This information comes from gravestones, family Bibles, and "Chickasaw
County History" by the Chickasaw County Historical and Genealogical Society.
The grave of Nancy (my grandmother) is with the Shaws in Asbury Cemetery in
Van Vleet, (Chickasaw Co) Mississippi. The family Bible is in the
possession of Larry and Virginia Carter in Van Vleet. Nancy died in 1998
when my father was two years old.
James Thomas Carter was born in 1818 in South Carolina and died in 1898 in
Chickasaw Co. He married Elizabeth Anne Hitchcock and they were in Georgia
by 1837, in Alabama by 1844, in Mississippi for about one year about
1852-53, in Arkansas one year, then back in Mississippi at Neals (near
Parkersburg), Chickasaw County.
He was said to be one of eight boys all named Biblical Names and a girl
named Anne. At an early age he was apprenticed to a carpenter, but ran away.
Applied for bounty land 16 Jan 1851 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama and was
granted 160 acres near Sipsey River. Sold the land to James Mills 12 Oct
1854. He enlisted 5 Oct 1837 in Georgia Volunteers for seven months.
He moved west with the Hitchcocks.
Elizabeth Anne died in 1871 and Thomas married a second time to Martha Anne
Leatherwood Vance and had a son, James (Jim or Jag) September 10, 1873, in
Mississippi. Thomas died March 11, 1898. Both are buried in Wesley Chapel
Cemetery
If we are related, it is before these people. I have never found a father
of mother for James Thomas Carter but I have visited the cabin in which he
lived in Chickasaw County (Most everyone said he build a cotton gin there
but I am convinced that he had a sawmill there -- and perhaps a cotton gin
elsewhere). The cabin was on U.S. Forest Service land and was later torn
down and the wood was used to build a "typical cabin of that time" in
Houston, Mississippi. I have also visited it but it was just not the same
(although I didn't get into poision oak at the replica as I had at the
original!).
I hope we make a connection someday.
----- Original Message -----
From: freedbyluvv
To: retiredMCIeng(a)sbcglobal.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [CARTER] researching Af. Am. Carter/ Hart Co. Ga. 1870's
Greetings Mike, thank you so much for the speedy response. I now look over
my notes again. I see I made a mistake. Thomas' wife Flora is listed in the
census as originally
being from SC afterall, not Hart Co. Ga.
But even with that correction, you still have a different mother for your
Nancy?
The gravestone/death information you have for Thomas and Nancy Carter, are
they
located in Hart Co. Ga.?
My Nancy Carter married Benjamin Gaines in Hart Co. Ga.
Thanks for keeping my information in case a connection comes up.
~April.
--- On Wed, 10/27/10, Retired MCI Engineer <retiredMCIeng(a)sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
From: Retired MCI Engineer <>
Subject: Re: [CARTER] researching Af. Am. Carter/ Hart Co. Ga. 1870's
To: carter(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 4:14 PM
I don't believe we have the same Nancy Carter. I have the birth and death
dates from both a family Bible and the gravestones for Nancy, Thomas Carter,
and my Nancy's mother, Elizabeth Hitchcock.
They were from South Carolina and settled in Mississippi and may very well
have come through Georgia, but I have no records of another wife for Thomas.
My other Mississippi ancestors came from North and South Carolina, but came
through Tennessee and Alabama into Mississippi.
However, new information turns up from time to time and I will keep your
information so that I can contact you if something evolves.
Regards,
Mike Shaw
Denison, Texas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "freedbyluvv" <freedbyluvv(a)yahoo.com>
To: <CARTER(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:23 PM
Subject: [CARTER] researching Af. Am. Carter/ Hart Co. Ga. 1870's
Greetings list, I am researching the CARTER family from Hart Co. Ga.
I'm hoping to connect to others researching the same.
Thomas Carter b. 1850 Hart Co. Ga.
wife, Flora (?surname) b. 1852 Hart Co. Ga.
daughter Nancy Carter, b. 1865 Hart Co. Ga.
Thanks in advance for any sharing/suggestions on where to
locate more information on Thomas and Flora's earlier years.
April.
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