SAMUEL CARSON

    Samuel Carson, a farmer, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, August 1, 1843.  He was a son of James end Jane (Lorimer) Carson, of Ross County, Ohio.  His father was born in 1813, and his mother in 1807.  They were married in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1839, and lived in that and Guernsey County until 1859, at which time they located in Union County.  In 1864, they removed to Mahaska County, Iowa, and now live in Madison County, same State.  Our subject is the third child of a family of five children, three of whom are living.  He enlisted May 1, 1862, in Company C, subsequently of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment.  He also did garrison duty on Johnson's Island, and June 6, 1865, was discharged and returned to his home, and afterward journeyed West through the Territories, returning in 1868, and settled, where he now resides, February 11, 1868, he was married to Jennie A., daughter of William and Eliza Taylor.  She was born in Champaign County, Ohio, in 1843.  They have had four children, viz., Lain, Walker, Celia and Mary.  He and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he has been in Elder ten years.  He owns seventy-three acres of land, and has been a member of the School Board five years.