Julie wrote: >For what it's worth, I am in contact with Elizabeth and have her current >e-mail address. > >The Solomon Carter who was at Enos's and Celia's wedding may well have been >the Solomon Carter my husband is descended from (born Wilson Co. 1813), who >may be another child of Alexander Carter and Rhoda Benthall Carter. Solomon >was living near/next door to Alexander and Rhoda in Rutherford Co. in the >1830 or 1840 census. > >By the 1850 census, Solomon was living in Logan Co. KY with his wife (Ann >Stewart Carter) and numerous children. > >For a while I pursued the theory that Solomon was the son of a Frederick >Carter, based on data I found at familysearch.org, but others who are more >familiar with Wilson Co. expressed strong doubt about that theory, and >because I haven't found any other data to support it, I've dropped that line >of thinking for now. > >DNA info places my husband (descendant of Solomon) in the same Carter family >as a McKinney Carter who moved from TN around 1815 to Jackson Co. Indiana. >He is also genetically related to a John E.R. Carter, born 1824 in Greene >Co. TN, and to a Thomas Merideth (sp) Carter born in SC in 1823. > >If you want to look at the DNA results, see >http://www.carter-cousins.org/results/haplogroup_R1b.htm (It's Haplogroup >R1b and Group 4.) > >Unfortunately, Elizabeth doesn't know of any living male Carter relatives of >hers who could have their DNA tested, so we could test the theory that >Solomon and Enos may have been brothers or otherwise closely related. > >(We don't have a good potential father for this Alexander Carter at this >point in time. In theory, anyway, he was born in NC.) > > >Julie (Carter) Carter >http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliecarter >http://www.myspace.com/juliemom527 >http://profile.to/juliecarter/ > >Mark Carter >Armadillo Real Estate Services >http://www.armadillo-res.com >(512) 970-0693 > >-----Original Message----- >From: tnwilson-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tnwilson-bounces@rootsweb.com] >On Behalf Of bobby christall >Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:38 PM >To: Wilson County, Tennessee >Subject: [TNWILSON] Enos B. Carter and Celia (Sealy) Ozment m. 1837 > >Found this extensive search info on the above named couples. Celia Ozment >May Have been the daughter of Richard Ozment and wife Rebecca Pavey who >married 1816 Guilford Co.,NC. > >Nadine descendant of John Armstrong Ozment of Wilson Co.,TN > >From: "starborn" < starborn@earthlink.net<mailto:starborn@earthlink.net>> >Subject: [CARTER-L] Enos B Carter & Celia Ozment m:1837 Wilson Co TN >Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:20:32 -0700 >Hello List! >I have an Enos B Carter b:1819 TN, married 1837 Wilson Co TN to Celia >Ozment, b:1819 NC. A Solomon Carter stood Surety for their marriage. I do >not find this particular Enos Carter, or Enos Carter & Celia, in census >records of TN or KY until 1860 in Graves Co KY, and later in 1870 in Ballard >Co KY, where they both died and are buried. > >Because I have no 1840 or 1850 census data, I show no children until those >still living at home in 1860: Alexander Pitts Carter and his twin brother >Richard P Carter, b:1844 TN, and younger brother John David Carter b: 1853 >TN. Their older sister Rebecca Ann Carter b:1840 TN m: Joseph Turner, is >living next door in Graves Co KY in 1860. > >I am a descendant of AP, a Union veteran from TN, who appears on the 1870 >Ballard Co KY census with wife Jane and two sons. He rafted his family >across the Mississippi in 1883, and settled in Scott Co MO. Wife Jane died >after having eight children, AP remarried and had three more children with >second wife Carrie. His twin brother Richard P also served the Union from >TN, and was killed in 1864. He is buried in the Memphis National Cemetery. >Daughter Rebecca Ann married second Silas Jett, and her descendants still >live in Carlisle Co KY. I have no record of John David Carter until his >death in 1923 in Carlisle Co KY. The informant on John's death certificate >is WB Carter of Paragould AR, who gives John's parents' names as Enis Batis >Carter and Sallie Ozment. I have not been able to trace this WB Carter, who >might be a son, and have found no record of marriage for John David. > >Enos gives his name variously as E.B., Enos B, Enos, and E. Bently Carter. I >am pursuing the theory that this Enos Bently Carter may be a son of >Alexander Carter (NC) & Rhoda Benthall (NC) m:1803 in Sumner Co TN, but have >not found anyone connected to that family or a list of their children. The >1850 Rutherford Co census lists Alexander Carter age 53 & Rhoda age 52, both >NC. The Sumner Co TN marriage records list this marriage as 1809, which >would be cutting it mighty close for the Rutherford County couple, and it >gets worse-- I have a correction from a Carter researcher who has seen the >original marriage record, and says it is actually "1803." Therefore, the >Rutherford census data must apply to another coincidentally named Alexander >& Rhoda. If anyone can claim them, please do and let me know. > >At present, I am working with these clues: Rhoda had a brother Enos Benthall >who fought in the War of 1812, and died 1816. The name "Enos" was also used >by Rhoda's Aunt, Rhoda Benthall Vinson (d:1856 Sumner Co TN) to name her son >Enos Vinson. The "Bently" Enos uses, could possibly be a corruption or >misspelling of "Benthall." And of course there is the Wilson Co / Sumner Co >proximity. > >Enos Carter's wife, Celia Ozment, may be a daughter of Richard Ozment and >Rebecca Pavey m: 1816 Guilford Co NC. No record of their children exists >with any Ozment researchers I have contacted, though all other lines are >well documented. > >Enos was born at a time during which the census records didn't list all >family members-- he would have been age 1 in someone's 1820 household. The >first census he might have shown up in as an independent would be 1840, with >Celia, and I do not find him listed in TN. He is not listed in the 1850 TN >census. I am certain he is not the Enos Carter listed in the Russell and >Casey Co KY census for 1840 & 50. I am posting this Enos B Carter & Celia >Ozment line in hopes someone recognizes any of the people I have mentioned. >Please visit my Carter database online: > >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=carters<http:/ >/worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=carters> > >All input is very much appreciated! > >~~Elizabeth > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >TNWILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNWILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Julie: I find your Solomon Carter in Wilson Co., TN in 1850! Terry (Phillips) Litvan