William Sherman Carter (b. July 1865)

Name: William Sherman Carter
Born:
Died:

William Sherman Carter with James E Smith and Patricia A Smith
Approximately 1955, Texarkana, AR.

Marriage One: Florence Rudd (or Kudd)

Marriage Two: Ada M.

Residences:
1880 Census:
Location:


1900 Census:
Location: Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. Lived on "Pecan."
Birthplace: Tennessee
Father's origin: Virginia
Mother's origin: Tennessee
Occupation: brick mason
Lived with:
Mother: Ann (b. Feb 1932 in TN, both of her parents were also from TN)
Children: Bessie (b. Dec 1898)Clara (b. Nov 1891), Matilda (b. Sept 1892), Myrtle (b. May 1895).
Notes: Rented property, was literate.
Source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Texarkana, Miller, Arkansas; Roll: T623 68; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 122. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.

1910 Census:
Location: Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. On Broad Avenue.
Occupation: Contractor/brickworks
Father's origin: Virginia
Mother's origin: Kentucky
Wife: Ada M
Children: Clara (18?), Tillie (16), William (5), James (3), Richard (2), Kelley (sp?)(1).
Notes: All of the children were born in Arkansas.
Source:

1920 Census:
Location:
Occupati0n:

The photograph is of my father James Everett Smith, jr, his sister Patricia Ann Smith, and his great-grandfather William Sherman Carter in 1955. The photo was either taken in West Monroe, LA or Texarkana, AR.

The information I'm looking for:
William Sherman Carter's wives and their families
The origins of William S Carter's parents
Any additional information about the Carter family, photographs, family stories, etc.

Any information would be appreciated!

Jamie
jeshistory@gmail.com


This is the information I have:

William Sherman Carter was born in Tennessee in approximately 1865.

Marriage One: Florence Rudd (or Kudd) (This is based on my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Ann (Bess/Bessie) Carter Smith Caron's SSA death record.)


Marriage Two: Ada M. (Or Ada M could be the same person as Florence Rudd. I have seen some Florence A Rudds and A. Florence Rudd's in Weakley County, TN)

1880 Census:
Location: Martins Store, Weakley County, TN
Birthplace: Tennessee
Father's origin: Virginia
Mother's origin: Tennessee
Occupation: farm laborer
Lived with:
William Carter 54
Ann Carter 48
Sofhia Carter 19
Sherman Carter 15
Delia Carter 12
Year: 1880; Census Place: Martins Store, Weakley, Tennessee; Roll T9_1284; Family History Film: 1255284; Page: 148.2000; Enumeration District: 166; .

1900 Census:
Location: Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. Lived on "Pecan."
Birthplace: Tennessee
Father's origin: Virginia
Mother's origin: Tennessee
Occupation: brick mason
Lived with:
Mother: Ann (b. Feb 1932 in TN, both of her parents were also from TN)
Children: Bessie (b. Dec 1898)Clara (b. Nov 1891), Matilda (b. Sept 1892), Myrtle (b. May 1895).
Notes: Rented property, was literate.
Source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Texarkana, Miller, Arkansas; Roll: T623 68; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 122. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.

1910 Census:
Location: Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. On Broad Avenue.
Occupation: Contractor/brickworks
Father's origin: Virginia
Mother's origin: Kentucky
Wife: Ada M
Children: Clara (18?), Tillie (16), William (5), James (3), Richard (2), Kelley (sp?)(1).
Notes: All of the children were born in Arkansas.

1920 Census
Location: Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas
William C Corter 54
Ada M Corter 43
James C Corter 13
Richard D Corter 12
Relly W Corter 10
Warren S Corter 7
Occupation: brick worker

1930 Census
Location: Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas
W Sherman Carter 69
Ada M Carter 53
James Carter 23
Kelley Carter 21
W Sherman Carter 17
Occupation: brick worker

"Sarge Plunkett" Atlanta Constitution, June 27, 1890

There is in The Constitution office an old tin dipper which has seen good service. Yesterday our own Sarge Plunkett sat down and composed the following impromptu ode to it:

Covered with dust,

Eaten by rust,

Neglected old dipper! Forsaken by all!

No more to kiss

The lips of a mass;

Worn and worthless you hang on the wall.

Sweet are the thoughts that well in my heart

While I think of the scenes in which you took part,

But sadly bereft I feel when I think

How neglected by those you once gave drink!

'Tis a lesson of life

Which cuts like a knife--

That all things of earth but serve out their time.

Remembered by few,

Neglected like you--

Is the fate of a man who passes his prime.

Atlanta Constitution, June 27, 1890

Addison Milton Wier's Obituary

The Atlanta Constitution
April 2, 1922

“Sarge Plunkett,” Georgia Author, At Rest Forever

“Sarge Plunkett” is dead.

A.M. Wier, widely known throughout the south as “Sarge Plunkett,” a nom de plume used by him in writings published in many papers, died at his residence in Decatur after an illness of several months. He is survived by his widow and two sons, William S. and Julius Wier.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:15 o’clock Sunday afternoon in ths chapel of A.S. Turner, Decatur, the Rev. D.P. McGeachy, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Decatur, officiating. Interment will be made in Decatur cemetery.

Born in Pike County.

Mr. Wier was born in Pike county, Georgia, in November, 1845. His early life, like that of many another boy, was void of educational possibilities in the days just prior to the outbreak of the great war between the states. His education, however, was limited, and only by dint of hard efforts and determination to acquire knowledge did he build the foundation for the later series of writings which, under the pen name of “Sarge Plunkett,” were known and read throughout the state and in many adjoining states.

At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered his services to the confederate cause and fought under the banner of General Longstreet.

When the war ended, he settled down to a quiet life of farming, but later, while employed as a printer on The Constitution, and article which he had written attracted notice of editors, and it was then that he was “found.” For more than twenty years hardly a man, woman or child in Georgia did not know of “Sarge Plunkett,” or of his contribution to Georgia’s literature.

Pathos and Philosophy.

There was a certain pathos of expression in his writings, coupled with a philosophical knowledge of human things and nature which bespoke a character deeply in accord with nature and the love of all things beautiful.

During the course of his journalistic career, there appeared in book form a publication from the pen of “Sarge Plunkett,” called “Old Times in Georgia.”

His latter years had been spent in solitude, and at the little home on Adair avenue, in Decatur, just beyond the Oakland station, he maintained a small farm, while to a certain extent he entered public affairs by holding the office of justice of the peace for a number of years. His death came Friday night.

[Transcribed 20 May 2008 Lynn Cunningham]

Addison Milton Wier's Confederate Service Record

Muster Roll of Company D, 2nd Battalion
Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Army of Tennessee
C. S. A.
Spalding County, Georgia
“Spalding Greys”

Wier, Addison Mark* (Sarge Plunkett) - Private May 1, 1862
Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va. May 1, 1863. Admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #2, at Richmond, Va. May 3, 1863. Transferred to Macon, Ga. hospital in 1863; to Atlanta, Ga. May 25, 1863. Wounded at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863. Admitted to Ocmulgee Hospital at Macon, Ga. Sept. 26, 1864 and furloughed there from Oct. 19, 1964. En route to his command he was injured in a railroad wreck near Barnesville, Ga., which crippled him for life. Born in Pike County, Ga. Oct. 12, 1847. Died at Decatur, Georgia Mar. 31, 1922.

*Mark or Milton?

From Lillian Henderson’s “Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865" (Vol VI)

Wier, Addison M. Old Times in Georgia
Good Times and Bad Times by "Sarge" Old Man
Plunkett (A. M. Wier). Atlanta: Constitution Publishing
Co., 1889. 126 pp.
Wier served in the 2nd Independent Georgia Infantry Battalion. This unit was assembled at
Norfolk, Virginia in April 1861. It served in North Carolina, then returned to Virginia during the Seven Days' Battles and fought at Malvern Cliff under Gen. J. G. Walker. Transferred to A. R. Wright's Brigade, the battalion was active in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from Fredericksburg to Appomattox. It reported 2 killed and 26 wounded at Chancellorsville and lost more than forty-five percent of the 173 engaged at Gettysburg. Only 8 officers and 74 men were left to surrender in April 1865.
URL: http://www.gettysburg.edu/library/information/foml/newsletters/March_2004.pdf