JOHN W. CARTER JOHN W. CARTER. Among the prominent families of the Old Dominion illustrious in Colonial days for personal worth and talent, for their distinguished social position, for the prestige that came from the possession of high political office, and for the consideration that attached to the ownership of large landed estates and many slaves none took precedence over the Carters. John Carter, of "Corotoman," the first of the family in Virginia, came over from England in the year 1640. He settled first in Upper Norfolk, now Nansemond county, represented that county in the house of burgesses, was granted as "Col. John Carter," four thousand acres of land in October, 1665, and later moved to Lancaster county, Virginia, where he held continuous high official postion. From Colonel John Carter springs the Carters of Pittsylvania. Carter arms: "Azure a chevron or, impaled between three wheels." John Wesley Carter, of Danville, Virginia, a twentieth century representative of the family, is a son of Jeduthan (2) Carter and a grandson of Jeduthan (1) Carter, the latter, who died aged seventy, a farmer and lifelong resident of Pittsylvania county. He married Martha Rogers, also a native of Pittsylvania county, who bore him eleven children, Jeduthan (2) being the youngest of the family, now all deceased. Jeduthan (2) Carter was born at the home farm eight miles north of Danville, January 20, 1821, died December 5, 1895. He was deputy sherif of Pittsylvania county and a merchant at Chatham, but after his marriage moved to Lynchburg, where as a member of the firm of Carter & Nowlin he engaged in the grocery business for three years. He then moved to Concord, Halifax county, where he purchased a mill and farm property at Halifax, the property now known as "Leader." He was there engaged in milling, merchandising and farming five hundred acres until his retirement to Danville, his residence until death. He was a gallant officer of the Confederacy, Captain of Company F, thirty-eight Regiment Virginia Infantry, attached to Pickett's division. He was with that division in their famous charge across the bullet-swept plain of Gettysburg and was one of the comparatively few who escaped with their lives. He was engaged in many other battles of the war but escaped all perils and lived to see the bitterness between the sections swept away and his country reunited. He married Anna Hubbard, born in Halifax county, Virginia, November 20, 1820, died in Pittsylvania county, aged fifty-six years. Three of their eight children are living: Mary Ann, married Thomas A. Fitzgerald and resides in Danville; John Wesley, of whom further; Minnie Anderson, married T.A. Gregory, both deceased; Sallie Hobson, born 1854, died February, 1897; Elizabeth Stone, died in infancy, Joel William born 1858, now a partner with his brother, John w.; Jeduthan (3), died aged twelve months; Marion Epps died in childhood. Mrs. Anna (Hubbard) Carter, the mother of these children, was a daughter of Joel Hubbard, a wealthy farmer of Halifax county, and a Baptist preacher. He died aged eighty-eight years, the father of thirteen children by his wife Elizabeth (Stone) Hubbard, who died aged fifty years. John Wesley Carter was born at the homestead in Halifax county, Virginia, now known as "Leader," March 25, 1855. He attended the public schools until fourteen years of age and outside of school hours did a boy's work around his father's store and mill. At age of fourteen he became a clerk in a store at Riceville, and on January 1, 1873, located in Danville, Virginia. He was a clerk for one year for W. P. Robinson & Company and four years for J. F. Rison. He then became a partner of the firm, Hodnett & Carter, and two and a half years later founded the business he is yet engaged in, as John W. Carter & Company, his partner being his brother, Joel W. Carter. This is a wholesale grocery business, they being pioneers in Danville in this line, and they conduct a local and state business. John W. Carter is a successful business man and has gained high standing as a man and merchant. Mr. Carter is a Democrat in politics and from 1898 to 1910 was a member of the city council, serving as president of that body one term. In 1912 he was elcted a member of the school board and in 1913 was chosen chairman of the board. He has served his adopted city well as an official, always an advocate of progress and improvement. He is a member of Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church and interested in all good works. Mr. Carter married, in Danville, December 2, 1870, Margaret Redd, born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, daughter of Frank D. Redd, deceased, a farmer and veteran Confederate soldier. He married Ann Watson, also deceased. Children of John W. and Margaret Carter: 1. Warner P., born September, 1880, died October, 1907; was a graduate of Randolph-Macon College, Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, a well known chemist. 2. Jeduthan Epps, born October 27, 188l; until 1913 city constable. 3. John Welsey (2), born July 5, 1888; graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, now commonwealth attorney of city of Danville. 4. Anna Redd, residing at home. 5. Margaret Rosaline, died March 3, 1892, aged twelve months. 6. Joel Kennet, born July 31, 1893; a college student. 7. William Harold, born June 5, 1896, a high school student. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY, Vol 5 Virginia Biography