Husband Elijah David Carter
Born: 8 Feb 1852 - Naylor, Lowndes County, Georgia
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Died: 1 Jun 1922 - Naylor, Lowndes County, Georgia
Buried: - Unity Primitive Baptist Church, Naylor, Lowndes, Georgia
Father: Jesse Carter
Mother: Susan Lightsey
Marriage:
Wife Caroline Malissa Carter
Born: 29 Jan 1854
Christened:
Died: 26 Jan 1901
Buried: - Unity Primitive Baptist Church, Naylor, Lowndes, Georgia
Children
General Notes: Husband - Elijah David Carter
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General Notes: Wife - Caroline Malissa Carter
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Husband Carroll Carter
Born: 27 May 1903
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Died: 18 Apr 1985
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: Hansford Franklin Carter
Mother: Zoia Amelia Porter 250
Marriage:
Wife Gladys Kinsey
Born: 31 Oct 1911 - Echols County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 26 Dec 1996 - Lowndes County, Georgia
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Other Spouse: Lawson Allen Carter
Children
Husband Carroll Carter
Born: 27 May 1903
Christened:
Died: 18 Apr 1985
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: Hansford Franklin Carter
Mother: Zoia Amelia Porter 250
Marriage:
Wife Gladys Wisenbaker
Born: 2 Oct 1905
Christened:
Died: 20 Jan 1980
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Children
Husband William Herndon
Born: 1813 - South Carolina 28
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Father: George Herndon
Mother: Rachel Branch
Marriage: 1833 - Appling County, GA 28
Wife Charity Carter
Born: 1813 - Barnwell District, S. C. 28
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Died:
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Father: Isaac D. Carter
Mother: Lydia Branch 218
Children
General Notes: Husband - William Herndon
HERNDON, WILLIAM. Descendants of Charles Carter of Stafford LUCY Mrs. Clyde Hiers and Mrs. Beulah Carter are sisters and lifetime residents of Echols County. Carol Hughes records some of her grandmother Clyde's memories and Kathy Prine records her grandmother Beulah's. They lived together at Mrs. Hiers home place and led an active, happy life. Mrs. Clyde has her garden, chickens, and loves to keep her hands busy making aprons, the bib-kind, which she wears all the time. And Mrs. Beulah is happy when she has someone to talk about the past good old times. married 3-23-1880 WC ... s/o J.D.& 1st wife Edith. d/o John A Carter(1833)& Mahala Walker of Echols County..
1813-1887
APPLING
William Herndon was born in South Carolina in 1813, son of George Herndon (Vol. III). He was married in Appling County in 1833 to Charity Carter, born 1813 in Barnwell, District S. C., daughter of Isaac Carter. They had nine children:
1. Wiley
2. Mary
3. Rachel
4. William
5. Martha
6. Emily
7. Adeline
8. Sarah
9. James
Mr. Herndon served as a Justice of Peace in the 583rd district of Appling County, 1840-1845, also as a Justice of Appling Inferior Court, 1846-1849. In his latter years he and his wife moved to Lake Butler, Florida, when they died about 1885-1890, and were buried there.
Husband Charles Carter
Born: 1711 - Lancaster County, Virginia, USA 62
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Died: 2 Nov 1766 - Amherst County, Virginia
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Father: Thomas Carter Jr.
Mother: Arabella Williamson
Marriage: 1745 - Stafford, Virginia
Wife Lucy Morgan
Born: 1714 - Amherst County, Virginia, USA
Christened:
Died: 1797 - Sumner County, Tennessee, USA
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Charles Carter
and Amherst
Charles Carter, youngest son of Thomas and Arabella William-
son Carter, born circa 1712, died in Amherst county in 1766.
He was under twenty years of age when his father made his will
in 1728, and was left in the care of his brother Peter until he
reached that age. He inherited a good plantation of several hun-
dred acres of land in Stafford from his father, who at one time
owned twenty-four hundred acres of land in that county. About
1755 he removed to that part of Albermarle which became Amherst in 1760, where his will dated June 21, 1766, was probated Dec. 1, 1766. He died Nov. 2, 1766. He left to each of his five children two negroes .and the rest of his estate to '"laving wife I Lucy" during the rest of her lifetime. His personal estate
amounted to £764. 2s. 8d., and included 14 negroes, eleven shil-
lings worth of books, good lot of furniture, etc. The surname of
Charles Carter's wife and the date of their marriage is unknown.
The Overwharton Register records the birth of four of their
children. They had issue:
I. John Carter.
n. Dale Carter, born Aug. 9, 1744.
HI. Judith Carter, born March 17, 1747, died Dec. 18. 1750.
IV. Lucy Carter, born Feb. 16, 1750, died August 22, 1751.
Y. Catharine Carter, born Oct. 26, 1753, died prior to 1766.
VL Susannah Carter, probably born in 1755 in Amiherst.
Vn. Elizabeth Carter.
VHL Charles Carter.
General Notes: Wife - Lucy Morgan
was the daughter of Samuel & Hannah(Avery)Morgan. Lucy married Charles Carter, 1745 in Stafford,Virginia. After Charles death in 1766, Lucy married John Blackmore, 15 Oct 1768 in Amherst County, Virginia.
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Husband John George
Born: 1849 - Lowndes Co., GA 28
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Father: Asa George
Mother: Elizabeth Touchton 28
Marriage:
Wife Clara Carter
Born: 1856
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Died:
Buried:
Father: John Carter
Mother: Elizabeth Knight 177
Children
Husband Nealy Hires
Born: 21 Sep 1896
Christened:
Died: 30 Jun 1966
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: James William Hires
Mother: Mary Cates
Marriage:
Wife Clyde Carter
Born: 8 Sep 1898 - Echols County, Georgia 225
Christened:
Died: 22 May 1992 - Echols County, Georgia
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: Martin Turner Carter Jr
Mother: Sarah Susan Moore 10
Children
General Notes: Wife - Clyde Carter
Were you a member of a large family?
Yes, nine head of children….five boys and four girls.
What did you do for entertainment when you were a small child?
Well…..there was nothing to do much…..only…..just when we had cane grindings…..my daddy would let us give little parties and have a candy pullin' and they'd…..the other folks around in the settlement would give little parties like that and we'd go to 'em.
Did y'all have any kind of dances?
Yes, we had dances…..the old times square dancing…..We'd have that at different homes around in the settlement…..one home would have on Saturday night or Friday night, and maybe,…..one of the neighbors would have one at their house the next time.
Where did y'all go to school?
At the Sardis School…..what they call Sardis School, and they didn't…..couldn't go no higher than the seventh grade then; that was the highest grade we had…..
Where was this school located?
It was almost three miles from our home, and we had to walk to school in the morning and in the afternoon.
How did the school building look?
Just an old…..frame…..one…..just one room frame house.
What kind of seats did you sit in?
Well, to start with we just had benches…..just benches…..then later we had just folding seats, just like they used to have in the schools.
How often did your family go to town?
About once a month…..they'd go and get…..oh…..my daddy would go and get groceries about once a month…..and he'd always buy flour by the barrel, rice by the fifty and seventy-five and a hundred pounds of rice at a time…..and we didn't have much sugar, only brown sugar…..when we ground cane…..He always had one barrel of brown sugar…..and there was very little white sugar that we had.
Do you know how to make the brown sugar?
He cooked the syrup real thick…..and then put it in a barrel…..bored a hole in this barrel and put a Faucet in there, and this sugar would drip, a real dark syrup out of there…..until it dried completely out…..where the sugar would be firm.
How much did the things cost that you bought back then?
Oh, they was real cheap…..my daddy said he could get a barrel of flour for 15 to 20 dollars…a whole barrel…..and you could buy cloth, real nice material at 35 to 40 cent a yard…..sheeting you could buy for 10 cent a yard, everything was cheap then.
Did you make most of your clothes?
Yes, we made everything we wore.
Do you wish times were like they are now or like they were back then?
Well, I feel like they'd be lots better…..people would be lots better off if they were back like then…people had a good time and they loved each other…each other…then they were neighbors…..and when my daddy would kill a beef…..he always shared it with his neighbors…..and if his neighbors killed a beef, they would do the same…..he always killed around 15 head of hogs every year, so we'd have plenty of meat and lard to use through the year with the beefs that he killed…..
Did your father do any kind of work besides farming?
Yes, he used 'ta run a cotton gin and a grits mill…..for several years…..And then he just quit that and went just to farming…..just farming…he has had as high as seven horses…..to plow with…..and he growed lots of long cotton at the time…..people growed long cotton…that was about the only money crop they had…..long cotton. He always had plenty of vegetables in his garden all times all through the year…you could never see a time when you could not go to the garden…..gather up some kind of vegetables to eat…..always made plenty of potatoes.
Did you used to pick cotton or did he hire people to pick it?
He hired people to pick it and we picked too…all the children that was old enough…..big enough to know how to pick cotton, we picked it too…..
Husband Columbus J, Carter
Born: 14 Nov 1856 - Lowndes (now Echols) County, Georgia 28
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Died:
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Father: John A. Carter
Mother: Mehala Walker
Marriage: 1885 28
Wife Martha Elizabeth Watson 28
Born:
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Died:
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Children
Husband Cone C. Carter
Born: 18 Apr 1859
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Died:
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Father: Isham T. Carter
Mother: Susannah E. Fletcher
Marriage:
Wife Susan Hughes
Born:
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Died:
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Father: James Thomas Hughes
Mother: Mary Lightsey
Children
Husband Dr. Job Elbert Wilder Smith 28
Born: 24 Nov 1854 - Echols County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 7 Sep 1919 - Waycross, Ware County, Georgia
Buried: - Lott Cemetery, Waycross, Ware Co., Georgia, USA
Marriage:
Wife Cordella Carter
Born: 15 Sep 1862 - Echols County, Georgia 28
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Died: 23 Dec 1938 - Waycross, Ware County, Georgia
Buried: - Lott Cemetery, Waycross, Ware Co., Georgia, USA
Father: John A. Carter
Mother: Mehala Walker
Children
General Notes: Husband - Dr. Job Elbert Wilder Smith
DR. Job Elbert Wilder Smith , 64 , died at midnight Saturday night at his home on Excelsior Farm about 5 miles from the city .
He was attacked with a stroke of paralysis late that night and within a few hours he passed away with his family by his side when he took his last breath .
He is the son of the late James David Smith and Edith Folsom ..
Survived by his wife : Mrs. Cordelia Mary Carter Smith of Waycross ;
his daughters:
Miss Vesta Smith of Waycross
Miss Juna Smith of Washington City
Mrs. Frank Lester Walker of Patterson
his sons:
Darwin R. Smith of New York City
Hoke Victor Smith
Warren L. Smith
Rossa E. Smith
L. Carlton Smith .... all of Waycross
(his sisters)
Mrs. I.T. Sims of Plant City, Florida
Mrs. M.M. Stewart of Sanford , Florida
Mrs. J.W. Johnson of Pavo, Georgia
Mrs. Susan Cowart of Stockston, Georgia
(his brothers)
W.S. Smith of Quitman, Georgia
Jerry B. Smith of Jasper, Florida
Joe E. Smith of Los Angeles, California
Funeral services will be held at his home on Monday afternoon with the Rev. Dr. J.S. Sibley , the local Presbyterian pastor and the Rev. J.B. Herring of Lake Park, Florida following burial into Lott's
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General Notes: Wife - Cordella Carter
Job & Cordelia had 8 children:
Darwin Ray, Vesta, Irene, Juno, Hoke Victor, Warren Lott, Rossa Elbert, LaFayette ...
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December 24, 1938
MRS. J.E.W. SMITH HEARS SUMMONS
Mrs. Cordella Mary Carter Smith , 76 , died Friday morning at the home of her daughters, Mrs. Brown , after an extended illness ..
A native of Echols County, Ga. , a daughter of a prominent family of South Georgia , the late John A. Carter and Mahala Walker Carter , early settlers of Echols County, Ga. ..
also preceded in death by her late husband who passed in 1919 the Dr. Job Elbert Wilder Smith .
They were married on March 23, 1880 in Ware County and moved to Jasper, Florida until December 1888 , when they moved to Waycross .
She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Waycross for nearly 50 years and a member of the Francis S. Bartow Chapter and the United Daughters of the Confederacy ..
Survived by her daughters:
Mrs. Richard E. Brown
Mrs Frank I. LaRoche .. both of Waycross
Mrs. F. Lester Walker of Patterson
(her sons)
Darwin R. Smith of New York City
Hoke V. Smith of Cincinnati
Warren L. Smith of Waycross
Rossa E. Smith of Alexandria , La.
L. Carleton Smith of Charlotte, NC
(her sister)
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith (husband Jobe E. W. ) of Lake Park, Georgia
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3:30 pm at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Brown at 607 Ava Street conducted by the Rev. A.G. McInnis pastor of the church following burial next to her husband in Lott's Cemetery .
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