ROY WILLIAM CARTER ROY WILLIAM CARTER. One of the younger fraternity of lawyers of Orange county, Virginia, Roy William Carter, since 1911 a legal practitioner, entered his profession in association with one of the leading jurists of his day, Judge Morton. The firm of Morton & Carter continued but for one year, its termination caused by the death in 1912 of Judge Morton, since which time Mr. Carter has been engaged in practice alone at Orange, the county seat of Orange county, Virginia. He is a descendant of one of the early Virginia families, his great-grandfather, George Carter, a soldier in the revolutionary war. George Carter married Judith Walden, and their son, William Walden Carter, grandfather of Roy William Carter, was the father of William, James, Scott, and Thomas Walden, of whom further. Thomas Walden Carter, son of William Walden Carter and father of Roy William Carter, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1848. He was a soldier of the Confederate army in the war between the states, serving for the last half of that conflict in Colonel Mosby's command, after the war moving to Orange, Virginia, where for twenty years he filled the office of postmaster. His present home is in Franklin, Tennessee. Thomas Walden Carter married Bettie B. Fletcher, born in Orange county, virginia, in 1848, and has issued; Manley W., born in Fauquier county, Virginia, educated in the public schools and Locust Dale Academy,now a farmer; Lucille McGuire, born in Orange county, Virginia, married Thomas Henderson, of Franklin, Tennessee, and has a son, Thomas, Jr.; Ruth Flectcher, born in Orange county, married Eustis Johnston, and resides in Franklin Tennessee; Roy William, of whom further. Roy William Carter, son of Thomas Walden and Bettie B. (Fletcher) Carter, was born in Orange county, Virginia, August 4, 1889. After a couse in the public schools that included high school instruction he prepared for college in the Locust Dale Academy. In 1902 he entered William and Mary College, remaining as a student in that institution until 1904, from the latter date until 1910 filling the office of assistant postmaster at Orange, Virginia. He resumed his studies in 1910, entering Cumberland University, and was admitted to the bar the following year. His entrace into legal circles was as the partner of Judge Morton, and for one year he benefitted by the mature judgment and ripe experience of this well known jurist, the death of the senior partner ending the connection. For the past two years, Mr. Carter hs pursued his profession independently, and with increasing practice has gained honorable place among his contemporaries. His political faith is that of his father, Republican, the elder Carter having been one of the earliest members of that party in Orange county. Mr. Carter affiliates with the Inter County Law Society and the Virginia Bar Association. His church is the St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY, Vol. 5 Virginia Biography