Conecuh County AlArchives Church Records.....Excerpts from The Minutes of Murder Creek/Belleville Baptist Church, Conecuh Co, AL: Carter and Johnson Families ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Bell nsb7020@yahoo.com April 4, 2004, 1:12 pm Excerpts from The Minutes of Murder Creek/Belleville Baptist Church, Conecuh Co, AL: Carter and Johnson Families Source: Belleville Baptist Church (Conecuh Co, AL) Minutes; microfilm from Samford University, Birmingham, AL March 1835: The church met according to appointment after preaching by BRO. TRAVIS. Set in conference a Door was opened for the reception of members. None Recd. They then proceeded to take up the Bankrupt Question and after some debate it was resolved that a member of this church shall not take the benefit of the Bankrupt Law in any case and retain his membership in the church on Sabbath mournings. (?) the property of ISAAC CARTER offered (?) to the church and was Recd. And Baptized. Sept. 25, 1837: The church met according to appointment after preaching by BRO. TRAVIS set in conference a door opened for the Reception of members. ROGER a man of color the property of ROBERT SAVAGE came forward and offered an Experience & was accepted (?) as a candidate for baptism (?). THOS. STRAUGHN and his wife NANCY STRAUGHN (?) experience and was had as candidates for baptism. MRS. CARTER was also restored. J.H. HAWTHORN then read the Letter prepared for the association which was recd. Aug. 1838: The church met according to appointment after preaching by Bro. TRAVIS. Set in conference a Door was opened for the reception of members. MRS. SARAH ANN COLEMAN came forward and offer her experience & was recd. As a candidate for Baptism. Bro. ISAAC CARTER came forward ??? & apply to be restored which was done (?). (?) J.R. HAWTHORN read the letter which he had??? July 22, 1843:...JUBE the property of ISAAC CARTER recd....Recd. Sister ELIZABETH JOHNSON by letter... July 22, 1844: (first part missing)...to write the Letter to the association - after several days protracted meeting LOUCY the property of ISAAC CARTER offered her experience and was Recd. and Baptized. March 25, 1845: The church met according to appointment after preaching by Bro. TRAVIS. A door was opened for the reception of members, none recd. JUBE the property of ISAAC CARTER was excluded for disorderly conduct. Dismissed as usual. Membership Roll: SARAH CARTER*-1838-Restored ISAAC CARTER-1838-Restored-Died (probably died around 1845) ELIZABETH JOHNSON-1839-Received by Baptism ELIZABETH JOHNSON-1843-Received by Letter-Dismissed ROBERT JOHNSON-1846-Received by Baptism-Dismissed MARY CARTER-1846-Received by Baptism-Dismissed ISAAC and MARY CARTER moved to Alabama from Georgia around 1811-1815. According to census records, ISAAC and MARY had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. The names of only 3 children are known: 1.CLARK CARTER: (3 Dec 1791 in GA-5 Dec 1850 in Kemper Co, MS) who married SARAH (b.30 Jan 1803 in AL; d. 5 Dec 1848 in Kemper Co, MS) and had the following children: WILLIAM D. (1821-1848), CATHERINE ELIZABETH (1829-1836), SUSAN (b. 1834), MARY LOUISA (1835-1922), NANCY (b. 1836), DAVEY (b. 1840), RICHARD H. (1841-1849), SARAH (b. 1842), JUDITH (b. 1844), JOSIAH or JONAH (b. 1846); maybe JOHN (b. 1838). After SARAH died, CLARK remarried JANE TURNER and had 1 child, CLARKIE REBECCA. CLARK CARTER moved to Kemper Co, MS in 1833 and was a representative from the Choctaw Baptist Association to the Bethlehem Baptist Association twice. 2.SARAH ANN CARTER: (1811 in GA -1863) maybe in Kemper Co, MS) who married JOHN L. SANSOM about1828 or 1829, probably in Conecuh Co, AL. They lived in Wilcox County in 1830,and then moved to Conecuh County, near the present day Brewton, which is now part of Escambia Co, AL. He was a postmaster there. They moved to Clarke Co, MS in 1847, and then later moved to Jasper Co, MS by 1860. They had the following children: JAMES LAMAR SANSOM: born 14 Jul 1827, m. MARTHA SEALE 1 Jun 1854, Clarke Co, MS; died 21 Jan 1882 in Oletha, Limestone Co, TX; buried Sansom Cemetery, Limestone Co, TX and WILLIAM CARTER SANSOM: born 9 Dec 1829; m. MARTHA HAND DALE 14 Jan 1857 in Scooba, Kemper Co, MS; died 12 Feb 1890 in Monroe Co, MS; buried in Old Union Cemetery, Monroe Co 3. ELIZABETH "BETSEY" CARTER: (1822 in AL-?); married abt 1837 to ROBERT JOHNSON (30 May 1811; d. 11 Dec 1859 in Kemper Co, MS). The had the following children: SARAH ANN (1838-1853); MARY (b. 1840, AL); MARTHA (b. 1842, AL); ISAAC (b. 1844, AL); ANN (b. 1846, AL); JANE (b. 1847, MS); ALICE (b. 1848, MS); MOLLIE (?) m. MR. CHERRY. ISAAC CARTER died around 1845 in Conecuh Co, AL. It appears that his wife, MARY, moved to Kemper Co, MS with her daughter, BETSEY JOHNSON, around 1846. CLARK CARTER was already living in Kemper County. Clark and Sarah Carter, MARY CARTER, and ROBERT JOHNSON are buried in the Carter Cemetery, off Hwy. 16, in Kemper Co, MS. ELIZABETH JOHNSON is probably buried there, also, but some headstones are down and covered with bushes, and cannot be read. *I don't know who this SARAH CARTER is. ISAAC and MARY'S daughter, SARAH ANN, had already married JOHN L. SANSOM by 1838. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.5 Kb