WARE COUNTY GA Cemetery CARTER Family File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Christopher Boyd Wayxga@aol.com http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/ware/cemeteries/carter.txt Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/ware.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm CARTER CEMETERY Directions to Carter cemetery. Swamp Road from Waycross, GA city limits toward Obediah's Okefenoke. The cemetery is 12.3 miles from the city limits and 5 miles beyond Obediah's on the left. The cemetery has a metal fence around it and the area outside the fence as well as the cemetery had just been mowed. Someone(s) had just raked and burned debris outside the fence. Under an interesting, opensided, unpainted shed are two graves: Millie Carter Geo. W. Carter Jan 18, 1860 Oct. 25, 1862 Dec 30, 1947 July 4, 1934 A Devoted Wife and He was a kind an Loving Mother effectionate (sic) husband A loving father and a friend to all. to the left of these two graves: William S. Martin Elizar Jane May 26, 1870 Martin Nov. 2, 1950 May 10, 1873 Apr. 12, 1937 The two graves are covered by a single large cement slab. James Caleb Cox May 23, 1995 Sept. 29, 1995 Darling We will Miss Thee This grave is in the corner of the fence and on a board on the fence is written, "In Memory of our Little Man Caleb" Melvin B. Cox Allie V. Cox 1908-1973 1920- Melvin Bryant Cox 1908-1973 Miles-Odum funeral marker William Roscoe Cox Maggie Emma Cox June 7, 1907 Jan. 21, 1911 Nov. 27, 1982 Mattie Mae Cox George H. Cox May 25, 1914 Married Nov. 23, 1931 Feb 5, 1912 Aug. 23, 1993 next to them is George Maurice Cox Dec. 3, 1932 Jan. 13, 1998 Funeral markers next to shed on right. Raford Carter Mr. Earlie Elmer Carter Dec. 13. 54 Unknown 55 52 next to this are two half bricks Two children's graves Elsie Thrif2 Elmer F. Carter George Dewey July 14, 1941 Carter Oct. 24, 1999 Apr. 13, 1901 Loving Husband, Father & Brother June 9, 1946 (Headstone has a deer in woods He is Gone But carved.) Not Forgotten Music Funeral Home marker at feet. Rudolph George Carter Darrell R. Carter Apr. 17, 1940 Nov. 12, 1966 Aug. 21, 1997 Oct. 17, 1990 Gods Amazing Grace Rudolph's headstone exactly like Elmer F. Carter's. next to the above graves Our Son Gerald J. Carter Nov. 18, 1967 Oct. 10, 1970 Suffer Little Children To Come Unto Me Carved is figure of Jesus with two children, male and female. Miles-Odum Marker William M Stringer PFC U S Army Nov 27 1893 Aug 4 1974 This headstone has a cross inside a circle. There is no punctuation on the stone. Transcribed by Christopher Henderson Griffin Boyd 13 October 2001 ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============