Biographies & Short Sketches Aiken County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails Carson Howell Carson Howell (1768-1836, Nancy Dolly Cook - wife) was a Baptist Minister. He was a founding deacon of Rocky Springs Baptist Church in Aiken County, SC. He later pastored this church for 17 years until his death in 1836. He also founded Sardis Baptist Church in Swansea, SC in 1835 and Convent Baptist Church in Leesville, SC in 1828. He was one of the founders of the Edisto Baptist Assn. and at the time of his death was doing missionary work. Carson told people one year before he died the exact time in day, hour, and minutes when he would die and he died exactly the time he predicted. He was preaching in Augusta, Ga. at the time of his death. He rode his horse from Aiken County near Bethcar, his home, to Augusta. The church only paid him with a pair of homemade socks. (contributed by John Howell, gg-grandson) Back to Aiken County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails Copyright © by Genealogy Trails - All Rights Reserved With full rights reserved for original submitters This is a FREE website. If you were directed here through a link for which you paid $ for, you can access much more FREE data via our South Carolina index page at http://www.genealogytrails.com/scar/index.html Also make sure to visit our main Genealogy Trails History Group website at http://genealogytrails.com for much more nationwide historical/genealogical data and access to other state/county data