Husband William Carter
Born: May 1865 - Echols County, Georgia 28
Christened:
Died: 1 Mar 1947 - Echols County, Georgia
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: Martin Turner Carter Senior
Mother: Nancy Deloach
Marriage:
Wife Ora Lee Carter
Born: May 1871 - Echols County, Georgia, USA
Christened:
Died: 1 May 1942 - Echols County, Georgia, USA
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Children
1 M George Lawton Carter
Born: 6 Dec 1892 - Echols County, Georgia, USA
Christened:
Died: 27 Jun 1977 - Echols County, Georgia, USA
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Laura Blanche Kinsey
Marr: 1931
2 F Katie Irene Carter
Born: 7 May 1895 - Echols County, Georgia, USA
Christened:
Died: 30 Jan 1988 - Nashville, Nash County, North Carolina, USA
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Thomas Jefferson Corbett
Marr: 22 Oct 1916 - Echols County, Georgia
3 F Mattie Carter
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Marvin Nolton
4 F Ethel Lee Carter
Born: 6 Apr 1898 - Echols County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 8 Dec 1985 - Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia
Buried: - Sunset Hill Cemetery, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia
Spouse: Flem. L. Carter
5 M Claude Carter
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - William Carter
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60952972/william_m-carter: accessed December 1, 2025), memorial page for William M. Carter (May 1865\endash 1 Mar 1947), Find a Grave Memorial ID 60952972, citing Carter Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Beth Stafford (contributor 48834131).
General Notes: Wife - Ora Lee Carter
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60952716/ola_lee-carter: accessed December 1, 2025), memorial page for Ola Lee "Dumpie" Carter Carter (May 1871\endash 1 May 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 60952716, citing Carter Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Beth Stafford (contributor 48834131).
Husband Paul W. Carter
Born: 1 Apr 1853
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Isham T. Carter
Mother: Susannah E. Fletcher
Marriage:
Wife Mary Thomas
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband Perryman Carter
Born: 27 Nov 1842 - Lowndes Co., GA 1
Christened:
Died: 28 Jul 1928 - Lanier Co., Georgia 1
Buried:
Father: Isaac Carter
Mother: Rachel Sirmans 177
Marriage: 14 May 1865 1
Wife Ann Howell
Born: 24 Apr 1841 - Lowndes (now Echols) County, Georgia 1,23
Christened:
Died: 18 Oct 1915 - Lanier Co., Georgia 1
Buried:
Father: Jesse Howell
Mother: Mary Caroline Copeland
Other Spouse: George Carter
Children
General Notes: Husband - Perryman Carter
CARTER, PERRYMAN Descendants of Peter Carter of King George KNIGHT, WILLIAM CONE. Notes for LEVI DRAWDY: Notes for LEVI DRAWDY:
1842-1928
LANIER
Perryman Carter was born in Lowndes County, Nov. 27, 1842, son of Isaac and Rachel Carter (Vol. III). He was married May 14, 1865 to Mrs. Annie Howell Carter, daughter of Jesse Howell (Vol.11) and widow of George Carter, a Confederate casualty, who was a son of William and Nannie Carter and a 1st cousin to Perryman Carter. Perryman and his wife had five children:
1. Florence
2. Orren Tyson
3. Ezekiel J.
4. Robert Edward
5. Lizzle Catherine
Mr. Carter enlisted Sept. 17, 1861, in Co. "B", 18th Georgia Battalion of Infantry, and was elected 1st Lieutenant. After serving six months in that command he was discharged and enlisted in 1862 in Co. "H", 26th Georgia Regiment, a Lowndes County company, and served until the end of the war. He surrendered May 10, 1865, at Tallahassee, Fla.
Returning home Mr. Carter married and bought a farm in 1867, on which he lived until his death, July 28, 1928. This farm was located three or four miles south of Milltown (now Lakeland), and is now in Lanier County, and became the property of his son, E. J. Carter who died in 1961. Mrs. Carter, the wife, was born April 24, 1841, and died Oct. 18, 1915. She and Mr. Carter were buried at Union Church.
Husband Peter Carter
Born: 1706 - Lancaster County, VA 62
Christened:
Died: Dec 1789 - Fauquier County, V'irginia 62
Buried:
Father: Thomas Carter Jr.
Mother: Arabella Williamson
Marriage: 1 May 1730 62
Wife Judith Norris
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Thomas Carter
Born: 24 Apr 1731 62
Christened:
Died: 1803 - Russell (now Scott) County, Virginia 62
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Morgan
2 M Joseph Carter
Born: 4 Sep 1736 62
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Presley
3 M Norris Carter
Born: 8 Nov 1748 62
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Agnes Allen
General Notes: Husband - Peter Carter
and Fauquier
Peter Carter, fifth son of Captain Thomas and Arabella Carter,
was born in 1706 at "Barford," Lancaster county, and died in
1789 (or in January, 1790) in Fauquier county, 'irginia : and
has left few notices of himself in the public records. His father,
Captain Thomas Carter, Jr., in his will \emdash dated April 24, 172S \emdash ¦
made him executor in case of the death or remarriage of his
wife, Arabella Carter; and aho made him. guardian of his brother,
Charles Carter, until the latter arrived at the age of tv.enty
years. Under this will, Peter Carter inherited the half of his
father's five hunderd acre plantation next to the river in King
George county, and his just share of the residuary estaie. In
the account written in 1858 of the Carter family it is stated that
Peter Carter purchased the rest of this plantation and lived here
until late in life, when he removed to Fauquier with his son,
George Carter. Peter Carter owned the old Prayer Book of
his grandfather, Captain Thomas Carter, Sr., which contains
many valuable records of the family. This old book descended
to Elizabeth Carter, daughter of George Carter, grandson of
Peter, who in the fifties became the second wife of a ^Ir. John
Payne. They removed to California after the war, where she
died without issue. The old Prayer Book, with other personal
belongings of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter Payne, passed to her step-
daughter, Mary Payne, who is now^ Mrs. John Scarlett Sm.ith.
She saw the Carter genealogy as it appeared in the William and
Mary Quarterly and wrote me about the book. In addition to
a great deal of data of other Carters, this old book contains a
good deal of Peter Carter and his children. He evidently ex-
perienced a deeper religious feeling in the years 1775 and 17SS
than at other times, as under these dates he made several records
in the old prayer book, of which the following is an examT)le :
''Ye Datte of this Holy Book is at it stands from the priaicr
226 GEXEALOGV OF THE CARTER FAMILY
as follows. MDCLXII (1662) in the year of my God 1775 and
in ye year of my Xattral Life 69.''
"In ye Year of my God 1788 and in the year of my Nattral
Life 82 Lord Give me a Clean heart And Renew a right spearit
within me in ye of my Life 82."
"Roman^ y^ 10 Chap & 9. vers. If thou shalt confess with
thine mouth the Lord Jesus; and shall Believe in thine heart
that God hath Rased him from the Dead thou shalt be saved.
"Romans ye 10 & 9 vers my Xatral Life 82 in ve vear of my
God 1788.
Peter Carter."
The inventory of his personal estate was recorded in Fauquier
on 22nd of Februar-. 1790, and he probably died either in Dec.
1789, or Jan., 17-90. This inventory mentions two negro m.en
servants, bed and furniture, chest, 6 chairs, and other furniture
of a bedroom. He evidently lived with his son, George, who
was living in that county. Peter Carter seems to have been
the last of his generation of the family to die, as in recording
the deaths of his brother, Dale, and cousin. Thomas, both of
whom died in Lancaster in Dec, 1776, he said: "Xow indeed
am I the last of my generation, the lone leaf on the tree Waiting
the last Frost."
The records of his own family seems to have been written in
the Prayer Book at one time with a trembling, old hand, the
year before he died:
"In the year 1788 & in ye year my Life 82. 58 years last
May Day (May ist, 1730) I was Married to Judith Norris who
passt on ye 15'' day :\\Iay 1765. We was Blest with 9 sons and
4 daughters viz. Dale & Thomas on ye 24^ April 1731. Judy
on y< 2^ Xov"" 1732. Job on >¦< i^' Jan'y 1734. Joseph on ye
4^^ September 1736. Arabella Catharine on ye 17 August 1738.
Solomon on ye 25 Septr. 1739. Frances Ball on ye 8'' Jan'y
1 741. Peter on y-^ 9=' March 1743. Sarah on ye 16^' June 't744-
Daniel on ye 22^^ Dec 1746 ye same Day and year as Dan' son
of my cozen Roh^ Carter. Norris on ye 8*^ Xovembr 1748 and
George on 15 :\\[arch 1757. of which Thomas, Joseph. Peter,
Xorris, George. Frances and Sarah are now living. George
with me Peter in Amherst and the others on Clinch."
GENEALOGY OF THE CARTER FAMILY 227
Mrs. Judith Xorris Carter, probably belon-ed to the Xorris
family ot Lancaster, who were well to do people in that countv
but there is nothing to give a clue to the names of her parent.
Judith was a baptismal name in the Lancaster familv, as the
marriage bonds of that county show the marriages of two Judith
Nornses; one in 1788 to Fortunatus George, and one in iror
to John Brent.
The children of Peter and Judith Carter will be taken up
according to where they lived, instead of in the order of their
birth.
1. Job Carter, died in Amherst in 1782.
2. Solomon Carter, died in Amherst in 1786.
3. Peter Carter, died in Amherst in 1791.
4. George Carter, living in Fauquier in 1782.
5. Thomas Carter, died in Russell in 1803.
6. Joseph Carter, died in Russell in 1809.
7. Xorris Carter, died in Scott in 18 16.
NoTE.\emdash Scott was a part of Russell till 1813.
Have no data of the sons Dale and Daniel and die daughters,
other than the dates of their birth. The sons may have died in
infancy.
Husband Peter Carter
Born: 23 May 1688 62
Christened:
Died: 1721 62
Buried:
Father: Captain Thomas Carter Sr.
Mother: Catharine Dale
Marriage: 23 Sep 1712 62
Wife Catharine Rogers
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Catharine Carter 62
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Husband John A. Copeland
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Rachel Carter
Born: 1846
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Carter
Mother: Elizabeth Knight 177
Children
Husband William Cone Knight 177
Born: 8 Oct 1805 - Wayne County, GA 3,283
Christened:
Died: 8 Feb 1870 - Lowndes (now Lanier) County, Georgia 3
Buried:
Father: Elder William A. Knight
Mother: Sarah Cone
Marriage: 1826 3
Wife Rachel Carter
Born: 4 Aug 1806 - South Carolina 3,177
Christened:
Died: 28 Dec 1874 - Lowndes Co., GA 3
Buried:
Father: Jesse Carter
Mother: Mary Touchton
Children
1 M John Knight 24
Born: 14 Mar 1828 3
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Dicy Staten
General Notes: Husband - William Cone Knight
1805-1870
LANIER
William Cone Knight, son of Rev. William A. Knight (Vol. I), was born Oct. 8, 1805, in Wayne County, and died at his home on the old Milltown-Valdosta road in Lowndes (now Lanier) County, Feb. 8, 1870. He was married in 1826 to Rachel Carter, born in South Carolina, August 4, 1806, and died Dec. 28, 1874, in Lowndes County. She was a daughter of Capt. Jesse Carter and wife (Vol. I). To Mr. and Mrs. Knight were born:
1. Molsy
2. John
3. William J.
4. Jesse Carter
5. Sarah
6. Rachel
7. Nancy
8. Thomas Jefferson
9. Elizabeth
10. Keziah
11. Amanda
12. Mary Jane
13. Matthew Albritton
14. Aaron W.
Mr. Knight moved with his parents from Wayne to Lowndes County in 1825, and after marriage he acquired land on the old Public road from Milltown (as it was called in those days, now "Lakeland") to Valdosta, and built his home there and cleared up a large plantation. Mr. Knight served as Captain of the 663rd district militia, August
9, 1827, until Jan. 12, 1829. He was a private in Capt. Levi J. Knight's company of Lowndes County militia in 1838-39 during the Indian War. He served as ensign in the 660th District militia 1846 until it was disbanded about 1853, His only public office was that of a Justice of Lowndes Inferior Court, which he held five years, 1832-1837.
Census Refs: 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, Lowndes,
Husband Rader C. Carter
Born: 25 May 1896 - Echols County, Georgia 225
Christened:
Died: 12 Sep 1967 - Echols County, Georgia
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: Martin Turner Carter Jr
Mother: Sarah Susan Moore 10
Marriage:
Wife Vera Sandlin
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband Levi Drawdy
Born: 15 Oct 1803 - Barnwell County, SC 4
Christened:
Died: 16 Jul 1881 - Lowndes County, Georgia 4
Buried: - Union Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Lowndes County, GA
Marriage:
Wife Rebecca Carter
Born: 1840
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Elijah Carter
Mother: Priscilla
Children
General Notes: Husband - Levi Drawdy
LEVI DRAWDY was born in Barnwell District, South Carolina October 15, 1803,
son of John Drawdy, who was a brother of Daniel Drawdy, R. S. He grew up
and married in Barnwell County and lived there until 1834 when with his
family he moved to what was then Lowndes County, Georgia, now Lanier
County, whence many of his wife's people had already moved. His first wife
was Miss Rebecca Carter, born 1801, daughter of Elijah Carter, Sr., who
lived on Little Saltketcher Creek on the Barnwell-Colleton line in South
Carolina. She died in 1853, and was buried at Union Church near their
home. She was survived by her husband and ten children. About a year
later Mr. Drawdy married Miss Dilly Ann (properly, Delilah Ann) Hinson,
daughter of King Hinson; she was born December 25, 1812, and died March
1st, 1914, in her 102nd year. She was also buried at Union Church. There
were eleven children by the first wife and three by the second, as follows:
1. Joseph
2. Narcissus
3. Christina
4. Elizabeth
5. Fairiby
married there about 1870.
6. Rebecca
7. Keziah
8. Levi, Jr.
9. Sarah
10. Daniel
11. Rachel
12. Ann
13. Sylvester M.
14. Perry
Levi Drawdy and family, on moving to this section, bought land on the west
side of the Alapaha River in present Lanier County, and lived there until
his death July 16, 1881. He was buried at Union Church.
He served as a private in 1838 in the Indian War, in Capt. Jesse Carter's
independent troop of Lowndes County militia. He and his wife Rebecca were
members of Union Church and were baptized into its membership June 7, 1834,
and died members.
Mr. Drawdy left a will dated July 25, 1864, which was probated August 25,
1881, in Lowndes Court of Ordinary. His son, Daniel, was designated as
executor. His home place and farm, Lot of Land No. 389 in 11th district of
Lowndes, was divided among the wife and surviving children: Daniel, Levi,
Jr., Sylvester M., Mrs. Wetherington, Mrs. Touchston, Mrs. Rhoden, Mrs.
Chitty and Fairiby (at that time unmarried).
Husband Levi Drawdy
Born: 15 Oct 1803 - Barnwell County, SC 4
Christened:
Died: 16 Jul 1881 - Lowndes County, Georgia 4
Buried: - Union Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Lowndes County, GA
Marriage: - Barnwell County, SC 4
Wife Rebecca Carter
Born: 1801 4
Christened:
Died: 1853 4
Buried: - Union Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Lowndes County, GA
Father: Elijah Carter
Mother:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Levi Drawdy
LEVI DRAWDY was born in Barnwell District, South Carolina October 15, 1803,
son of John Drawdy, who was a brother of Daniel Drawdy, R. S. He grew up
and married in Barnwell County and lived there until 1834 when with his
family he moved to what was then Lowndes County, Georgia, now Lanier
County, whence many of his wife's people had already moved. His first wife
was Miss Rebecca Carter, born 1801, daughter of Elijah Carter, Sr., who
lived on Little Saltketcher Creek on the Barnwell-Colleton line in South
Carolina. She died in 1853, and was buried at Union Church near their
home. She was survived by her husband and ten children. About a year
later Mr. Drawdy married Miss Dilly Ann (properly, Delilah Ann) Hinson,
daughter of King Hinson; she was born December 25, 1812, and died March
1st, 1914, in her 102nd year. She was also buried at Union Church. There
were eleven children by the first wife and three by the second, as follows:
1. Joseph
2. Narcissus
3. Christina
4. Elizabeth
5. Fairiby
married there about 1870.
6. Rebecca
7. Keziah
8. Levi, Jr.
9. Sarah
10. Daniel
11. Rachel
12. Ann
13. Sylvester M.
14. Perry
Levi Drawdy and family, on moving to this section, bought land on the west
side of the Alapaha River in present Lanier County, and lived there until
his death July 16, 1881. He was buried at Union Church.
He served as a private in 1838 in the Indian War, in Capt. Jesse Carter's
independent troop of Lowndes County militia. He and his wife Rebecca were
members of Union Church and were baptized into its membership June 7, 1834,
and died members.
Mr. Drawdy left a will dated July 25, 1864, which was probated August 25,
1881, in Lowndes Court of Ordinary. His son, Daniel, was designated as
executor. His home place and farm, Lot of Land No. 389 in 11th district of
Lowndes, was divided among the wife and surviving children: Daniel, Levi,
Jr., Sylvester M., Mrs. Wetherington, Mrs. Touchston, Mrs. Rhoden, Mrs.
Chitty and Fairiby (at that time unmarried).