Jefferson-Hale-Greene County AlArchives Biographies.....Carson, Shelby Chadwick, M.D. January 26, 1846 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 252--253

Shelby 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.

Additional Comments:
Shelby Chadwick Carson and his wife, Annie B., were in the Greensboro, Hale 
County, AL census in 1900.



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