This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baird, Carson, Coberly Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1385.1 Message Board Post: Another Civil War Vet Talsen by Death Funeral services for W. F. Carson, pioneer Reno County settler and veteran of the Civil war, who died yesterday at 2:30 p.m., at a local hospital, will take place tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., from the home of his daughter, Mrs. G. P. Coberly in Clay township. Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery. Mr. Carson, who was 84 years old, died after an illness of about four months. He was born in Brown county, Ohio, September 24, 1930. When 16 years of age, he moved to Illinois. In 1861 he enlisted in the 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, where he served throughout the Civil war. Mr. Carson married Phoebe J. Baird, December 25, 1867, and in 1876 they came to Kansas to make their home. Since the death of his wife, December 27, 1923, Mr. Carson has been living with his daughter, Mrs. G. P. Coberly, who is his only survivor. He was a member of the Joe Hooker post, G. A. R., here. The Hutchinson News Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas Thursday, August 14, 1924 page – 2 *** column – 6 --------------------------- Cemetery Records for Reno County Kansas 1865 – 1978 (book) Fairlawn Cemetery Clay Twsp. Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas Phoebe Carson b: 11 Aug 1840 d: 27 Dec 1923 husband: W.F. W. F. Carson d: 13 Aug 1924 Rachel J. Coberly d: 31 Dec 1958 85yrs 10m 23d