Does anyone know the parents of CYRUS HARRISON CARTER? See following information.
Leland Carter
CYRUS HARRISON CARTER was born about 1812, in Georgia and died 1875-1880. He may have
spelled his name as Syras or Cyras. He married MARTHA YATES April 13, 1835 in Fayette
Country Georgia, the daughter of ELI and KATHERINE YATES of Georgia. Martha died June 04,
1905, in Texas, county unknown.
Cyrus Harrison and Martha Carter had eight children born 1838-1851. The 1850 Potomac
County Mississippi documents the following information:
Carter, Cyras H. age 38 Born in Georgia
Carter, Martha age 36 Born in Georgia
Carter, Eli age 11 Born in Alabama
Carter, Matilda age 10 Born in Alabama
Carter, Joseph age 8 Born in Alabama
Carter, Mary age 6 Born in Georgia
Carter, Martha age 2 Born in Georgia
Places where Cyrus Harrison Carter resided include Georgia, Randolph County Alabama,
Potomac County Mississippi, Texas, and Choctaw Territory Oklahoma. Cyrus Harrison Carter
is listed in the Travis County Texas Voter Registration, 1867-1869.
Their son, ELI THOMAS CARTER, was born about 1839 and married SUSAN, her maiden name is
unknown. Eli and Susan's marriage date and place of marriage is unknown. The 1860
Sebastian County Arkansas documents:
Eli Carter age 23 Born in Georgia
Susan Carter age 16 Born in Georgia
James Carter age 2 Born in Arkansas
(names of Eli's brothers and sisters also listed in his household)
Eli and Susan's son JAMES BRUCE CARTER , my great-grandfather, was born 1858 in
Arkansas. James was two years old in the 1860 Sebastian County Arkansas census. James
Bruce Carter married Julia Ann Boatright in Travis County Texas in 1877. Julia was the
daughter of John L. and Rebecca Cole Boatright. Through her Boatright family, Julia is a
descendant of Stephen Austin's Old Three Hundred, her family enumerated in the first
fifteen families to colonize Texas.