Robert Warden Carson

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118160319/Robert-Warden-Carson Father of Rachel Louise Carson - Environmentalist, memorial 4066.

Page 77, Paragraph 3 of "Rachel Carson - Witness For Nature" written by Linda Lear, published in 1997:

"Maria sent his body back to Canonsburg, Pennsylvania where Robert Carson's three surviving sisters saw to his burial on July 9 in the McLean Plot at the Oak Spring Cemetery."

The Daily Notes - Canonsburg, PA Monday - 8 July 1935 Page 1 - Column 5

R. W. CARSON TO BE BURIED HERE

Funeral services for Robert W. Carson, who died suddenly Saturday night in his home at Stemmeis Run, near Baltimore, will be held at the McNary Funeral Home on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. A. H. Baldinger, fo teh Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary, Pittsburgh, will be in charge and burial will be in Oak Spring cemetery. The body is expected to arrive here early Tuesday morning.

The deceased was well known in this community although never having resided here. He is survived by his wife, Maria McLean Carson, who will be remembered by older residents, being a daughter of the Rev. D. M. B. McLean, pastor of the Chartiers United Presbyterian church from 1870 to 1880. He also leaves three children, Robert and Rachael Carson, and Mrs. Marian Willaims, all at home.

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