Henry County GaArchives Photo Person.....Carter, Leonidas D. 
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Source:             Carter Siblings, Newton Co. GA-see Text
Name:               Leonidas D. Carter
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LEONIDAS DANIEL AND PRISCILLA(NELMS)CARTER-no date

This undated tintype shows Leonidas Daniel and Priscilla(Nelms)Carter, who 
settled on 61 acres near Sardis Baptist Church in Henry Co. The parcel was 
deeded to Leonidas in 1844 by his uncle, Rev. James Carter of Butts Co. James 
Carter, long time pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church in Butts Co., had 
purchased the original land lot for $22.00, after his brother Daniel Carter of 
Warren Co. had defaulted on taxes. Daniel had won the 202-½ acre lot in the 
Georgia Land Lottery-(check date-and newspaper legal notice on taxes). James 
Carter also deeded an additional 44 acres of the same lot-(#201-8D.)to 
Leonidas’ sister Martha Ann Harper, wife of Rueben J. Harper. Leonidas later 
married Rueben’s sister Frances in 1850. After her death he married Priscilla 
Nelms(Nellums)in 1852. Leonidas and Priscilla are buried in unmarked graves in 
the Harper/Carter/Maddox cemetery on Jackson Lake Rd. near its terminus at Keys 
Ferry Rd. Their son, Alexander, told of helping build a rock wall enclosure-
[see cemetery photo on this site]. It is believed that Leonidas’ parents, 
Daniel who died in 1837, and wife Martha Ann(Scott)Carter also died in Henry 
Co. The site of their graves is purely speculative; perhaps at this site, or 
the original Sardis Baptist Church location, or a separate family cemetery, or 
even at Macedonia Baptist Church in Butts Co. Sardis Baptist Church did not 
move to its present site until 1843!


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