The Hamilton Herald-News January 17, 1958
Ancestors of D. H. Carter, Who Died in Evant, Came to Texas with Austin
David Henry Carter was born on January 7, 1878, in a little two-room log-cabin on the farm pre-empted in the Blue Ridge section of Hamilton County by his grandfather, D. H. Carter, about 1854. His father was James Wesley Carter and his mother was Samantha Kuykendall Carter, a descendent of one of the first three families brought to Texas from Missouri by Stephen F. Austin in 1821. He was raised to young manhood in the vicinity of Hamilton, and at the age of 17 entered the Centenary College at Lampasas, which burned. He then went to Columbia College at Van Alysthyne, in company with a beloved professor by the name of Hammer. While there he became a member of the Church of Christ, being baptized by Bro. A. J. Bush, Sr. Shortly after returning home from school he volunteered for service in the U. S. Army, then engaged in the Spanish-American War, serving from July 1, 1898, to February 17, 1899, in Company I 3rd Texas Volunteers. War being concluded he received an honorable discharge.
Ancestors of D. H. Carter, Who Died in Evant, Came to Texas with Austin
David Henry Carter was born on January 7, 1878, in a little two-room log-cabin on the farm pre-empted in the Blue Ridge section of Hamilton County by his grandfather, D. H. Carter, about 1854. His father was James Wesley Carter and his mother was Samantha Kuykendall Carter, a descendent of one of the first three families brought to Texas from Missouri by Stephen F. Austin in 1821. He was raised to young manhood in the vicinity of Hamilton, and at the age of 17 entered the Centenary College at Lampasas, which burned. He then went to Columbia College at Van Alysthyne, in company with a beloved professor by the name of Hammer. While there he became a member of the Church of Christ, being baptized by Bro. A. J. Bush, Sr. Shortly after returning home from school he volunteered for service in the U. S. Army, then engaged in the Spanish-American War, serving from July 1, 1898, to February 17, 1899, in Company I 3rd Texas Volunteers. War being concluded he received an honorable discharge.
The Hamilton Herald-News January 17, 1958
Ancestors of D. H. Carter, Who Died in Evant, Came to Texas with Austin
David Henry Carter was born on January 7, 1878, in a little two-room log-cabin on the farm pre-empted in the Blue Ridge section of Hamilton County by his grandfather, D. H. Carter, about 1854. His father was James Wesley Carter and his mother was Samantha Kuykendall Carter, a descendent of one of the first three families brought to Texas from Missouri by Stephen F. Austin in 1821. He was raised to young manhood in the vicinity of Hamilton, and at the age of 17 entered the Centenary College at Lampasas, which burned. He then went to Columbia College at Van Alysthyne, in company with a beloved professor by the name of Hammer. While there he became a member of the Church of Christ, being baptized by Bro. A. J. Bush, Sr. Shortly after returning home from school he volunteered for service in the U. S. Army, then engaged in the Spanish-American War, serving from July 1, 1898, to February 17, 1899, in Company I 3rd Texas Volunteers. War being concluded he received an honorable discharge.
Ancestors of D. H. Carter, Who Died in Evant, Came to Texas with Austin
David Henry Carter was born on January 7, 1878, in a little two-room log-cabin on the farm pre-empted in the Blue Ridge section of Hamilton County by his grandfather, D. H. Carter, about 1854. His father was James Wesley Carter and his mother was Samantha Kuykendall Carter, a descendent of one of the first three families brought to Texas from Missouri by Stephen F. Austin in 1821. He was raised to young manhood in the vicinity of Hamilton, and at the age of 17 entered the Centenary College at Lampasas, which burned. He then went to Columbia College at Van Alysthyne, in company with a beloved professor by the name of Hammer. While there he became a member of the Church of Christ, being baptized by Bro. A. J. Bush, Sr. Shortly after returning home from school he volunteered for service in the U. S. Army, then engaged in the Spanish-American War, serving from July 1, 1898, to February 17, 1899, in Company I 3rd Texas Volunteers. War being concluded he received an honorable discharge.
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