NN Carson1 
b. circa 1812
NN Carson|b. c 1812|p1619.htm|William Clark Carson|b. 9 Jan 1790\nd. a 8 Dec 1830|p76.htm||||Charles Carson|b. 22 Oct 1761\nd. 5 Oct 1816|p158.htm|Rachel Clark|b. 10 Dec 1766\nd. 17 Nov 1842|p159.htm|||||||
Grandaunt of Louise Underwood.
2nd great-grandaunt of Laura Jane Munson.
- Family Background:
- Underwood and Allied Families
NN Carson was born circa 1812.1,2 She was the daughter of William Clark Carson.1
Stephen F. Austin recorded in his Register of Families on 1 July 1826 that William C. Carson had three daughters, ages 1, 5 and 14. Supporting evidence that William Carson had a daughter born before his marriage to Catherine Jane Patterson, is that six years previous, on the 1820 Census in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, there were two female children under ten years of age in his household. One was Rachel Jane who, according to family tradition, was their only daughter. Although it is entirely possible that William was previously married, there is perhaps another explanation that accounts for this "mystery daughter." The writer believes, but is far from proving, that she was not William's daughter, but his wife's younger sister Harriet Patterson, and that the second adult male in William's household in 1820, age 45 or older, was probably their father John Patterson who has not been located elsewhere on the 1820 Census. Of Catherine's three sisters, Mary Ann and Hannah were older than fourteen in 1826, leaving only Harriet unaccounted for. Harriet married in 1835 in West Feliciana Parish, where her brother Joseph was living, and admittedly, there is no proof she ever left Louisiana. The one fact from which the idea grew was that in 1852, Rachel Jane named a daughter Ella Harriet. It could mean nothing, but then again, it may indicate a close relationship between Rachel and her Aunt Harriet. Rachel was too young when the family left Louisiana to have developed much of a relationship with the family they left behind.
Stephen F. Austin recorded in his Register of Families on 1 July 1826 that William C. Carson had three daughters, ages 1, 5 and 14. Supporting evidence that William Carson had a daughter born before his marriage to Catherine Jane Patterson, is that six years previous, on the 1820 Census in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, there were two female children under ten years of age in his household. One was Rachel Jane who, according to family tradition, was their only daughter. Although it is entirely possible that William was previously married, there is perhaps another explanation that accounts for this "mystery daughter." The writer believes, but is far from proving, that she was not William's daughter, but his wife's younger sister Harriet Patterson, and that the second adult male in William's household in 1820, age 45 or older, was probably their father John Patterson who has not been located elsewhere on the 1820 Census. Of Catherine's three sisters, Mary Ann and Hannah were older than fourteen in 1826, leaving only Harriet unaccounted for. Harriet married in 1835 in West Feliciana Parish, where her brother Joseph was living, and admittedly, there is no proof she ever left Louisiana. The one fact from which the idea grew was that in 1852, Rachel Jane named a daughter Ella Harriet. It could mean nothing, but then again, it may indicate a close relationship between Rachel and her Aunt Harriet. Rachel was too young when the family left Louisiana to have developed much of a relationship with the family they left behind.
