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Family: James Watkins Carter / Mary Elizabeth Jameson (F7823)  ^{[1, 2]} 

• Father | Male James Watkins Carter

  
  

  Born	22 Dec 1850	Talladega Co., Alabama
  Died	12 Sep 1941	Houston, Harris Co., Texas
  Buried		Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas
  Married	15 Jan 1874	Brenham, Washington, TX
  Father	Charles [Bond] Carter | F7822 Group Sheet
  Mother	Feriba Thurin Veazey | F7822 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Mary Elizabeth Jameson

  
  

  Born	16 Sep 1852	Talladega, Alabama
  Died	23 Mar 1927	Houston, Texas
  Buried		Glenwood Cemetery Houston, Texas
  Father	William John Ratcliff Jameson | F7821 Group Sheet
  Mother	Musadora Antoinett Watkins | F7821 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Male James Robinson Carter

  
  

  Born	22 Jan 1877	Brenham County, Texas
  Died	3 Jul 1942	Harris County, Texas
  Buried		Glenwood Cemetery Houston, Texas

  
  

  Child 2 | Male William Henry Carter

  
  

  Born	28 Apr 1881	Brenham, Texas
  Died	29 Nov 1933	Harris County, Texas
  Buried

  
  

  Child 3 | Female Inez Carter

  
  

  Born	31 Oct 1878	Brenham, Texas
  Died	13 Oct 1966	Harris County, Texas
  Buried		Forest Lawn Memorial Park Beaumont, Texas

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Children of James Watkins Carter and Mary Elizabeth Jameson: James Robinson CARTER b: 22 JAN 1877, Brenham,Washington, TX Inez CARTER b: 31 OCT 1878 in Brenham, Washington, TX William Henry CARTER b: 29 APR 1881 in Brenham,Washington, TX

  
  

• Sources

  [S80] Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=jWkZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&dq=thomas+watkins+married+rebecca+seldon&source=bl&ots=7CoT1kt8LY&sig=b6nkqo0mIJTMSZ1m0xB1MVllOXE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDv_-f5_vPAhVDwGMKHTI-A3IQ6AEIMzAE#v=onepage&q&f=false. Mary Elizabeth Carter (nee Jameson) d/o W. J. R. Jameson (1828-96) and Musa Antoinett Watkins, his wife, m. 1851 [S84] Rootsweb, https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hankcar&id=I531. James Watkins CARTER Birth: 22 DEC 1850, Talladega Co, AL Death: 12 SEP 1941, Houston, Harris, TX Burial: Glenwood, Lakewood, Houston, TX Note: He was the eleventh of thirteen children. James, John, and Mrs. Mason Augusta Steele Carter) were the last to die. He was raised by his oldest sister Maggie Carter Jackson on a farm adjoining the Jameson farm. His father was a self made man. When he was 21 (1871) his Father gave him $100 and a gold watch and said he was now on his own. He went to Mobile, AL on a Saturday night, put the money in a bank, and lost it the next Monday in a Bank failure. He courted his future wife while he was attending Oxford (AL) college with her in 1870. He came to Texas in 1873 with Judge Wellington Vandiver (an early schoolmate) and was married on 15 Jan 1874, in Brenham. He started the Carter Music Store in the McIntyre Hotel in Brenham, TX on 15 Jan 1877. He entered the piano business by accident. He had been selling sewing machines in Atlanta, GA and later secured the agency for the Estey organ. When he went to Texas he had an opportunity of entering the piano business as a result of the financial difficulties of a dealer there. He moved his store to Belton, TX in 1886 when Baylor College for Women was started. Fannie Simpson Carter tells a family story that she heard from her husband. J. W. Carter made his children feed some pigs that he kept in the yard in Belton. They hated their job and suffered in cold weather, so their Mother killed the pigs by feeding them rags. Finally, he moved the store to Houston, to 706 Main Street, on 1 Feb 1906, when it began to really grow. His younger son James Robinson Carter became manager in 1929. The store moved to 819 Main, to 1620 Main, and finally to San Jacinto & Main (1201 Leeland).