(Will all the old-timer on line please be patient, I am posting my info again, trying to catch those I missed and all our new on-line cousins) Was GREEN B. CARTER the father of JAMES CARTER? We need strong supporting documentation to prove that Green B. Carter b. 1798 NC, is the father of JAMES CARTER b. 1815 in NC. Green B's signature, as a witness, appears on the marriage certificate of James Carter and Salina Dean who married 1836 in Hardeman County TN. Anyone that has information please contact me. Green B. Carter was married twice. His first wife's name is unknown and they married sometime about 1814. That wife was the mother of James Carter, she died sometime between 1835-1837. Green B. Carter married again in 1837 to a Nancy Crews. The following information was sent to us 10/98 by Betty (Carter) Fontaine, a descendant of Green B. Carter. She received the information in a letter about 1996 from her distant cousin: Bernice Hazelgrove, 223 Tennessee Street, Bolivar, TN. The letter, transcribed: “ In 1835 Jesse Carter purchased 153 acres of land from John Jenkins. The deed is recorded in Hardeman County TN. The land was located on Big Spring Creek, or sometimes referred to as Muddy Creek. In some papers, the house and property is referred to as a plantation. The Carter cotton gin was located not too far from the house. The following is from a letter received from a Carter relative in Bolivar, TN: My great-grandfather, Robert Stokes Carter, brother of Green B. Carter Sr., was a farmer and from what I can determine was a large land owner and was considered to be wealthy. It is too bad that none of his wealth filtered down to my mother. He owned a cotton gin that was located on Carter Branch and was run by water power. My 95 year old sister, Monnie Hazelgrove, has no interest whatsoever in genealogy and will not talk about ancestors. She is mentally alert and could be a big help in answering so many of my questions. If I slip in on the blind side, sometimes I can get some answers. She remembers going to Robert S. Carter's home for family gatherings on holidays and when the family members who had moved away came back for visits. When she attended school in Bolivar, the firth and sixth grades were in the same room. She knows she was in that room because she remembers the name of the teacher. A strong wind came up and scared the pupils and teacher. The tornado was not as bad in Bolivar as it was south of town around Robert S. Carter’s house. The tornado hit the house and the cotton gin. The house was repaired, but the gin was so badly damaged that it was not rebuilt. She was born in October of 1896 and I figure she would have been in the fifth or sixth grade about 1907 or 1908. Since Robert Carter died in February 1907, he was not able to be running the gin or may have been dead at the time. Before highway 125 was built between Bolivar and Middleton, the old road followed the road shown on the Hardeman County map I am enclosing as old Middleton Road. I can remember my mother talking about her grandfather’s house when we passed that location in the late 1920’s and 1930’s. The house was still standing at that time. I can’t get a very good mental image of what that house looked like. I remember a large white two story house of southern architecture which was quite imposing even though it was beginning to deteriorate. It finally became so bad that my mother would not look in that direction when we passed it because it hurt so bad to see it in such a condition. The house is gone now and there is a small subdivision in that area. it is hard to pick the exact spot where the house stood, but I have marked the approximate location on the map. The house faced south and there was a rolling gentle slope from the front of the house down to the creek, Carter Branch, where the cotton gin had been. My sister says Robert’s house was the same one his father, Jesse, had lived in, with additions made over the years. Jessie and Lucy Stokes were married in NC....Jesse died in 1847.....the following is the court report in regards to the death of Jesse: General allowance to widow Carter. 1 visit for the Commissioners appointed by the September term of the count court of said county of Hardeman, for the purpose of buying off in just provision to the widow....no heirs met and agreed that R. Carter, the son of Jesse, who having made a bargain during the lifetime of deceased, to support him and the mother for a year for the use of the plantation for the present year, with further agreement the said Robert S. Carter to support the widow of Jesse Carter for one year from the date of the death of Jesse.........the heirs of Jesse are as named: Allen G., Mahina Bailey, Robert S, Jessie, W.E.D. , Green B, Syrena Crews, Polly Owens, Ebeneezer, and Griffin, deceased. Griffin’s heirs, Widow Ann Carter, children: Julia Brown, Olivia Conner, Nancy P, Mary E, Jesse Stokes Carter, and Elihu T. END OF LETTER. If anyone out there in Carter land knows Bernice Hazelgrove who is now living in Bolivar, TN (see above address), please contact me. Happy New Year to all our cousins, Leland & Nancy Carter in Texas