Alfred Lafayette Carter was born March 2, 1867 in the Live Oak community on the Cow House Creek in Hamilton County, Texas. He was the son of Henry Jones and Mary Caroline (Preston) Carter.
He was married to Miss Maude Blansit [Amanda Maude Blansit] on July 4, 1888. There were twelve children born to this union, seven boys and five girls. Mamie, Stella, Marion, Blansit, Monroe, Hamilton, Jewel, Mildred, A. L., Jr., Mack, and twin sons Ed and Fred. Mamie died at age 12, Hamilton died at 18, and Ed died as an infant, age 4 months. All of his children live in or near Perryton, Texas, except Monroe who lived in Long Beach, California, and Fred who lived in San Angelo, Texas. There were 15 grandchildren.
Lafayette was converted and joined the Methodist Church at the age of thirty under the preaching of Abe Mulkey. He has been a faithful Christian ever since. He has been a member of the Rock House Lodge for more than 45 years.
During the early childhood of Fayette Carter, his father began pre-empting land and purchasing from the state more than a league of land in the Blue Ridge community, but as there was no school in the Blue Ridge settlement and the Indians were still making raids into the country, the Carters moved on to the village of Hamilton. Only the father and older boys lived in a log hut at Blue Ridge and with their oxen sodded in the largest field in Hamilton County. They built a double log house (one room of which is still standing) and as soon as conditions were deemed safe all of the family moved out on the farm, organized and built the Blue Ridge school near the site where the beautiful Blue Ridge High School now stands. "Fayette" Carter grew to manhood helping his father improve the home site.
Shortly after his marriage, being an instinctive pioneer, he took his young wife and infant into the undeveloped country now called Foard county, took up a section of land, dug a one-room dug-out covering it with Mesquite brush and earth, and began the hard task of putting in a farm. He lived in his dug-out home for three years, and then at the request of his father returned to his old home in Hamilton county where he lived until 1912, when he again answered the call of the pioneer spirit, moving to Ochiltree county where he began on an extensive scale, the breeding and raising of white-faced cattle. With the development of machinery he again pioneered in the vast production of wheat.
"Fayette" Carter had little opportunity of gaining an education in the schools, but he went a long way in remedying this handicap by giving himself an extensive self-education. He had a high appreciation of friendship. To him, friendship was a beautiful flower that bloomed brightest during dark days, and days of adversity. He was a devoted husband and a beloved father, always willing to carry a burden, but never willingly burdening others. Much pain he bore in stoic silence rather than to cause fear or uneasiness to his friends and loved ones. He always lived in the open and he appreciated it. He loved the beautiful things of nature and on March 19 while walking in God's garden he lay down in sleep to awaken in that new frontier here there are no pioneering hardships.
Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Carter were visiting their nephew, David H. Carter and family on their baronial estate in the Evant section, just across the line in Lampasas county, when death came to him suddenly from a heart attack. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Carter and son, Prof. James D. Carter, principal of the Evant school accompanied Mrs. Maude Carter and children to Perryton, Texas, where the body of A. L. Carter has been laid to rest.
When news spread in Hamilton county that Fayette Carter had passed away at the home of David H. Carter, many friends made haste to go there to pay tribute to his memory in beautiful floral offerings and in expressions of sympathy for the sorrowing loved ones.
They had 12 Children.........
1. Mamie Martin Carter
2. Edith Estella (Carter) (Stribling) Holloway
3. Frances Marion Carter-Brillhart
4. Blansit David Carter
5. Alfred Monroe Carter
6. Hamilton Fish Carter
7. Jewell Maude Carter
8. Mildred Lafayette Carter
9. Jame Mack Carter
10. Fredrick Sherman "Fred" Carter
11. Alfred Lafayette Carter, Jr.
12. Edward Henry Carter
He was married to Miss Maude Blansit [Amanda Maude Blansit] on July 4, 1888. There were twelve children born to this union, seven boys and five girls. Mamie, Stella, Marion, Blansit, Monroe, Hamilton, Jewel, Mildred, A. L., Jr., Mack, and twin sons Ed and Fred. Mamie died at age 12, Hamilton died at 18, and Ed died as an infant, age 4 months. All of his children live in or near Perryton, Texas, except Monroe who lived in Long Beach, California, and Fred who lived in San Angelo, Texas. There were 15 grandchildren.
Lafayette was converted and joined the Methodist Church at the age of thirty under the preaching of Abe Mulkey. He has been a faithful Christian ever since. He has been a member of the Rock House Lodge for more than 45 years.
During the early childhood of Fayette Carter, his father began pre-empting land and purchasing from the state more than a league of land in the Blue Ridge community, but as there was no school in the Blue Ridge settlement and the Indians were still making raids into the country, the Carters moved on to the village of Hamilton. Only the father and older boys lived in a log hut at Blue Ridge and with their oxen sodded in the largest field in Hamilton County. They built a double log house (one room of which is still standing) and as soon as conditions were deemed safe all of the family moved out on the farm, organized and built the Blue Ridge school near the site where the beautiful Blue Ridge High School now stands. "Fayette" Carter grew to manhood helping his father improve the home site.
Shortly after his marriage, being an instinctive pioneer, he took his young wife and infant into the undeveloped country now called Foard county, took up a section of land, dug a one-room dug-out covering it with Mesquite brush and earth, and began the hard task of putting in a farm. He lived in his dug-out home for three years, and then at the request of his father returned to his old home in Hamilton county where he lived until 1912, when he again answered the call of the pioneer spirit, moving to Ochiltree county where he began on an extensive scale, the breeding and raising of white-faced cattle. With the development of machinery he again pioneered in the vast production of wheat.
"Fayette" Carter had little opportunity of gaining an education in the schools, but he went a long way in remedying this handicap by giving himself an extensive self-education. He had a high appreciation of friendship. To him, friendship was a beautiful flower that bloomed brightest during dark days, and days of adversity. He was a devoted husband and a beloved father, always willing to carry a burden, but never willingly burdening others. Much pain he bore in stoic silence rather than to cause fear or uneasiness to his friends and loved ones. He always lived in the open and he appreciated it. He loved the beautiful things of nature and on March 19 while walking in God's garden he lay down in sleep to awaken in that new frontier here there are no pioneering hardships.
Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Carter were visiting their nephew, David H. Carter and family on their baronial estate in the Evant section, just across the line in Lampasas county, when death came to him suddenly from a heart attack. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Carter and son, Prof. James D. Carter, principal of the Evant school accompanied Mrs. Maude Carter and children to Perryton, Texas, where the body of A. L. Carter has been laid to rest.
When news spread in Hamilton county that Fayette Carter had passed away at the home of David H. Carter, many friends made haste to go there to pay tribute to his memory in beautiful floral offerings and in expressions of sympathy for the sorrowing loved ones.
They had 12 Children.........
1. Mamie Martin Carter
2. Edith Estella (Carter) (Stribling) Holloway
3. Frances Marion Carter-Brillhart
4. Blansit David Carter
5. Alfred Monroe Carter
6. Hamilton Fish Carter
7. Jewell Maude Carter
8. Mildred Lafayette Carter
9. Jame Mack Carter
10. Fredrick Sherman "Fred" Carter
11. Alfred Lafayette Carter, Jr.
12. Edward Henry Carter
Alfred Lafayette Carter was born March 2, 1867 in the Live Oak community on the Cow House Creek in Hamilton County, Texas. He was the son of Henry Jones and Mary Caroline (Preston) Carter.
He was married to Miss Maude Blansit [Amanda Maude Blansit] on July 4, 1888. There were twelve children born to this union, seven boys and five girls. Mamie, Stella, Marion, Blansit, Monroe, Hamilton, Jewel, Mildred, A. L., Jr., Mack, and twin sons Ed and Fred. Mamie died at age 12, Hamilton died at 18, and Ed died as an infant, age 4 months. All of his children live in or near Perryton, Texas, except Monroe who lived in Long Beach, California, and Fred who lived in San Angelo, Texas. There were 15 grandchildren.
Lafayette was converted and joined the Methodist Church at the age of thirty under the preaching of Abe Mulkey. He has been a faithful Christian ever since. He has been a member of the Rock House Lodge for more than 45 years.
During the early childhood of Fayette Carter, his father began pre-empting land and purchasing from the state more than a league of land in the Blue Ridge community, but as there was no school in the Blue Ridge settlement and the Indians were still making raids into the country, the Carters moved on to the village of Hamilton. Only the father and older boys lived in a log hut at Blue Ridge and with their oxen sodded in the largest field in Hamilton County. They built a double log house (one room of which is still standing) and as soon as conditions were deemed safe all of the family moved out on the farm, organized and built the Blue Ridge school near the site where the beautiful Blue Ridge High School now stands. "Fayette" Carter grew to manhood helping his father improve the home site.
Shortly after his marriage, being an instinctive pioneer, he took his young wife and infant into the undeveloped country now called Foard county, took up a section of land, dug a one-room dug-out covering it with Mesquite brush and earth, and began the hard task of putting in a farm. He lived in his dug-out home for three years, and then at the request of his father returned to his old home in Hamilton county where he lived until 1912, when he again answered the call of the pioneer spirit, moving to Ochiltree county where he began on an extensive scale, the breeding and raising of white-faced cattle. With the development of machinery he again pioneered in the vast production of wheat.
"Fayette" Carter had little opportunity of gaining an education in the schools, but he went a long way in remedying this handicap by giving himself an extensive self-education. He had a high appreciation of friendship. To him, friendship was a beautiful flower that bloomed brightest during dark days, and days of adversity. He was a devoted husband and a beloved father, always willing to carry a burden, but never willingly burdening others. Much pain he bore in stoic silence rather than to cause fear or uneasiness to his friends and loved ones. He always lived in the open and he appreciated it. He loved the beautiful things of nature and on March 19 while walking in God's garden he lay down in sleep to awaken in that new frontier here there are no pioneering hardships.
Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Carter were visiting their nephew, David H. Carter and family on their baronial estate in the Evant section, just across the line in Lampasas county, when death came to him suddenly from a heart attack. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Carter and son, Prof. James D. Carter, principal of the Evant school accompanied Mrs. Maude Carter and children to Perryton, Texas, where the body of A. L. Carter has been laid to rest.
When news spread in Hamilton county that Fayette Carter had passed away at the home of David H. Carter, many friends made haste to go there to pay tribute to his memory in beautiful floral offerings and in expressions of sympathy for the sorrowing loved ones.
They had 12 Children.........
1. Mamie Martin Carter
2. Edith Estella (Carter) (Stribling) Holloway
3. Frances Marion Carter-Brillhart
4. Blansit David Carter
5. Alfred Monroe Carter
6. Hamilton Fish Carter
7. Jewell Maude Carter
8. Mildred Lafayette Carter
9. Jame Mack Carter
10. Fredrick Sherman "Fred" Carter
11. Alfred Lafayette Carter, Jr.
12. Edward Henry Carter
He was married to Miss Maude Blansit [Amanda Maude Blansit] on July 4, 1888. There were twelve children born to this union, seven boys and five girls. Mamie, Stella, Marion, Blansit, Monroe, Hamilton, Jewel, Mildred, A. L., Jr., Mack, and twin sons Ed and Fred. Mamie died at age 12, Hamilton died at 18, and Ed died as an infant, age 4 months. All of his children live in or near Perryton, Texas, except Monroe who lived in Long Beach, California, and Fred who lived in San Angelo, Texas. There were 15 grandchildren.
Lafayette was converted and joined the Methodist Church at the age of thirty under the preaching of Abe Mulkey. He has been a faithful Christian ever since. He has been a member of the Rock House Lodge for more than 45 years.
During the early childhood of Fayette Carter, his father began pre-empting land and purchasing from the state more than a league of land in the Blue Ridge community, but as there was no school in the Blue Ridge settlement and the Indians were still making raids into the country, the Carters moved on to the village of Hamilton. Only the father and older boys lived in a log hut at Blue Ridge and with their oxen sodded in the largest field in Hamilton County. They built a double log house (one room of which is still standing) and as soon as conditions were deemed safe all of the family moved out on the farm, organized and built the Blue Ridge school near the site where the beautiful Blue Ridge High School now stands. "Fayette" Carter grew to manhood helping his father improve the home site.
Shortly after his marriage, being an instinctive pioneer, he took his young wife and infant into the undeveloped country now called Foard county, took up a section of land, dug a one-room dug-out covering it with Mesquite brush and earth, and began the hard task of putting in a farm. He lived in his dug-out home for three years, and then at the request of his father returned to his old home in Hamilton county where he lived until 1912, when he again answered the call of the pioneer spirit, moving to Ochiltree county where he began on an extensive scale, the breeding and raising of white-faced cattle. With the development of machinery he again pioneered in the vast production of wheat.
"Fayette" Carter had little opportunity of gaining an education in the schools, but he went a long way in remedying this handicap by giving himself an extensive self-education. He had a high appreciation of friendship. To him, friendship was a beautiful flower that bloomed brightest during dark days, and days of adversity. He was a devoted husband and a beloved father, always willing to carry a burden, but never willingly burdening others. Much pain he bore in stoic silence rather than to cause fear or uneasiness to his friends and loved ones. He always lived in the open and he appreciated it. He loved the beautiful things of nature and on March 19 while walking in God's garden he lay down in sleep to awaken in that new frontier here there are no pioneering hardships.
Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Carter were visiting their nephew, David H. Carter and family on their baronial estate in the Evant section, just across the line in Lampasas county, when death came to him suddenly from a heart attack. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Carter and son, Prof. James D. Carter, principal of the Evant school accompanied Mrs. Maude Carter and children to Perryton, Texas, where the body of A. L. Carter has been laid to rest.
When news spread in Hamilton county that Fayette Carter had passed away at the home of David H. Carter, many friends made haste to go there to pay tribute to his memory in beautiful floral offerings and in expressions of sympathy for the sorrowing loved ones.
They had 12 Children.........
1. Mamie Martin Carter
2. Edith Estella (Carter) (Stribling) Holloway
3. Frances Marion Carter-Brillhart
4. Blansit David Carter
5. Alfred Monroe Carter
6. Hamilton Fish Carter
7. Jewell Maude Carter
8. Mildred Lafayette Carter
9. Jame Mack Carter
10. Fredrick Sherman "Fred" Carter
11. Alfred Lafayette Carter, Jr.
12. Edward Henry Carter
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Husband and Father of 12
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Mamie Martin Carter
1889–1901
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Edith Estella "Stella" Carter Holloway
1891–1969
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Frances Marion Carter Brillhart
1892–1971
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Blansit David Carter
1894–1941
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Alfred Monroe Carter
1897–1977
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Hamilton Fish Carter
1899–1918
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Jewell Maud Carter Allen
1901–1957
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Mildred Fayette Carter Holt
1903–1978
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Alfred Lafayette "Jack" Carter Jr
1905–1971
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James M Carter
1907–1956
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Edward Henry "Ed" Carter
1909–1909
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Fredrick Sherman "Fred" Carter
1909–1997
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