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Kit CARSON Family History


11-Dec-2000              Family Group Sheet

Alexander Harvey CARSON  died at age: 84 
       Born: 1663-1695       in: Scotland                                  
       Died: 1722-1779       in:                                           
Father:
Mother:

M Child 1  John CARSON  died at age: 90 
Born:        1710            in: Bradnich,DEV,ENG                          
Died:        1711-1800       in:                                           
M Child 2  Samuel CARSON  died at age: 50 
Born:        1712            in: Bradnich,DEV,ENG                          
Died:        1762            in: York County, PA                            1
M Child 3  James CARSON  died at age: 90 
Born:        1717            in: Bradnich,DEV,ENG                          
Died:        1718-1807       in:                                           
M Child 4  William CARSON  died at age: 56 
Born:        1715-1720       in: Bradnich,DEV,ENG                          
Died:        1776            in: Iredell County, NC                        
Spouse:   Eleanor MCDUFF  b. ABT 1722  d. 1814  
Married:  1751            in: Iredell County, NC                        
M Child 5  Alexander CARSON  died at age: 90 
Born:        ABT 1720        in: America                                   
Died:        1721-1810       in:                                           
M Child 6  Thomas CARSON  died at age: 79 
Born:        1669-1720       in:                                           
Died:        1708-1799       in:                                           

1 Will Book A, York County, PA page 216


11-Dec-2000              Family Group Sheet

Husband: William CARSON  died at age: 56 
       Born: 1715-1720       in: Bradnich,DEV,ENG                          
       Died: 1776            in: Iredell County, NC                        
Father: Alexander Harvey CARSON 

Wife: Eleanor MCDUFF  died at age: 92 
Married: 1751            in: Iredell County, NC his age: 31   her age: 29 
       Born: ABT 1722        in:                                           
       Died: 1814            in:                                           
Father:
Mother:

M Child 1  Lindsey CARSON  died at age: 64 
Born:         1-Aug-1754     in: IredellCo, NC                             
Died:         4-Sep-1818     in: Boonslick, HowardCo, MO                   
Spouse:   Lucy BRADLEY  d. ABT 1793  
Married:  1782            in: SC                                         1
Spouse:   Rebecca ROBERTSON  b. 1759-1784  d. 1812-1872  
Married:  11-Feb-1796     in: MadisonCo, KY                             
M Child 2  Andrew CARSON  died at age: 89 
Born:         1-Mar-1756     in:                                           
Died:        1773-1846       in:                                           
Spouse:   Temperance YOUNG  
Married:  1773-1806       in:                                           
M Child 3  Robert CARSON  died at age: 89 
Born:        20-Jul-1759     in:                                           
Died:        1760-1849       in:                                           
F Child 4  Sarah CARSON  died at age: 85 
Born:        1762            in:                                           
Died:        1778-1847       in:                                           
Spouse:   John SCROGGS  
Married:  ABT 1773        in:                                           
F Child 5  Eleanor CARSON  died at age: 91 
Born:        1767            in:                                           
Died:        1765-1858       in:                                           
M Child 6  Alexander CARSON  died at age: 90 
Born:        1751-1769       in:                                           
Died:        1770-1859       in:                                           

1 "Kit Carson: A Profile for Heroes" 

11-Dec-2000              Family Group Sheet

Husband: Lindsey CARSON  died at age: 64 
       Born:  1-Aug-1754     in: IredellCo, NC                             
       Died:  4-Sep-1818     in: Boonslick, HowardCo, MO                   
Father: William CARSON 
Mother: Eleanor MCDUFF 
Lindsey CARSON

The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank Becky Ross
(rlr29@idt.liberty.com) for contributing this information.

From "Kit Carson: A Profile for Heros" Page 2: "Eleanor's three eldest sons
were drawn into the American Revolution, serving under General Wade Hampton.
After the war was over, Lindsey and Robert went to South Carolina. There
Lindsey Married Lucy Bradley, with whom he later returned to Iredell County,
where they lived until the urge to follow Daniel Boone drew them Westward."
(probably between 1773 and 1782) Page 3: "In 1793 Lindsey Carson loaded a
wagon with his wife Lucy, and their four children - William, Sarah, Andrew,
and Moses -- and followed where Boone had led over the uneven, rutted
Wilderness Road. Soon after their arrival in Kentucky a second daughter,
Sophie, was born. Not long after ward, Lucy died. Two years later, Lindsey
married Rebecca Robinson from Greenbrier County, Virginia. Six of their
children were born in Kentucky: Elizabeth, Nancy, Robert, Matilda, Hamilton,
and Christopher Houston. Kit came into the world the day before Christmas,
1809, making thirteen persons to share the log cabin Lindsey had built on
Tate's Creek in Madison County." Page 4: "In 1811 Lindsey sold his Madison
County farm and headed West." Page 5: "Lindsey took up land in the Boonslick
area, ..." Page 10: "Lindsey lost his life working at his endless project of
clearing land. One day in early September 1818, while he was working near a
burning tree, a flaming limb broke away and fell on him, killing him
instantly.  He was sixty-four years old."



Wife: Lucy BRADLEY  
Married: 1782            in: SC                                          his age: 27    1
       Born:                 in:                                           
       Died: ABT 1793        in:                                           
Father:
Mother:

M Child 1  William CARSON  
Born:                        in:                                           
Died:                        in:                                           
F Child 2  Sarah CARSON  
Born:                        in:                                           
Died:                        in:                                           
M Child 3  Andrew CARSON  died at age: 90 
Born:        1774-1793       in:                                           
Died:        1781-1883       in:                                           
M Child 4  Moses CARSON  died at age: 90 
Born:        1774-1793       in:                                           
Died:        1781-1883       in:                                           
F Child 5  Sophie CARSON  
Born:        ABT 1793        in: KY                                        
Died:                        in:                                           
Wife: Rebecca ROBERTSON  died at age: 88 
Married: 11-Feb-1796     in: MadisonCo, KY                               his age: 41   her age: 12 
       Born: 1759-1784       in: GreenbrierCo,VA                           
       Died: 1812-1872       in:                                           
Father: James ROBERTSON 
Mother: Agnes 

F Child 1  Elizabeth CARSON  died at age: 46 
Born:        29-Nov-1797     in: KY                                        
Died:        1811-1844       in:                                           
Spouse:   Robert COOPER  
Married:  1811-1844       in:                                           
F Child 2  Nancy CARSON  died at age: 93 
Born:        28-Aug-1801     in: KY                                        
Died:        1802-1895       in:                                           
Spouse:   Mr. BRIGGS  
Married:                  in:                                           
M Child 3  Robert CARSON  died at age: 89 
Born:        10-Nov-1803     in: KY                                        
Died:        1804-1893       in:                                           
F Child 4  Matilda M. CARSON  died at age: 93 
Born:         4-Nov-1805     in: KY                                        
Died:        1822-1899       in:                                           
Spouse:   Adams HAMILTON  
Married:  1822-1855       in:                                           
M Child 5  Hamilton CARSON  died at age: 78 
Born:        18-Jan-1809     in: MadisonCo, KY                             
Died:        15-May-1887     in: HowardCo, MO                              
Spouse:   Rachel COOK  
Married:  1855-1880       in:                                           
M Child 6  Christopher Houston CARSON  also known as: Kit CARSON   died at age: 58 
Born:        24-Dec-1809     in: MadisonCo, KY                              2
Died:        23-May-1868     in: Fort Lyon, BentCo, CO                     
  Buried:                    in: Taos, New Mexico                          
     Ref:                      Occupation:    Fur Trader, Western Scout  
Spouse:   Waa-Nibe (Singing Wind)  b. 1805-1819  d. 1838  
Married:  1835            in:                                           
Spouse:   Making-Out-Road  b. 1801-1823  d. 1890  
Married:  1840            in:                                           
Spouse:   Maria Josefa JARAMILLO  also known as: Maria Josepha JARAMILLO   b. 19-Mar-1828  d. 23-Apr-1868  
Married:   6-Feb-1843     in: Guadalupe Church, Taos, New Mexico        
M Child 7  Hampton CARSON  died at age: 89 
Born:        23-May-1812     in:                                           
Died:        1829-1902       in:                                           
Spouse:   Annita CREWS  
Married:  1829-1862       in:                                           
F Child 8  Mary Ann CARSON  died at age: 93 
Born:        25-May-1814     in:                                           
Died:        1828-1908       in:                                           
Spouse:   Mr. RUBEY  
Married:  1828-1861       in:                                           
F Child 9  Sarshall C. CARSON  also known as: Sashwell CARSON   died at age: 93 
Born:        16-Jun-1816     in:                                           
Died:        1817-1910       in:                                           
Spouse:   Mr. ARNICH  
Married:                  in:                                           
M Child 10  Lindsey CARSON  died at age: 89 
Born:        11-Sep-1818     in: Boonslick, HowardCo, MO                   
Died:        1819-1908       in:                                           

1 "Kit Carson: A Profile for Heroes" 

2 "Kit Carson: A Profile for Heroes"
A marker in a yard on county road near Hamtonville, Iredell County, NC
states "Birthplace of Kit Carson." 

11-Dec-2000              Family Group Sheet

Husband: Christopher Houston CARSON  also known as: Kit CARSON   died at age: 58 
       Born: 24-Dec-1809     in: MadisonCo, KY                              1
       Died: 23-May-1868     in: Fort Lyon, BentCo, CO                     
     Buried:                 in: Taos, New Mexico                          
        Ref:                     Occupation: Fur Trader, Western Scout   
Father: Lindsey CARSON 
Mother: Rebecca ROBERTSON 
Christopher (Kit) CARSON

24-Dec-1809 Kit Carson was born at Madison County, Kentucky.

Kit CARSON lived at Old Franklin, Howard County, Missouri.

1826 The runaway 17-year-old Christopher ("Kit") CARSON on his first journey
with a caravan of traders bound for Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1834 Bent's Fort (Fort William), fur trade post on the upper Arkansas
established. A Bent, St. Vrain and Company party (with wagons) eastbound from
Santa Fe in the late summer traveled by way of Taos and Raton Pass to Fort
William; then came down the Arkansas to the Santa Fe trail--thus opening the
Bent's Fort branch of the Santa Fe trail.

May 1842 Bent, St. Vrain and Company's wagon train reached Missouri after an
April-early May journey across "Kansas" on the Santa Fe trail, from Bent's
Fort on the upper Arkansas.  Kit CARSON (who brought with him his young
half-Arapaho daughter to be cared for and educated in Missouri) was with
Charles Bent on this trip.

May 1, 1851 "Kit" CARSON, who had left Rayado, N.M., on March 17, arrived at
Kansas (City), Mo.  He had come in by way of Bent's Fort.  CARSON's own
(later) account of the trip east was this: "I remained in Rayado till March
and then started for St. Louis, took with me twelve wagons of Mr. [Lucien]
Maxwell for the purpose of bringing out goods for him.  Arrived at Kansas May
1. I proceeded to St Louis..."

June 1851 "Kit" CARSON, with 12 goods-filled wagons (Lucien Maxwell's), left
Kansas, Mo., early in June, for Santa Fe. The company consisted of CARSON, his
daughter, Adaline, his niece, Susan (wife of Jesse Nelson), and 15
employees--Jesse Nelson, a French-Canadian, and 13 Mexicans.

1856 Dictated his memoirs which were edited in 1968 by H. L. Carter, entitled
"Dear Old Kit."

Colonel in the Civil War.

1865 When Kit CARSON told the story of the Battle of Pawnee Rock to Henry
Inman while they camped in the Raton Range.

23-May-1868 Kit Carson died at the home of General William Henry Penrose at
Fort Lyon, Colorado. (Source: History of the Penrose Family by Josiah Leach,
pg. 118)

SOURCES:

[Encyclopedia Brittanica] [Grinnell, Bent's Old Fort and Its Builders, Kansas
Historical Collections, V. 15, pp. 78-81.] [Barry, Louise. The Beginning of
the West - Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West (1540-1854).
Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1972. Library of Congress Catalog
Card No. 78-172252] [Dary, David. True Tales of Old-Time Kansas. University
Press of Kansas. 1984] ["CARSON, Bent, Boggs Genealogy" by Quantrille McClung,
1962.] [BOONE GENEALOGY by Spraker]

Wife: Waa-Nibe (Singing Wind)  died at age: 19 
Married: 1835            in:          his age: 25   her age: 16 
       Born: 1805-1819       in:                                           
       Died: 1838            in: New Mexico                                
Father:
Mother:
Arapahoe squaw.

F Child 1  Adaline CARSON  died at age: 24 
Born:        1837            in:                                           
Died:        1861            in: MO                                        
Spouse:   Louis SIMMONS  also known as: Louey SIMMONS   
Married:  1851-1860       in:                                           
Spouse:   George STILTS  
Married:  1851-1860       in:                                           
Wife: Making-Out-Road  died at age: 67 
Married: 1840            in:          his age: 30   her age: 17 
       Born: 1801-1823       in:                                           
       Died: 1890            in:                                           
Father:
Mother:
Cheyenne squaw.
She walked off and left him when her tribe migrated.

Wife: Maria Josefa JARAMILLO  also known as: Maria Josepha JARAMILLO   died at age: 40 
Married:  6-Feb-1843     in: Guadalupe Church, Taos, New Mexico his age: 33   her age: 14 
       Born: 19-Mar-1828     in: Santa Fe, New Mexico                      
       Died: 23-Apr-1868     in: Boggsville, CO                            
     Buried: 1868            in: Taos, New Mexico                          
Father: Don Francisco JARAMILLO 
Mother: Maria Apalonia VIGIL 

M Child 1  Charles CARSON  died at age: 1 
Born:         1-May-1850     in:                                           
Died:        21-May-1851     in:                                           
M Child 2  William Julian CARSON  died at age: 35 
Born:         1-Oct-1853     in:                                           
Died:        18-Jan-1889     in: La Junta, CO                              
Spouse:   Pasqualita TOBIN  
Married:  1880            in:                                           
F Child 3  Teresina CARSON  died at age: 61 
Born:        23-Jun-1855     in:                                           
Died:         6-Jul-1916     in:                                           
Spouse:   DeWitt F. ALLEN  
Married:  14-Mar-1871     in: Boggsville, CO                            
M Child 4  Christobal Charles CARSON  died at age: 70 
Born:        12-Jun-1858     in: Taos, New Mexico                          
Died:         9-Feb-1929     in: La Junta, CO                              
  Buried:                    in: Taos, New Mexico                          
Spouse:   Marie Guadalupe RICHARDS  
Married:  1890            in:                                           
M Child 5  Charles Christopher CARSON  died at age: 76 
Born:         2-Aug-1861     in:                                           
Died:        21-Jul-1938     in: CO                                        
Spouse:   Mary Alice GALLAGHER  
Married:  12-Jul-1912     in: Trinidad, CO                              
F Child 6  Rebecca CARSON  died at age: 20 
Born:        13-Apr-1864     in:                                           
Died:         9-Apr-1885     in:                                           
Spouse:   John LEWIS  
Married:  1883            in: Fort Garland, CO                          
F Child 7  Estifanita "Stella" CARSON  died at age: 32 
Born:        23-Dec-1866     in: Fort Lyon, CO                             
Died:         1-Oct-1899     in:                                           
Spouse:   Spear "Tom" Erasmus WOOD  b. ABT 1866  d. 1885-1957  
Married:   3-Dec-1884     in: Taos, New Mexico                          
F Child 8  Josefita (Josephine) CARSON  died at age: 24 
Born:        13-Apr-1868     in:                                           
Died:        10-Oct-1892     in:                                           
Spouse:   William SQUIRES  
Married:   4-Nov-1890     in: Springer, New Mexico                      
Spouse:   James HOWARD  
Married:  15-Jan-1897     in: Springer, New Mexico                      

1 "Kit Carson: A Profile for Heroes"
A marker in a yard on county road near Hamtonville, Iredell County, NC
states "Birthplace of Kit Carson." 

The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank Stephen Chinn for providing this information.

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