentucky. She died in 1885, aged sixty-five
years. There are for living children of this union, as follows: Mary, wife of
R. B. Douglas, of Greensboro, Ala.; Dr. S. C.; Maggie, wife of G. W.
Shackelford, of Birmingham, and Fannie, wife of H. M. Lovelace, Crescent City,
Fla. Dr. Carson's brother, John R. Carson, was captain of Company K, Forty-
fifth Alabama regiment, and was killed in the battle of Franklin in 1864.
Cause of death cerebral hemorrhage.
He was educated at the Southern university and the university of Alabama. He
left the latter school in March, 1863, and went into the war with a company of
cadets, who afterward rendered efficient escort duty to both Gens. Pillow and
Adams, and also participated in the battles and skirmishes of Fayette Court
House, Ebenezer Church, Selma and Montgomery. While acting as escort to Gens.
Forrest and Adams at Ebenezer Church, they were attacked by a squad of Gen.
Wilson's (Federal) raiders, seventeen in number, all of whom were killed,
Forrest slaying three of them in a terrible hand to hand encounter, Dr. Carson
receiving a saber cut on the shoulder. Later, the doctor did some dangerous
and important duty as a carrier of secret dispatches between Confederate
generals, viz.: from gen. Adams, then at Tuskegon, Ala., to Gen. Dick Taylor at
Meridian, Miss., and from gen. Taylor to the war department then in Georgia.
At the close of the war he clerked for his father in Greensboro till 1871. He
studied medicine from 1871 to 1873 and went to the Louisville medical college
one year later, and then to the Tulane university at New Orleans, graduating
there. The first five years of his practice was in St. Clair county, and the
succeeding then years in Greene county. In 1888 he went to Bessemer, his
present home. He is a member of the Jefferson county (Ala.) Medical society
and the Alabama state Medical association, and has been vice-president and
president of the Jefferson and Greene county societies, respectively. June 22,
1869, Dr. Carson was united in marriage to Annie Burt Ridgway, the estimable
daughter of B. H. Ridgeway, of Eutaw, Ala. They have no children. Dr. Carson
is an elder in the Presbyterian church. His father was Thomas K. Carson, of
North Carolina, and was a successful merchant in Greensboro, Ala., for nearly
fifty years. He died in 1890, aged seventy-eight years. The mother's maiden
name was Adelaide L. Chadwick, of Kentucky. She died in 1885, aged sixty-five
years. There are for living children of this union, as follows: Mary, wife of
R. B. Douglas, of Greensboro, Ala.; Dr. S. C.; Maggie, wife of G. W.
Shackelford, of Birmingham, and Fannie, wife of H. M. Lovelace, Crescent City,
Fla. Dr. Carson's brother, John R. Carson, was captain of Company K, Forty-
fifth Alabama regiment, and was killed in the battle of Franklin in 1864.
Cause of death cerebral hemorrhage.
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