James R. Carson Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB 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. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: James R. Carson: a son of Samuel Carson, deceased, was born in now Hancock County, West Virginia, in 1807. He learned the tailor trade and followed that as his vocation for thirty five years, then he changed his occupation to farming, and is pursuing that as his vocation at present. He married Sarah Conley, of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1835. They settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, remained four years, and then moved on the farm where they are now living, in Clay District, Hancock County, West Virginia. They reared eight children -- Martin S., Samuel H., John M., James A., David M., William W., Matthew B., and Sarah W. His companion died in 1871. Martin L. served near two years in the war of 1861, in Company I, of the Twelfth Virginia Regiment.