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Welcome... Tom Carter's father was John Wise Carter of South
Carolina and nothing is known of his mother. John's father, Captain
John Carter, served in the American Revolution with a John Wise. The
daughter of John Wise was Elizabeth and she married Captain John
Carter in South Carolina. Captain John may have had a brother named
Captain Thomas, explaining how he named his own son Thomas
Carter.
It is unknown why Tom left his family in Talladega
and moved into Montgomery. He was buying land off the Bozeman Estate
to make a home for his own family.
Tom lost his first wife
and several children in the small pox epidemic, some say the flu
epidemic. Only two children survived, Lucy Carter Calloway and
William Henry Carter. Military records indicate that Tom was sick in
a Virginia hospital at one point and ironically married his second
wife, Mary, from Virginia. Perhaps they had met in Virginia and she
followed him, their story is unknown.
Mary had only one
child, Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Carter Cooper, and wanted no more
with Tom. When he died she buried him by his first family and she
moved in with her daughter.
Mary may or may not have filed
for his military pension, thus far, a record is not found.
Name:
THOMAS Carter
Date: 01 09 1860
Location: AL,
Document #:
13796A
Serial #: AL1560__.463
Sale Type: CASH ENTRY
SALE
Acres: 40.2200
Meridian or Watershed: ST
STEPHENS
Parcel: Township 9N, Range 3E, Section 15
Thomas
R. Carter (First_Last)
Regiment Name 2 Alabama Cavalry
Side
Confederate
Company K
Soldier's Rank_In 2 Lieutenant
Soldier's Rank_Out 1 Lieutenant
Alternate Name
Notes
Film Number M374 roll 8
CONFEDERATE ALABAMA
TROOPS
Authority: Muster in roll, signed by T. R. Stacey, not
dated
Remarks: Sick at Gen Hospital, Lynchburg, Va, Dec 7, 1861.
2nd Regiment, Alabama Cavalry
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