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- Carter, Gibby M. Clinton TN. Inducted Clinton 05/17/1918. Born in Anderson Co. TN 06/06/1889. Honorably discharge 07 or 08/29/1919
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CARTER POSSIBILITY
From: Mahutch13@aol.com
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 17:24:21 EST
Subject: Re: [DumplinTN] [Forum:] Crockett Family, Carter, Scruggs,Yearwood
To: dumplintn@korrnet.org
Reply-To: dumplintn@korrnet.org
Happy New Year,
I have Crockett's in my family tree. Esther Crockett married my great-great-great-great-Grandfather, Francis Jackson Carter 2/13/1798in Wythe Co.,
VA. The family migrated to East Tennessee shortly after the marriage.Their
first son James Carter was born in Cocke Co., TN. (He passed awaythree months before his eighth birthday. ) Anyway, Esther Crockett had many Williams related to jher, a brother, at least one uncle, and several nephews.If you could estimate some dates and perhaps some more names, I could possibly find a connection. Also, Our family "Oral History" dictates that Davy Crockett was a nephew
of Esther Crockett. I have a strong suspicion that this is true, but I have not found a document that proves once and for all that this is true. Iwould be
happy to share all of my files regarding the East-Tennessee Crockett's with you in exchange for any information that you might on the Crocketts.The
Crocketts had many very LARGE families. Thanks in advance for sharing,and once
again. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Margaret Yearwood Hutchinson
Tumwater, Washington (The State)
Marriage Records in Anderson Co. TN Courthouse Volumn 7 page 46 to Gypsie Hutton and Volume 8 page 162 to Mazie Webb. No license in Anderson County for Ada Anderson.
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Frank Carter Emails--Memories
I can barley remember i was about 12 years old Charlie, Gladys , and Healen all went, we stayed 8 or 10 days, we went to church with all of Miller's kids and Cora was there with her kids she had 2 boys and one girl i think, i remember someone found a rattle snake under a bed
i can remember i was very scared
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From: "judy solis"
> Frank: You said you went to see your mother's brother, Miller,around Lake
> City. Who went? How long did you stay? What did you
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I remember living in frost bottom,Blannie, Roxie, Me and Charlie used
to sleep in same bed in winter time, one summer we had a young calf &
Charlie and i was playing with it and Charlie grabbed it's tail andcalf
drug Charlie about a block down a creek bed all he had to do was turn
it loose but he would't and he got all bruised and cut he was bleeding
Dad was going to give me a whipping for letting Charlie do that and
another time Charlie and I hid under some hay in barn and watch Dadand some more men they were breeding a cow i still remember
that bull never saw anything like it in all of my life, house was all
right very big fireplace that was where most of cooking was done in
summer time, we had plenty of food we grew most everthing. Dad did
a lot of hunting , i remember Roxie and I taking eggs over to windrockand selling them that was about10 miles each way we had to walk, also
we walked to school that was another 6 or 7 miles each way,we used
to take jars of peaches to school we were embarrased to take it toschool
we would hide it and on way back home we would eat it,thinking to
much tonight head hurting ha ha.
Love
Frank
RE: FROST BOTTOM?
From: fcarter559@comcast.net
Sent: Wed 8/08/07 9:01 PM
To: judy solis (j_tejedora@hotmail.com)
my first 2 years of school i went to frost bottom primmer and thenfirst grade, i was off 1 year with
whopping cough or something then we moved to kellytown, there were noschool buses you had to
walk it was around 7 miles to school each way, i remember walking andwas so cold couldn't feel
my feet,hands, and face it was so cold, look at us now it didn't hurtus now we just set around and
get fat and frail.
love u
Frank
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From: judy solis
You do remember a lot!
Where did you go to school when you lived at Frost Bottom? Did youride the school bus? Was your dad working then or retired?
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RE: FROST BOTTOM?
From: fcarter559@comcast.net
Sent: Thu 8/09/07 7:32 PM
To: judy solis (j_tejedora@hotmail.com)
Hi Judy i can't remember to much we had a couch, rocking chairs, (Dadhad made himself some kind of bark was used for seat andback) and in this room we had pot belly stove that burned wood and
shot gun hung over each doorway, in kitchen we had a wood burnningstove we didn't have any kind
of refrigerator, we had a smoke house where all meat was kept if i canremember right half of smoke house was under ground this way itkept things cool, we had a bnig kitchen i remember Mom doing a
lot of canning,never saw Dad do any kind of work except farming, doyou know was in prison for making
and selling moonshine he was in for 1 year and one day didn't knowthis till i was around 40 years old, Blannie told me, then i askedother people and they told me, this happen before Roxie and I was born
think Blannie was a baby, take care.
love
Frank
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From: judy solis
Frank:
Describe for me the living room of your house in Frost Bottom? Whatwas in it? A radio, tv, sofa, coffee table, etc. What color was it?What was on the floor?
These may seem like silly questions, but it is the only informationTim and Andy have ever had about their Carter heritage. I'm savingall your emails for them and I love every word you write. I can'tthank you enough for giving me these little treasures!
Judy
RE: FROST BOTTOM?
From: fcarter559@comcast.net
Sent: Fri 8/10/07 3:31 AM
To: judy solis (j_tejedora@hotmail.com)
yes it was sharp's but he was laid out at home for3 day's,lots ofpeople were there i didn't
know none of them, lot of strange people, i was a sophmore in highschool when he died
thought i was going to quit school but thank god i was smart enough tofinish school but if
i didn't play football i probably would have quit,, Dad used to leaveand wouldn't tell no one
Mom didn't know where he was in 7 or 8 weeks she would get a letterfrom him he would
be in johnson city in veterns hospital, Lee and Ernest used to acusemom of killing dad when
they couldn't find him, this happen couple times a year that dad woulddo this.
love
Frank
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From: judy solis
Frank, Charlie did not know his dad had been in prison until we wentto see Lee in March 1971. Charlie was shocked when Lee mentioned itbecause he had never heard it. Then Charlie died two months later andI never heard about it again until I started doing the familygenealogy and talked to Bob Beth. Lots of folks made moonshine backthen. It was the best way to turn their crops into cash!
Ok, here's my next question. What funeral home was your dad at? Wasit Sharp's in Oliver Springs?
Judy Solis - East Tennessee
To this day no one knows how he got there, and we didn't know he was sick, he never learned to drive, i remember one time Bill Hughes (Blannie husband) and I drove dad to veterans hospital it took us a couple hours or longer to get there, he was real sick that time he had asthma very bad
lu
Frank
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From: judy solis
Frank, how awful for your Mother. She must have had a very, very hardlife. I wish I could have made it easier for her. When she had herstroke and was in the hospital and I went to the hospital to identifyher, one of the nurses told me she tried to clean the dirt off of your mother's face--she fell face down in the garden. The nurse touchedyour mother's hair and face with such gentleness and kindness and Ithought at the time that Ada deserved that kindness. I was verygrateful to that nurse and wish I knew who she was. I hope yourmother felt the kindness of the nurse.
Why did your Dad go to the veterans hospital? Was he sick? How did heget there? Did he ever learn to drive?
Judy Solis - East Tennessee
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Also Listed As Gibbey Marshall Carter, Marshall Carter, and G.M. Carter
Per the Carter family, when Marshall would become ill, he would just leave and not say a thing to anyone, going to the hospital run by the Veterans Administration in Johnson City, Tennessee. He would return when he was well. Marshall suffered from asthma. Ada told her daughter-in-law, Judy Kesterson Carter, that Marshall used to smoke menthol cigarettes because they relieved his asthma.
Per Judy Kesterson Carter, if the family knew of Marshall's first marriage to Gypsie Hutton, no one ever spoke of it.
Notes from Judy Kesterson Carter. Sometime in March of 1971, Charlie and Judy, Joe and Diann Pride, drove to Powell to visit Charlie's brother, Lee. Sometime during the conversation Lee mentioned something about when his Dad was in prison. Ch Charlie had never heard that before and did not know his father had been in prison. We left Lee's house late and Charlie drove home. The fog was so thick that you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you. Charlie was a good driver. He got behind a tractor trailer and stayed there so he could see where he was going. If that truck had driven right into a river somewhere, we would have been right behind it. I was very glad to get home that night.
On another occasion when I was very, very pregnant with Tim, Joe Pride and Diann wanted us to go somewhere with them. Joe had bought a new Dodge--bright orange--either a challenger or another model--and wanted to show it off. We got in the back seat of the two-door car. We drove to harriman and back up Harriman Highway. At times Joe was flying. For certain Joe was drunk. I was terrified. While on the trip we stopped and Charlie and Joe got some of those hot sausages in a jar thaat Tim used to love so much. I had to go to the bathroom and when I got back in the car they had saved the last one for me. How sweet of them. I ate it. No big deal. Joe's driving terrified me and I prayed to God that if He would let me live through that car ride, I would never, never get in the car with Joe Pride again. I kept my promise to God and never rode with Joe again.
On the night Charlie died, Joe was working away from home, coming home on the weekends. He had worked late that Friday night and didn't drive home until Saturday. Joe was Charlie's best friend and told me later that if he had been home, he would have been in the car with Charlie.
Poppaw Jesse blamed Roger Mullins and the Chief of Police of Oak Ridge for Charlie's death. Charlie and Roger were going to race. I think it might have been to somewhere in Clinton. Anyway, they were headed that way. It was storming that night--rain and lots of lightning and thunder. Sometime during the night Charlie came home and left his Ford Fairlaine and I thought he was coming home for the evening. But instead of coming in the house to the bedroom, he left again in the Pontitiac Bonneville--a big hunking heavy car. For the first time in the short time we were married, I didn't worry about him. Then at 4:00 a.m., Mom and Dad were beating on the door of the trailer. They left Rebecca and maybe Janet there with Timim, who was 2 years and 2 months old, and took me and we stopped and got Mrs. Carter. Apparently the hospital had not told Mom and Dad how bad it was. When we walked into the Emergency room I asked where he was and someone said "Let's go to the Chapel". I knew then he was dead. Mrs. Carter nearly fainted and I just cried. Mom was dealing with her and Dad was dealing with me. I saw her nearly collapse and I knew that no matter how much I hurt, as a mother she was hurting so much more. Over the years my insight proved itself over and over and over.
I told the ER people I was pregnant and didn't want to lose the baby so they called Dr. DePersio and he came to the hospital and gave me a shot of something. I don't remember going home. I remember going to sleep and waking later and seeing the house full of people. Rita Hamby Brown was there and her baby was due in May and I asked her what in the world she was doing there.
Madge went shopping for me because I didn't have a decent dress to wear to the funeral. Since I was almost 3 months pregnant, I couldn't wear a dress that had a waist or was close fitting. I don't remember one of the dresses but the other was bright yellow and she bought me or mom had a pair of white gloves. That's what I wore to the funeral. The church (Middle Creek) was overflowing. I remember seeing a high school student, Kay White, standing against the wall and I think she fainted because it was so hot. I couldn't look at anyone, I just covered my face.
I also couldn't let them put the casket in the ground. I just didn't want them to cover him up. It was so sad. Such a young man shouldn't have died. Death was for old people. I never believed anything like this would ever happen to me. But it did. And when Tim wrecked 15 years later, I was again reminded of Mrs. Carter's pain. I was determined that my son would not die. I gave Tim to God and I knew as soon as I did that Tim would be ok. I promised him that he would be ok.
Education = 4th grade per census records of 1940
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1889 - 1958 (69 years)
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