OBITUARY: Anthony Carter, c1847-1927, Worth Co., Iowa

Source:
NORTHWOOD ANCHOR AND WORTH COUNTY INDEX, 27 Jan 1927, Vol 42, No. 3, p. 1



                  A. Carter Funeral Held Yesterday P.M.

The funeral of Anthony Carter, who died at his home in Gordonsville
Sunday, was held yesterday afternoon at two o'clock at the Methodist
church in Northwood. Rev. Thomas P. Shaffer, the pastor, officiating.
He was assisted in the service by Rev. E. W. Gebhard, the Methodist
pastor at Gordonsville.  Mr. Carter was well known in Northwood
where he lived for many years in his home on north 8th street.

A few years ago, after the death of his aged wife, he moved to
Gordonsville and lived with his son Edward.  At the time of his death
he was aged 81 years, two months and fifteen days.  He had been in
poor health for several years.  Of late he had been gradually failing
and a recent illness found him too weak to overcome the attack.

Mr. Carter was a kindly old gentleman who was known to practically
everybody in Northwood.  He lived here for thirty-four years after
moving from the Carter farm north of town.

Burial was in the Northwood Cemetery.

Anthony Carter was born in England.  At the age of six years he came
with his parents to the United States.  They resided in Stoughton,
Wisconsin, for several years.  It was there that he was married,
on July 14, 1867, to Miss Rebecca Tibbitt, who was also a native of
England.  The young man and his bride made their home in Grant county,
Wisconsin, until 1871, when they removed to Worth county, Iowa. Here
they resided on a farm north of Northwood, and later moved into this
city, where they continued to live for thirty-four years.

Mrs. Carter died on February 4, 1923.  A short time after her decease,
Mr. Carter went to Gordonsville, where he and his son Edward lived in
a little home together until the father was taken to join the mother
last Sunday noon.

Mr. and Mrs. Carter were the parents of four children, two sons and
two daughters.  All have departed this life except Edward.  Three
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren are among those who survive
the aged couple.

Mr. Carter had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since his
youth, and for the past forty-eight years he had been a member of that
congregation in Northwood.  He and his wife were both received into
the church by certificate transfer in February 1879, under the pastorate
of the Rev. T. M. Nichols.  During his brief sojourn in Gordonsville,
Mr. Carter had frequently spoken in most appreciative terms of the kindness
of his good neighbors there, who have all been friends indeed to him and
his son in their time of distress.


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NOTES:

Anthony Carter's farm is located on the border of the state
line of Minnesota.  I do have copies of the following deeds (from
Worth County Courthouse in Northwood, IA.:

- 22 May 1873 Nicholson I. Sowthian and wife to Anthony Carter (40 Acres
for $700.00)

- 23 Oct 1873 Abraham McPherson and wife to Anthony Carter ($1,000. NW 1/4
of the SW 1/4 of Section 8 in Township 100 North of Range 20 West of the
Fifth Principal Meridian Iowa)

- 17 Mar 1885 Anthony Carter and Rebecca Carter sold to Warren Gilbert
of Columbia County, Wisconsin (40 acres for $450.00)


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Above researched by Millie Andorfer at Northwood Library, Worth County,
Iowa, on 20 Feb 2001.


Submitted by Kathy Pike - August 22, 2003

Copyright 2003, Kathy McAlister Pike