She suffered many weeks from the dread disease of consumption, but thru all her suffering she was patient and endured with Christian fortitude her sufferings until the Master said "it was enough, come up higher."

On July 2, 1913, she married Earl Carter and to this union one son was born, Robert Dean. She and her husband were just beginning to make a home here when she was called to her home in the skies.

She was a resident of this county all her life
with the exception of three years when her parents moved out West. She taught school in the Braden District No. 6 for two terms and endured herself to all her pupils. By her gentleness and kindness, she won friends by the score, and to know her was to love her, and she will be sadly missed in the home and among her large circle of friends. The deceased professed saving faith in Christ and in her sickness it was her delight to talk about her home of the future and a few days before the end came. She was continually singing the praises of God and while the words could not be understood by those around her yet from the radiant expression of her countenance one could tell she was about ready to join the choir invisible.

She leaves to mourn her departure a father, mother, husband, and little seven month old son and three sisters, Gladys, Fern, and Freda Locke and many other friends and relatives.

An obedient daughter, a loving mother and faithful wife, has gone to her reward and to hear her Master say, "Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of the Lord."

Keokuk County's oldest resident, M.M. Carter, who lived between Ollie and Tick Ridge, died last Friday in an Ottumwa hospital at the age of 102 years. For more than 85 years, Mr. Carter has been a resident of this state and the greater part of this time he has lived on the Keokuk County farm on which he lived until his death.

This farm, which the pioneer homesteaded to become its owner, is now the home of one of Mr. Carter's four daughters, Mrs. Elma Ruggles, where he spent the last few years of his life. Mr. Carter came to Iowa from Ohio, crossing Illinois and Indiana in a covered wagon and ferrying across the Mississippi to take his claim in this virgin country. Iowa was then just a new state, only two years admitted to the union.

When Mr. Carter came to this state, James Polk was president of the United States, but it wasn't until James Buchanan's contest for the presidency that the early resident of this county cast his choice for president.

Although he gave up active participation in the duties of the farm nearly fifteen years ago, Mr. Carter maintained a keen interest in it's management. During his last few years, he enjoyed going on nice days to see the stock and to wander over the ground where he made a comfortable living for nearly three-quarters of a century. He took much pleasure in walking to the top of the hill, from the present location of the house, to the spot where the "old house" was located, which is now marked by two solitary trees.

He was married in 1853 to Miss Lizzie Ashcraft, who died within a year after they were married. For nearly fifteen years, he lived alone and in 1865 he was married again, to Miss Nancy Jane Thomas, another girlfriend of his youth. The couple became the parents of five children, four of whom are living; Mrs. Eldora Northup and Mrs. Ruggles living on adjoining farms between Tick Ridge and Ollie, Mrs. Rose Ellis of Ottumwa, and Mrs. Artie Coughlan of What Cheer. There is also an adopted son, Thomas Carter, who lives near Richland.

Mr. Carter's funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the Holiness Chapel, northwest of Ollie and interment was held in the Van Orsdall Cemetery. In charge of the funeral was Mrs. James Terrell of Ollie. Serving as pall bearerswere six grandsons of the pioneer Keokuk County man.