ANCESTRY
OF PRESIDENT CARTER
Jimmy Carter is a Georgian with deep
roots in his native state, being the
seventh generation Carter to live
in Georgia. The information detailed
here is taken from an article in Georgia
Life (Winter, 1976, pp. 40 ff.) by
Kenneth H. Thomas.
Kindred Carter
Kindred Carter (c. 1750-1800) came
to Georgia from the Bertie-Edgecombe-Hertford
area of northeastern North Carolina
where his family had lived for several
generations. He was of the 5th generation
in descent from Thomas Carter, Sr.
who came in 1637 from England to Isle
of Wight County, Virginia. Thomas
Carter's only known child was Thomas,
Jr., who married Magdalene Moore and
left a will in 1710. In that will,
Thomas, Jr. did not name all of his
children, but Moore Carter (c. 1680-1741)
who married Jane and moved to Bertie
County, North Carolina, is believed
to have been his son. Moore left a
will naming a son Isaac who married
Ruth and died after 1790. Isaac and
Ruth were the parents of Kindred and
James, among others. Kindred and James
both came to Georgia.
Kindred Carter settled in Richmond
County, on the frontier of the new
state, along Little Germany creek.
This land is now part of McDuffie
County, approximately 35 miles west
of Augusta, Georgia. At his death
in 1800, his estate listed four heirs:
- James,
b. 1773 in North Carolina
- Henry
- Jesse
- Martha
James Carter (1773-1858)
James Carter married Eleanor "Nellie"
Duckworth in 1798 in Columbia County,
Georgia. She was a daughter of Jeremiah
and Christianna Ramsey Duckworth
of Warren and Columbia Counties.
The Carters moved permanently to
Warren County c. 1815, where they
lived along White's Creek on a 500
acre plantation, approximately four
miles NW of Thomson, Georgia. Around
1835 James moved to Talbot County
to join his brother Jesse and lived
in the SW part of the county near
Upatoi Creek. It was here that he
owned land at the time of his death
in Schley County at the plantation
of his son Wiley. James had been
a cotton planter and a Baptist.
James and Nellie Carter had 9 children:
- Wiley, b. 1798
- Epsey (1803-1867)
- Littleberry (1807-1847)
- Felix M. (d. 1844)
- Marina "Rina" (b.1809,
m. 1832)
- Keziah (1805-1855)
- Martha (m. 1837)
- George W. (m. 1837)
- James D. (d. 1854)
Wiley Carter (1798-1864)
Wiley Carter married Ann Ansley
in 1821 in Warren County. She was
the daughter of Abel and Lydia Morris
Ansley, and a granddaughter of Thomas
and Rebecca Ansley and Jacob and
Mary Ansley Morris. The Ansleys
lived in Warren County. Wiley Carter
sold his land in Warren County on
Rocky Comfort Creek, near Gibson,
in 1851 and moved permanently to
his plantation in Schley County
in Southeast Georgia, 20 miles north
of Plains. The home, known today
as the "Battle Place"
is located, along with the family
cemetery, on the Ellaville-Friendship
Road (Georgia Highway 153) at its
intersection with Georgia Highway
45.
It was here that Wiley Carter, farmer,
planter, and Baptist, was buried
when he died at the age of 66. His
plantation contained 2400 acres
in both Schley and Sumter Counties
and produced 147 bales of cotton
in 1860. Wiley's first wife, Ann,
died c. 1848, and he remarried Mrs.
Sarah Wilson, widow, of Newton County
in 1849.
Wiley and Ann Carter had eleven children:
- Armanda (m. 1838)
- Caroline (1823-1854)
- Calvin G. (1825-1899)
- Euphrasia A. (b. 1829)
- Littleberry Walker (1832-1874)
- Jane (1834-1905)
- Julia (b. 1836)
- Louisiana Virginia (b.1838)
- Wiley, Jr. (1841-1904)
- Ann W. (b. c. 1840)
- Jesse Taliaferro (1846-1924)
Littleberry Walker Carter (1832-1874)
In 1851 Littleberry Walker Carter married
Mary Ann Diligent Seals (c.1838-c. 1874)
in Warren County, Georgia. She was the
daughter of William A. (b. 1814) and
Eliza Harris (b. 1815) Seals of Warren
County. In the mid 1850s the Carters
and Seals lived in that part of Warren
County that became Glascock in 1857
and it was there that William A. Seals
died in 1860, and his widow in 1886.
Littleberry and Mary Ann moved c. 1860
to Sumter Co. near his father's plantation.
He served in the American Civil War
in Captain Cutts Sumter County Flying
Artillery, serving in Virginia. Littleberry
was a farmer and was buried on his farm
at the time of his death at the age
of 42.
Littleberry and Mary Ann had four children:
- Jeremiah Calvin (1855-1925)
- Eliza Ann (b. 1856)
- William Archibald (1858-1903)
- Nannie Bell (b. 1866)
William A. Carter (1858-1903)
William A. Carter married Nina Pratt
(1863-1939) in 1885. She was the
daughter of James E. and Sophronia
Cowan Pratt of Abbeville District,
South Carolina. William and Nina
were living in Arlington, 50 miles
SW of Plains, where they had moved
in the mid 1880's, when he died
at the age of 45. Nina then moved
to Plains, where she lived out her
life and was buried.
William and Nina had five children:
- Ethel (b. 1887)
- William Alton (b. 1888)
- Lula (b. 1891)
- James Earl (1894-1953)
- Jeanette (1904-1984)
James Earl Carter (1894-1953)
James Earl Carter married Lillian Gordy
in 1923. He was an insurance broker,
farmer, fertilizer dealer, Baptist and
Democrat. A veteran of World War I,
he served on the County Board of Education
and was a state representative in his
first term when he died at the age of
59. The couple had four children:
- James Earl "Jimmy"
Carter, Jr. (b. October 1, 1924)
- Gloria (Mrs. Walter G. Spann)(b.
October 22, 1926, d. March 5, 1990)
- Ruth (Mrs. Robert T. Stapleton)(b.
August 7, 1929, d. September 26,
1983)
- William Alton "Billy"
(b. March 29, 1937, d. September
25, 1988)
James Earl "Jimmy"
Carter, Jr. (b. 1924)
Jimmy Carter married Eleanor Rosalynn
Smith (b. August 18, 1927) on July 7,
1946.
They have four children:
- John William "Jack",
b. July 3, 1947 in Portsmouth, VA.
- James Earl III "Chip",
b. April 12, 1950 in Honolulu, HI.
- Donnel Jeffrey "Jeff",
b. August 18, 1952 in New London,
CT.
- Amy Lynn, b. October 19, 1967
in Plains, GA
BROTHER AND SISTERS OF PRESIDENT
CARTER
President Carter has two sisters and
one brother:
- Gloria, (b. October 22, 1926,
d. March 5, 1990) who married Walter
G. Spann.
- Ruth, (b. August 7, 1929, d.
September 26, 1983)
- William Alton "Billy",
(b. March 29, 1937, d. September
25, 1988)
CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF
PRESIDENT AND MRS. CARTER
Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter have four children:
- John William "Jack",
was born July 3, 1947 in Portsmouth,
VA. His son, Jason James Carter,
was born August 7, 1975, and daughter,
Sarah Rosemary was born December
19, 1978. Jack is married to Elizabeth
Brasfield of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Her children are John and Sarah
Chuldenko.
- James Earl "Chip",
was born April 12, 1950 in Honolulu,
Hawaii. His son, James Earl IV,
was born February 25, 1977, and
daughter, Margaret Alicia was born
September 23, 1987. Chip is married
to Becky Payne.
- Donnel Jeffrey "Jeff",
was born August 18, 1952 in New
London, CT. He married Annette Jene
Davis of Arlington, GA. They have
three children:
- Joshua Jeffrey (b. May 8,
1984)
- Jeremy Davis (b. June 25,
1987)
- James Carlton (b. April 24,
1991)
- Amy Lynn Carter was born October
19, 1967 in Plains, GA. She married
James Gregory Wentzel of Herndon,
VA. Their son, Hugo James Wentzel,
was born July 29, 1999.
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