Individual Details

The State, Columbia, South Carolina, Monday, December 15, 1947, Page 13, Col. 5 & 6: James Roy Carter. Chester, Dec. 14 (Special)---James Roy Carter Sr., 57, widely known farmer of near Fort Lawn, died at 10 o'clock tonight at his home following an illness of several days. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist church and had been a resident of the Fort Lawn section for 23 years. Prior to that he had lived in the Baton Rouge section. He was a former trustee of the Fort Lawn schools. Mr. Carter was the son of the late James Blair Carter and Minnie Pendergrass Carter of the Baton Rouge section. Funeral arrangements are incomplete but will be conducted Tuesday from the Bethel Methodist church in Chester county by the Rev. R. L. Lawson, pastor of the First Baptist church of Fort Lawn assisted by the Rev. James B. Linder, pastor of the Fort Lawn Methodist church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Survivors include his widow the fomrer Eula Roddey of Fort Lawn, three sons, James Roy Carter Jr., and Thomas Carter, both of Fort Lawn and William Carter, a student at Clemson college; one grandson Billy Carter of Fort Lawn, two sisters, Miss Howe Gregory of Baton Rouge and Mrs. W. Sumter Minton of Chester; and three brothers, John Joe and David L. Carter, both of Baton Rouge and Butler W. Carter of Union.

Birth	29 Jun 1890	South Carolina
Marriage	1917	Eula Roddey
Death	14 Dec 1947	Chester Co., South Carolina
Burial		El Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Chester Co., South Carolina

Spouse

Eula Roddey (1895 - 1970)

Father	James Blair Carter (1859 - 1931)
Mother	Minnie Selena Pendergrass (1860 - 1943)
Sibling	Ora Lillian Carter (1886 - 1914)
Sibling	Addison Buford Carter (1892 - 1946)
Sibling	Minnie "Roberta" Carter (1894 - 1982)
Sibling	David Lee Carter Sr. (1896 - 1949)
Sibling	Carrie Rebecca Carter (1898 - 1980)
Sibling	John Joe Carter (1900 - 1975)
Sibling	Butler Woods Carter (1903 - 1989)