 Both his parents came from large families in rural Georgia, and they were living in rural Tennessee when they met and married.Carson's mother was 13 and his father was 28 when they married, and after his father finished his military service, they moved from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Detroit, where they lived in a large house in the Indian Village neighborhood.Carson's older brother, Curtis, was born in 1949, when his mother was 20.