This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DiH.2ACEB/1408.4 Message Board Post: : I525824505 Name: Absolum CARSON Given Name: Absolum Surname: Carson Sex: M Birth: 1792 in Greene Co., TN Death: <1860> in Cleveland, Bradley Co., TN Census: 1860 District 2, Bradley Co., TN-pg 167 Note: Oct 23, 1847: Petition signed by people in Bradley County. To the Legislature now in Session, assembled in Nashville, Tennessee, the petition of Absalom Carson a citizen of Bradley County and State aforesaid, would represent to your body that he has lost the sight of his right eye caused by a lick, and when he labors his eye gives him so much pain that it renders him incapable of performing labor enough to support himself and family. Now from the premises, your petitioner would pray you to grant him the privilege of Hawking and Peddling or of retailing Spirituous Liquors without license, whichever your body may see fit to do. Said Stock not to exceed from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars. Father: Andrew CARSON b: 1767 in Paxton Twp., Lancaster Co., PA Mother: Elizabeth HANNAH b: 1768 in Hopewell, Cumberland Co., PA Marriage 1 Martha (Patsey) GLASS b: 1798 in Washington Co., TN Married: 07 Sep 1814 in Greene Co., TN Children Sarah CARSON b: <1822> in TN Nancy CARSON b: <1829> in TN Wilson E. CARSON b: <1815> in TN Lincoln Collen CARSON b: <1817> in TN Mary A. CARSON b: 1818 in TN John B. CARSON b: 1827 in TN Luther Calvin CARSON b: 1820 in TN Susanna CARSON b: 1833 in TN Elizabeth CARSON b: <1840> in TN Martha CARSON