Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....CARTER, Austin September 20, 1968
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Courier-Journal Newspaper, Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky  September 22, 1968
OBITUARY
HORSE RIDING MAIL CARRIER DIES AT 88--
Special to the Courier-Journal
Elizabethtown, Ky.----Austin CARTER, age 88, of Cecilia, Ky in Hardin County, who at
76 
retired as a horseback mail carrier in rural Hardin and Breckinridge Counties, died
on 
Friday, September 20, 1968.
     For 20 years, CARTER delivered the mail on horseback along a 25-mile round trip
route 
between Custer in Eastern Breckinridge County to Arch, Hardin County.
     CARTER served 54 homes along the route, much of which was over a wagon trail, a
creek 
bed, and a path.  He made the round trip each Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday as one
of the 
horseback carriers who have served isolated mountian areas of Kentucky.
                 RETIRED IN 1956
     In 1953, when an article about him appeared in "The Courier-Journal" and "Times

Magazine", CARTER said he had made 2,623 trips in the sixteen years and nine months
of 
service to that point in his career.  He retired in 1956.
Survivors include:
one grandson:
Chester FLOWERS of Cecilia, Ky, where Mr. CARTER had been living prior to his death
in 
Hardin Memorial Hospital here.
     The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. today at Custer Methodist Church in Custer,
with 
burial in Preston Cemetery at Custer.
     The body is at Nelson-Edelen-Bennett Funeral Home, Vine Grove in Hardin County,
Ky






Additional Comments:
#0292 Preston Cemetery, located off Highway 86, at Custer Church of God; 1 mile.
Custer, Breckinridge County, Ky.

CARTER, Austin  15 Mch 1880 -- 20 Sep 1968
husband of Georgia Ester CRALLE
son of Jabez B. CARTER & Elizabeth "Eliza" CHAUDOIN
have his obituary
he has a single tombstone

CARTER, Georgia Ester  01 Oct 1884 -- 15 Nov 1937
wife of Austin CARTER
daughter of George W. CRALLE & Louella LYON/LYONS
have her death certificate
she has a single tombstone
Dana Brown & Peggy Russell



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