Carse, Joseph

CARSE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman
Date: 7/24/2007 at 21:19:34

Joseph Carse

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.64, Belknap Twp.)
Joseph Carse, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born in County Down, Ireland, December 21, 1808. He is the son of John and Abagail (McCormick) Carse, both natives of County Down, Ireland. His father was born in 1776. He was a farmer, and his ancestors, as near as we can ascertain, came from Scotland in A. D. 1611. His (subject's) mother was born in 1766, and died in her native country in 1850. our subject received a fair education in the old subscription schools. His grandfather took out a perpetuity on a piece of land in 1748, on which our subject and his father lived; Lord Dufferin was his landlord. Our subject came to the United States in 1860, locating in Lee County, Ill., where he lived and farmed until 1878, when he came to this county, and now lives on Section 21, Township 75, Range 40. He was married in County Down, Ireland, October 6, 1843, to Elizabeth Spratt, born in that county October 27, 1821. She was the daughter of John and Hannah (Carse) Spratt; both natives of the latter county; her father, born October 31, 1775, and died about 1869, in Ireland; her mother, born in the same county in 1796, and died May 26, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Carse have had eleven children - Hannah, born September 19, 1844; Abigail, born November 20, 1846, died November 31, 1878; John, born January 10, 1849; Elizabeth, born March 19, 1851; Joseph, born March 19, 1853; James, born March 13, 1855; William, born March 15, 1857; Archie, born December 23, 1858; Ann I., born October 12, 1860; Sarah A., born February 11, 1863, and Robert H., born December 10, 1865. The family are all members of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Carse has a brother in Lee County, Ill., and a sister living in Allegheny City, Penn.

Note: Abigail's death date is listed as November 31, 1878 in the book.