Hyde County NcArchives Obituaries.....Carter, David May 23, 1862
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The Standard of Raleigh: July 16, 1862
The Standard of Raleigh: July 16, 1862
   DIED, -- At his residence near Fairfield, Hyde County, June 23rd 1862, 
DAVID CARTER ESQ. in the sixty-second year of his age.
   The deceased was a representative man of his age; prudent in management, 
industrious in his disposition; he acquired an ample competancy of this 
world's goods, which he bestowed with a  liberal hand on the poor wherever 
found. His house was the home of hospitality; the stranger never knocked at 
his door in vain, and to those who required his aid his hand was always open. 
Perhaps no other man has done so much to develop the resources of this, his 
native county, and her present unparalleled productiveness and plenty, is 
owing in a large degree to work of improvements planned and executed by him.
   The deceased represented Hyde and Beaufort Counties in the Senate of North 
Carolina at the session of 1846 and 1847. He had no political aspirations, and 
would never afterward suffer his name to be used in connection with public 
matters. He belonged to that class of our citizens known as the old Union 
party, but when Lincoln issued his memorable proclamation, he equipped three 
of his sons and sent them to the field, and the gallant charge made by CAPT. 
CARTER and his company of the 4th Regiment before Richmond, shows how well 
they discharged their duty.
   The deceased was a firm friend, a kind husband and a consistent Christian. 
He leaves a large family, and hundreds of friends in this State and Virginia 
to mourn his loss, but his upright life and quiet death (for he died as calmly 
as a child) leads us to hope that our loss is his eternal gain.

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