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Persoonlijke gegevens John Douglas Carter 

• Hij is geboren op 1 maart 1811 in Ashe Co., NC.
• Hij is overleden op 10 juni 1900, hij was toen 89 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Mooresville Cemetery.
• Een kind van nathaniel carter en Ann Ramsey

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Notities over John Douglas Carter

“Came to Indiana in 1813 and first took up residence at Orange County. Removed to Morgan County, Indiana in the year 1821 or 1822.” from Vinson Carter’s “Society of Indiana Pio neers” application dated November 18, 1919. His address was “1034 N. Penn. St.” He also cites “The History of Indianapolis” by Jacob Piatt Dunn, Vol. 2, page 834 as documentation and evidenc e of John Carter’s residence in Indiana prior to December 31, 1830.

“John D. Carter

b. 1 Mar 1811

d. 10 Jun 1900

Same headstone as Ruth

Interred Mooresvi lle Cemetery

Brown Township, Morgan County”

--From Cemetery Headstone Records, Morgan County Library

JOHN D. CARTER was one of the pioneers of “the new purchase,” a wealthy farmer of Brown township, a native of Ashe County, N. C., is the son of Nathaniel and Ann (Ramsey) Carter, and was born March 1, 1811. His parents came to Indiana in 1814, and settled in Ora nge County, where they lived eight years, coming to Morgan County in 1822,* when they located upon a small tract of land entered from the Government, and at once proceeded to erect a log cabin, upon t he dirt floor of which they stowed away their little family and scant supply of household goods. their stock consisting of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, geese and ducks, they brought with them from Ora nge County. From a journal, written by the subject of this sketch, in which it faithfully recounted the many experiences of this family, we quote: “We saw hard times the first winter; we had to cut down green beech and sugar trees for our cattle to eat the buds; had to go from twenty to thirty miles for corn to make bread; and five to six miles for help to raise the cabin.” But their experienc es were but repetitions of those hundreds of brave pioneers whose hardships and privations are recounted upon the pages of the early history of our country. November 26, 1834, Mr. Carter was married t o Ruth Pickett, in the manner and form peculiar to the Friends’ Society, of which they were both birthright members. This union has been blessed with ten children: -- George, Amos (deceased), Vincen t, Sarah Ann (deceased), Mary, Ella (deceased), William P., Nathaniel, Benjamin, Harriet B. and Emma. Three of his sons, George, Vincent and Nathaniel, are prominent attorneys at law in the city of I ndianapolis, and his son William lives in San Antonio, Tex. Mr. Carter has been one of the hardest working men of the county. His children have all been thoroughly educated, and as they have arrived a t the estate of men and women, have received bountifully of the world’s goods from the munificent hand of an ever generous parent. the declining years of his life are being happily spent upon his ma gnificentfarm of about 350 acres, one and a half miles south-east of Mooresville, where at least once a year he assembles around his hearthstone and at his sumptuous table his children and grandchild ren, andwhere the merry romp and laughter of the little folks are subdued to breathless silence, as they listen to the tales of pioneer life, as they come from the lips of one who has been an actor i n scenes that seem to their young ears fraught with wondrous impossibilities. In politics, Mr. Carter has always been a Republican of the most pronounced type. He is a consistent Christian gentleman, and lives supremely happy in the glorious anticipation of eternal life in Heaven. -- "Counties of Morgan, Monroe & Brown; Historical and Biographical," edited by Charles Blanchard, 1884; p. 219

*Possibly 1821 as recorded in biography of Nathaniel Carter, John's brother on page 220, Blanchard.

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