Show Finds Kit Carson W Was as Born Fighter Kinsman Writing Family History Learns of the F Famous Fa Fa- amous a- a Scouts Scout's Early Lif Life New York tork CoL Col Calvin Duvall ull les Cowles U U. S S. S A A A. retired of Hartford Conn kinsman of Kit Carson famous In Indian inn fighter and scout recently told hitherto unpublished stories of th the t frontiersman obtained by him while preparing a history of the the Carson fam fame 11 ily Colonel Cowles Cowles' Interview was brought about aboul by the publication In Inthe inthe the thc New York YOlk Times rimes of the reminiscences reminiscences reminiscences remi remi- of Dr nr William Villiam Carson Boone Roone of this city concerning Daniel Boone Doctor Boone Doone told of meeting Kit Carson Carson Carson Car Car- son while a boy and of assuming the name Carson after sitting on the scouts scout's knee find listening to his tales of adventure nd The Tire ge genealogy compiled complied by Colonel Cowles whose grandmother mother Nancy ancy Caroline Du DuH H was t first cousin of or Kit Carson lIe begins with William Carson Carson Carson Car Car- son Kits Kit's grandfather who ho came from the north of Ireland to Pennsylvania anla and later ater joined a of Pe Ie ns I Including the Boone Doone family In their migration to what Is now Iredell count county North Carolina some sometime sometime sometime time between 1738 and 17 11 lie settled settle settled set set- tle on a grant of 3 acres of land lond obtained from Lord Lor Granville Colonel Cowles said i Whether Mr Ir Carson settled on the thc theland theland land lan before or after he obtained the grant In 1701 1761 Is not known The country country country coun coun- try was then Infested with In Indians ians and wil wild Ild beasts and he lie was there In good time for the exercise of his adventurous adventurous Ien I en nature which croppe cropped o it out In Inthe Inthe the desire of later generations of CarSons Carsons Carsons Car- Car sons to fight Indians wild or 01 an anything else that occasion might re re- quire quite Father a Fighter William Carson married Eleanor McDuff I In North Carolina and Ind had seven children the eldest of whom whoa was Lindsay father rathel of Kit Carson He died from an on o ov ht of cold water water water wa wa- wa- wa ter while harvesting grain one hot hoto day o but the date late is not definitely Known Imo to his descendants Lindsay Carson who was born horn August 1 I 17 1 Inherited his fathers father's Im lands ls' ls under the law of primo then In force Ills son sou Kit Kitas was as the tenth of 11 14 children chil chil- dren di en Lindsay Carson bore borc an m honorable part in the Revolutionary n war Val var having served un until I the end said said l. l lonel Cowles A rif rifle e he IlU had carried which was wa given gl to his children was as of large caliber with part of r the stoc stock miss miss- In ing It was shot a aa away a at the saute same time Lindsay lost several lingers incI's rout his left hand He lie ed from ruin North to S h Carolina in about nho 1780 and I Ll Ir 1702 1792 went vent to tn M.- M. count county K y and established his iris home borne In III Howard IlO arI county Missouri in 1511 His Ills Joined li other settlers seWers In occupying Coopers Cooper's Fort between Ia Fayette ette and Boonesboro Boones- Boones boro from 1812 to 1815 1515 The fort was a little settlement of log cabins protected b by a n high stock f i ade jade as ns a defense against the Indians I i All of his sons came honestly by their imputation I as Indian fighters lIe He was us once attacked h by two Indians an and had lIall n f hol one n when the other closed In upon him lumin In a hand to combat with the su a savages savage's es e's esi he lie 1 killed the In Indian lun own Knife Imire i Lindsay Carsons Carson's descendants nr are scattered mainly through the Rocky mountain region and the West Middle states A letter from n a grandson says All of his sons without a n single Ingle exception went West In search of the theIn In Indians an and buffalo Now that the theIn In Indian lan Is guarded e on the time reservations an and the buffalo Is about extinct I am amI amat amat I at nt a loss to know what their descendants descend descend- escen ants will do lo for pastime Taken West at the Age of Two Christopher or Kit Carson was two ol old when his parents mo mowed years from I y to Missouri 11 H hen mu still a n child he took his turn at wa watching with the men while the settlers set set- tiers fought the In Indians during the War of 1812 1312 In the tire protection of Coopers Coopers Cooper's Coop Coop- ers er's Fort One of the t family funnily tra traditions is that Kit Carson once said I was a young bo boy In the schoolhouse schoolhouse schoolhouse school- school house when the cr cry came Indians I Jumped jumpe to my rifle threw down own tiny tny spelling book bool an and there It lies Colonel Cowles sai said that most of the facts concerning Kit Carsons Carson's early early early ear ear- ly history came from his Iris sister Mary MaryAnn MaryAnn MaryAnn Ann who v was as born bom during the exciting In ing days In Coopers Cooper's Fort May 23 25 i 1814 and later Inter became Mrs Irs Henry M. M I. I Rubey Irs Mrs Rubey's Hu e s account of her brothers start as a u frontiersman differs differs differs dif dif- fers from his own ov She said Kit Kitas was as a smart little fellow at nt his books s. s Father meant to make intake a luw- luw jer yer out of him hug but soon after WP ye moved out of the fort an and were getting getting get get- ting along pretty prett well father was accidentally accidentally ac ac- killed when the tire iii limb of a n tree fell on him Mother Iother then sent Kit hit n who ho was wa fifteen f years en rs old ol to Franklin to learn the saddlers saddler's trade He lie didn't like It ft for fur the only use he ha had bad for the saddle dle was on a horses hoise's back Three of or our older brothers ruthers ruther's had begun be be- gun fun tra trading between St. St Louis and Santa Fe Kit b begged l-ed l to go with them Mother promised that if he would sta stay another year ear at Fl Franklin lie he might go on the lire next trip The llie ho boys s 's set out and ancl got as us fa far fn I as 1 Inde Independence th with their train of pack animals ani ani- mals one morning to their surprise sur- sur pil prise e I Kit it rode up till on a mule manic The They told 1111 him hunt he lie would have lia to go o back because he lie was too young joung o to make maize the thc trip lie pretended to start stait for fOl home but hilt after lie he had gone Jone only a short distance he la turned t the animal loose and of course the animal ma made e straight fo hom home lifter After that the hays boys had to ta take e him hum with them and that lint as was the me last we saw of him for fOl 1 15 years ars Married an Indian Woman These years he sl spent nt In trading trapping mind mid hunting and In becoming becom ill lag ing more inure familiar with the tine In Indian lan customs and language During this time tune he d un an In Indian lan woman who died after he became famous I IlIe lie then returned to his ol old home with withA A Adaline allne their little daughter whom Sh She he left with one of his sisters was thoroughly e educated in a u girls' girls school In Fa Fayette Mo Ue lIe took tool her finally to California where she married married mar mur with her husband onn on ona onn ried nn and settled settle n a lore largo stoc stock ranch Kit Carson accompanied Fremont In the In 1842 18 on his explorations West an and was appointed a lieutenant In the rifle corps of the arm army In 1847 1817 but ut Colonel Cowles stated state that for some reason which he has hus never been able to learn l the nomination was not confirmed by the senate During the Civil war Carson was colonel of a aNew aNew New hew Mexico regiment of volunteers serving In New Mexico n end and Colorado and anti taking part In the tike battle bottle of Valverde Val Val- verde e N N. N M. M I. I nn and In Important operations operas operations opera opera- against the Indians Carsons Carson's second wife whom he married In 1853 was Josefa Jaramillo whose sister was the wife of Governor Go r Bent of New Mexico He TIe mn made e his home at Taos N. N M M. until his death eath which occurred occUlTed on Mn May 23 1868 nt at Fort Lo Logan nn Colo He lie had three sons and three daughters by his second wife His lIis sen William who ho was n a cf ef Gen William T T. Sherman ti vas ou n hn nf of county Colo u UL i rn rado ado o. o He lIe killed himself accidentally Ills His youn youngest est eon son Christopher Jr wrote Colonel Cowles In that since his iris fathers father's death eath he had been a cowboy fin and spent much of his time hunting Colonel Cowles gave this description description tion of I Kit It Carson lie He was only 5 feet G Inches tall but except for the shortness of ot othis his legs was strongly an and s symmetrically cally built hullt hi Mi hie J weight being about 1 ICO 30 pounds s. s His Ills long arms with their panther like elasticity of muscles his broad shoulders ers nn and deep cep chest in Indi Indicated i- i cited cate a n frame Crame well calculated to en en endure dure lure the har hardships ships ships' of trapper life His Ills features were large but well chiseled chiseled chis chis- elect his complexion ant and hair rather light and his eyes es blue He lIe was twos a perfect type of pioneer guide tra per per and frontiersman with all fill the attributes at- at tributes of that life life brave brave hospitable generous honest temperate and pa pa- pat t rI otic |