Rutherfordton, April 30—George Carson, crippled inmate of the Rutherford County Home, has been notified that Taylor Carson, is brother, has died and left him his property, a good-sized fortune.
When a copy of the will was read to George, the great deep of his soul was touched and a shower of tears of joy fell on his bunk as he laid their listening to the good news. It is often said that facts are more startling than fiction and this is a case in point. D.F. Morrow, his attorney, leaves next week to collect up George’s fortune and bring it to him. Arrangements are being made to locate George in a hospital for treatment. George is well known in this county and his many friends rejoice with him in his good fortune.
Carson was born a cripple, but grew to be a man in size except he had the legs and feet of a child and has today. He was born full of energy and to one of the best families of the county. He obtained a common school education, and was then thrown on his own resources and without a murmur met the world in this crippled condition, to battle out a living. He did it for years by traveling from place to place selling newspapers and periodicals. He became a great reader and is today, notwithstanding his confinement in the home on account of sickness, one of the best posted men in the county. He has an exceedingly bright mind and is a good conversationalist, but sickness and his natural affliction became too great for him and he was forced to give up the battle for a living and take refuge in the county home. This was against his will, and a violet disappointment to George for he has the energy and pluck that go to make up heroes, and regretted much to have to yield to his maladies, but sickness is the conqueror of all.
From The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, May 1, 1926
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