Elizabeth “Betsy” Gaston Carson

Elizabeth “Betsy” Gaston, known as Betsy, was the mother of William Carson, the grandmother of Andrew Jackson Carson, the great grandmother of Mary E. Carson Wyant and the great great grandmother of Bessie E. Wyant Wellons, my grandmother.

She was born in 1796 in Chester County, South Carolina. She died in Bond County, Illinois in 1830 or 1831.

Her father was William Gaston. Her mother is unknown.

She married Andrew Carson on August 17, 1815 in Christian County, Kentucky.

They moved to Bond County, Illinois.

They had four children: John (1817), William (1818), Andrew J. (1824) and Robert G. (1826).

She died in Bond County, Illinois, sometime after being enumerated in the census of 1830. Her husband remarried in 1831.