Caroline M. Carter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1854
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Parents
Father: George Carter
Mother: Mary Parrish
Catharine Carter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 3 May 1733 117
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Father: Joseph Carter
Mother: Catherine Stevens
Charity Carter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1813 - Barnwell District, S. C. 6
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Father: Isaac D. Carter
Mother: Lydia Branch 99
Spouses and Children
1. *William Herndon
Marriage: 1833 - Appling County, GA 6
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Charles Carter
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1712 25
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Death: 2 Nov 1766 - Amherst County, Virginia ( about age 54)
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Parents
Father: Thomas Carter Jr.
Mother: Arabella Williamson
Spouses and Children
1. *Lucy
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Notes
General:
Descendants of Charles Carter of Stafford
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.
Clara Carter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1856
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Father: John Carter
Mother: Elizabeth Knight 76
Spouses and Children
1. *John George
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Clarence Delmas Carter
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 10 Mar 1911 - Echols County, Georgia
Christening:
Death: 22 Jul 1912 - Echols County, Georgia ( at age 1)
Burial: in Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Parents
Father: Wiley C. Carter
Mother: Beulah C. Carter
Clyde Carter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 8 Sep 1898 - Echols County, Georgia 118
Christening:
Death: 22 May 1992 - Echols County, Georgia ( at age 93)
Burial: in Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Parents
Father: Martin Turner Carter Jr
Mother: Sarah Susan Moore 115
Spouses and Children
1. *Nealy Hires
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Notes
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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.
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…..