Confederate Veterans of Elliott County
By John A. Stegall   <  johnstegall@hotmail.com

One installment in a series of articles Mr. John A. Stegall prepares and publishes in The Elliott 
County News, this article being a continuation from Jan 4, 2000 and first appearing in the Feb 
18, 2000 edition of said paper.  Transcribed with permission from the author by Samone Ratcliff 
on Dec 3, 1999.

	George W. Carter, Pvt., Co. G, Fifth Reg=t Inf. (Consolidated) KY., Vol.  Records 
indicate that this veteran enlisted at Camp Huger on Dec 29, 1861, one day after Co. G was 
organized.  Mustering-out date was to be Oct 20, 1862, however, I can not prove that George W. 
Carter was discharged at the date.  We do know that he was captured (or arrested) sometime later 
by a military record that reads: ACarter, George W., resident of Morgan Co.  Arrested in Morgan 
co on May 1, 1863, released on June 21 (or 27?), 1863, after taking the oath of allegiance to the 
United States.@
	This information was taken from a list of ACivilian Prisoners@ confined by Union 
Authorities at McLeans Barricks, Cincinnati.
	George Washington Carter was born in Scott Co, VA on Dec 8, 1807, and was a son of 
Presley and Elizabeth Porter Carter. 
	On June 7, 1829, George and Cynthia Conn were married in Scott Co.  Cynthia was a 
daughter of Jesse Wilson and Mary Webb (or Pendleton) Conn, also of Scott Co.
	George W. Carter is not named in the 1850 Morgan Co, KY census; however, his family is 
enumerated in the 1860 report for that county.  It is believed that the family arrived here 
sometime around 1855, and settled on a rather large tract of land near the present day Concord 
Enterprise Baptist Church on Brown Ridge.
	When the 1860 census was taken, George W. Carter indicated that he was 52 years of age 
and had been born in VA; Cynthia was 49, and also indicated that she was born in VA.  Children 
named in the 1860 report were: Anna, 29; Mary J., 25; Sarrepta, 19; George, 16; Alexander, 14; 
Jesse, 12; Wayne, 9; Margarett, 7; and Presley, 8 months.  Another daughter, Martha, 27, had 
married Jesse Steagall; another son, Thomas, 24, had married Eliza Thompson and was living in his 
own home, as were Jesse and Martha Steagall.
	I might point out this would be the last time Tom and Alex Carter would be named in a 
census report.  In Aug 1863, they were shot and killed by Union troops during a church service at 
Concord.
	When the 1870 Elliott Co census was taken, George and Cynthia Carter were still residents 
of the Brown Ridge area.  George indicated that he was 62 and Cynthia was 60, both ages being 
consistent with those give in 1860.  Again, both indicated that they had been born in VA.  
Children named in this report were; Jesse, 23; Wane (Wayne), 19; Margarett, 15; and Presley, 10. 
 The last three children had been born in KY, and all previous children had been born in Scott 
Co, VA.
	In 1880, George W. and Cynthia Carter were still residents of Brown ridge.  He was 72; 
Cynthia was 65, obviously, an age that was not consistent with the 1860 and 1870 records.  One 
son, Presley, age 20, was at home with them.
	I have no specific dates for the deaths of George W. and Cynthia, however, we know from a 
document that George's death came after Aug 11, 1884, and it is believed that Cynthia had 
preceded him in death by a very few years.  Both George and Cynthia, as well as many of their 
family, including Tom and Alex, are buried in the Carter Cemetery at Concord on Brown Ridge.


	Thomas Carter and Alexander Carter: I find no proof that either of these brothers, sons 
of George W. and Cynthia Conn Carter, were soldiers in the Confederate Army; however, due to the 
fact that they were killed by Union soldiers would indicate that they were involved in the 
Confederate cause in some manner.
	Both Thomas and Alexander (Tom and Alex) are named in the 1850 Scott Co, VA census.  Tom 
was 13, placing his birth around 1837; Alex was 4, and was probably born in 1846.
	Morgan Co marriage records show that Thomas Carter and Eliza Thompson were married Nov 6, 
1859.  They were named in the 1860 Morgan Co census as Family #477.  Eliza apparently died soon 
thereafter, perhaps childless.  She was said to have been the first buried in what we today call 
the Eli Pennington Cemetery on Coldspring Road.  Tom Carter is buried in his family cemetery. 
	Alex Carter would have only been about 17 years of age when he was killed and there is no 
record that he was married.
	Tom and Alex were buried in the same grave.


	Greenville P. Carter: 3rd, Sgt., Co. B, Fifth Reg=t Inf., KY Vol.  This company was 
mustered in at West Liberty on Oct 21, 1861 for a term of 1 year.
	On Oct 20, 1862, at Hazel Green, KY, all soldiers who had served 12 months, were mustered 
out by Gen. Marshall.  Since I have read nothing to the contrary, I assume that Greenville Carter 
was among this number.
	Greenville Patterson Carter was born Mar 25, 1839 in Scott Co, VA.  He was the forth 
child, and second oldest son, born to Milton Ladd Carter and Rosemond Carter Carter, natives of 
Scott Co.  
	Perhaps I should point out that the Carters were among the very earliest settlers in the 
Rye Cove area of Scott Co, with records proving that they made land entries as early as 1774, 
when the area was still a part of Fincastle Co, VA.
	It is difficult, if not impossible, to determine the exact year that Milton L. Carter 
moved his family from Scott Co to North Ruin in presentday Elliott Co.  He is not named in the 
1840 Morgan Co census (North Ruin was a part of Morgan at that time); however, the family is 
named in the 1850 census record for that county.
	In 1850, Greenville was 11 years of age, and still in the home of his parents.  
Researchers using the 1850 census will find the Greenville badly misspelled as APrunville@.
	When the 1860 census was taken, AGreen@ Carter was listed as being 21 years of age, and 
still at home with his parents. 
	Sometime during 1863, Green Carter and Ella Clark were married, perhaps in Rowan Co.  
They were apparently living in their own home, or in the home of their elderly parents, whom they 
cared for during their old age.
	In this census report, Greenville Carter indicated that he was 36 years of age; Martha 
(Ella) was 24.  They had 3 children: Breckenridge, 6; Harvy, 4; and Mary, 1 year.  Also in their 
home were: Milton L. Carter, 65; Rosannah, 60; and Greenville=s brother, James, age 32.
	Green Carter continued to make North Ruin his home, and in 1880, he indicated that he was 
41 years of age, and Martha E. was 36, which seems inconsistent with the age she gave in 1870.  
Six children were named: Breckenridge, 16; Hannah L., 13; Cora S., 11; Robert N., 7; Flora, 6; 
and Olla T., 4.  Milton L. Carter, then 75, and widowed, was living with his son=s family.  (It 
is indicated on her gravestone that Ella Carter died in 1891.)  If this is correct, I wonder why 
she was not named in the 1880 census.  Since Milton L. indicated that he was a widower, I believe 
the death occurred prior to the date, and some seem to think she died in 1879.
	The 1890 Elliott Co tax records name Green Carter as the nearest neighbor of Abel 
Pennington; however, it does not indicate that Green was a land owner.  This is apparently an 
error in the records.  Green Carter inherited, or purchased the heired land of Milton L. Carter, 
and continued to live on the property that was situated on both sides of the Stegall-Coldspring 
Road, and included the site where the Carter schoolhouse would be built.
	The 1900 Elliott Co census indicates that Green Carter was 61 years of age, having been 
born in 1839 in VA; Martha E. was 56 (1843).  They indicated that they had been married 36 years, 
and had 8 children, one of them being deceased.  Only 2 children were at home with them: Alta, 20 
(1879) and Ransome, 14 (1886).
	Green Carter died at his home on North Ruin on Apr 26, 1902; Ella Clark Carter died Aug 
30, 1918.  Both are buried in the Milton L. Carter Cemetery on North Ruin.
	Readers might be interested in knowing that the son listed as Robert L., was in the 
Spanish-American War, and died aboard ship while sailing for the Phillipine Islands in 1898.  His 
body was Aburied at sea@, and the late Alonzo DeHart, who was also aboard the same ship, gave the 
family a detailed account of the funeral service and consequent burial>


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