NOTE: James Alston CARSON, 10 SEP 1832- 1833 - 26 AUG 1862

James A. Carson was a member of Co 'C', 12th GA Regiment, CSA.
He was a private on May 1, 18 Reynolds, GA. Source: Roster of
the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865, Volume IV.

NOTE: Absolom JANES, 08 JUN 1796 - 25 SEP 1847

Absolom was the 2nd child of 12. Absolom and his wife Selah
Gresham, whom he married before

NOTE: Nathan BRYAN, 26 JAN 1803 - 29 JAN 1868

A descendant of William Bryan, Sr. - Marquis of Thomond.
   Vol 5, page 750, First Families in America.

"Nathan Bryan was a judge, member of the state legislature, and
   the first banker (informal) in his county, though until late in
life he apparently could not sign his name. At one time he
owned more than 10,000 acres of land, and at the close of the
Civil War he owned 68 slaves.

"Nathan Bryan came to this county when the idians were here and
built what seems to be the first house in the county. It was
situated on the high ridge east of the Flint River above
Marshallville. From its front door the view encompasses the
beautiful wooded swamps of the Flint River for many miles. The
   old house still remains, a form of architecture very popular in
that day - two large rooms with a shed room to each and a
hallway between the large rooms known as a 'dog trot.' In its
gables are two large attic rooms. As oon as the stage coach
started running from Knoxville, or the Old Agency, to
Travelers' Rest, this house was a Stage Coach Stop or Tavern,
where passengers were refreshed and horses changed. Down by
   the creek there was a Slave Mart where the negroes were brought
   and exhibited for sale... With the revenues from these thriving
forms of business, added to the returns from the rich new lands
   and river bottoms, Nathan Bryan soon became a rich man. He
kept his savings under his bed in a rawhide trunk, and it was
said to be mostly in gold. Indidentally, Bryan was one of
nature's iherently smart men, for it is told of him that he was
   not burdened with modern education. He represented the county
   in the Legislature in the year 1842. His wealth soon became
known, and his neighbors called upon him for loans. In order
   to make a loan, no finance committee and board of directors
needed to be consulted, nor even a note signed. His method was
unique. The neighbor simply sent a boy on horseback with a
note saying the amount he wished to borrow. Bryan dropped the
note in the trunk, sent the money, and let the note remain
until the money was returned." ref "History of Macon County
Georgia" by Mrs. J. E. Hays

NOTE: Nathan BRYAN, 1756 - 17 SEP 1835

Appears in DAR Patriot Index, pt 1
DAR #286624

NOTE: William BRYAN, ABT 1691 - SEP 1762

see North Carolina Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol 1,
No 4, p 577.

NOTE: William JANES, BETWEEN 1733 AND 1735 -

William Janes III was the first child of Michael Janes and his
unknown wife. They had sever

NOTE: Michael JANES, 29 JUN 1686 - 1760

Michael Janes was the 8th child of William Janes, Jr. and
Sarah Clark.

NOTE: William JANES, 1654 - 17 NOV 1726

William Janes, Jr. was the son of William Janes, Sr. and Mary,
who emigrated to America in 16

NOTE: William JANES, ABT 1610 - 20 SEP 1690

All Janes information taken from 'History of the Janes Family'
and the Bible record of Absolo Jr., Wallingford, CT, and also
in Capt. Ephraim Chamberlain's company. Military record in a

NOTE: Joseph Samuel OLIVER, 1846 -

Joseph Oliver worked with Henry Flagler to build the first
railroad in Florida. He took his wife, Cynthia, on a
hand-pumped flat car down through Florida to look for a place
   to live. She picked Kissimmee.
They had 6 children, two of whom married into the Carson
family. Ruby Oliver, Marion Persons' mother, married Marion
Bryan Carson, and Edgar Oliver married Helen Carson. €5

"Around 1881, Joseph Samuel Oliver of Georgetown, Georgia,
contracted with the railroad company to build the road as far
south as Kissimmee under a charter granted by the Legislature,
   in the term of Governor Bloxham. When the road was completed,
Oliver brought his wife, Nannie C. Roberts Oliver, from
Georgetown, via Maitland where she had lived while the road was
being built, to see if she wanted to live in Kissimmee. She
   was quickly convinced and they made the move.

"Their daughter, Annie Beatrice Oliver, born in 1868, the
oldest of six children, rode the engine to Orlando every day to
attend high school. The other children were: Don, Edgar, Ruby,
Ola, and Thad. Don married Juliet Ashurst of Georgia. Edgar
married Helen Carson (sister or cousin to Marion Carson, who
married Ruby) and settled in Savannah, Georgia. Ruby and
Marion Carson lived in Kissimmee. Ola married Jasper Massee,
another cousin, and Thad S. married Cecil Jackson of Dahlonega,
Georgia. Thad helped draw the blueprints for the town of St.
Cloud. The two sons of Thad and Cecil carry their grandfather
Oliver's names, Joseph and Samuel. Joe now lives in Georgia,
   and Sam in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Their parents died in
Kissimmee.
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.
"Memories of Joseph Samuel Oliver and his wife Nannie were
supplied by his granddaughter, Joe Berta Bryan Weaver, and
passed on to her daughters. 'Grandpa Oliver was a great big
man, but exceedingly gentle. He employed many men in the
construction of the railroad and trained them well. One, John
Sewell, worked for J. S. Oliver until 1901 when he went to
Miami and began construction of hotels for the railroad. I
remember that Grandpa Oliver was a devout Christian. He was
frequently called on to lead prayer at the First Baptist
Church, and once he forgot that he had laid his sleeping
granddaughter on the seat when he rose to pray, and after a
lengthy petition to the Lord sat down again completely
foregetting the sleeping child! Her wails of distress brought
from him a contrite exclamation, Baby! Grandpa's so sorry! His
genuine piety and strong character are memorialized in every
generation of descendants with the naming of at least one Joe
   or Sam.

"Grandma Oliver was a tiny ball of fire in contrast to her big,
gentle husband. Her frail body worn out with child-bearing,
   she was unable to do the hard work required of a housewife in
those pioneer days, but kept a small crew of Negro servants
busy in the house and yard. She was sometimes seen standing in
   the back yard, her white hair shining above the black silk
dress she often wore, a buggy whip in her diminuitive hand as
   she supervised the work of the yard man. A woman of great
force, she ran the house while grandpa tended to the railroad."
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