R. B. CARSON

CARSON, DEEDS

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/24/2009 at 07:41:21

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

R. B. CARSON, of Coffey & Carson, grain merchants; office and warehouse at depot; residence, cor. Elm and Fourth sts.; born in Shelby Co., Ind., Oct. 1, 1842; removed with his parents to Davis Co., this State, where they are still living, in 1851; thence to this county in 1872; owns his residence, interest in ware and grain house and hayhouse and grounds. Married Miss Lizzie D. Deeds in 1873; she was born in Greene Co., Penn, April 1852; they have one child - Guy R., born in 1874. Republican. A.F.&A.M., No. 317; Master of Lodge. Has held the offices of Township Trustee, member of Council, member of School Board Independent District. Enlisted in 2d Iowa V.I. from Bloomfield, Davis Co., Nov. 20, 1861, in Co. G, Capt. Baker; participated at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Atlanta and with Sherman to the sea; enlisted as private and mustered out as color guard at Louisville, Ky., July 20, 1865.