Sumter-Warren-Schley County GaArchives Biographies.....Carter, Jeremiah Calvin 1855 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   JEREMIAH CALVIN CARTER. A substantial and prosperous planter of Americus, and
a successful manufacturer, Jeremiah Calvin Carter is numbered among the esteemed
and useful citizens of Sumter county, where a large part of his life has been
spent. A son of the late L. B. Walker Carter, he was born April 4,1855, in that
part of Warren county, Georgia, now included within the limits of Glascock
county. His grandfather, Wiley Carter, was a son of James Carter, of whose
history very little is known excepting the fact that he was a pioneer settler of
Warren county, Georgia, and that he died at the home of one of his sons, in
Quebec, Schley county, at a ripe old age.

   Wiley Carter removed from Warren county to Schley county, where he purchased
a large tract of land, which he operated with the help of slaves, and on the
plantation which he improved spent the remainder of his life of three score and
ten years.

   L. B. Walker Carter was born on the home farm in Warren county, obtaining his
education in the district schools. Coming to Sumter county in 1859, he located
on land belonging to his father, situated near the present site of Bagley
Station, and on which a few improvements had been previously made, a few acres
of the tract having been cleared, and a log house having been erected. With the
assistance of slaves, he continued the improvements already inaugurated and had
placed a large part of the land under cultivation when his labors were
interrupted by the breaking out of the Civil war. Enlisting then in Cutt's
Battalion, he went with his command to Virginia, and subsequently was an active
participant in many of the more important battles waged during the conflict,
including those at Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, and the numerous engagements
in and around Richmond and Petersburg, being at Appomattox at the final
surrender. Returning home from there, he resumed farming, and continued in his
free and independent occupation until his death, in 1873. The maiden name of his
wife was Mary Ann Seals. She was born in Warren county, where her father,
William Archibald Seals, was an early settler. Mr. Seals improved a water power
on Rock Comfort creek, and in addition to managing a large plantation with slave
labor owned and operated a large merchant flour mill, continuing a resident of
that county until his death, in 1863. He married Eliza Ann Harris, who survived
him several years. Mrs. Mary Ann (Seals) Carter outlived her husband but four
days. Four children were born of their union, as follows: Jeremiah Calvin, of
whom we write; Annie, now deceased, married N. A. Ray; William A., deceased; and
N. I., wife of D. A. Jenkins.

  As a small boy, Jeremiah Calvin Carter attended first the rural schools,
afterwards being a pupil in the public schools of Americus. He received a
practical training in agriculture while young, and at the age of eighteen years,
being industrious and self-reliant, he began farming on his own account. He
succeeded to the ownership of one-half of the parental homestead, the other half
being in the possession of his brother-in-law, to whom he subsequently sold his
share. As an agriculturist Mr. Carter has met with exceptional good success,
owning upwards of sixteen hundred acres in Sumter county, Georgia, and having
valuable tracts of lands in both Orange and Gadsdeu counties, Florida. Mr.
Carter 's sons manage his Sumter county farms, which are devoted to general
farming, while his Florida lands are especially devoted to the culture of
tobacco. In 1900 Mr. Carter established a cigar factory in Americus, and has
since built up a good business in that line of industry.

   On January 4, 1883, Mr. Carter was united in the holy bonds of matrimony with
Mittie C. Wallace, who was born in Sumter county, a daughter of John B. and
Eleanor W. Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. Carter are the parents of ten children, namely:
John W.; Eleanor Brownie; William Edgar; Mamie; Walter G.; Calvin; Sallie
Estelle; Otis; Oscar; and Nathaniel. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carter are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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