Charles Crittendon Carter was the son of Mary (Riddle) Carter and George Carter. He was born in Big Stone Gap, VA. during the War Between the States in 1861. He came to Texas and at some time met Margaret Savannah Faulkner, the daughter of Elizabeth Jane (Burkhart) Faulkner (1824-1889) and George Anderson Faulkner, who had died in the War Between the States. He had died in Feb., 1865 in Arkansas & was later buried at the newly created Nashville National Cemetery in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. George had fought for the Union Army but that didn't matter to the "carpetbaggers" and other corrupt individuals who went into the Southern States that had been part of the Confederacy to take advantage of the dire situation following the war's end. There were shortages of supplies, especially medicine and food and illness was rampant. Many of the veterans had diseases and infections because of the lack of care for their wounds by doctors. Most of the poor men weren't able to care for their wounds by themselves, needing the help of doctors and nurses. Many people left and went to Texas where the situation was somewhat better. This was the decision that Elizabeth had made for the sake of her children and it seemed to be the right choice. Her eldest son, Morgan, ran the livery stable as well as the 2 story hotel where the passengers from the stagecoaches would stay. He became deputy sheriff in Collinsville, later becoming Justice of the Peace. Between his income and his mother's widow's pension of $50.00 per month, all of the children were supported until they became self supporting or married or both. Charles Carter was smitten with Margaret and the couple married in @1885. They moved to the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory & lived there through it's changes to Oklahoma Territory, then Carter County, and Oklahoma's statehood in 1907. The township they lived nearest was Berwyn, not on any map. They were closest to Ardmore in Carter County, OK. and their daughters and son, were raised there while they farmed the land. Their children were: James Edward, b.1886, Vida Ethel, b.1888, Mary Leanna, b.1890, and Minnie Gertrude, b.1892. Per the 1910 Census, just Mary and Minnie were still at home with their parents as of that date. They also had a farm laborer to help them; his name was Isaac Stewart, he was from Texas and in his 20's. Both Crit and Margret, as they liked to be called, were now in their late 40's and not able to work like they had when they were younger. In 1930, per the U.S. Census, the children were all grown and gone so it was just Crit, who was by now 68, and Margret, who was 67 in the home. They were in their golden years, but Crit was not fated to live out the year of 1932. He passed from this life on Sept 17, 1932, just as the leaves were beginning to turn. His grieving widow buried him under the name "Crit" Carter at Pruitt Cemetery near Ardmore, Carter County, OK. Margret continued to live on the family homestead as a widow, although in the 1940 U.S. Census she listed herself as "married" even though her husband was no longer by her side. Margret drew her final breath on March 17, 1945 and was buried at Pruitt Cemetery near her loving husband. They are together in Paradise where time doesn't matter and their cares and infirmities are gone.