This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dsizemore57 Surnames: Carter Sizemore Fain Fields Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.tennessee.counties.carter/384.8/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have some new info about Amanda Jane Taylor and her son Cicero Carter. Amanda was my great-grandmother. This is somewhat long and mostly witness recollections of family history and I apologize in advance. I met with Cicero Carter's daughter Callie Mae Carter Darnell a couple of weeks ago here in Kingsport, TN. She is my second cousin and by far the oldest relative I have still living. She is 98 years old and still sharp as a tack and looks at least twenty years younger. She still had a lot of memories of her grandmother Amanda as she and her brother Lincoln lived with her after her parents died until she moved away to get married. Callie Mae was born June 25, 1911. Her brother Lincoln C. Carter was born Nov. 14, 1907 and died April 1, 1977 from prostate cancer. According to her, her mother Victoria Fields originally of Speers Ferry, VA gave birth to a total of five children, three who died in infancy and she died in childbirth of the fifth. Callie Mae and Lincoln were the only ones that survived infancy. She said she was two when her mother died and she was about five when her dad Cicero died, so you can guesstimate their dates of death from that recollection. Cicero and ! Victoria both died where they lived in the village of Willow Shoals, KY (not Harlan, KY) and were buried along with their infants in the little overgrown cemetery there. Cicero worked on a rock crusher in Willow Shoals, KY. After her father died, she and Lincoln were brought back to Pumpkin Valley (Eidson, Hawkins County, TN) to live with Grandma Carter (as she and Lincoln called Amanda). She was referred to as Granny Fain by my family due to her remarriage to Ernest Fain in 1885. Callie Mae and Lincoln refused to call her Grandma Fain as the Carters' didn't like Ernest Fain due to him reputedly having another family on the sly in Rogersville, TN (where he was from), even as an old man! He died in Rogersville, go figure. He was 13 years older than Amanda. He also was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War (his family owned slaves) and everyone in Pumpkin Valley was staunchly Union. Amanda's first husband Henry Carter's dad Winfield was a Union soldier and POW. Amanda had a little house high up on the ridge across the valley from where her daughter Minnie Ida lived with her husband H.W. Sizemore (my grandparents). Minnie Ida (always known as Ida to everyone) and her brothers Rev. Andrew Jackson (Jack) Carter, Cicero Carter and Amanda's second set of children with Ernest Fain were all raised there. All were grown and moved out by the time Callie Mae and Lincoln moved in to live with Amanda. She was described as being a very happy person with a very boisterous laugh and she was very kind to them and raised them like they were her own children. Callie Mae helped Amanda around her place and her brother Lincoln worked on Aunt Ida and Uncle Hillery (H.W.) Sizemore's farm along with their kids to help provide for the families until he moved away as an adult to Kingsport to work at Tennessee Eastman. Lincoln didn't marry until he was almost forty to Catherine Richards. They had three children, Tommy, Nancy & Vickie, all still living. Nancy is Callie Mae's chauffeur and keeps an eye on her as she lives right below her. I'll try to get more meaningful info about Callie Mae and Lincoln's families next time I see her. I apologize once again for the length of this this but hoping some of the info might be useful. David A. Sizemore maui4me at charter.net Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.