Daughter of John Egbert and Susannah Hahn

Married John Carson, 31 Jan 1841, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois

Children - George Washington Carson, William Franklin Carson, Elizabeth Minnie Carson, John Carson, Sarah Ann Carson, Elvira Carson, Mary Emily Carson, Susan Emmaline Carson, Verena Caroline Carson, David Carson, Annie Louisa Carson

Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 2, p. 28

According to the history of Elvira Egbert Carson, wife of Bishop John Carson, written by her granddaughter, Minnie Healy Gibson, the family did not leave their home in Fairfield during the time of the occupation by Johnston's army.

Johnston's army arrived in 1858 to settle in Fairfield, and my grandparents were getting ready to move south with the people who had decided to leave Utah if they could not make peace with the army officials. They were in the act of moving when the army vanguard met them out in the valley northeast of Fairfield and asked them why they were leaving and promised them protection if they would return. They were glad they did for the officers became real friends to them. They had a large house which was used as a hotel or inn for many years. During these years it housed many of the notables of the nation on their way to California, it being on the road to the gold fields of California. At this time Fairfield was given the name of Camp Floyd, having been given this name for John Floyd of Virginia who was Secretary of War. It was one of the stations on the Pony Express route and later used for the stage lines that followed. One room in the "Carson House," as it was known, was called the Greeley Room, so named for Louis Greeley, brother of Horace Greeley, who occupied it for a long time.

Grandfather was considered as a friend by the Indians, who often came to visit him, but two of his brothers were killed by Indians below Fairfield when the officers tried to arrest an Indian and take him forcibly from camp. He was made bishop of Fairfield and kept this position for forty years. When the Relief Society was organized in 1864, Grandmother was set apart as first counselor and as such, she remained until she moved from Fairfield. Elvira Egbert Carson lived to be eighty-seven years of age. They were pioneers of 1851.