Carson - George Sassafras
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, August 18, 1899
Sunday night at the poor farm Geo. Carson paid the penalty of the human race and breathed his last. Mr. Carson was seventy years old and had been an inmate of the county asylum for about eight years. He used to be a familiar character about the streets of the city and went by the nickname of "Sassafras" George. He was an indefatigable purveyor of sassafras and was always on hand in the season with bunches of the fragrant root which he claimed *was nature's remedy for all diseases of the blood. He was buried Monday evening at the farm. - thanks to Kim H