James G. Carson
Dr. James Carson was an East Carroll Parish planter in Louisiana. Kate Stone stayed with his family near Anchorage, Louisiana, in April 1863 before they all departed together to the Tyler, Texas, area, where Carson later died. According to Stone’s diary, in April 1863 Carson was “in all the hurry and bustle of moving not only his own family but several hundred Negroes, his own and those belonging to the large Bailey estate, for which he is executor” (188).1
Papers are at UT Austin, but also part of the Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations.
By August 1863, Carson had died in Tyler, leaving “immense business interests with only the overseers to take charge of them and several hundred Negroes to be housed, clothed, and made self-supporting” ([stone1995], 236).
