Robert Cafferty (son?) Carson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: ASSOC-Cafferty/Donelson

Notes:

Research Notes:
Elizabeth (niece of Rachel Donelson (Mrs Andrew Jackson)) Caffery?

Robert married Mary Elizabeth Green on 30 Nov 1912 in Hays Co. Texas. Mary was born in 1841 in Mississippi; died in 1925 in Blanco Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lillie married (..) Palmer about 1885. (..) was born about 1860; died after 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to the great great grandson of John Morman Carson, Steve Carp enter (expresley@cox-internet.com), John and wife Sarah Arabella and th eir family moved to Chihuahua, Mexico to work in the mines there in the l ate 1890's or early 1900's. "John Morman Carson did die in Chihuahua, M ex. found his obit in the trunk. He died at home in Chihuahua of a gall s tone. He was a superintendent in the silver mines in Mex., and his son, J ohn Robert Carson (my great-grandfather) worked there as well. after Jo hn Morman died, John Robert worked a few more years in the silver mines . Then, the Mexican government nationalized the silver mines and kicked t he Yanquis out. John Robert Carson packed two sisters, Margaret Belle a nd Rose Darling, and his mother, Sarah Arabelle Payne Carson, into a co vered wagon and headed back to the states . ...lived for awhile in a co vered wagon in Blanco, TX "

Was a mining engineer in the silver mines of Texas, according to Chapte r 11 of "The Saga of the Carson Family of Brazos County, Texas"

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=indygrandma&id=I5258

John married Sarah Arabella Payne on 30 Jun 1886 in San Marcos, Hays Co, Texas. Sarah was born on 16 Jul 1863 in Hays Co, Texas; died after 1902 in of, Mexico or Hays Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]