Notes from the Author

Cappy's Greed, by H. Lee Cannon (Marti Talbott), begins where this story leaves off.

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The Promise is a work of fiction, yet it is loosely based on the lives of the following real people: Uriah Carson died in 1807 and is buried next to Mary some where in Virginia.

In 1833 near Noblesville, Indiana, John Carson stood before a circuit judge and re­counted his service in the Revolutionary War. He was seventy-two-years old. (The Promise accurately depicts his account.) As a result, he was granted several acres of prime Indiana farm land in payment for the worth­less Continentals he once held. He died in 1845 and is buried in Rush County, Indiana. Just as he prom­ised, John named his son Jonathan Samuel Carson.

Jonathan Samuel Carson II was born in Kentucky, married four times and was the father of twelve. His last wife lived to see four wars. He is buried in Gibson Cemetery in Green County, Iowa. Sam named his first born Mahala.

Mahala Carson Taylor was my great-great-grandmother.

Soon after retiring, my grandfather, James Lloyd McClurg, wrote down the stories he remembered hearing as a child, beginning with the Carsons and continuing through six generations.

And in his journal, he made note of each time our family was visited by Aunt Charlotte's curse.