Hi everyone, While copying obits to continue the series Baxley News Banner for Volume 5, I came across this interesting information on the CARTER and JOHNSONS that I thought everyone researching them can use. I am connected to both families. Pioneers of the Tallassee Strip An old state map shows Carter's Cowpens as the only settlement in Tallassee Strip, and there is no other dot between Hartford, now Hawkinsville, and Brunswick. David Carter came from South Carolina, stopping a while in Tattnall, and located in Appling while the territory was still held by the Creeks. He built his cowpens near the present W. H. Padgett Farm, but his slaves murdered him and ran away because of their fear of the Indians. Soon after the Lottery of 1820 which divided South Georgia between the Altamahs and the Chatahoochee into the counties of Appling, Irwin and Early, other Carters came from South Carolina and four Johnson brothers who had landed at Baltimore from Scotland and worked their way leisurely South through the Carolinas also crossed the Altamaha and settled in Appling. The Carters and Johnsons multiplied and replenished the earth at a marvelous rate and their ramifications extend all over the Wirgrass country. As Appling was divided time after time the kinnery was all cut off in the new counties, but those who stayed in Appling were not less productive than their ancestors and the present county is full of them. Baxley News Banner October, 6th, 1921 Hope this is helpful to my fellow Johnson and Carter cousins. Sharon Broward Davis Pine Mtn. GA.