I101323: RHYS Gryg ap Rhys (ABT 1150

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son of John Wilson ASKEW and Mary Ann Amanda LAWRENCE.

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"Article from an 1889 issue of the Troy Messenger from a column "Some Old People," giving brief biographies of older Troy, Alabama residents of the time. Printed in Papers of the Pike County Historical Society, Vol. 16 (#2-4), 1977, p. 29 ---

JOEL CARTER (1889) Crawford County, Georgia, was the birthplace of the above named
gentleman who opened his eyes to the beauties of this mundane sphere in 1810. Mr. Carter came from Georgia to this county about 1854 and settled on what is still known as the Carter place, three miles east of Troy on the Hobdy’s Bridge Road and where he now resides with his son, Dan T. Carter.

Mr. Carter was a successful farmer and when the war commenced he had amassed a considerable property, including a number of valuable slaves. All of these he lost by the results of the conflict. His lands were left and he managed them so well that he has always been considered a monied man.

His first marriage was in 1834 with Miss Amelia Ann Bentley who bore him one son and two daughters. The son died in 1846 and Mrs. Carter died in 1841 and a few months later he espoused Miss Elizabeth Rowe who became the mother of ten children, seven of whom are living. The second Mrs. Carter departed this life in 1883 regretted by a large circle of relatives arid friends. Early in the seventies Mr. Carter built him a residence on Elm Street in this city about a half mile east of the courthouse and moved his family to it.

For a number of years he was a familiar figure on the streets, perhaps as well known as any man in Troy, but his wife being dead and his sons and daughters grown up and married, he again sought the old plantation where his son and wife could better give him that attention that the infirmities of age demand. Nine of his sons and daughters are still living, besides 35 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. One of his sons was a Confederate soldier and in one of the battles around Atlanta fell a victim to his devotion to the Lost Cause.

Both of Mr. Carter’s wives were members of the Primitive Baptist Church of which he also became a member in 1849 and to that faith he has ever adhered with the fervency and zeal of an earnest nature. He is growing very feeble and awaits with a patient resignation the time when he shall be gathered to his fathers in that beautiful land where parting and death are not known.
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Selected portions from Sarah Antoinette Sellers Abernathy's "Memories," found in Arthur Curtis Carter's "Carter and Kinsmen" (Montgomery, Alabama, 1990), pp. 74-78. A revealing write-up by Dr. Joel Carter Sellers' favorite correspondent, the piece also appears in a slightly
different version -- with somewhat different wording and additional subject matter -- in Dr. Joseph Reddoch's "Our Sellers Family: A Record of Seven Generations of My Sellers Line" (New Orleans, 1980). What follows below follows the Carter text ---

... Grandfather [Joel Carter] had about one hundred slaves, plantations, shops, a mill to grind corn and wheat for his estate; grew pork, and pork products, fruit, vegetables, wool and cotton which the women dyed and spun, wove and fashioned into garments for the white family and negroes, along with thread for ropes, coverlets, counterpanes, sheets, towels, pillow covers for pillows and feather beds made from geese grown on the plantation. The older sisters and grandmother [Elizabeth Rowe Carter] did part of the work, as well as direct the negresses. But mother [Lucinda Emerline Carter] was an unusually precocious child, mastering spelling so as to outspell the Old Field School at four years of age: so, grandfather saw to it that she was in school. His older children did not care as she did for such advantages and he was proud of his little one. He had so many negroes to do the work that he easily fell into the fallacy of neglecting her domestic training; so when she was married to my father, near her eighteenth birthday, she was ignorant of all domestic arts but sewing. My grandmother had forced her to sew for herself and the negroes, though grandfather ‘will’ interfere when he heard anyone insisting that she share the work ...

... My Sellers and Carter grandfathers were Whigs, until the Civil War. Afterwards and on account of the color question they have been part and parcel of the Old South. It has meant to them the integrity of the white race, the economic survival of the same...

... Grandfather Carter was not a secessionist, nor was Grandfather Sellers [Cornelius Sellers]. The former was threatened with riding the rail, by ardent secessionists. The latter was regarded as determined to kill their ilk if his sons were slain. Grandfather Carter having a son and son-in-law in the Army, besides numerous slaves, didn’t get the promised ride. Grandfather Sellers escaped with both sons restored without a wound.

Not being a secessionist at heart, grandfather Carter didn’t answer Jefferson Davis’ call for cotton. He had expected his wealth to be grown in slaves; and too anxious for their health to allow his overseer to drive them, but allowed them to be worked enough to produce their upkeep and a little cotton which he stored. Before the onset of Federal Raiders, his negroes hid it among some difficult hills and gulches (called Porcosins), all cotton grown by him after the Federal Blockade. His negroes were loyal to Old Marster. They refused to betray the place where they had cows, hogs, meat and lard hidden. Betz, the cook, armed herself with an ax and stood by the door and defied the Yanks to pester Old Marster or the family, or to enter his home. For her loyal and militant protection, with her freedom she and her husband were given a piece of land, a cabin and supplies till they could grow more. Said my grandfather, "They have grown old in my service, my children are young, I share with them what they have helped to produce before. My children are young and are able to get for themselves, what Betz and Tobe are too old and feeble to earn for themselves."

Like Penbarn’s Pastor of the loveliest village of the plains; he chid their waywardness, but filled their needs. I was a woman when they laid him to rest. We wept bitterly for our beloved Patriarch, but not so hopelessly as the gray haired ex-slaves who mourned, “Old Marster dead,
our last friend is gone." We would have been stony-hearted, indeed, had they perished pining for food. This was 50 years ago. Were I a painter, I could put on canvas, so poignantly was it etched on my memory, that day when we put his body away to await the Resurrection ..."
Children:
2 Martha Amanda Carter b: 11 Dec 1835 d: 7 Feb 1916 + Alexander Cadenhead Sanders b: 21 Oct 1825 d: 13 Apr 1903
2 Sarah E. Carter b: 13 Aug 1837 d: 18 Mar 1930 + John M. Kendrick b: 26 Sep 1828 d: 12 Aug 1910
2 James Lafayette Carter b: 30 OCT 1839 d: 1846
Children by E. Rowe
2 Frances Ann Carter b: 17 SEP 1842 + Martin Sanders + James A. Harris
2 John D. Carter b: ABT. 1845
2 Lucinda Emerline Carter b: 20 Apr 1847 d: 20 Dec 1903 + Joseph Samuel Sellers b: 24 Nov 1840 d: 6 Sep 1920.
2 Henry J. Carter b: 26 APR 1849 + L. E. Rainer
2 Leonora A. Carter b: 10 JUL 1851
2 William S. Carter b: 23 JUL 1853
2 Richard J. Carter b: 10 JUL 1855 d: NOV 1874
2 Daniel W. Carter b: 19 Mar 1857 d: 30 Oct 1911 + Carrie Bulls b: abt 1854 d: 23 Dec 1909
2 Tyre Shelby Carter b: MAR 1859 d: 1934 + Lucille Salter b: 1859 d: 1888 + Sallie J. Crossley
2 Eddie Dora Carter b: 24 SEP 1863 d: 21 JUN 1920 + William Rugeley Sellers b: 15 DEC 1860 d: 31 MAR 1927

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6-355 RICHARD HUNDLEY PENDLETON Sr., b. 26 Oct. 1877, Atlanta, GA.; mar. EVELYN OELKERS. Richard and his family owned a Dry Goods business in North Tonawanda, Erie Co., NY.

Issue:
7-569 RICHARD HUNDLEY PENDLETON Jr., b. 29 June 1918. Richard was an Army Air Force bombardier during WW-2. After his plane was shot down he was put in a POW camp in Romania. After the war he settled in Odessa, TX.
7-570 JOHN ROBINSON PENDLETON, b. 28 Mar. 1920. John served on a Destroyer Escort (U.S. Navy) in the Pacific theater during WW-2.
7-571 HENRY CARL PENDLETON, b. 30 Sept. 1923. He served in the U.S. Navy during WW-2.
7-572 THOMAS LAVENDER PENDLETON, b. 12 Sept. 1926. Graduated from high school in 1944 and then joined the U.S. Navy.
7-573 ELIZABETH MAY PENDLETON, b. 15 Oct. 1930, graduated from grammer school in 1944; mar. ROBERT WILLIAMS.

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2 Ann Rust b: ABT 1691 d: BEF 5 DEC 1748 + George HARRISON b: 1630

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Martha STOVALL b: 28 Feb 1769 in Bedford, VA

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"Margaret UNDERWOOD is named in the will of Capt. John LUCAS as his 'daughter in law' (step daughter); her mother, Margaret _____ Underwood Upton Lucas, refers to Humphrey BOOTH as "my loveing son;" and her sister, Elizabeth, in her 1673 will refers to him as "brother BOOTH."

"It is theory that Margaret is a sister of Thomas because she marries in 1660 in the region he first emmigrated too. Supporting this theory is that her husband, Henry Booth was a witness to sale of the land by Moore Fauntleroy and his wife, with William Underwood being their attorney to Francis Slaughter in 1756. This and other records simply indicate this group knew each other well."

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My Southern Family

RHYS Gryg ap Rhys

ABT 1150 - 1233

ID Number: I101323

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Thomas Jefferson ASKEW

19 Oct 1844 - 20 Apr 1919

ID Number: I43357

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Jodie Lynn BASS

Lila BOONE

ABT 1890 - ____

ID Number: I18153

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Joel CARTER

15 Apr 1810 - 19 Dec 1890

ID Number: I66132

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James COLLINSWORTH

ABT 1805 - ____

ID Number: I99961

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Pleasant LEWIS

ABT 1769 - ____

ID Number: I34074

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Julia A. MAY

1834 - ____

ID Number: I103693

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Richard Hundley PENDLETON

26 Oct 1877 - ____

ID Number: I74816

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Ann RUST

ABT 1691 - BEF 5 Dec 1748

ID Number: I82053

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Susan Manelle SHEPHERD

ABT 1850 - ____

ID Number: I30753

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Martha STOVALL

28 Feb 1769 - ____

ID Number: I91336

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Margaret UNDERWOOD

ABT 1634 - ABT 1696

ID Number: I49612

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