Sarah Elizabeth Carter, married Levi Benjamin Cooper in
1884.
He was a laborer on her father's farm. Her parents were
Thomas Carter and Mary J. Hereford. His parents were Sarah Lee and Charner
Cooper. Both of their fathers had served in the Civil War.
Sarah named her children: Thomas, Mary J., Benjamin Franklin, John
Henry, Susie Mae, Luther Hill Carter. Her husband and sons are buried at
White Hall. Sarah and Susie are buried at Greenwood. Tom buried at
Hope Hull and Mary J. at Oakwood.
Tom's brothers lived around him for several years, some moving into
Georgia, but their father sold his plantation in Talladega, moving back to South
Carolina near his own mother.
Thus there are many descendants of the Carter men of the
1800s.
About 1931 Cecil Carter married Alice McClain and had 3 children
before both parents died by 1939. Cecil's mother had married a Mr Carter
in about 1905, first name unknown.
They could be connected.
The archives building states there were no birth certificates
created when Cecil was born.
Names of Cecil's children were Cecil Jr., Annie Lee, William
Lawrence.
This family is buried at Memorial Cemetery. Some headstones
have been photographed.
Stokes Carter Cemetery on old Bozeman Plantation
drive through cow pasture around behind the pond
William Henry Bozeman died in 1847 and his son sells a share to
Jesse Bozeman, witnessed by T. R. Carter who also buys a share
Jesse Bozeman 1793
Lacy
Monument of Lacy Jane Bozeman Carter surrounded by the graves of
her children and the base of her husband's monument in the
distance.
Lacy's monument and her brothers grave to the right, James Freeman
Bozeman
Carter Infant
View of center of knoll is the graveyard
Eli Thompson and Rachel McGehee
McGehee Pages mention Aunt Savilla Cooper
Greenwood Cemetery
Before Tom married Mary J., he was first married to Lacy Bozeman
who died during an epidemic. He went off to war and was in a hospital in
Virginia for a while. Ironically Lacy's Uncle William Bozeman was the
great great great grandfather of Annie Lee Carter.
Once again, a connection.
Another connection.
The Coopers had come out of South Carolina into Chambers County
Alabama while the Carters came out of Edgefield and Darlington. In
Darlington they lived near the Bozemans. All had migrated in the 1820s and
1830s.
