Hi Carter list! I spent hours today using the search engine at the ukans.edu searching CARTER/HEUSTON family and found some tidbits I hope may help someone out. These two came from Kansas Collection books, Leavenworth County, Part 18, Biographical Sketches. Found them through the City of Leavenworth, Family Histories, site. F. E. CARTER, book-binder, was born in Philadelphia, September 15, 1852. He came West with his parents and located at Freeport, remaining there until he went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1873, from which city he removed to Leavenworth in February, 1875. He has been engaged in book- binding for the last fifteen years, having been with Dodsworth Book Co. And Crew & Bro. Since April 1, 1882, E. Sparks has been associated with him in business. He was married in Freeport, November 25, 1877, to Nettie Huntoo, a native of Pennsylvania. He is a member of K. of P. ISAAC C. CARTER, superintendent of the patternmaking department of the Union Stove and Machine Works was born and reared in Buffalo, N. Y.; learned his profession as patternmaker in Fort Wayne, Ind., at the age of nineteen years. After a reputable connection of seventeen years in his profession in that State, he located in Red Wing, Minn., and followed his business there for several years. In 1879, he came here, and engaged in his present capacity, which has very reputably carried on since. In 1870, he married Miss Maria L. Miller, a native of Indiana. They have a family of two daughters, Cora L. and Emma L. At the breaking out of the war, Mr Carter enlisted his services of three months, he reenlisted in Company A, Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was in active service for three years, when he was honorably discharged. He is an active officer and member of Leavenworth Post, No. 120, G. A. R., and has been an active member of the A., F. & A. M. Society for the last eighteen years. The folllowing came from Barber County Family Histories, retreived from the book "The Chosen Land", found at http://history.cc.ukans.edu/kansas/medicine/chosen Thomas Carter Thomas Carter was born in Lexington, Mississippi, in 1855. He and two children Robert and Lucy, came to Barber County about 1882. He worked for the Sugar Mill for awhile, and for Shaw and Dobbs feed lot. He had a love and talent for growing garden produce, which he passed on to his son, Harold, and started gardening.He bought a team from Shaw and Dobbs and started peddling produce in Medicine Lodge and towns as far as Alva, Oklahoma. Those trips took two days. He later bought a Dodge panel truck which made deliveries easier. He met Mary E. Bunch at Nashville, where she and her children, Ed, George, Evelyn (Johnson), Jesse, and Ursilla Bunch were living with her parents, Sarah and Fenton Wilfley. Elder David Nation married Mary and Thomas in 1894. Together they reared both families and 7 children of their own, namely Arthur C., Roy, Clarence T., Harold (Jack), Clara (Manning), Virgil, and Margaret (Baskin). The children were educatied in the Medicine Lodge Schools. Thomas bought his land in three plots, one at a time, from Dobbs and Shaw Feed Lot. There was lots of brush to be cleared away, so the family all worked on the truck farm. In the winter Thomas and Charley Talliaferro hunted with hounds along the river, so he did take time for recreation. The hides were sold to help a little with income. The Wilfleys moved to Medicine Lodge and bought the land where the sugar mill had been, and built the present Tom Carter House.Mary E. Carter died very suddenly in October, 1910, leaving 12 children, her parents, one brother, and 3 sisters. She was a devoted worker in the Second Baptist Church. In 1913 Thomas married Mary T. Coleman who was working at Fredonia, Ks. Mary T. was born in Dec., 1875, at Oswego, Ks., the daughter of Ossia and Rebeccah Coleman, and came to Medicine Lodge and helped make a home for Thomas' children. A grandchild, Amanda Evalee, daughter of Harold, whose mother died at childbirth was also raised in the home.Amanda completed school in the Medicine Lodge Schools, graduating in 1946. After the closing of the Second Baptist Church, the Carter family were welcome members of the First Baptist Church. They were some of the first of their race to settle in Medicine Lodge and were reverent participants in the worship service. They were hard-working and conscientiously honest people. Thomas passed on January 10, 1945. Mary T. continued living in the home until shortly before her death, January 1, 1964. These people contributed much to the Medicine Lodge Community. One son, Harold (Jack), is the only member still residing here. Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 123