Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - R. B. Carson

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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R. B. Carson was born October 15, 1828, in Haywood County, N. C., and is a son 
of Shadrick and Mary (Turner) Carson. The father was born in Tennessee before it 
became a State, and when eighteen went to North Carolina to live with relatives, 
where he afterward married. The mother was born in Haywood County, N. C., 
received a common-school education, and was a school-mate of Gen. Thomas, and of 
her thirteen children five are now living: Robert B., Lucinda, James, Joseph and 
Angeline. Those deceased are Martha, Adeline, Jane, Samuel, Margaret, William, 
John and Harriet. Mr. Carson was a man of means at the time of his death. He and 
his wife died in Georgia, but were buried in Tennessee. Robert Carson, the 
grandfather, was a native of France, who settled in Tennessee at an early day 
and there passed his life. His wife was born in Tennessee, and afterward married 
Sam Williams. She died in Nashville, Tenn. The maternal grandparents of our 
subject, Robert Turner and wife, were natives of North Carolina, where they 
passed their lives. Mr. R. B. Carson lived in Georgia until thirteen, being 
reared on a farm, and having but limited educational advantages. When nineteen 
he started to join the Mexican War, but was dissuaded by an uncle and returned 
home. July 27, 1849, he married Mary P. Louallen in Tennessee. This lady was 
born in North Carolina, and bore him six children, all save one now living: 
Shadrick M., Frank, Robert A., Charley and Martha. Hannah H. is deceased. Mr. 
Carson removed to Georgia from Tennessee, and twenty years after came to 
Arkansas, where he lost his wife in 1872. A year later he married Mrs. Eliza 
Fuller, by whom he has two children: Mary A. and Joseph H. Mrs. Fuller had one 
child, William, when she married our subject, October 30, 1873. Mr. Carson 
served six months during the war in Company G, Fifth Georgia Regiment, during 
that time experiencing all the hardships of war. After returning home he resumed 
farming and ran a dairy part of the time. When Mr. Carson first came to Arkansas 
he rented land for three years and then bought his present place, giving in part 
payment a span of mules. Since his second marriage he has lived upon his present 
place, which contains 310 acres, 130 being under cultivation. He has been a 
member of the Missionary Baptist Church for thirty-eight years, and his wife 
belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Carson has served the community 
as constable, and is now director of the district schools: He is a Democrat in 
politics, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity, Knights of the Horse and 
Farmers' Alliance and Wheel.