Descendant Kit Carson Family Tree

719 346 8638 kit carson county website county clerk has marriage and land records from 1889 and burial records from 1902.

Descendant kit carson family tree.

When kit was just nine years old his father was killed in a tragic accident. The county is located in the east central area of the state. He was eight years old when his father was killed by a falling tree while clearing land. He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime by biographies and news articles and exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime novels.

In 1963 carson divorced joan and married joanne copeland on august 17 1963. Parents of his wife. A special from la junta to the republican says. The carson family soon settled in howard county missouri.

It is doubtful that carson received much of a formal education because he remained nearly illiterate or unable to read and write his entire life. Carson will take the pleasure in entertaining you and send you on to his brothers dan and will and sister mary pennock living in cass county indiana. Johnny carson married his college sweetheart joan wolcott on october 1 1949. The carson family moved to boone s lick howard county missouri when kit was about one year old.

The boone and carson families became good friends working and socializing together and intermarrying. From there you can go to elwood indiana and call upon kit carson representative of the john t. The family settled on a tract of land owned by the sons of daniel boone who had purchased the land from the spanish. Denver col dec 10.

Lindsey carson s death reduced the carson family to a desperate poverty forcing young kit to drop out of school to work on the family farm as well as engage in hunting. County courthouse edit edit source kit carson county courthouse 251 16th st burlington co 80807 0249 phone. The county was named for kit carson. They had 3 sons.

The famous scout s son shoots the. Carson family and on to whiteland indiana where i t. Kit carson jr a son of the famous old scout to day killed his father in law and mother in law and then made good his escape.