Children and Teens Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley. At the end of the performance, which ran several times, Master Avery walked away and left the audience to untie Emma from the beam. Although perhaps not immediately. Ben Carson's parents were NOT the bigamist father and child bride he describes. Ben Carson has made his mother's extraordinary life story a central part of his campaign. In his books, speeches and interviews, he has told how Sonya was one of a family of 2. But Daily Mail Online can reveal that little of that story is exactly as he has relayed it – although the truth appears to be just as inspirational as the version the Republican candidate has offered. The differences between Carson's version and what official documents and interviews with family members revealed suggest that the surgeon himself may not know the full story of his background. But they raise questions about why he did not seek documentary proof for many of the claims he made in his books, especially once he repeated them in the context of a political campaign. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Family: Pictured in 2. The Texarkana Gazette is the premier source for local news and sports in Texarkana and the surrounding Arklatex areas. To link to this poem, put the URL below into your page: <a href="http:// of Myself by Walt Whitman</a> Plain for. Mark Sloan was the Head of plastic surgery at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital until he died. Carson poses in his home with his wife, Lacena 'Candy' Rustin, his two sons and his mother, Sonya Carson (seated at right) – who is actually legally named Johnnie. Deep impact: Carson's mother (left in the early 1. Family: Ben Carson (second from right) and his brother Curtis (left) at their home in Detroit in the 1. According to his account their mother divorced their father in 1. Scrutiny: Republican candidate Ben Carson (left) is under growing pressure over his life story. She was one of 2. Had a horrible life. Discovered that her husband was a bigamist, had another family.'The full speech is reproduced in his latest book, 'One Nation,' which is frequently sold at campaign events. Daily Mail Online, however, has uncovered four separate documents suggesting Sonya’s true name is actually Johnnie. There are no publicly accessible records that name her as Sonya. According to U. S. Census information, Carson's mother is between two to four years older than she has claimed. And, far from being married at 1. Carson has previously claimed she had only a third- grade education. Records show that she was still in school in the fifth grade. It is possible that Carson's description of his mother's third- grade education refers to her level of attainment, not her years in the classroom. Childhood home: This was the house where Ben Carson lived with his mother and brother. Official documents show that his father Robert, and Johnnie, 'his wf.,' purchased it. Purchase: The records for the childhood home of Ben Carson, showing how his parents bought it in August 1. Documented: Part of the property records which establish the Carsons' ownership of the home. Documentary proof: The 1. Robert Carson was 'married' to Johnnie - although no further documentary evidence of their marriage exists. Handover: Dr. Carson's mother, named as Johnnie Carson, relinquished ownership of the house in return for $1. A further document shows that two months later it passed to Willie Copeland Jr., who appears to be her nephew – and therefore the candidate's first cousin. Identification: The 1. Johnnie Carson' is a woman – and therefore Ben Carson's mother Daily Mail Online can also identify his father as Robert Solomon Carson, a Baptist minister who died in 1. Detroit at age 7. Mary. He was also survived by a stepdaughter, Fairell Tubbs, who said she was at his wedding around five years before his death, but did not know the details of his previous marriages, if any. Being one of twenty- four children, getting married at age thirteen, and later having to get a divorce after finding out my husband was a bigamist were just a few of them. Ben Carson's mother describes the challenges she faced Public records inspected by Daily Mail Online show no evidence of Robert Solomon Carson ever marrying or divorcing Sonya Copeland – the name until now believed to be that of Carson's elderly mother. Tubbs said Dr. Carson was invited to his father's wedding but didn't come – and that he also did not attend his father's funeral. Ironically the distinguished neurosurgeon's dad died of Parkinson's, a neurological disease. He is buried in an unmarked grave. Carson's father, according to his account in his book 'Gifted Hands,' raised him until the age of eight. But he is never mentioned as being part of his life after that. In chapter two of the 1. Republican politician describes his parents' story: 'Both my parents came from big families: my mother had 2. They married when my father was 2. Many years later she confided that she was looking for a way to get out of a desperate home situation.'Dr. Carson’s account continues: 'Shortly after their marriage, they moved from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Detroit, which was the trend for laborers in the late 1. A letter attributed to Sonya Carson, reprinted in 'Gifted Hands,' states: 'As the mother of Ben and his brother, Curtis, I had a lot of challenges.''Being one of twenty- four children, getting married at age thirteen, and later having to get a divorce after finding out my husband was a bigamist were just a few of them.'Census and property records paint a different – if equally tough – picture. They show that in Georgia in 1. John' Carson – a female – was part of the large family of a male John Carson and his wife Ruby, whoe maiden name was Stanley. Carson was a farm laborer; his daughter John was described as age six at the time. Ten years later the family had moved to Hamilton County, Tennessee. He died of Parkinson's disease Gravesite: The metal marker in the foreground is all that shows the burial place of Robert Solomon Carson, who was a Baptist minister and auto worker in Detroit. Passed away: Robert Solomon Carson's death certificate shows that he was born in Georgia, and married to Mary E. She is also now deceased. Census records also shed some light on the Copeland family that produced Dr. Carson's mother. It appears to have been made up of 1. The latest census records which are public are from 1. The 1. 93. 0 and 1. But taking either account, Carson’s mother is two to four years older than Sonya’s age, whom current public records show was born in 1. The next official document shows that in 1. Robert Solomon Carson bought the house at 1. Deacon Street where Ben Carson was born and brought up. The doctor's dad is recorded as buying it with 'Johnnie,' 'his wf' – wife. That suggests Sonya may be a middle name or a family nickname, and not the elderly Mrs Carson's legal name. The deed that recorded the Carsons' home ownership does not include any proof of their marriage. After an examination of city, state and national records, Daily Mail Online was unable to find any marriage record for Robert Solomon Carson and Sonya Copeland. The Hamilton County Clerk of Courts, which covers Chattanooga, Tennessee – where the Copelands had been living when they were supposedly wed – found no details of a union in any year between a male Carson and a female Copeland. Property records show that, formally married or not, the Carsons were the first family to live in the home built on Lot 5. Deacon Street, now located at the street address #1. In 'Gifted Hands,' Dr. Carson described the modest home as 'about the size of many garages today .. Ben followed on September 1. Their birth certificates are private documents. In 1. 95. 9, according to Carson's memoir, his happy childhood ended when 'Daddy left home for good'. He has frequently said the departure came as a consequence of his mother's discovery that his dad was a 'bigamist.'And in a 1. Ben in the Detroit Free Press's Sunday magazine 'Detroit,' Sonya described her struggles after she learned of Robert Carson’s 'betrayals with women and with drugs.''The man’s sins were so many and so extensive,' the Free Press reporter wrote, 'that when his young wife finally figured out most of the truth, the shock overcame her.''She wound up in a mental hospital for a time, saving up her sleeping pills and thinking about suicide.'Contrast: Ben Carson married his wife Candy with his mother (second right) and brother Curtis (right) present, along with his wife's married sister Cerise Tounsel and his wife's mother, also Cerise. Family: Ben Carson graduating Yale in 1. Sonya (left) and then wife- to- be Candy (right)Family: Carson's mother was filmed in 2. Eddie, then around 7. John, then around 7. PBS documentary investigating Ben Carson's roots. However it did not obtain documentary evidence of his claims about his mother's and father's life stories. The bigamy story is curious: Daily Mail Online has found no evidence of any divorce records, or any documents suggesting Robert Solomon Carson was married – until much later in life. He and Ben's mother were registered as joint owners of their Deacon Street home until 1. Dr. Carson's account of the property's status. In his book's telling, he, his brother and mother had moved to Boston to stay with his mother’s older sister Jean Avery, and her husband William, who agreed to take them in. In 'Gifted Hands,' the doctor recalled: 'With no financial resources to fall back on, Mother knew she couldn't keep up the expenses of living in our house, modest as it was.''The house was hers, as part of the divorce settlement. So after several months of trying to make it on her own Mother rented out our house, packed us up and we moved away.''We moved to Boston in 1. Mother moved us back to Detroit.'BEN CARSON, HIS MANY UNCLES AND AUNTS AND THE 'SONYA' MYSTERYThere is little doubt that both Sonya Copeland and Robert Solomon Carson came from large families. Sonya Carson's family is the more difficult of the two to be entirely sure about. She does not appear on any of the US. Census records which are crucial to piecing together family histories. The census, taken every 1. The 1. 94. 0 census and all preceding ones are published as public documents. In a 2. 00. 6 PBS miniseries, Sonya Carson's parents are named as John Copeland and his wife Ruby, nee Stanley. Records show that they appeared by 1. Sonya was not named as one of them. In 1. 94. 0, John was 5. Ruby was 4. 4, according to the document. The 1. 92. 0, 1. 93. Part of the 1. 93. Census records showing the Copeland family, including 1.
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