"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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NATHANIEL CARTER, native of Orange County, Ind., the sixth child and third
son of Nathaniel and Ann (Ramsey) Carter, natives of North Carolina, and of
Irish and Scotch extraction respectively, was born March 25, 1815. His
parents came into Morgan County in 1821, and located upon land entered from
the Government, and where the two old people spent the remainder of their
days, and where Nathaniel has since resided. He attended a little at the
subscription schools and learned something of reading and writing. November
23, 1837, he was married at Plainfield, Ind., to Martha, daughter of Edward
Chamness, a native of North Carolina. She bore him six children--James R.,
Hannah, Thomas F., Mary B., Nathaniel W. and William Edgar. His son, Thomas
F., was killed at the battle of Chattanooga, Tenn., on May 31, 1865. The
mother of these children died October 2, 1871, at the age of fifty-four
years, and February 13, 1873, subject was married at Monrovia, Ind., to
Louisa Jane (Hubbard) Blair, daughter of George Hubbard, deceased, native of
North Carolina. Our subject and wife are birthright members of the Friends'
Church. He is a Republican in politics, and a strong advocate of
temperance. He gave the land gratis upon which is located public school
building No. 1. What Mr. Carter possesses he has toiled for, and after
giving away considerable land to his children, he yet owns a nice farm of
ninety acres, all in cultivation and well improved. He lived with his
parents and took care of them till their death. His religious work and
charities are mostly among the poor of the country, and in such labor he is
endeavoring to do the will of the Everlasting Father.
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