According to the 1900 Morgan County Census, she had been the mother of thirteen children with ten living (eight were currently in the household at that time).
OBITUARY (Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tenn., June 9, 1927, p. 2):
"Mrs. Rebecca Wilson [Williams] Carson
"OLIVER SPRINGS, Tenn., June 8 (Spl.)--Funeral services for Mrs. Rebecca Jane Wilson Carson, 70 [69] years old, who died at her home, near Oliver Springs, were held on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Wall's chapel, near Oliver Springs, conducted by Rev. Eli Brown, burial following in Davis cemetery at Coalfield.
"Mrs. Carson is survived by her husband, I. C. Carson, three sons, Thomas and Isaac Carson, of Oliver Springs, and Edward Carson, of St. Charles, Va.; five daughters, Mrs. Robert Privette, Mrs. Wiley Seivers [Seiber], Mrs. William Gray, Mrs. Gratz Jackson and Mrs. Ella Ridings, all of Oliver Springs; two brothers, James T. Williams, Oliver Springs, and John H. Williams, LaFollette [La Follette], and a sister, Mrs. L. B. Silcox, Harriman.
"For many years Mrs. Howard [Carson] had been a member of the Baptist church."
According to the 1900 Morgan County Census, she had been the mother of thirteen children with ten living (eight were currently in the household at that time).
OBITUARY (Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tenn., June 9, 1927, p. 2):
"Mrs. Rebecca Wilson [Williams] Carson
"OLIVER SPRINGS, Tenn., June 8 (Spl.)--Funeral services for Mrs. Rebecca Jane Wilson Carson, 70 [69] years old, who died at her home, near Oliver Springs, were held on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Wall's chapel, near Oliver Springs, conducted by Rev. Eli Brown, burial following in Davis cemetery at Coalfield.
"Mrs. Carson is survived by her husband, I. C. Carson, three sons, Thomas and Isaac Carson, of Oliver Springs, and Edward Carson, of St. Charles, Va.; five daughters, Mrs. Robert Privette, Mrs. Wiley Seivers [Seiber], Mrs. William Gray, Mrs. Gratz Jackson and Mrs. Ella Ridings, all of Oliver Springs; two brothers, James T. Williams, Oliver Springs, and John H. Williams, LaFollette [La Follette], and a sister, Mrs. L. B. Silcox, Harriman.
"For many years Mrs. Howard [Carson] had been a member of the Baptist church."
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