Ada Flora Anderson
1914 - 1977 (63 years)
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Name Ada Flora Anderson Birth 4 Oct 1914 Scott, Tennessee, United States 
Gender Female Death 5 Oct 1977 Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States - Mary Ann Russell called me (Judy Kesterson Carter) the day Ada had a stroke and told me that her (Mary Ann's) mother-in-law said an ambulance had come to Ada's house and taken her to the hospital. Now Ada and Mrs. Russell lived within spitting distance of each other but they never had anything to do with each other. Ada was beneath Mrs. Russell, with Ada being a crude and uneducated hillbilly from Scott County or Frost Bottom or wherever.
Mary Ann and I had grown up together. When she was dating, she used to call me to go with her to meet a guy she was sweet on at the Crystal drive-in in Oliver Springs. Bill Russell would drive up and we would get in the car with him, with me inbetween Mary Ann and Bill. One of Bill's flirty things was to say "chuk-a-chuk" and Mary Ann thought that was so cute.
Anyway, she married Bill and I married Charlie Carter, who was a next door neighbor to Mary Ann's mother-in-law. After Charlie died and Helen, the baby, left home, Ada was alone. I had remarried and MaryAnn and Bill had moved away since he was in the Coast Guard.
MaryAnn had moved home by the time Ada had her stroke. Ada's live-in-boyfriend and Ada were in Ada's garden when the stroke happened. I can't remember his name!!! But I think it was also Bill.
Mary Ann called me and said her mother-in-law called her and said Ada had had a stroke. I remember the day well because I was sitting on the side of my bed with a purple bedspread and had answered the phone on the bedside table. After talking to Mary Ann, I called the hospital.
They had a "Jane Doe", they said. The doctor told me I needed to come in and identify her. I said I had a hair appointment could I go do that first. The doctor said NO.
I went to the hospital, identified myself, and was immediately taken back to ICU. Ada was there, eyes closed. The nurse was an angel. She brushed Ada's hair back and told me "I cleaned her up as best as I could." I thought at the time what a sweet and loving gesture from that nurse. She or someone told me I needed to get ahold of the family as soon as possible after I explained that I was only a daughter-in-law.
From the hospital lobby I called Helen and Frank. I told them they had to come home right away. So sadly, none of them got home before their mother died. How hard that must have been!
Ada was a natural redhead, being an Anderson. Only her oldest daughter, Blanie, and her middle child Gladys inherited her red hair. The rest of her children inherited the deep black hair that Gibbey Marshall had, which turned a beautiful white in his later years.
Judy Kesterson Carter Spradlin 05-18-2019.
Burial Butler Cemetery, Oliver Springs, Roane, Tennessee, United States 
Siblings14 Siblings Person ID I11526 Main Tree Last Modified 15 Sep 2013
Father William A. Anderson, b. 1 Oct 1869, Smoky Creek Cemetery, Smoky Junction, Scott, Tennessee, United States d. 28 Oct 1942, Scott, Tennessee, United States (Age 73 years) Mother Eliza Jane Kennedy, b. Between May 1874 and 9 Jun 1875, Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States d. Scott, Tennessee, United States Marriage 16 Jun 1892 Campbell, Tennessee, United States - See 1940 Census Anderson County attached to daughter Cora Anderson.
Family ID F4332 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Gibbey Marshall Carter, b. 5 Jun 1889, Frost Bottom, Anderson, Tennessee, United States d. 27 Sep 1958, Mountain Home Veterans Administration Hospital, Johnson City, Washington, Tennessee, United States (Age 69 years) Children 1. Franklin Delano Carter 2. Gladys Carter 3. Helen Jean Carter 4. Blanie Mae Carter 5. Roxie Mazie Carter 6. Charles Gibbey Carter, b. 14 Mar 1944, Frost Bottom, Anderson, Tennessee, United States d. 8 May 1971, Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States (Age 27 years) [Birth]Last Modified 24 Jun 2009 Family ID F4312 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Mary Ann Russell called me (Judy Kesterson Carter) the day Ada had a stroke and told me that her (Mary Ann's) mother-in-law said an ambulance had come to Ada's house and taken her to the hospital. Now Ada and Mrs. Russell lived within spitting distance of each other but they never had anything to do with each other. Ada was beneath Mrs. Russell, with Ada being a crude and uneducated hillbilly from Scott County or Frost Bottom or wherever.
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Event Map 
Birth - 4 Oct 1914 - Scott, Tennessee, United States 
Death - 5 Oct 1977 - Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States 
Burial - - Butler Cemetery, Oliver Springs, Roane, Tennessee, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Documents Obituary: Carter, Ada (Anderson)
Ada Carter, 63, Route 3, Kellytown Community, Oliver Springs, died Wednesday morning at Oak Ridge Hospital following a short illness.Mrs. Carter was a member of Kellytown Baptist Church.
Her husband was the late Marshall G. Carter and her son was the late Charlie G. Carter, Oliver Springs.
She is survived by her daughters, Mrs. Billie…
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Notes - SSN: 413.46.7561 born TN 10/04/1914 died 10/1977 TN
Obituary:
Ada Carter, 63, Route 3, Kellytown Community, Oliver Springs, died
Wednesday morning at Oak Ridge Hospital following a short illness.Mrs. Carter was a member of Kellytown Baptist Church.
Her husband was the late Marshall G. Carter and her son was the lateCharlie G. Carter, Oliver Springs.
She is survived by her daughters, Mrs. Billie (Blainie) M. Hughes, SanAntonio, TX, Mrs. Robert (Roxie) Beth, Park Ridge, Ill, Mrs. Nova(Gladys) Sosa, West Chicago, IL, and Mrs. John (Helen) Zizzo,Schaumburg, IL, her son Franklin Carter, Park Riddge, IL, her stepsons,Warren Lee Carter, Powell, and William Ernest Carter, Levonia, MI, herbrothers, General Anderson, Powell, Millard Anderson, Jacksboro, andMcKinnley Anderson, LaFollette; her sisters, Mary McCloud, Utah, CoraKemp, Pearson FL, Eddie Sward, Jacksboro, Effie Cross, Caryville,Lovisa Patterson, Douglasville, GA; and 19 grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.
The funeral will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Sharp Funeral Home Chapel inOliver Springs, with the Rev. Bryson Pride officiating. Burial willbe in the Butler Cemetery. Family will receive friends Saturday from7 to 9 p.m. at Sharp's.
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Education = 6th grade per 1940 census.
Per Ada Anderson Carter, one of her sisters fell in the fire place when she was a child and was badly burned. Her head was drawn to one side as she healed. She died as a young woman. Not sure which one this could be, but I thought she told me it was Effie. Judy Spradlin 09/15/2013
Ada had red hair that faded to a dull blondish brown as she got older. All her children had black hair except for Gladys, who was a blonde, and Blanie, who had the same blondish brown as Ada. Gladys looked the most like her mother as she got older, but Blanie also looked like her mother. The other four children strongly resembled Marshall Carter. JUDY 09/15/2013
- SSN: 413.46.7561 born TN 10/04/1914 died 10/1977 TN