"The Heritage of Coffee County, Alabama", page 369, is an article on the Sawyer family {personal info on author deleted for privacy} source includes notes of Mollie Belle Sawyer. Carter Sawyer led a home guard, Carter's Brigade, to Pollard, Alabama to protect the site of a railroad junction and ammunitions warehouse. Around 1863 Carter became ill with Pneumonia and was sent to one of the Confederate hospitals at Greenville, Alabama. When Elizabeth found out she outfitted a wagon with a bed, food, and medical supplies and left for Greenville to bring her husband back but in route she met a messenger with news that Carter had died and was buried at Greenville. Later his remains were moved to Mt. Pleasant Baptist Cemetery where he had served as a deacon.
Elizabeth Harron Carter spoke with an Irish or Scottish burr and enunciated syllables very distinctly. She was know as "Miss Betsy". She personally delivered food and clothing to neighborhood families who had not been able to carry on while their husbands and sons were away during the Civil War.

"Memorial Record of Alabama" , Vol. 1, page 681, originally printed in 1893, there is an article on C.D. Sawyer, grandson of Charles and son of Carter, that gives a lot of information.

"The Heritage of Coffee County, Alabama", page 369, is an article on the Sawyer family {personal info on author deleted for privacy} source includes notes of Mollie Belle Sawyer. Carter Sawyer led a home guard, Carter's Brigade, to Pollard, Alabama to protect the site of a railroad junction and ammunitions warehouse. Around 1863 Carter became ill with Pneumonia and was sent to one of the Confederate hospitals at Greenville, Alabama. When Elizabeth found out she outfitted a wagon with a bed, food, and medical supplies and left for Greenville to bring her husband back but in route she met a messenger with news that Carter had died and was buried at Greenville. Later his remains were moved to Mt. Pleasant Baptist Cemetery where he had served as a deacon.
Elizabeth Harron Carter spoke with an Irish or Scottish burr and enunciated syllables very distinctly. She was know as "Miss Betsy". She personally delivered food and clothing to neighborhood families who had not been able to carry on while their husbands and sons were away during the Civil War.

"Memorial Record of Alabama" , Vol. 1, page 681, originally printed in 1893, there is an article on C.D. Sawyer, grandson of Charles and son of Carter, that gives a lot of information.