Husband Stephen Crummey
Born: Abt 1760 - Barnwell District, South Carolina 23
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Died: Abt 1820 - Barnwell District, South Carolina 23
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Rebecca Carter
Born: 1765 - St Bartholomews Parrish, Colleton County, South Carolina 23
Christened:
Died: 1840 - Appling County, GA 23
Buried:
Father: Jacob Carter Sr. 107
Mother: Sarah Middleton
Children
1 F Nancy Crummey
Born: 1789 23
Christened:
Died:
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2 M Jesse Crummey
Born: 1802 23
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 F Dicy Crummey
Born: 1804 23
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
4 F Rebecca Crummey
Born: 1809 23
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Died:
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Spouse: John B. Carter
General Notes: Husband - Stephen Crummey
CRUMMEY, STEPHEN Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61213717/rebecca_ann-corbett: accessed June 15, 2025), memorial page for Rebecca Ann Carter Corbett (Mar 1855\endash 29 Jan 1940), Find a Grave Memorial ID 61213717, citing Carter Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by: Find a Grave.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61213717/rebecca_ann-corbett: accessed June 15, 2025), memorial page for Rebecca Ann Carter Corbett (Mar 1855\endash 29 Jan 1940), Find a Grave Memorial ID 61213717, citing Carter Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by: Find a Grave.
Living 1785 in NC Events
• Fact 2: Sardis Cemetery Echols County, GA.
• Fact 10: 1910, Census - Age 2. Lived With The Wylie Carter Family. 296
• Fact 11: 1910, Census Lake County - Also Enumerated With Father Samuel And Brother Leo.
• Fact 9: 1920, Census - Age 11. Lived With The Wylie Carter Family. 297
Samuel Crews is born in Clinch County, Georgia, likely in the 12th District, on November of 1870. He is the son of Samuel Crews and Morgiana "Annie" Waldron. . Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49029876/sallie-crews: accessed June 15, 2025), memorial page for Sallie Carter Crews (23 Nov 1880\endash 12 May 1909), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49029876, citing Carter Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by: Find a Grave.
Samuel and Sallie were granted a license to marry in Echols County on Dec 18, 1901.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60706164/sallie_a-swilley: accessed November 30, 2025), memorial page for Sallie A Carter Swilley (2 Jul 1873\endash 6 Apr 1948), Find a Grave Memorial ID 60706164, citing Carter Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Beth Stafford (contributor 48834131).
CARTER, Samuel
1760-1820
BARNWELL CO., South Carolina
Stephen Crummey, a Revolutionary soldier of South Carolina, lived and died in Barnwell District(?), South Carolina. He was born in 1760 and died about 1820. He married Rebecca Carter, an aunt of Capt. Jesse Carter (see Vol. 1) and a sister of his father, George Carter and others of that large family. To Stephen and Rebecca Crummey were born five sons and five daughters but the names of only four are known so far to the Compiler:
1. Nancy
2. Jesse
3. Dicy
4. Rebecca
Stephen was enumerated in the 1790 census in the Charleston District, St Bartholomews Parrish. The census indicates he was the only male in the home with 3 daughters and his wife. The family is living amongst several Carter families including Elijah, father George, and John
These four children all moved to Appling County, Georgia, and their widowed mother also moved there but whether at the same time or later cannot now be defintely said. She drew land as the widow of a Revolutionary soldier in the 1838 Cherokee Land Lottery, being at the time a resident of Appling County. She died about 1840.
Stephen Crummey served in the South Carolina militia in the Revolutionary War (see Book L-N, page 271, South Carolina Stub Entries to Indents, by Salley) and was at thr fall of Charleston. He was still in the militia during 1782 (Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution by Bobby Gilmer Moss pg 222)
Census References: 1790, Charleston District South Carolina, St. Bartholomew's Parish; 1800, 1810, Barnwell District, South Carolina
Husband James Herndon
Born: 1808 3
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: George Herndon
Mother: Rachel Branch
Marriage:
Wife Rebecca Carter
Born: 1808
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Isaac D. Carter
Mother: Lydia Branch 218
Children
Husband Bryant W. Corbett
Born: 9 Feb 1857 - Georgia 284
Christened:
Died: 7 Oct 1917 284
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: George Washington Corbett
Mother: Harriet Amanda Lee
Marriage:
Wife Rebecca Ann Carter
Born: Mar 1855 - Echols County, GA 28
Christened:
Died: 1940 28
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA 276
Father: Martin Turner Carter Senior
Mother: Nancy Deloach
Other Spouse: Bryant W. Corbett
Children
General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Ann Carter
Husband Bryant W. Corbett
Born: 9 Feb 1857 - Georgia 284
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Died: 7 Oct 1917 284
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: George Washington Corbett
Mother: Harriet Amanda Lee
Marriage:
Wife Rebecca Ann Carter
Born: Mar 1855 - Echols County, GA 28
Christened:
Died: 1940 28
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA 276
Father: Martin Turner Carter Senior
Mother: Nancy Deloach
Other Spouse: Bryant W. Corbett
Children
1 M Elzie J. Corbett
Born: 8 Dec 1884 - Echols County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 7 Dec 1918 - Lake Park, Lowndes Co., Georgia, USA
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Kizzie Carter
Marr: Abt 1906 253
General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Ann Carter
Husband Richard Carter
Born:
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Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Children
1 F Mary C. Carter 4
Born: 19 Nov 1836
Christened:
Died: 27 Dec 1919
Buried: - Wayfare Baptist Church Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia
Spouse: Andrew Jackson Terrell
2 F Malinda Carter
Born: 24 May 1849 - Georgia
Christened:
Died: 1890
Buried: - LaGrange Cemetery, Mims, Brevard County, Florida
Spouse: Elbert B. Carter
Husband Russel Lee Carter
Born: 10 Jun 1920
Christened:
Died: 1981
Buried:
Father: John Ivey Carter
Mother: Olive Burnett
Marriage:
Wife Vivian Virginia Sweat
Born:
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Died:
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Children
Husband Ellyson Crew 87
Born:
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Father: Ellyson Crew
Mother: Lydia Ladd 191
Marriage: 4 Jun 1790 - Mecklenburg County, Virginia 285
Wife Salley Carter
Born:
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Children
General Notes: Husband - Ellyson Crew
From the book, Marriages of Mecklenburg Co., Va. 1765-1810,
by Stratton Nottingham:
Page 13:
Ellyson Crew m. Salley Carter, 4 June 1790, security: Winkfield Hayes.
Husband Samuel Crews 257
Born: Nov 1870 - Clinch County, Georgia 286
Christened:
Died: 26 Nov 1913 - Lake Park, Lowndes Co., Georgia, USA 287
Buried: Nov 1913 - Carter Family Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA 288
Father: Samuel Crews
Mother: Morgiana Waldron
Marriage: 22 Dec 1901 - Echols County, GA 260,261
Marr. Status: Death of Spouse on 12 May 1909
Wife Sallie Carter 257
Born: 23 Nov 1880 - Echols County, GA 258
Christened:
Died: 12 May 1909 - Echols County, GA 258
Buried: 1909 - Carter Family Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA 259
Father: Allen Washington Carter
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Corbett
Children
1 M Leo Crews 230
Born: 2 Oct 1902 - Lake Park, Lowndes Co., Georgia, USA 289
Christened:
Died: 21 May 1962 - Lake City, Columbia Co., Florida, USA 289
Buried: - Memorial Cemetery, Lake City, Columbia Co., FL 290
Spouse: Teeny Elizabeth Melton 230
Marr: 11 Sep 1932 - Jasper (Hamilton) FL
2 F Laura C. Crews 291,292
Born: 28 May 1908 - Lake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia 293
Christened:
Died: 7 Feb 1974 - Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia 293,294
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Sardis Baptist Church, Echols County, Georgia, USA 295
Spouse: Earl Heilman
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Crews
Samuel was not enumerated during the 1870 census, but father Samuel, mother Annie, his only living sibling, Sarah, and aunt, Julia Crews were included in the Crews household. Morgiana (Annie) was approximately 5 months pregnant with Samuel.
His father, also Samuel, passed away when the younger Samuel was about five years of age in 1875. Morgiana later remarried to Mr. William Combs as the 1880 census lists Samuel as living in the William Combs household in Clinch County, with his mother. Samuel is 9 years old and sister, Sarah, is age 12.
Sometime after the 1880 census was taken but before 1893, the family relocated to eastern Lowndes County. During 1893, William Combs name begins showing on the Antioch Church Meeting Minutes and he continued to be active in 1894 and 1895 in the Echols County church.
Samuel Crews is next enumerated in the 1900 US Census for Lowndes County, living in the William Combs household in Lake Park GA. The census states Samuel was born in November of 1870 in Georgia, he was 29 years old and single and is employed as farm labor.
The single status changed on December 22nd 1901. Receiving their marriage license a few days earlier, on the 18th, Samuel married Sallie Carter, in Echols County, GA. Sarah E. "Sallie" Carter is a daughter of Allen Carter and Sarah E. Corbett. The couple had two children, they are:
1. Leo
2. Laura
However, Sallie passed away eight years later on May 12, 1909, leaving Samuel to raise the two young children, ages six and one.
Samuel now age 39 is listed as the head of household in the 1910 Census. He is in Lake Park (Lowndes) GA with son Leo age 7 and daughter Laura, 1 month short of her 2nd birthday. This census indicates his occupation is a "Retail Merchant," of "General Mechandise"; he owns his home, and he is literate. Samuel's son Leo informed his sons that his father owned and operated a general store located "at the fork in the road in Lake Park."
During the period of time that the 1910 census was taken, daughter Laura was taken in and raised by Sallie's brother, Wylie Carter and wife Beulah. Laura appears in both households during the 1910 census of Echols and Lowndes Counties.
Samuel remarried 17 Jul 1910 to Wealthy Louisa Herring in Lowndes County, Georgia. Louisa was from White Springs, Florida. Sam and Louisa had a child; Mallie Katrina. Mallie was born in Lake Park, Ga on October 10th, 1913, a month before Samuel passed away .
Samuel died a little more than four years after Sallie had passed away leaving the children from their marriage with no parents. The date of his death is listed as November 16, 1913.
Daughter Laura was already in good hands with the Wylie Carter family. Son Leo was taken in by Martin T. Carter Jr. and raised to maturity on "Uncle Buck's" farm in Echols.
Samuel Crews is interred in the Carter Family Cemetery next to the Sardis Baptist Church in western Echols County next to his first wife and his mother.
"Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q289-SZRP : Fri Mar 08 08:27:48 UTC 2024), Entry for Sam Crews and Louisa Herring, 17 July 1910.
"United States Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML2P-H96 : Sun Mar 10 16:11:20 UTC 2024), Entry for Samuel Crews and Leo Crews, 1910.
Name: Samuel Crews
Sex: Male
Age: 30
Birth Date: Nov 1870
Birthplace: Georgia
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Son (Son)
Father's Birthplace: Georgia
Mother's Birthplace: Georgia
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: Dasher, Lowndes, Georgia, United States
Event Place (Original): Militia Districts 1500, 1268, Dasher, Lake Park Lake Park town, ED 73, Lowndes, Georgia, United States
Household Identifier: 132
Line Number: 78
Sheet Letter: B
Sheet Number: 7
Affiliate Publication Number: T623
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Household
William Combs
Annie Combs
Martha Mc Lean
Digital Folder Number: 004120072_004_M92V-SPP
Image Number: 380
Citing this Record
"United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3JN-N66 : Tue Jan 21 21:09:59 UTC 2025), Entry for William Combs and Annie Combs, 1900.
General Notes: Wife - Sallie Carter
Notes: Marriage (Sallie Carter):
Husband Wylie Jackson Swiley
Born: 12 Dec 1885
Christened:
Died: 16 Jan 1951
Buried: - Swilley Hill Cemetery, Lowndes County, Georgia, USA
Marriage:
Wife Sally Carter
Born: 2 Jul 1873 - Echols County, Georgia, USA
Christened:
Died: 6 Apr 1948 - Echols County, Georgia, USA
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: James Madison Carter
Mother: Rachel M. Terrell
Children
General Notes: Wife - Sally Carter
Husband Samuel Carter
Born: 13 Jan 1796 - Colleton District, S.C. 267
Christened: 11 Feb 1832 - Union Primitive Baptist Church 267
Died: 11 Jan 1894 - Lowndes Co., GA 267
Buried: - Union Primitive Baptist Church, Lakeland, Lanier County, Georgia
Father: Elijah Carter
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife Mary Lee
AKA: Polly
Born: 1796 - Barnwell District, South Carolina 267
Christened: 11 Feb 1832 - Union Primitive Baptist Church 267
Died: Abt 1865 267
Buried: - Union Primitive Baptist Church, Lakeland, Lanier County, Georgia
Father: Moses Lee 106
Mother: Sara Electa Guilford
Children
1 M David Carter
Born: 1820 - Colleton District, S.C. 135
Christened:
Died: 1891 - Lakeland, Lowndes County, GA 135
Buried: - Union Primitive Baptist Church, Lakeland, Lowndes County, Georgia
Spouse: Ann C. Shearouse, 135
2 F Isabelle Carter
Born: 1823 - S.C.
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Isham H. Peters
3 M Griffin Carter
Born: 1825 - South Carolina 68
Christened:
Died: 11 Jan 1894 68
Buried:
Spouse: Priscilla Crews
4 F Zilpha Ann Carter
Born: 1827
Christened:
Died: 1 May 1903
Buried:
5 M Samuel Carter
Born: 5 Aug 1831 - Barnwell County, SC 135
Christened:
Died: 6 Jan 1882 - Berrien Co., GA
Buried: - Morris Cemetery near Pleasant Church, Berrien County.
Spouse: Eliza J. Connell
Marr: 1854 - Berrien Co., GA 135
6 M Elijah Carter
Born: 31 Mar 1833 - Naylor, Lowndes County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 9 Mar 1906 - Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida
Buried: - Woodlawn Cemetery, Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida
Spouse: Margaret Carroll
7 M George W. Carter
Born: 1835
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Matilda Chitty
8 M Isaac Carter
Born: 1836 - Georgia
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
9 F Mary Martha Carter
Born: 24 Jun 1843 - Lowndes County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 9 Oct 1922 - Howell, Echols County, Georgia
Buried: - Wayfare Baptist Church Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia
Spouse: Daniel Guess Copeland
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Carter
1796-1894
SAMUEL CARTER, a son of Elijah Carter and first cousin to Capt. Jesse Carter (q. v.), was born January 13, 1796, in Colleton district, South Carolina, near the Barnwell district line. Elijah Carter lived to be 107 years old and died about 1875-1880 in Barnwell district, South Carolina, where he lived. Samuel's sister, Rebecca, married Levi Drawdy, of Barnwell district, and moved to Lowndes county, also his brothers, Isaac, John and Elijah. All removed to Lowndes county at the same time (about 1829) that Samuel Carter came. They settled near the Alapaha River on the west side, and Samuel later bought land on the south side of Banks Pond where he had a large plantation and lived until his death January 11, 1894, age 97 years, 11 months and 28 days. Samuel married Mary Lee, born 1796, in Barnwell district, South Carolina She was a sister of Joshua and Jesse Lee, who also came to Georgia from Barnwell District, South Carolina and lived in old Lowndes County. She died about 1865, and Samuel Carter later married a widow, Mrs. Nelson of Berrien County, but there was no issue. Children of Samuel and Mary Carter were:
1. David
2. Isabelle
3. Griffin
4. Zilpha Ann
5. Samuel
6. Elijah
7. George W.
8. Isaac
9. Mary Martha
Mr. and Mrs. Carter were both baptized into membership of Union Primitive Baptist Church, February 11, 1832. She died a member but he appears to have been excluded (date not shown). Both were buried at Union Church.
Mr. Carter served in the War of 1812, also in the Indian War in 1838 as a private in Capt. Jesse Carter's company of Lowndes County militia.
Descendants of Samuel and Pollie today form a very large family connection of Lanier and Berrien Counties.
Census References: 1830, 1840, 1850, Lowndes.
CARTER, SAMUEL (p. 43). He served as a private under Capt. Samuel E. Swilley in the 2nd Regiment, Florida militia, Indian War, June 16 to Dec. 16, 1837. (2) News item in The Valdosta Times of Jan. 13, 1894:
"Uncle Sammy Carter', aged and honored citizen of Lowndes County, died at his residence in the northeastern portion of the county at one o'clock Thursday morning last. If he had lived until to-day (Saturday) he would have been 98 years old. Mr. Carter came to Irwin, now Lowndes County, 68 years ago and settled on the place where he died. He moved once over the Alapaha River a few miles away but the next year moved back to the original settlement. He was born and raised in Barnwell District, S. C., and was sixteen years old when the War of 1812 broke out. He served in the American Army during the latter part of that war, and fought in the Indian War of 1836. Mr. Carter was the father of nine children, and his grand and great grandchildren are almost innumerable. He was a quiet peace loving, unassuming, law-abiding citizen and a mem ber of the Primitive Baptist Church . . . His father (Elijah Carter) lived to the advanced age of 107 years and died In South Carolina not many years ago since the War. Uncle Sammy's end was peaceful and painless. He died away like a child falling to sleep . . .
Since the above was put in type, Mr. Q. L. Carter of Valdosta, a grandson of Uncle Sammy, received a telegram announcing the death in Colquitt County of Mr. Griffin Carter, Uncle Sammy's second son; he was about 72 years old. The telegram announced that the body would be brought to his father's for the burial on Saturday (today). His family had not heard of the death of Uncle Sammy, The father at the age of 98 and the son at the age of 72, died on the some day."
The Hon. H, D. O'Quin wrote a series of articles in The Valdosta Times in 1889 dealing with his recollections of the Carter family, his grandmother being a Carter, He himself spent his boyhood in Bamwell District, S, C., where the family lived, some of them living in adjoining Colleton District.