At 14-05-07 12:20 PM Monday, Bonnie Hill wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >My ancestor, Benjamin williams came to Greene County, TN in 1795, >settling in the Lick Creek Valley near Carter's Station. He had a >large family (16 Children) who migrated to Arkansas and Missouri in >the 1800s. I have an old, very poor picture of a supposed >"monument" to Benjamin's memory in either the cemetery there or >nearby. I will be in East Tennessee in September and would love to >see this monument or whatever it is, however, I can't find a >Carter's Station or a cemetery by any name or location. I have >contacted the Green County Historical group and they can't help >me. Is there anyone who can assist me? I sure would appreciate the help. >Bonnie > Oh, and by the way, the Benjamin Williams story is on my web site > (which I had to change the address of) at www.hill-weber-genealogy,com **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** Hi Bonnie, Carter's Station is hard to find. I finally found a map at: <http://www.genealogyforyou.com/usa/tennessee/greene/earlytowns.htm#greene> Carter's Station is Nr. 4 on the map. Here's the blurb on that page about the settlement: "Carters Station - A very early pioneer settlement. An early Fort was built upon an old Indian campground at this location and near a good spring. Some of the foundation and evidences still remain, but are privately owned. Being the center of the Lick Creek fertile soils and creek travel, it became the center for a very important trading post. The Lick Creek valley nearby became known as Carters Valley. Because of Carters Station in Hawkins County, the post office often confused mail between the two locations, so it was thought best to change the name of Carters Valley. A Methodist circuit rider working the local circuit and his route of churches was known as "Albany," so some people began to call the location "Albany". No one objects to this; however, habits are hard to break and it is often called "Carter's Station" today." I've seen reference to Carter's Station where it's alternate name was "Albany" and think the writers actually meant Carter's Valley. Guess one has to be careful to correctly identify the place. Another website has a really good write up of Carter's Station. You can read it here: <http://www.cartersstation.com/Carter's%20Station%20History.doc> Carter's Station seems to be a few miles NW of Greeneville, on the Greeneville to Rogersville Road. The URL immediately above talks about an old original cemetery for the church there. Another website (<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/TNGREENE/1998-09/0905362062>) says that the Carter's Station Cemetery was near the Carter's Station Methodist Church . Yet another website (<http://home.insightbb.com/~dmwill3/pafg03.htm>) says Carters Station Cemetery is now the village of Albany in Greene County, Tennessee. Still yet another website (<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bost/stonecypher.htm>) says: "...are buried in the Carters Station Cemetery but their stones were broken up by workman and used to support the floor in a corner of the new Methodist Church at Carters Station. Their son, Allen Ross' tombstone, and others, were also broken up and used for this same purpose by lazy workmen who used the tombstones rather than dig the needed stone out of the ground. This was proved by Earl T. Smith who crawled under the church and saw that the stone was of broken tombstones." If you will use your web browser and use the Google search engine you'll get 23 "hits" if you type in the following exactly as given, including the quotes: "carters station" greene county tennessee If you do the same thing but put an apostrophe before the "s" in "carters", you'll get 70 "hits": "carter's station" greene county tennessee Regards, Sarge