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     Thomas Lenoir Sr. was born on 5 May 1701 at New York, NY. He was the son of John Lenoir. Thomas Lenoir Sr. died on 14 May 1765 at Tarboro, Edgecomb Co., NC, at age 64. Birth may have been Brunswick Co. VA.

     Mourning Crawley was born on 2 May 1707 at Brunswick, VA. She died in 1790 at Franklin Co., NC.

     Mary Sones was the daughter of Naomi Vaughan. Mary Sones married James Madison Bates on 17 July 1790.

     John Lenoir was born in 1657 at Blain, Nantes, France. He was the son of Philippe Lenoir and Anne Henriet. John Lenoir died in 1710 at at Sea.

     Ann Lenoir was born on 28 June 1731. She was the daughter of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley. Ann Lenoir died in 1823 at Spartanburg, SC.

     Robert Lenoir died at Brunswick Co., VA. He was born on 3 March 1732. He was the son of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley.

     Betty Lenoir was born on 19 July 1735. She was the daughter of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley.

     Leah Lenoir was born on 18 December 1737. She was the daughter of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley. Leah Lenoir died in 1831 at Franklin Co., NC.

     Robert Crawley Lenoir was born in 1739. He was the son of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley.

     Mary Lenoir was born on 30 September 1739. She was the daughter of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley.

     Thomas Lenoir was born on 11 August 1741 at Brunswick Co., VA. He was the son of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley. Thomas Lenoir died in 1816 at Camden District, SC.

     Lewis Lenoir was born on 25 November 1745. He was the son of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley.

     John Lenoir was born on 19 November 1747. He was the son of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley.

     William Lenoir was born on 8 May 1751. He was the son of Thomas Lenoir Sr. and Mourning Crawley. William Lenoir died on 6 May 1839 at age 87.

     Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born on 18 August 1927 at Plains, Sumter Co., GA. She was the daughter of Wilburn Edgar Smith and Frances Allethea Murray. Eleanor Rosalynn Smith married President James Earl Carter Jr., son of James Earl Carter Sr. and Bessie Lillian Gordy, on 7 July 1946 at Plains Methodist, Plains, Sumter Co., GA.^2,3 Eleanor Rosalynn Smith died on 19 November 2023 at Plains, Sumpter Co., GA, at age 96.

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 19 Nov 2023:

Four days after she turned 88, Rosalynn Carter had her “official” birthday party in Plains. She’d long resisted any public fuss surrounding her big day; this time, though, she’d relented when her husband, Jimmy, and friends in their tiny hometown suggested it could be a fundraiser for some nonprofits close to her heart.

Three of their four children were waiting at the Buffalo Cafe on Main Street, plus many of their grandchildren, a fact the guest of honor happily noted in the night’s only speech. Then she cut her cake and confided that the gathering wasn’t all about her.

“Oh, they all really came to see him,” she said quietly, watching her husband of then-69 years exchange hugs and hearty handshakes with most of the 100 guests. “But I’ll take it.”

That wise sense of perspective was as extraordinary as the life she lived. Even before Jimmy Carter was elected president in 1976 and the new first lady started showing up at Presidential Cabinet meetings, she had become the essential, if lower-profile “other half” of nearly everything he did.

When Jimmy left the Navy and returned to Plains to run the family peanut business, it was Rosalynn who kept the books. After he left the White House in defeat in early 1981, Rosalynn spent decades working side by side with him to help build the Carter Center and to smash all previous notions about how much good “retired” first couples could accomplish.

But Rosalynn Carter also blazed her own trail. She used her prominent perch as the wife of a governor and president to talk about vital issues which others wouldn’t, most notably mental illness and equality for women. And she kept talking about them, even as she passed 90 and new controversies erupted around “old” causes she’d championed like the importance of immunization and vaccinations.

In awarding both Carters the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999, Bill Clinton lauded their accomplishments together — but also took pains to highlight her singular impact.

“Just as Eleanor Roosevelt will be remembered for her work on human rights, Rosalynn Carter will always be remembered as a pioneer on mental health and a champion of our children,” Clinton said.

Rosalynn Carter, 96, died Sunday. She will be buried in front of the modest ranch house in Plains they built in 1961 and always returned to, and never really left save for their stints in what Jimmy Carter humorously termed “government housing.” It was the first home they’d ever owned after Jimmy’s peripatetic military career had taken them all over the country.

Rosalynn hadn’t wanted to move back, but her reluctance after military life was nothing compared to her despair in 1980.

“I was hesitant, not at all sure that I could be happy after the dazzle of the White House and the years of stimulating political battles,” she wrote in her memoir.

It turned out she was just getting started on the next remarkable chapter.

She was born Eleanor Rosalynn Smith in Plains Aug. 18, 1927.

To nearly everyone, she was “Rosalynn.” To her husband, in less formal moments or among friends, invariably it was “Rosie.”

She literally was the girl next door. The eldest of four children, Rosalynn was born at home, where their next-door neighbors were her future husband’s family. Jimmy Carter once mused he first saw her at three days old. Soon after, the Carters moved to a large farm located about a mile away in the Archery community. Plains might have been small, but Archery was even smaller.

Growing up, one of Rosalynn’s best friends was Ruth Carter, Jimmy’s younger sister. When she was 13, Rosalynn’s father, Wilburn, died of leukemia; the nurse who’d attended him during his illness was Jimmy’s mother Lillian Carter.

Wilburn Smith had been a farmer and town councilman who’d also owned the very first auto shop in Sumter County. His wife Frances had mostly been a stay-at-home mother. To support her family after his death, she worked as a dressmaker and grocery store clerk, and later, at the post office. Rosalynn, by her own recollection, was “painfully shy,” a straight-A student obsessed with doing everything perfectly. She wound up valedictorian of her senior class at Plains High School. But the shyness and need to be perfect followed her into adulthood.

In the fall of 1945, Rosalynn enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College (now Georgia Southwestern State University) in nearby Americus. Around that same time, Jimmy Carter was home on leave from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and got stood up for a date with a local beauty queen. Cruising around Plains looking for something to do, he saw his little sister’s friend standing on the steps of the Methodist church. He was three years her senior, and they didn’t know each other very well. Still, when he asked her to a movie, she said yes.

“I think I fell in love first with the photograph” of him on Ruth’s wall, she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2006.

Jimmy Carter recalled to a gym full of cheering Emory University students in 2014: “I went home and told my mother, ‘She’s the one. I’m going to marry her.’”

Within a few months of the first date, over Christmas break, he proposed and she turned him down — “It was all too quick,” she recalled, and anyway, she’d promised her late father she would get a college education.

Some six weeks later, he tried again, and on July 7, 1946, a month after Jimmy graduated from Annapolis, the couple married at Plains Methodist Church, where Rosalynn’s family worshipped.

In the years that followed, they were a traditional post-war couple, moving wherever Jimmy’s fast-rising Naval career took them. They were stationed in Norfolk, Va., and Honolulu, Hawaii, where Rosalynn learned to dance the hula while Jimmy played the ukulele. Three sons were born over the next few years: John William in 1947, James Earl III (“Chip”) in 1950, and Donnell Jeffrey in 1952.

“I was a total wife. I cooked and took care of the babies,” she recalled in 2006.

In 1952, Lieutenant Carter was accepted into Hyman Rickover’s newly formed and elite nuclear submarine program, and the young family moved to Schenectady, N.Y. But the following year, Jimmy’s father died of cancer, and he resigned his commission — without consulting with Rosalynn — and moved the family back to Plains so he could run the family peanut business. On the long drive back from upstate New York, she barely spoke to him.

“I sulked for about a year,” Rosalynn Carter told the AJC. “I was very young and I had become very independent. We were going home, and I knew that my mother was going to tell me what to do.

“But that’s how I thought marriage was,” she added. “That’s how I was raised.”

Gradually, the marriage began morphing into a more mutually supportive partnership. While Jimmy took over the Carter farms, Rosalynn threw herself into helping him turn it into a growing peanut warehouse and farm supply business.

“It was not too long before I knew as much or more about the business on paper then he did,” she recalled.

By 1961, the couple were owners of a new, custom-built home who played golf and socialized with a wide circle of family and friends.

“I had to admit yes, I was enjoying this life,” Rosalynn recalled in her 1984 memoir, “First Lady from Plains.”

Once again, though, her husband had something else up his sleeve. A run for the state Senate.

Again, she threw herself into his choice, taking on more responsibility at the warehouse while Jimmy campaigned. One afternoon, she took off work and knocked on every door in Plains to talk up his candidacy, and later campaigned across the state.

It wasn’t easy at first for the once shy and perfectionist schoolgirl. When she had to make a speech, she’d memorize it word-for-word and request a podium, so she could hang on, white-knuckle tight, with both hands.

Even becoming first lady of Georgia in 1971 presented a new set of hurdles. She missed her family and friends back in Plains and felt trapped by the demands of her unelected job. Sometimes, just to gain a moment of privacy, she’d lock herself inside one of the bathrooms at the imposing white-columned governor’s mansion on West Paces Ferry Road, only to have the maids knock on the door and ask if she was all right.

“The move to the White House later was much easier for me compared to this initial move,” she wrote in her memoir.

But she grew into the role, putting her visibility to use, helping get a work-release center for female prison inmates built and pushing for reforms to the mental health treatment system in the state legislature. Her interest in the latter stemmed from a distant cousin she had known as a child and who was “in and out of the state mental institution.”

“I wanted to take mental illnesses and emotional disorders out of the closet,” she wrote, “to let people know it is all right to admit having a problem without the fear of being called crazy.”

She began coming into her own.

“She had to learn her own voice, how to project, how to make a speech, how to win people over, how to deal with legislators on her issues,” her son, Chip, recalled.

By the time Jimmy ran for president in 1976, the shy girl and dutiful wife had been replaced by a confident, completely engaged campaigner.

“I loved it,” Rosalynn Carter said at the 2015 dinner of a group of political memorabilia collectors that she and her husband faithfully attended every year during the Plains Peanut Festival. “I traveled to all but two states and made friends and learned so much about our country I had never known. And we always from the beginning knew we were going to win.”

Even before her husband was elected president, Rosalynn Carter made clear she’d be a different kind of first lady. Unlike any of her predecessors, she’d made her own campaign promise: To guide legislative reform on behalf of the nation’s mentally ill. Five weeks after Inauguration Day, the President’s Commission on Mental Health was established with Rosalynn serving as honorary chairperson. She was no mere figurehead. The commission later recommended a sweeping new Mental Health Systems Act that called for more community centers and important changes in health insurance coverage, Medicare and Medicaid. In 1979, Carter became only the second first lady to testify before Congress (Eleanor Roosevelt was the first), when she spoke on behalf of the Act. It passed the following year.

She also was an advocate for older Americans and lobbying Congress on acts to do away with mandatory age retirement in the federal workplace and boost funding for elderly services. And, for women, she made appearances in states that hadn’t yet ratified the Equal Rights Amendment.

In 1978, Time magazine proclaimed the once painfully shy Plains schoolgirl the “second most powerful” person in the country.

Not everyone approved. Critics attacked her for “telling Jimmy what to do” at a time when the country was still debating the need for the Equal Rights Amendment. And they bashed her for regularly attending Cabinet meetings and National Security Council briefings — things no other first lady had ever done — and serving as an official U.S. envoy on a trip to Latin America.

Even the new first couple’s decision on Inauguration Day to disembark from their limousine and walk part of the way to the White House in below-freezing temperatures wasn’t universally hailed. What many Americans found charming in a small town Southern way, others, particularly Washington elites, slammed as unsophisticated.

It was a perception that would plague the Carters throughout their four years in Washington, when everything from their alcohol policy (no liquor was served at the White House, only wine) to their decision to send 9-year-old Amy to public school was run through the rural rube meter.

“What happened was a lack of respect,” said historian Barbara McGowan of Ripon College. “I think it was particularly difficult for her during the time she was first lady.”

To Rosalynn Carter, who’d campaigned all over the country for her husband’s election, the criticism made little sense. Jimmy had very publicly described her then as “an equal extension of myself.” She went to cabinet meetings so she could take notes on policies and other things the American public might ask her to explain.

“I said not a word at the cabinet meetings,” she said at that 2015 dinner of memorabilia collectors. “But I could tell him what I thought.”

Nothing about this was very new where they were concerned.

“Jimmy and I had always worked side by side,” she recalled in her memoir. “It’s a tradition in Southern families, and one that is not seen in any way demeaning to the man.”

What ultimately dealt the Carter presidency its fatal blow, though, was the Iran hostage crisis. In November 1979, Iranian militants had stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and taken hostages. For more than a year, the country looked on with growing frustration and embarrassment. Efforts to free the 52 Americans through peaceful negotiations and a disastrous military rescue mission foundered. Rosalynn hit the campaign trail in 1980 for his reelection bid against Republican nominee Ronald Reagan.

“I knew we weren’t going to win,” she admitted 35 years later at the memorabilia collectors dinner.

“Rosalynn!” her husband feigned shock and an effort to shush her.

“Well I did. I just knew we were not going to win,” she continued. “Because of the hostages. If it hadn’t been for the hostages, I think he would have been elected.”

And once again, Rosalynn Carter was heading back to Plains unhappy.

It rained buckets on the January 1981 day that the Carters officially returned home to Plains. Some three thousand people had turned out to throw them a welcome home party on Main Street. The now-former first couple danced on a makeshift stage, the gloomy skies a match for Rosalynn’s mood over her husband’s loss.

When a campaign aide congratulated him for not being bitter, she responded, “I’m bitter enough for both of us.”

Once again, though, she chose constructive activity over sulking. Soon, they were part of the regular rotation of volunteers at their church, him mowing the lawn and her cleaning the bathrooms

They each wrote a memoir. His, “Keeping Faith” (1982), and hers, “First Lady from Plains” (1984). The couple collaborated on a joint book, “Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life,” in 1987.

In 1982, they founded the Carter Center in Atlanta, which was designed to “wage peace, fight disease and build hope” worldwide. Rosalynn Carter served as vice chairperson of the board of trustees through 2005; just as important, she went pretty much everywhere her husband did, whether it was fighting Guinea worm in Africa, observing tense elections in Latin America or trying to improve grassroots election procedures in China.

Her commitment to mental health issues deepened and became a key component of the Carter Center’s work, with multiple programs, including some for family caregivers.

In 1987, she founded the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving at Georgia Southwestern State University, her alma mater. It provides training and research on issues related to those who care for people suffering from mental illness as well as other long-term disabilities.

“She’s one of the most influential figures in the world in the last 30 years in changing attitudes about mental health and dealing with the issues of mental health,” Jerome Short, associate professor of psychology at George Mason University, said of Rosalynn Carter several years ago.

The former first couple’s involvement with Habitat for Humanity initially vaulted them back into the public eye — and onto “most admired” lists. The resulting national press coverage of a former president and first lady wearing jeans and swinging hammers to build housing for the poor around the world provided a huge publicity boost for the previously low-on-the-radar nonprofit organization.

Rosalynn Carter made clear she got back at least as much as she put into the process of building homes.

“Once you get involved with Habitat you can’t give it up,” she said during a break from building a house in Memphis in November 2015.

For all of their accomplishments, the Carters’ 77-year marriage may have been their greatest achievement. To the outside world, the thought of one without the other was unimaginable. To the Carters themselves, that thought was unbearable.

In February 2018, Rosalynn Carter underwent surgery to remove “troubling scar tissue” from a portion of her small intestine, according to a statement released by the Carter Center. Jimmy Carter seemed simultaneously tired and grateful shortly after when he recounted the rocky hours he’d endured during his 90-year-old wife’s procedure.

Doctors “didn’t give me a lot of hope before the operation was over,” Carter said. “I was deathly afraid. I prayed for three hours,” and was relieved when she finally pulled through.

Three years earlier, it had been her turn to bear the fear. In May 2015, doctors had discovered a cancerous lesion on Jimmy Carter’s liver that spread to his brain. Privately, friends confided she was rocked by the diagnosis; but in public, she never let on or missed an opportunity to let him know that as always, she was right by his side.

“Where’s my Jimmy?” she wondered aloud on the night of her 88th birthday party, waiting for her glad-handing husband to make it to the front of the crowded restaurant to help her cut her birthday cake.

“The best thing I ever did was marry Rosalynn,” Carter had reflected during a press event a few years earlier. “That’s the pinnacle of my life.”

In February of this year, the Carter family announced that Jimmy was entering home hospice care in Plains. In May, the family announced that Rosalynn had dementia, adding that she was “enjoying spring in Plains and visits with loved ones.” On Friday, November 17, the family announced that Rosalynn was also entering hospice care.

Rosalynn Carter is survived by President Carter and their children Amy, Chip, Jack and Jeff; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

     Wilburn Edgar Smith was born on 20 November 1896 at Plains, Sumter Co., GA. He was the son of Wilburn Juriston Smith and Sarah Eleanor Bell. Wilburn Edgar Smith married Frances Allethea Murray, daughter of John William Murray and Rose Nettie Wise, in 1926. Wilburn Edgar Smith died in 1940 at Plains, Sumter Co., GA.

"Georgia Family Lines" by Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr.


Educated in the local schools. After the death of his father he and his yourger brothers were able to obtain the school bus system. He also ran a local auto repair shop. At the time of his early death due to leukemia, at age 43, he was a steward in the Plains Methodist Church, a member of the Plains City Council, and a Mason.

Edgar and Allie M. were numerated in the 1940 Plains, Sumter Co., GA, federal census. He was a mechanic in an auto garage, age 42, she was 34. Children in the household were Rosalyn 12, Gerald 10, Murray 7, and Allethia 3. Also in the household was his mother, Sallie B. 64.

     Annette J. Davis died on 19 September 2021.

Annette Davis Carter, who campaigned for father-in-law Jimmy Carter during his successful bid for the White House in 1976 and spent nearly 50 years in Georgia’s Carter clan, has died. She was 68.
Carter’s son Josh Carter wrote an online obituary for his mother that was shared by the former president’s church in Plains on Wednesday. She died Sept. 19. The family did not disclose the cause of death.
Annette Davis met Jeff Carter at Georgia Southwestern State University and the two married in April 1975, Josh Carter wrote. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of Georgia at the time and had already been in the presidential race for a few months.
After the dark horse Southern Democratic candidate narrowly defeated Republican President Gerald Ford, the newlyweds moved to the presidential mansion in Washington.

“While living in the White House, Jeff and Annette helped host everybody from Bob Dylan to Pope John Paul II," her son wrote. "In some of Annette’s favorite White House memories, she greeted the cast of Star Wars after the release of ‘A New Hope’ and John Travolta after he starred in ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘Grease.’”

A longtime resident of Peachtree City, Annette Carter is survived by Josh Carter, her son James and her husband. Their middle son, Jeremy, died at the age of 28 in 2015.

“Jeremy was a loss that never healed until her passing,” Josh Carter said.


A service is planned at the former president’s church, Maranatha Baptist, on Saturday in Plains.

     Jeremy Davis Carter was born circa 1986. He was the son of Donnel Jeffrey Carter and Annette J. Davis. Jeremy Davis Carter died on 20 December 2015 at Fayette Co., GA.

Jeremy Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, has died near Atlanta. He was 28.

The cause of death was not yet known, Fayette County Coroner C.J. Mowell Jr. told The Associated Press on Monday.

Jimmy Carter announced the death Sunday to the congregation of his hometown church in Plains, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Carter told parishioners his grandson hadn't been feeling well Saturday and went to take a nap at his family's home in Peachtree City before he died, the newspaper reported.
Mowell said he was notified of the death early Sunday.

The medical examiner's office of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation consulted with the Fayette County coroner's office and determined that an autopsy was not required, agency spokesman Scott Dutton said. Typically, the agency would do an autopsy if there was evidence of a crime.
Jeremy Carter is the son of Annette and Jeff Carter, who is Jimmy Carter's youngest son.

     William Archibald Carter was born on 12 November 1858 at Sumter Co., GA.^2,3 He was the son of Littleberry Walker Carter and Mary Ann Diligent Seals.² William Archibald Carter married Nina Pratt, daughter of James E. Pratt and Sophronia Caroline Cowan, on 8 September 1885 at GA.^2,3 William Archibald Carter died on 4 September 1903 at Cuthbert, GA, at age 44.³ He was buried at Arlington, GA.²

Nina met her future husband through her sister, Lula (1860 - 1890) who married W.A.'s first cousin, David. W.A. and Nina were living in Arlington, 50 miles SW of Plains, where they had moved in the mid-1880's, when he died at age 45. ²

William A. and Nina were enumerated in the 1900 Arlington, Early Co., GA, federal census. He was a manufacturer age 41, she was 37. Children in the household were Ethel 13, Alton 12, Lula 9, and Earl 6.⁴

Nina was enumerated in the 1920 Plains, Sumter Co., GA federal census. She was a widow age 53. Children in the household were "Euph" (Earl) 25 and Jeanette 16.⁴

Nina was enumerated in the 1910 Militia District 884, Sumter Co., GA federal census. She was a widow age 45. Children in the household were Ethel 23, Alton 21, Earl 15, and "Gennett" 6.⁴

     Nina Pratt was born on 5 December 1862 at SC.¹ She was the daughter of James E. Pratt and Sophronia Caroline Cowan. Nina Pratt was also known as Sophronia Pratt. She married William Archibald Carter, son of Littleberry Walker Carter and Mary Ann Diligent Seals, on 8 September 1885 at GA.^2,3 Nina Pratt died in 1939. She was buried at Lebanon Cemetery, Plains, GA.⁴

     Littleberry Walker Carter was born in 1829 at Warren Co., GA.² He was the son of Wiley Carter and Ann Ansley.³ Littleberry Walker Carter married Mary Ann Diligent Seals, daughter of William Archibald Seals and Eliza Harris, on 5 January 1851 at Warren Co., GA.^4,2 Littleberry Walker Carter was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, Americus, Sumter Co., GA.⁵ He died on 27 November 1873 at Sumter Co., GA.²

Littleberry and Mary Ann moved c. 1860 to Sumter Co. near his father's plantation. He enlisted at Americus in 1862 in Capt. Cutts Company, Sumter Flying Artillery and his unit served in Va. until the war's end. His brothers Wileym, Jr. and Jesse T. enlisted in the same unit. Littleberry was a farmer and was buried on his farm at the time of his accidental death at age 42. In 1918 he and his wife were reinterred in Oak Grove Cem., Americus. ⁴

Littleberry W. and Mary A. D. were enumerated in the 1870 Militia District 789, Sumter Co., GA, federal census. He was a farmer age 38 she was 32. Children in the household were Jeremiah C. 15, Eliza A. 14, William A. 10, and Nannie 4. ⁶

     Mary Ann Diligent Seals was born circa 1838.¹ She was the daughter of William Archibald Seals and Eliza Harris.² Mary Ann Diligent Seals married Littleberry Walker Carter, son of Wiley Carter and Ann Ansley, on 5 January 1851 at Warren Co., GA.^3,4 Mary Ann Diligent Seals died on 27 November 1873 at Sumter Co., GA; the same night as her husband.¹

     Ethel Carter was born on 5 February 1887 at Arlington, Calhoun Co., GA.^1,2 She was the daughter of William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt.^3,1 Ethel Carter married Jack Linton Slappey in 1911. Ethel Carter died on 9 January 1972 at age 84.² She was buried at Lebanon Cemetery, Plains, GA.²

     William Alton Carter was born on 17 August 1888 at Arlington, Calhoun Co., GA.² He was the son of William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt.^3,2 William Alton Carter married Annie Laurie Gay in 1916. William Alton Carter died in January 1978 at GA at age 89.²

Mayor of Plains for 28 years and a County Commissioner.

     Birmingham, Al. Lula Carter was born in May 1891 at Arlington, Calhoun Co., GA.¹ She was the daughter of William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt.^2,1

     Lives in Tallahasee, Fla and has a daughter and granddaughter. Jeanette Carter was born on 4 January 1904.¹ She was the daughter of William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt.^2,1

     Wiley Carter was born in 1798 at Warren Co., GA.² He was the son of James Carter and Eleanor Duckworth. Wiley Carter married Ann Ansley, daughter of Abel Ansley and Lydia Morris, on 18 February 1821 at Warren Co., GA.² Wiley Carter married Sarah Chestnut Wilson on 25 January 1849 at Warren Co., GA.² Wiley Carter died on 4 March 1864 at Schley Co., GA.² He was buried at Carter Family Cemetery, Ellaville, Schley Co., GA.³

Georgia Family Lines by Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr. Wiley Carter sold his land in Warren Co. on Rocky Comfort Creek near Gibson, (now in Glascock Co.) in 1851 and moved permanently to his plantation in Schley Co., in southwest Georgia, 20 mi. north of Plains. The home, known today as the "Battle Place", is located along with the family cemetery, on the Ellaville-Friendship Rd. (Ga. Hwy. 153) at its intersection with Ga. Hwy. 45. This is the site of the Quebec community, originally in Sumter Co., but included in Schley Co. at its creation in 1857. It was here that Wiley Carter, farmer, planter, and Baptist, was buried when he died at age 66 in the midst of the Civil War. His plantation contained 2400 acres in both Schley and Sumter Cos. and produced 147 bales of cotton in 1860. Wiley's first wife, Ann, had died c. 1848 and he had m. second, in Warren Co. in 1849, Mrs. Sarah Wilson, widow, of Newton Co. After Wiley's death, Sarah married a Mr. Ross and died in 1870.

     Ann Ansley was born in 1801 at Warren Co., GA.¹ She was the daughter of Abel Ansley and Lydia Morris.² Ann Ansley married Wiley Carter, son of James Carter and Eleanor Duckworth, on 18 February 1821 at Warren Co., GA.³ Ann Ansley died in 1848 at Warren Co., GA.¹

     Amanda Carter was born in 1822 at Warren Co., GA.¹ She was the daughter of Wiley Carter and Ann Ansley.² Amanda Carter died in 1893 at Warren Co., GA.¹