Christopher Lawson 'Kit' Carter

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Christopher Lawson Carter married Mary Rogers Sawyers 2 Jan 1809: Children are:

Pleasants Carter d.i.f. (ca. 1810 - ca. 1812)
Rebecca Carter (ca. 1812 - )
James Sawyers Carter (ca. 1814 - 1894)
Jane Carter (ca. 1816 - )
Christopher Lawson Carter Jr. (1818 - 1888)
Judith Carter (1820 - 1910)
Mary Carter d.i.f. (ca. 1826 - ca. 1828)
George Carter (ca. 1829 - )
Thomas Miller Carter (ca. 1829 - 1910)
Raleigh Carter d.s.p. (ca. 1832 - ca. 1901)

8. CHRISTOPHER LAWSON CARTER, born at "Greenrock," Pittsylvania county, Va. Feb. 7, I784 died in Lincoln County, Missouri, Oct 7, I860. January 2, 1809, he was married in Pittsylvania to Mary, daughter of James and Frances Rogers Sawyers. She was born Sept. 27, 1791, and died on the old Carter place in Lincoln county, Dec 2, 1876. The descendants of Christopher L. Carter have from him the statement that his father, Thomas Carter, of "Greenrock? Pittsylvania, was a soldier in the Revolution, and they think that he was the Thomas Carter who enlisted March I0, 1777 for three years as a private in Captain John Dandridge's company, 1st Artillery Regiment, Continental Line, under Colonel Charles Harrison, and was assigned to service in the State of Virginia.
They also have the tradition that Christopher Lawson Carter and two of his brothers saw service in the War of 1812. I find from the Muster Rolls of the War of 1812, published in 1852, that Captain Edward Carter's troop of cavalry was attached to a regiment of United States Cavalry under Colonel P. Holcombe in the service of the United States from the 3rd to the 12th of Sep., 1814, and included the following Carters:
Captain Edward Carter, Sergeant Rawley W. Carter, Sergeant Christopher L. Carter and private Jesse Carter. They were probably all four the sons of Thomas Carter of "Greenrock"--two undoubtedly were.

Christopher L. and Mary Sawyers Carter had issue eleven children:
80. Frances Carter, married Barton Hubbard, and has descendants in Missouri.

81. Pleasants Carter, died young.

82. Rebecca Carter, married Pines Shelton, and has descendants in Missouri.

83. James Sawyers Carter, born in 1814, married Mary J. Duncan, and had one son, Christopher W. Carter, who saw service in the Confederate army. He married Nannie Ross Dyer and moved to Texas in 1874. They had four children, Martha Pleasants, married a Mr. McLeod; Emner L.; Henry L, and Errol. All live at Seymour, Texas.

84. Jane Carter, married James Shelton, and had several sons in the Confederate army. She has descendants living near Waco, Texas.

85. Christopher Lawson Carter, Jr., born Nov. 4, 18I8, was but twelve years old when his father removed to Missouri. In 1848 he vent to the gold fields of California, returning
to Missouri in the fall of 1850 by way of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1854 he removed his family to Waco, Texas, and a year later to Pale Pinto county, Texas, where he lived until
his death in July, 1888. During the war he was in the service of the State of Texas, but always on the frontier against the Indians. He was a large cattleman, and with
Simpson, Slaughter and others formed the Texas Cattle Raisers' Association, which has become the most complete association of its kind in the country. He was married in
Lincoln county, Mo., on July 7, I842, to Anne Smith Ross, born Oct. 18, 1825, in Lincoln county, died at the Carter homestead in Pale Pinto county, Texas, Nov. 17, I835. They
had issue eleven children:
a. Ross Carter, born May 7, I843, died Sept. 23, 1846.
b. Pleasant Carter, born Nov. 11, I845, died Sept. 13, 1846.
c. Shapley Prince Carter, born Aug. 2, 1847, died of wounds from Comanche Indian battle May 18,1869.
d. Ella Carter; born Oct 19, I851, died May 3, I86I.
e. Lawrence Sullivan Carter, born Nov. 4, 1853, was educated at Washington & Lee University, Virginia. He is farmer and stockman at Canyon City, Texas. In 1878 he was
married to Louise M. Dillalunty, and has four children, L. S. Jr., Elizabeth, Lewis Randolph and Helen.
f. Elizabeth Carter, born Dec. 14, 1855, died Feb. 16, 186I.
g. Peter Ross Carter, born Dec. 10, 1860, died May 11, 1861.
h. Christopher L. Carter, Jr., born March 25, 1863, lives in Hardamon County, Texas. He married, (1), Lucy Clarke and had issue: Lottie and Isaac Lawson; (2)......
i. Mary A. Carter, born March 4, 1864, married Aug. 25, 1887, Isham R. Darnell and lives at Benkelman, Nebraska. They have issue Mary A., died in infancy, Katharine C.,
Shapley Boyle and Ruth Elizabeth Darnell.
j. Thomas Miller Carter, born Jan. 22, I867, married in 1897 Ola Kuykendall and has one daughter, Nannie Carter. They live on the old Carter place in Pale Pinto county.
k. Katharine Ross Carter, born July 26, I870, married Wm. M. McGregor, of Wichita Falls Texas, on July 25, 1890, and has issue: William Carter McGregor and Lillian May
McGregor. Mr. McGregor has been the cashier of the First National Bank of Wichita Falls for the past twenty years.

86. Judith Carter, born I820, married Washington Wright and died in 1910, leaving descendants in Missouri.

87. George Carter, served four years in the Confederate army. He married in Missouri.
Henry had descendants in Missouri and California.

88. Mary Carter, died young.

89. Colonel Thomas Miller Carter, born in Virginia just before his father removed to Missouri in I830. He served in the war with Mexico, and in I861 raised a company and
entered the Confederate army under Colonel F. M. Cockrell, wounded at Elkhorn, Vicksburg, Corinth and Franklin. When Colonel Cockrell was promoted to a brigade, Captain Carter commanded the regiment until he was wounded at Franklin. He married Alabama Henry, sister of his brother George's wife, and had four children. Colonel T. M. Carter died in 1910.
a. Ida Carter, married John E. Richards and has several children. Lives near Troy, Mo.
b. Austin Carter, unmarried. Lives in St Louis.
c. Georgia Carter, married a Mr. Scholl and lives at Colorado City, Cola.
d. Joseph Carter, married and lives in St Louis.

90. Raleigh Carter, never married, and died about ten years ago in the Confederate Home at Columbia, Mo.
The data of this branch of the family was furnished by Mr. Isham R. Darnell of Benkelman, Nebraska.

Christopher married Mary 'Polly' Soyars 28 Oct 1809, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. Mary (daughter of Immigrant James Soyars and Jane Oakes) was born Est 1790, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]