Mary Carson [2321]

  General Notes:

The Carson family which came from Pennsylvania and settled in Rutherford County in 1790. (Correct evidence indicates they arrived in this county closer to 1780). A grown-up family of three brothers, Daniel, John and William and four sisters, Mrs. William Gettys, Mrs. Lewis Lively, Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Oliver.

They came from near Gettysburg. Their oldest brother, Walter Carson emigrated to lndiana where he raised a family. (Walter Carson was in Rutherford in 1790 and 1800 at least, and apparently lived in Rutherford County for some time before moving on to Indiana.) Daniel had married a McFarland, and John and William were single. John Carson (Married) Mary Withrow, daughter of Capt. James Withrow, who served in the War for Independence and took part in the defeat and capture of Col. Patrick Ferguson, 300 English regulars with 800 Tory militia. They came to Colonies in the early sixties and founded Little Britten Presbyterian Church. (Carson Ancestry page)

Mary married Lewis Lively [2320] [MRIN: 807], son of William Lively [4] and Unknown, in 1796 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. (Lewis Lively [2320] was born in 1770 in Tryon County, North Carolina and died after 1850 in Henderson County, Kentucky.)