Carter Cemetery (partial list), Beauregard Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Nova D. Hall and Bettie Carter Bennett
Date: September 22, 2006
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 BRIEF HISTORY CARTER CEMETERY 
Sometime after 1871, when they were married in Missouri, William Lindsey Carter 
and wife Sarah Elizabeth Bryant Carter came to this spot to homestead 40 acres 
and build a home. 

While assembling rafts on Red Bluff Gully a few miles west of here, he was 
crushed by logs rolling down from the hill behind him. Transported home in a 
wagon, he died here in 1904. 

Sarah picked out a spot in the center of the 40 acres on a small knoll, south 
of the house and William Lindsey Carter became the first person buried here. 

On April 24, 1910, a huge fire destroyed 7 blocks of downtown Lake Charles, 
wiping out the courthouse and all the records of Imperial Calcasieu Parish, 
which would later be divided into Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Allen and 
Beauregard Parishes. The fire therefore wiped out the records of the areas 
that became those parishes in 1913. 

In 1932, Sarah Elizabeth Carter lost the 40 acres to O.C. Gregory in a sheriff’s 
sale. Late taxes were $10.26. 

One of William Lindsey & Sarah’s daughters, Clara Alice Hollingsworth, had two 
young sons buried here; Alton Lee, who never saw his first birthday, buried in 
1905 and George Allen, buried in 1915 at age 16. 

Annie Hollingsworth Carter was buried here in 1905. Annie’s father Andrew Jackson 
Hollingsworth was buried here in 1917. His, wife Malinda Allgood, preceded him in 
death several years and may have been buried in Missouri. 

William Hasie Carter, son of Annie & William was buried here in 1919 at the age of 
seventeen. 

Roy Clark, son of Mary Magdaline Carter & Cecil Clark, was buried here in 1927. 

Sarah Elizabeth Bryant Carter, the last burial here, died in 1936 and was buried 
beside her husband. 

In 1937, 20 acres was inherited by children of William Lindsey and Sarah Elizabeth. 

Also in 1937, O. C. Gregory signed a quit claim deed to the 20 acres of the original 
40 acres over to the children of William Lindsey Carter and Sarah Elizabeth Bryant 
Carter, probably because of the presence of the cemetery. 

s/Don Hollingsworth Oct. 1999 

Several years ago vandals shot and pushed over the markers on the graves in the Carter 
Cemetery. A grandson of Elizabeth and William Carter was still living at that time and 
remembered who was n the graves and the dates of their death. 

Sarah Elizabeth Carter - 11 Jan 1852 / 15 Apr 1936
William Lindsey Carter - 9 Aug 1848 / 18 Jun 1904

William Hazie Carter - 1902 / 5 Mar 1919
Annie Hollingsworth Carter

Andrew Jackson Hollingsworth - Died 1917
George Allen Hollingsworth - 4 Sept 1899 / 5 Feb 1915
Alton Lee Hollingsworth - 12 Oct 1904 / 1 Oct 1905