Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Merit Carson (c625) Submitted by: Wanda Purcell wpurc25758@aol.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Obit for Merit Carson Word had just been received of the recent death of Merit Carson at Mineral Wells, Texas, where he had been living for some time for his health. Mr. Carson was one of the real pioneers of Old Day County. His homestead on the Washita in now within the confines of the Shaller Ranch. Mr. Carson, originally from near Topeka, Kansas, was about 85 years old at the time of his passing. Mr. Carson, the first mail carrier into Cheyenne, carried the mail from Catalina, Texas in a two-wheeled cart drawn by a stallion. Immediately after the opening he built a neat frame house for himself and three children; he was then a widower. Between the studings he filled the spaces with a white mortar made of home-made rock. His eldest daughter, Belle, was married to William Nations by H.D. Cox, one of Cheyenne's first builders. The ceremony took place under the naked branches of a cotton wood tree on the banks of the Wachita one golden October afternoon in 1894. Some good women in Cheyenne, since every one loves a lover, made the dainty lacy white dress for the bride. Mr. Carson later moved from his home in Day County into Texas where he lived on a ranch on the upper Washita. Here he married again and reared a large family. Besides his wife and these young children he leaves two daughters, Mrs. Belle Nations, Landers, Wyoming, and Mrs. Rosa Dudney, Pampa, Texas, several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK