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Mrs.
Bruce Carson Mrs. Bruce
Carson, whose maiden name was Murdock, was born in Scotland in 1869, coming with
her parents to America when one year old. She is the daughter of Archibald and
Margaret Murdock, who were born in Scotland, and is the widow of the late Robert
Carson, who died in October 1908. Mrs.
Carson has two brothers and one sister, all of whom reside in Jasper County.
They are James Murdock, William Murdock and Mrs. Claude Carrier, all of
them prominent and well-known people of the County.
Mrs. Carson is an energetic and capable woman and, with the assistance of
her stepchildren, successfully manages and operates the large farm upon which
she resides. The husband of the
subject of this sketch was also born in Scotland, coming to this country
twenty-five years prior to this date. Upon
his arrival he engaged in mining, which occupation he followed more or less
until he died, operating a mine upon his home farm, which since his demise his
widow now controls. Mr.
Carson was a prominent man in his County, being a member of the First
Presbyterian Church at Newton, the County scat of the County, and being
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and that of the Woodmen of the World at
the time of his death. In politics he was a Democrat, but often voted
independently. The subject of this sketch has no children of her own, but is a good mother to the three children of the former wife of Mr. Carson. The children are, respectively, Ellen Carson, aged twenty-two; Mary Carson, aged nineteen, and Archie Carson, aged eighteen, who all reside with their mother upon the home farm, which consists of one hundred and sixty acres of as good land as the County affords. Mrs. Carson's home is one of the best in Palo Alto Township. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 1023. |
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