Harold Carter--Orvil Carter--William Francis Carter--Francis Marion Carter...
William D. Carter Esq. (born 1796, probably in North Carolina: died June 6, 1873 in Harrison, Indiana) and
Eleanor Lemmon (born July 25, 1798 in Baltimore, Maryland; died May 9, 1874 in Harrison, Indiana)
The photos on this page and much of the following information about Eleanor were graciously provided by Jerry L. Brown, one of Eleanor's descendants, who grew up near where William and Eleanor lived and who has extensively researched the family tree.
We don't know much about William’s parents except that they probably were living in North Carolina when William was born. He is as far back as the Carters can be traced with certainty. We assume, however, that his ancestors were English.
We know quite a bit about Eleanor's heritage. She was born in Baltimore in 1798 to John Lemmon Jr. and Millison Foster when her parents were both 20. She was the second of 11 children and the oldest girl. The family probably lived in Baltimore all the time when she was growing up. Her parents were extremely wealthy when she was born, owning several plantations and slaves, but the family fortune was squandered by her father who was prone to heavy drinking and gambling. They moved from Baltimore to Kentucky, then finally to Harrison County, Indiana, where many descendents of the Lemmons and Carters still reside.
William and Eleanor married when she was 21 and he was 23. They lived all their married life in the Rosewood section of Harrison County, Indiana, near Eleanor’s younger brother, Elias Lemmon, and his family.
William was a farmer most of his life, although he was temporarily listed in the census as a stone mason when he was 54. It appears that the family was prosperous. He served at least five years as Justice of Peace when he was 24, a position which probably accounts for his title of "Esquire." Carter School, on the bluffs near Rosewood, was named after William and Eleanor.
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William and Eleanor had 11 children, Francis Marion being the third. The children were Sarah (1821-1861), Millison (1823-?), Isaac (1824-1899), Rachel (1827-1874?), Isabel (1830-1875?), Francis Marion (1831-1918), David (1834-?), William (1836-?), Martha (1838-?), Ellen (1841-?) and Mariam (1849-?). William made six separate land purchases, three of them in the town of Elizabeth, Posey Township, between 1836 and 1842. In their later years, son Isaac and daughter Ellen lived nearby with their families. William died at age 77, Eleanor at 76, in Harrison and are both buried there in Strong Cemetery, Ellen's family cemetery.
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1882 map of Taylor Township, Harrison County, provided by Jerry Brown. This map shows the location of Strong/Crawford Cemetery, Carter School, and the land owned by Thomas (Capt.Tommy) Strong, whose daughter Ellen married William and Eleanor's son Francis Marion.
Click HERE for a large version of the above map (and wait patiently - it's a HUGE map)
Harold Carter--Orvil Carter--William Francis Carter--Ellen Strong...
Captain Thomas (Tommy) Strong (1807 - ?) and
Margaret Coons (? - ?
We don't know much about Tommy and Margaret other than that Tommy was born in Kentucky and they came to Indiana from Kentucky. (Info regarding Tommy's parents, from Scotland, to be posted soon.) They lived in Floyd County, Indiana until the 1840's, when they moved to Harrison County. Tommy owned a lot of property near the Ohio River, including the "Strong House Hotel" (which later became known as the Riverside Hotel) and a sawmill. He apparently also operated a riverboat at one time, which accounts for the the "Captain.") Much of the land was lost in a legal dispute. Interestingly, the 1880 census for Harrison lists the 73-year-old Thommy as still working in the sawmill and married to a 30-year-old woman named Nancy A. who was also born in Kentucky. It is assumed Tommy and Margaret were both buried in Strong/Crawford Cemetery near Rosewood, Indiana.
Harold Carter--Orvil Carter--Ida Jane Rice--Amelia Vance Pennington...
William Vick Pennington (Born 1784 in Virginia; Died 1877 in ?) and
Mary Ann Henry (Born 1793 in Kentucky; Died 1881 in Missouri)
We don't know anything about William's parents except that they were living in Virginia when he was born in 1784. Mary was born in 1793 in Kentucky to Robert Henry and Jane Brank when her father was 38 and her mother 36. We're not sure if there were siblings.
William and Mary married in 1808. He died in 1877 at the age of 83, she in 1881 in Missouri at the age of 88.
Harold Carter--Mabel Riggs--Lucinda Ellen Coons--John Walton Coons...
John Coons (Born May 26, 1774 in Pennsylvania; Died Oct. 7, 1851 in Clark Co, Illinois)) and
Anna Maria Batdorf(born July 16, 1776 in Bethel Twp, Lebanon Co, Pennsylvania--died December 13, 1844 in Clark Co, Indiana)
We don't know much about John's parents, other than that he was born right before the American Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania. Anna Maria, probably called "Mary," was born during the war to Johanna Martinus Batorff and Maria Barbara Hautz when her father was 29 and her mother 28. She was the fourth of 11 children. When she was still a baby her family moved to Hagerstown, Maryland.
John and Mary married in Jefferson Co., Kentucky on August 13, 1799 when he was 25 and she was 23. After living in Kentucky, where the first four children were born, they moved to Clark, Illinois by 1809 where John Walton and his other siblings were born. They had nine children, John Walton being the fifth. Children were: George (1800-1885), Rebecca (1801-1866), William H. (1803-1854), Nicholas M. (1806-1878), John Walton (1809-1878), Polly "Mary" (1811-1890), Barbara H. (1819-1870), Jacob (1816-1881), and Elizabeth (1819-?).
John and Mary both died in Clark County, Illinois, he in 1851 at age 77, she in 1844 at age 68.
1) Carter Genealogy Index
2) Harold William Carter
3) Harold's Parents
4) Harold's Grandparents
5) Harold's Great-grandparents
6) Harold's GreatX2-grandparents
7) Harold's GreatX3-grandparents
8) Harold's GreatX4-grandparents
9) Harold's GreatX5-grandparents
10) Carter Surname Heritage