Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Carter, Andrew & Mike, 1929 

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ANDREW & MIKE LLOYD CARTER 

"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 6, No. 298, Mon., Feb. 11, 1929, p. 1 

2 BROTHERS DIE NEAR SAME HOUR 

By Strange Coincidence Andrew Carter Passes Away at 7:45 O’clock last Night 
  at Whaleyville While end Comes to Mike 3 Hours Later at Holland. 

  By a strange coincidence two half-brothers, prominent citizens of Nansemond 
county, neither of whom knew the other was ill, died in their respective homes 
last night within a few hours of each other.  Their funerals will be held 
tomorrow afternoon at the same hour, but will be separate and burial will be 
in different cemeteries. 

  Andrew Carter, 83, the first to die, passed away at his residence near 
Whaleyville, last night at 7:45 after a short illness of influenza.  He is 
survived by two sons, J.F. Carter, of Whaleyville, I.L. Carter, of Black 
Creek, Va., two half-sisters, Mrs. Willie Lee and Miss Ena Carter, of Holland, 
three grandchildren, Mrs. S.C. Bristow, of Black Creek, Mrs. W.C. Eure, and 
Mrs. Claude L. Parker, of Whaleyville, also eleven great grandchildren.  He 
has been a deacon in the Great Fork Baptist Church for 40 years.  He was also 
a Confederate veteran and a member of Captain Bond's company of Gates county. 

  Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the late 
residence, conducted by the Rev. J.R. Taylor, assisted by the Rev. J.L. Maxey. 
Interment in family cemetery. 

  Mike L. Carter, aged 54, died at his home near Holland last night at 10:45 
after an illness of several hours of paralysis.  He is survived by his widow, 
Mrs. Kate L. Carter, nine children, Mrs. Stella L. Carter, of Holland, Mrs. 
A.F. Smith, of Norfolk; Misses Annie Sue and Helen E. Carter, of Holland; 
J.H., C.B., H.W., M.L., and A.R. Carter, all of Holland, Va., two 
grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. P.H. Lee and Miss Elizabeth E. Carter, of 
Holland. 

  Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Holy Neck 
Christian Church, conducted by Dr. N.G. Newman, assisted by the Rev. H.C. 
Hook.  Interment in Holland cemetery. 


Andrew CARTER, farmer, Confederate veteran, 
b. 12 Jun 1845, Gates Co., NC, d. 10 Feb 1929, at home, near Whaleyville, 
interred in the CARTER-HORTON family cemetery*, Whaleyville Blvd., 
   12 Feb 1929, 

*Additional information: 

Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (NV-II-29), an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol2.txt 

No Find a Grave Memorial 

Find a Grave calls it the HORTON family cemetery - Cemetery ID #2602312 - 
   and does not list any CARTER. 

D.Cert. 5880 (Whaleyville #2) 

He was the son of John A. CARTER & his first wife Emeline "Emmy" 
   (FELTON) CARTER. 

An obit also appeared in the "Raleigh News & Observer," Feb. 13, 1929. 

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Mike Lloyd CARTER, farmer, 
b. 4 Apr 1874, Gates Co., NC, d. 10 Feb 1929, at home, near Holland, 
interred in Holland Cemetery*, 12 Feb 1929, 

*Additional information: 

Holland list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holland.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Budjr - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #92237697. 

D.Cert. 5847 (Holy Neck #4) 

He was the son of John A. CARTER & his second wife Margaret J. 
   (WILLIAMS) CARTER. 


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