This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carson>Ire.>Ashe, Alleghany co, NC Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DiH.2ACEB/1732 Message Board Post: I'm trying to tie my gg grandma, Mary Carson b. Dec 1845(according to Grayson co, Va census info), to the John and Celia Carson family in Ashe (later Alleghany co) NC. That family came from Ireland, at least john did. Does anyone know of this family. John Carson died in 1852, when it was still Ashe co. The family did have a Mary, who never married, but had a son, my g grandpa, Ephraim b. NC in 1874. They seemed to have settled in Grayson co, Va. If anyone has this family, please contact me