Anna (Jarnagin) Carson (1778 - 1832)

Born Jan 1778 in Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel T Carson — married 26 Jan 1803 in Jefferson Co., TN.

Descendants

Died Oct 1832 at age 54 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Samuel Carson, 6C2, my great grandfather, was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, in 1768, and lived for some time in Augusta County. He may have been born there. When he came to Tennessee he was about 32 years old. Three years later Parson Henderson married him to a Washington County girl, Anna Jarnargin, of Welsh origin, whose father, Captain Thomas Jarnagin (1746-1802), had married Mary (or Patsy) Witt in 1767, and had been among the first settlers going from Virginia into the Watauga Settlement in Washington County, Tennessee, then a part of North Carolina. The father and mother of Mary Witt were Charles Witt, who died in 1781, and Lavinia Harbren [sic] (1753-1829). Her grandfather was William Witt (1675-1764). Captain Thomas Jarnagin, who was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, served in the War of the Revolution. His wife had a sister, Lydia Witt, and three brothers Elijah, Joseph, and Caleb. Caleb Witt fought in the Revolution and saw Cornwallis surrender. Burnett (p. 18) relates that when Caleb Witt and wife, Miriam Horner, began housekeeping in 1784, their household effects were the most elemental, consisting of a few pounds of feathers for a bed, a board for a table, some stools, a broken pot for boiling vegetables, and a flat rock on which to bake bread. This is doubtless a picture of the hope chest of many of our ancestors of the time. ...

Samuel Carson died in Jefferson County, Tennessee, in 1850, of pleurisy or pneumonia. His wife, Anna Jarnagin Carson died in 1833 of "congestive fever." They are presumed to have been buried in the old Hopewell cemetery, which is so overgrown and neglected that the search for markers is fruitless.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Moore, Ralph E.; The Alexander, Carson, Moore Genealogy; 1967. Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Microfilm, Cat. No. 896634, 27 June 1972. pp 15-16