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Welcome... Tom Carter's father was John Wise Carter of South Carolina and nothing is known of his mother. John's father, Captain John Carter, served in the American Revolution with a John Wise. The daughter of John Wise was Elizabeth and she married Captain John Carter in South Carolina. Captain John may have had a brother named Captain Thomas, explaining how he named his own son Thomas Carter.
It is unknown why Tom left his family in Talladega and moved into Montgomery. He was buying land off the Bozeman Estate to make a home for his own family.
Tom lost his first wife and several children in the small pox epidemic, some say the flu epidemic. Only two children survived, Lucy Carter Calloway and William Henry Carter. Military records indicate that Tom was sick in a Virginia hospital at one point and ironically married his second wife, Mary, from Virginia. Perhaps they had met in Virginia and she followed him, their story is unknown.
Mary had only one child, Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Carter Cooper, and wanted no more with Tom. When he died she buried him by his first family and she moved in with her daughter.
Mary may or may not have filed for his military pension, thus far, a record is not found.
Name: THOMAS Carter
Date: 01 09 1860
Location: AL,
Document #: 13796A
Serial #: AL1560__.463
Sale Type: CASH ENTRY SALE
Acres: 40.2200
Meridian or Watershed: ST STEPHENS
Parcel: Township 9N, Range 3E, Section 15
Thomas R. Carter (First_Last)
Regiment Name 2 Alabama Cavalry
Side Confederate
Company K
Soldier's Rank_In 2 Lieutenant
Soldier's Rank_Out 1 Lieutenant
Alternate Name
Notes
Film Number M374 roll 8
CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
Authority: Muster in roll, signed by T. R. Stacey, not dated
Remarks: Sick at Gen Hospital, Lynchburg, Va, Dec 7, 1861.
2nd Regiment, Alabama Cavalry
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