Holly,
Thank you for your kind words.
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: "Holly Carter Dunlap Georgia" <holly_carter_dunlap(a)hotmail.com>
To: <carter(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [CARTER] CARTER Middlesex, Virginia 1900, one last post
Hi, Jeanette,
I had not seen your story before. I don't have any information that can
help you with your search but I just wanted to say that I admire your
courage and persistence. It's too bad that there wasn't also a son and a
living male-line descendant from Littleton Carter who could take the Y-DNA
test. At least then there would be a chance to see what surnames do
match.
H.
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>From: "Savasnia" <savasnia(a)comcast.net>
>Reply-To: carter(a)rootsweb.com
>To: <carter(a)rootsweb.com>
>Subject: [CARTER] CARTER Middlesex, Virginia 1900, one last post
>Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:40:03 -0400
>
>Dear List,
>
> I am posting one last time in hope of some information on this subject.
>
> My grt. grt. grandmother was Maud Anna CARTER b. 15 Apr 1886 in
>Middlesex County, Virginia. She became pregnant as an unwed teen around
>1901. I have no idea who fathered her child but I suspect he was Native
>American. Because of the time period and the terrible stigma there was a
>cover up of this pregnancy and birth. Maud gave birth to a son Littleton
>[Letton] CARTER b. 1902 in ?Middlesex, VA.
>
> Maud went on to marry at the age of twenty to a man nineteen years
> her
>senior. She married Charles Henry FOSTER b. 1867 in Middlexex, VA. They
>had
>ten children together.
>
> Littleton CARTER was raised by his grandparents John & Susanna CARTER.
>His birth certificate lists his parents as "Unknown" and on his marriage
>record he lists John & Susanna CARTER as his parents. He is listed on the
>1910 & 1920 census as the grandson of John & Susanna CARTER. Based on the
>ages of John & Susanna's children, marital status, etc. I came to the
>conclusion that Maud was the best candidate for Littleton's mother.
>
> A few years after this dicovery I spoke with a daughter in law of
> Maud's
>who told me that Maud had indeed confessed to her that she had a child out
>of wed lock and that child was "Letton Carter" and he was raised by his
>grandparents.
>
> She asked me to keep this information to myself. Maud has been dead
> for
>62 years and her daughter in law wanted to protect her status in the eyes
>of her few living children & grandchildren as being a "good christian
>woman."
>
> I felt hurt by this request for many reasons. My great grandfather
> had
>ten siblings along with their many descendants who will never know of his
>or our existence. Just as my great grandfather was shunned we continue to
>be a "dirty little secret" that not many people know about. I have
>respected Maud's daughter in law's request and I have not attempted to
>contact any of the descendants. The daughter in law said that she does not
>know who fathered Littleton and I fear that I will never know the answer
>to
>that question.
>
> Littleon married on 02 May 1925 to my great grandmother Rosa Ethling
>MARTIN b. 1909 daughter of Thomas & Mollie MARTIN in King William, VA.
>
>
> Littleton died on 09 Jun 1926 of tuberculosis when Rosa was 5 months
>pregnant with my grandmother. My grandmother was born Oct 1926 in Port
>Richmond, King William, VA [now West Point]. Rosa married a second time in
>Aug 1927 to Aurellius CARTER son of William & Alice CARTER of King & Queen
>County.
>
> Rosa died in 1928, of tuberculosis, when my grandmother was just over
>two years old. My grandmother was raised by MARTIN relatives. Aurellius
>ended up marrying Rosa's sister Mary A. MARTIN and they had four children.
>Rosa's older sister Rena MARTIN married Manley CARTER a son of John &
>Susanna CARTER & they had five children!
>
>Jeanette
>
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