Carson, Mrs. Bruce

CARSON, MURDOCK, CARRIER

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Date: 8/21/2009 at 12:11:02

Carson, Mrs. Bruce

Mrs. Bruce Carson, whose maiden name was Murdock, was born in Scotland in 1869, coming with her parents to America when one year old. She is the daughter of Archibald and Margaret Murdock, who were born in Scotland, and is the widow of the late Robert Carson, who died in October 1908.

Mrs. Carson has two brothers and one sister, all of whom reside in Jasper County. They are James Murdock, William Murdock and Mrs. Claude Carrier, all of them prominent and well-known people of the County. Mrs. Carson is an energetic and capable woman and, with the assistance of her stepchildren, successfully manages and operates the large farm upon which she resides. The husband of the subject of this sketch was also born in Scotland, coming to this country twenty-five years prior to this date. Upon his arrival he engaged in mining, which occupation he followed more or less until he died, operating a mine upon his home farm, which since his demise his widow now controls.

Mr. Carson was a prominent man in his County, being a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Newton, the County scat of the County, and being affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and that of the Woodmen of the World at the time of his death. In politics he was a Democrat, but often voted independently.

The subject of this sketch has no children of her own, but is a good mother to the three children of the former wife of Mr. Carson. The children are, respectively, Ellen Carson, aged twenty-two; Mary Carson, aged nineteen, and Archie Carson, aged eighteen, who all reside with their mother upon the home farm, which consists of one hundred and sixty acres of as good land as the County affords. Mrs. Carson's home is one of the best in Palo Alto Township. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 1023.