NATHANIEL CARTER native of Orange County, Indiana, the sixth child and third son of Nathaniel and Ann (Ramsey) Carter, natives of North Carolina, and of Irish and Scotch extraction re spectively, was born March 25, 1815. His parents came into Morgan County in 1821* and located upon land entered from the Government, and where the two old people spent the remainder of their days, and where Nathanielhas since resided. He attended a little at the subscription schools and learned something of reading and writing. November 23, 1837, he was married at Plainfield, Ind., to Martha, dau ghter of EdwardChamness, a native of North Carolina. She bore him six children -- James R., Hannah, Thomas F., Mary B., Nathaniel W. and William Edgar. His son, Thomas F., was killed at the battle of Chattanooga, Tenn., on May 31, 1865. The mother of these children died October 2, 1871, at the age of fifty-four years, and February 13, 1873, subject was married at Monrovia, Ind., to Louisa Jane (H ubbard) Blair,daughter of George Hubbard, deceased, native of North Carolina. Our subject and wife are birthright members of the Friends’ Church. He is a Republican in politics, and a strong advoca te of temperance. He gave the land gratis upon which is located public school building No. 1. What Mr. Carter possesses he has toiled for, and after giving away considerable land to his children, he y et owns a nice farm of ninety acres, all in cultivation and well improved. He lived with his parents and took care of them till their death. His religious work and charities are mostly among the poor of the country, and such labor hi is endeavoring to do the will of the Everlasting Father.-- Counties of Morgan, Monroe & Brown; Historical and Biographical, edited by Charles Blanchard, 1884; p. 220.
* Possibly 1822 as recorded in biography of Nathaniel's brother, John D. Carter on page 219, Blanchard.
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