CARSON, WILLIAM, born July 8, 1799, in Westmoreland county, Pa. When he was four years old his father moved to Hamilton county, Ohio. William was never out of the county until he was twenty-six years old. He then came to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 1, 1825, at Springfield. He walked the whole distance from Cincinnati to Springfield in eleven days. He spent the first winter at Sangamo, and was married May 21, 1826 to Cynthia Broadwell. They had fifteen children, seven of whom died young. Of the other eight:

SARAH F., born March 2, 1828, married Aaron Thompson. Mrs. T. died Oct., 1855 leaving two children in Missouri.

LEAH A., born July 30, 1829, married William DeArmand, have nine children, and live in Atchison county, Kan.

ELIZABETH A., born Dec. 22, 1832, married Nov, 1863 to Joshua Short, have one child, and live in Nodaway county, Missouri.

MARY M., born Jul 26, 1834, married Jacob Shawver. He was a soldier in an Iowa regiment, and died at Helena, Ark., in April 1863. She married Josiah Culver and live in Marion county, Iowa.

HELEN B., born April 30, 1837, married Feb., 1860 to Charles B. Miller, have six children, and live in Marion county, Iowa.

WINFIELD S., born May 27, 1843, married March 27, 1866 to Emma J. Taylor, who was born Oct. 30, 1844 in Somerset county, N. J. They have three children, William E., Jennie A. and Charles F., and live near Pleasant Plains.

WILLIAM L., born Nov. 6, 1846, married March 12, 1868 in Hamilton county, O., to Ella Carson, who was born there Sept. 17, 1844. They have three children, Robert B., Alice M. and Nellie B., and reside one and a half miles east of Pleasant Plains.

William Carson and his wife are living on the farm settled by her brother, John B. Broadwell, in 1819. Mr. C., has lived nearly half a century within one mile of where he now resides, one mile east of Pleasant Plains.