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- " SIMON M. CARSON
"This gentleman was born in Frederick county, Virginia, November 21, 1817, son of John and Sarah (Stephens) Carson. In the fall of 1829 he came with his parents to Marion County. Here he was raised and educated in the subscription schools of the county. February 27, 1840, he was married to Miss Ann Painter a native of Frederick county, Virginia, daughter of Robert and Mary (Haines) Painter. Mr Carson moved to Schuyler county after his marriage and remained there until 1846 when he returned to Marion County. Mr Carson was in the Federal service for two years of the late war; enlisted in April 1862, in Company K, 11th M.S.M., afterward 2d M.S.M. He was discharged at Cape Girardeau in the latter part of 1863, on account of disability from exposure and hardship. Mr Carson settled on his present place in 1879. He has a family of five children: Sarah E. Mary J. John R., Martha A., and Amanda E. Mr Carson is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, holding his membership at Bethel -- Holcombe. op. cit., p. 786
" Mr Armstead Hoskin was a member of Bethel for many years until a rather unusual incident of the Civil War. During the war Simon Carson was a forager for the Union Army. He came to Mr. Hoskin's place and took not only a fine matched team of driving horses, but also the double set of harness with "blind bridles" which had just been invented. Mr. Hoskin was a 'Southerner' and therefore not paid. He promptly quit Bethel Church for Simon was a member there, too. Mr. Hoskin said that he would not commune with a thief.
" The same Simon Carson seems to have been the source of more than this one problem. Yankee soldiers looking for horses came to the farm of Benjamine McPike. The horses had been hidden and the soldiers went away without finding them. However, Mr. Carson, their neighbor and a deacon at Bethel with Mr. McPike, knew where the horses were hidden. He brought the Yankees back and took them to the hiding place. The McPikes were powerless against the soldiers, but as the group rode away with the horses, one of the women of the house could not bear the sight, so she picked up a brick and hurled it at Carson. The brick hit him in the small of the back and knocked him off his horse. This left him crippled for life."--Bethel Baptist Church, choice bits...
"Mr. Simon Carter [Carson] who died the 19th of this month was buried at Bethel last Thursday [Nov. 20, 1902] Rev. Dingle preaching the funeral sermon. Mr Carson was born in Virginia and had he lived two days longer, would have been eighty-five years old." --- Palmyra Spectator [?] Nov. [?] 1902
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Taylor Family Genealogy
1817 - 1902 (84 years)