This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CARSON, SEVIER, NETHERLAND Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/igB.2ACE/2372 Message Board Post: I was just going though copies of some old clippings from my g-grandmother's scrapbook, and thought I'd post this obituary for Nannie Carson, daughter of David Deaderick Sevier (of Greene Co) and Annis Netherland Sevier of Kingsport. Nannie married Rev. Dr. Alexander N. Carson, born 1848, probably in Sullivan County. I've found conflicting information on personal genealogy sites about his parents. Nannie is buried in the Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville, OH, with their three children who died as infants. Dr. Carson and their son, Charles Carson, are not buried there. *** This Obituary is from an original newspaper clipping in a scrapbook, which did not include the name of the paper or the date. CARSON - On Wednesday evening, September 23, at 10:30 the soul of Nannie Sevier Carson, the beloved wife of Dr. Alexander N. Carson of San Francisco, winged its flight from the dark gray mists of earth to the glad light of the beautiful beyond. To those who best kenew Mrs. Carson there will ever remain a memory of an intelligent, cultered woman, possessing all the gracious cordiality of the true Southerner she was. Mrs. Carson was born in Greeneville, Tennessee August 6, 1849, and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Sevier. Mr. Sevier was the great-nephew of the famous John Sevier, the first governor of Tennessee. Coming as she did from one of the best families of the South, Mrs. Carson possessed asll the delicacy and true refinement of that people. She ws educated at Norristown, Pennsylvania, and on June 15, 1875, was married to Dr. Carson. In the happy years that followed four children were born, Harry, Frank, Nannie and Charles. Of these the first three sleep the! ir last sleep in the quet cemetery at Westerville, Ohio, where Mrs. Carson was laid beside them. Many tender associations cluster around Westerville, as it was Dr. Carson's first pastorate. Charles, the only living child, is in business in San Francisco. Mrs. Carson's health has been failing ---- years, and has necessitated changes in Dr. Carson's pastorates in the hope that a change of climate would benefit. In June the shadow of the Death Angel's wing fell over her. A sudden stroke of apoplex prostrated her. From this she never recovered but slowly sank till her feat touched the dark valley of the shadow. When the last of earth came to her she was perfectly conscious. Peacefully and sweetly as a child going to sleep, without a struggle or a moan, with her hands stretched out to her husband and son, she drifted from the shores of time to the glad hereafter. A few short breaths, anans she was at rest. There will be a place left desolate forever, a devoted wife and mother gone from earth. The days will grow lonlier and the haunting chords of memory alone will sound in our ears in stead of the beloved voice. "We can not say, we will not say, That she is dead, she is just away: With a quiet smile and a wave of the hand. She has wandered into an unknown land. And left us dreaming how very fair, It needs must be since she lingers there."