This looks interesting.
I'm looking for family connections to Agnes Carter, who m James Madison
Helm
(sometimes Helms) in Knox Co OH in 1836. The Helm family lived in
Guernsey Co OH
at this time, was originally from Frederick Co VA & KY. Agnes & James
M Helm moved
to Grant Co IN about 1843 and Champaign Co IL about 1854. Agnes
approx dates
are 1815-1890. In a directory in Champaign, she lists her place of
origin as
Loudoun Co, and her census entries always give her birthplace as VA.
We know
almost nothing about her - in the family plot, her gravestone is the
only one missing
(vandalized years ago, not recovered). I believe they were married by
a Universalist
minister named Truman Strong (he was Universalist later - not sure
about 1835).
I haven't been able to connect Agnes Carter Helm to any Carters in Knox
Co OH.
There are several families, but she doesn't fit in. The state law at
the time was
that a marriage had to take place in the bride's county of residence.
Don't know if
that was strictly followed, but Knox Co OH makes no sense for James
Helm.
One of their sons married a Quaker woman, and one of their grandsons
did also;
several of their children went to a Quaker boarding school in Indiana,
altho
they don't seem to have been Quakers themselves.
I'm descended from some Carter Quakers (the marriage above) with VA
connections
but no known link to Agnes Carter.
James Madison Helm's brother George Washington Helm m Nancy Carter in
Guernsey
Co (Baptist minister) in 1833 or 35. Nancy also has a Loudoun Co
connection - her
father is Levi Carter, who enlisted in the army in 1812 in Loudoun Co.
I can't place
him with any particular family either. There is good evidence he is
not the father
of my Agnes Carter, from his estate records in the 1870's, which seem
to indicate all their
children.
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam H. Fetters <MFetters(a)verizon.net>
To: CARTER-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:47:24 -0500
Subject: [CARTER-L] James CARTER of Loudoun Co., VA
I link up to James CARTER of Loudoun County, VA through his son, etc:
Asa CARTER b 1771, approx, m. Cynthia PARKER Jun 1797 (his first
cousin)
Ardalus (Ardilles) CARTER, b. approx 1805, Loudoun Co., VA, m.Hannah
GULICK, ca 1833, Ohio.
Almira CARTER, b. 13 Jan 1852, Adams Co., IN, m. Abel Johnson HAWK
1880, d. 16 Feb 1921, Escondido, CA
Charles Elton HAWK, b. April 1884, Adams Co., IN, m. Pearl BAIRD 1805,
Mercer Co., OH, d. May 1957
Cynthia PARKER was daughter of Elizabeth EBLIN (EBLEN) and Joseph
PARKER.
Parents of Elizabeth EBLIN were John William EBLIN and Mary WARNER.
Cynthia PARKER was a Quaker when she married Asa CARTER. I've obtained
some of the 1700's info from a book on church records of Loudoun
County.
Miriam