Carroll County GaArchives History - Letters .....Carter, Mrs. I. F. Letter From Victory Methodist Church January 29, 1977 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVerne Carter http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00028.html#0006854 October 20, 2010, 11:27 am Letter to Mrs. I. F. Carter Americus, Georgia Bowdon, Georgia Jan. 29, 1977 Dear Mrs. Carter In reply to your request concerning the Carter family, I was able to get a friend who was once a member of Victory Methodist Church to give me some information of your family. I hope this will be some help to you. Sincerely, Mildred Garrett, Treasurer of Victory United Methodist Church Bowdon, Ga. Rte. 1 30108 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Carter and Widener families as remembered by Mrs. Jessie McDaniel Hamrick. From my earliest recollection I remember Mr. Steve Carter, he worked for my grandfather, G.A. McDaniel who had a mill, gin, sawmill, blacksmith shop and general merchandise store at Victory. A lot of people worked there. About 1895, the man who was and had been the blacksmith for a number of years moved to Texas and Mr. Steve Carter then became the blacksmith proper. He had probably been an assistant til then. He then moved into the house where the former blacksmith lived and so became our nearest neighbor. Mrs. Carter whose father Mr. Joe Widener lived nearby in his own home - he was a watch and clock fixer also mended jewelry and sharpened knives and did a lot of such work. He had his own shop in the village of Victory. I don't know how many children he had. I only remember Mrs. Carter and he had a younger daughter named Queenie. Mr. and Mrs. Carter had several children. I remember Annie Lee, there were several others, a little boy 2 or 3 yrs. old named Jimmie died while they lived there. He was only sick a few hours. I do not know the nature of his sickness but he died and he is burried in the cemetery at Victory Church. there was a younger girl named Alice, but I do not know who she married or if she is still living. Mr. Carter came from Alabama and I do not know anything about any of his people. The family attended church at Victory, but I do not find any of the family on record as a member of the church except Mrs. Carter. Sometime in the late 1890s maybe about 1898 they moved to Tyus another small village a few miles from Victory where Mrs. Carter died about 1907 or 08. I'm not sure but she is burried at Victory by the side of her little son Jimmie. Mrs. Joe Widener (Mrs. Carter's mother) is also in Victory cemetery. She was burried there about 1898 or 1899 or even 1900. I'm not sure. The graves are not marked. I never knew Mr. Carter's other wife. In 1912 I taught a music class at Tyus and Alice Carter took music lessons from me. She was a sweet girl and real pretty, and I was real proud of her. But I do not know anything else about what became of her. I would so like to help you more but as I am now 85 years old, there is not anyone living I can go to find out about them. There is certainly no charge for this bit of information. I am a member of the DARs and I am always glad to help on genealogy in any way I can. All this is from memory. I meant to tell you .... Mrs. Carter's name is on the Church Records, first as Emma Widener from 1882, then later it appears as Emma Widener Carter till 1899. Mrs. Jessie Hamrick Carrollton, Ga. 30117 The subject above was Stephen (Steve) Alexander Carter. He married (1) Sarah Roberts, (2) Emma Widener and (3) Lonnie Lee Weaver, all marriages recorded in Carroll County, Ga. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/history/letters/cartermr339ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb