Early Lincoln County Carters - Part 3 John "Dump" Tinsley Carter was my Grandfather. John T. was born on December 30, 1873 in Boyle County, Kentucky. He later moved to Yosemite, Kentucky with his family in 1884 at the age 11. Yosemite was a bustling community at that time due to an expanding lumber industry. John had an accident involving the dump door on a railroad car while working in Casey County. The door cut off part of his heel and caused him to walk with a limp. His brother-in-law, Clay Harvey Vest, nicknamed him "Dump" and this name stuck with him until his death. He married Francis "Fannie" Gay Williams on September 21, 1903 in Casey County, Kentucky. John and Fannie moved to Burnside, Kentucky sometime around 1903. John was the superintendent of the Burnside Veneer Company at Burnside, Kentucky, Pulaski County. Fannie was born on July 07, 1878 in Casey County, Kentucky. They lived near the intersection of what is today U.S. 27 and French Avenue in Burnside. Together they had five children: Joseph Carter Born: July 20, 1904 Pulaski County, Kentucky (Burnside) Died: September 11, 1989 Phoenix, Arizona Married: Bennie Thompson William Bill Carter Born: November 21, 1905 Pulaski County, Kentucky (Burnside) Died: August 1987 Salt Lake City, Utah Married: Irene Wilcoxen Clifton Paul "Tay" Carter Born: August 18, 1907 Pulaski County, Kentucky (Burnside) Died: May 1980 Davidson County,Tennessee (Nashville) Married: Muriel Lester Ella Carter Born: May 25, 1910 Pulaski County, Kentucky (Burnside) Died: July 03, 1910 Pulaski County, Kentucky (Burnside) Married: Died as a baby. Bessie Gay Carter Born: August 16, 1914 Pulaski County, Kentucky (Burnside) Died: 1970 Billings, Montana Married: Fred Moulton Fannie Gay Williams passed away in Burnside on January 06, 1921. She was buried at Green River Christian Church, Yosemite, Kentucky next to her daughter Ella. John Tinsley Carter met and married Icalona Buckner on March 01, 1923 in Pulaski County. Icalona was a widow raising two small children. Icalona was the seventh child of Phillip Harrison Buckner and Lucinda Adkins' twelve children. She was born on September 15, 1895 in Coal Creek, Tennessee (now Lake City). She married Charles "Charlie" Duff on October 02, 1918 in Scott County, TN. Charlie was killed in a mining accident near Coal Creek, Tennessee in Scott County on February 15, 1922. Charlie was buried at Old Beech Grove Cemetery - Scott County, TN. Icalona had two children from her marriage to Charlie Duff. They were Christine and Carrol (m) Duff. They lived in a large Victorian house (built in 1895) on West French Avenue in Burnside. John built a small log cabin on the property from the centers of poplar logs that remained after the veneer was turned off in 1939. Both houses remain in the family. John T. Carter and Icalona had 2 children: 1) Anna Lucille Carter Born: September 23, 1926 Died: August 18, 1929 (Died of Diphtheria) 2) R. Carter (my father) John Tinsley Carter was a member of Burnside Masonic Lodge #634. He passed away on January 17, 1947 in Burnside, KY at the age of 74. John is buried at Green River Christian Church Cemetery at Yosemite, Kentucky (Casey County). Icalona B. Carter passed away on June 26, 1978. She is buried at the Burnside Cemetery in Burnside Kentucky (Pulaski County). by John Tinsley Carter II