Dear Fred and other Carter searchers.
I am posting this again in case there are other new list members.
Fred, note that my Joseph HENRY Carter was b. in Iowa, and settled
near Kansas City, MO.
I'm still hunting the elusive Carters. I now have James William
Carter's death certificate, signed by Walter Godkin, Spicewood Ranch,
Pipe Creek, TX: Died July 25, 1924, of Arteriosclerosis and apoplexy,
b. Aug 2 1853, MO. His parents were Joseph Henry, b. Iowa, and
Jules/julie? Luckett, b. MO
In a search of Census records and Land Grants, I find a Joseph H
Carter in Cass Co MO (just south of Kansas City) starting in 1850 and
in 1860 at Big Creek. James was b. in MO 1853. There is an 1854 land
grant in Cass Co for Joseph Henry. This is most probably my family.
My Dad says that there was an Uncle Richard-not sure which
generation, James or his father, Joseph. There is a Richard Carter
found in Clay Co MO, just north of Kansas City, with Land Grants
starting in 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1848. He is found in the Clay Co
Census starting in 1840 and is found there through 1860 at Fishing
River.
This has been a difficult line to follow.
There were supposedly 6 brothers-3 Union and 3 Confederate. Most
interestingly, James md. Jennie Franklin. There is family myth that
her aunt or sister married into a family of outlaws- the "Franklin
Brothers" bank robbers. I can find NO such outlaw. However, I have
found that the "Uncle Richard" in Clay Co, MO, is the home county of
the infamous Jesse and Franklin James. They rode with "Quantrill's
Raiders" in the Confederacy. There was a Harrison Carter listed with
both the James Gang and the Raiders.
I am so confused. Can anyone shed light on this elusive branch?
Elise Hays Markham