. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 1867. Her husband entered theIllinois Conference in 1868, and thereafter she served with him in thefollowing charges: Hey worth, Elkhart, Mason City, Monticello, Macon, Tay-lorville, Mahomet and Urbana, where he fell asleep April 24, 1879. She taught in the Public Schools for a time in her young was a very intelligent woman, of recognized influence and leadershipin the places where she lived and wrought. After her husbands deathshe filled several positions of prominence in supporting her loved ones
. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 1867. Her husband entered theIllinois Conference in 1868, and thereafter she served with him in thefollowing charges: Hey worth, Elkhart, Mason City, Monticello, Macon, Tay-lorville, Mahomet and Urbana, where he fell asleep April 24, 1879. She taught in the Public Schools for a time in her young was a very intelligent woman, of recognized influence and leadershipin the places where she lived and wrought. After her husbands deathshe filled several positions of prominence in supporting her loved ones andrearing her family, living in Bloomington and Chicago, and in several placesin Southern California. Three children came into her home as a result of her marriage union,Clarence Clifton, Edna Edith, and Philip Clifton Carroll, all of whom havepreceded her into the other world. Sister Carroll, at her own requestwas buried at Long Beach, California, as that state had been her home forthe last twenty years. A grand-son, P. C. Kurtz, survives her, livingin Bloomington, MRS. PRESLEY P. CARSON. Eva Thompson was born in Dublin, Ireland, in1870, removing when very young with her parents toLondon, England, where she spent her girlhooddays. In 1889 she came with her parents, William andAnne Thompson, to Springfield, Illinois, where she re-sided till her marriage. She was a young woman ofa deeply religious nature, and her experience in Lon-don among mission workers had made her resolve tomake her life count for the most in behalf of hu-manity. She readily found a place in the ranks ofChristian workers and soon became one of the mostdevoted and capable in a large class of young peoplein the First Methodist Church of Spiingfield. It was here in the religiousactivities of this church that she met the Rev. Presley P. Carson, who wasthen just entering the ministry, and to whom she was married June 12, Carson was well fitted to share in the responsibilities of her hus-ba
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