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     Charles Carter was born in Oct, 1880.^1,3,4
     Charles Carter married Ava Adams.^2,3
     Charles Carter died on Jun 10, 1954 at age 73.^1,2,4
     Charles Carter was buried at Carter Chapel Cemetery, Fort Blackmore, Scott County, Virginia, USA.^5,4

     Charles Carter lived in Stafford & Amerherst Counties in Virginia.²
     Charles Carter married Lucy Morgan.^3,2
     Charles Carter was born circa 1711.⁴
     Charles Carter died in 1766.
     Charles Carter left a will on Dec 1, 1766 at Amherst, Virginia, US, listing heirs as follows: Dale Carter, Charles Carter, John Carter, Susannah Carter, and Elizabeth Carter.⁵

     Charles Carter was born circa 1759.
     Charles Carter was qualified as deputy sheriff in Russell county, a newly formed county in 1786.^2,1 He held the office of Clerk of the County for Lee County when Lee was created from Russell in 1792. He continued in that position until 1824.³
     Charles Carter died in 1828 at Rye Cove, Scott, Virginia, US.¹
     Charles Carter was buried at Carter Cemetery, Rye Cove, Scott, Virginia, US.

           Charles Carter married Esther Minor.¹

           Charles Burr Carter was a farmer at Scott, Virginia, US.^3,4
     Charles Burr Carter married Nancy Taylor.^5,4
     Charles Burr Carter was born circa 1776.^5,6
     Charles Burr Carter died on Aug 23, 1842 Could be 1841.¹
     Charles Burr Carter was buried at Nimrod Taylor or Carter Cemetery, Clinchport, Scott, Virginia, US; Buried in the Carter Cemetery at Rye Cove Methodist Church.³

           Charles C. Carter married Louise Moore.¹

           Charles Dale Carter was a farmer and stockman at Smyth, Virginia, US.^2,3
     Charles Dale Carter was born on Apr 11, 1844.^1,3
     Charles Dale Carter married Mary Taylor Fulton, daughter of Reverend Creed Fulton and Mary Taylor, on Jun 19, 1866.^2,3
     Charles Dale Carter died on Dec 29, 1896 at Smyth, Virginia, US, at age 52.^4,3

           Charles David Carter married Rosemary DeBord, daughter of Melvin Diehl DeBord and Olive Irene George, on Mar 25, 1961 at Chillicothe, Ohio, US.^1,2

           Charles M Carter married Mary Wood, daughter of (?) Wood and Elizabeth Taylor, This marriage united the blood of the three brothers Thomas, Joseph and Norris Carter.³
     Charles M Carter married Alice Cox, daughter of James Cox and Carrie (?), on Feb 23, 1893 at Scott, Virginia, US.^3,2

     Charles P. Carter was born in 1867.³

     Charles Pinckney Carter was also known as Pinkney Carter.
     Charles Pinckney Carter was born on Dec 4, 1832 at Scott, Virginia, US.^{4,5,6,1,7,8,9}

     Charles was "one of the brainiest men that lived in this or any other county, a veritable encyclopedia of information on every subject from the growth of plants to the functions of a government."⁶

     Pinkney wasto become one of the best remembered of all the Carters. Thirty years after his birth Pinkney was a Confederate soldier, fighting along with his company in several of the battles that were fought in Eastern Virginia.

     In his letters home, Pinkney described the hardships he and his fellow soldiers had to endure.

     After the war was over, Pinkney, like many other Civil War veterans, didn’t have very much money; the war had taken its toll and times were extremely hard, but he had a dream.

     He was a skilled wood-worker, a good carpenter, a cabinet maker, a millwright, and he had a will to work. When he came home the first thing he wanted to do was to build a good house for him and his family.

     He found the kind of place he wanted was a few hundred yards below the confluence of Straight Fork and Mountain Fork of Big Stony Creek. Here he built a big two-story log house, a house that would be a home to several generations of the Carter family.

     Today, more than a hundred years later, Pinkney’s great, great grandson, Glen Carter, still lives in part of that house. Not all of the original house still stands; part of it was blown away years ago when Rye Cove and other parts of Scott County were hit by a tornado, but the ground floor of huge logs, held together by wooden pins, withstood the cyclone winds and stands today, a monument to Pinkney Carter’s skill as a carpenter.

     When Pinkney came home from the war and settled here, the surrounding mountains were still covered with virgin hardwood forests. The sound of axe and saw had never been heard from hill to hill. Huge poplar trees soared up for a hundred feet or more; down in the deep hollows, streams, towering hemlocks pushed their green fingers to the sun.

     In early spring big sugar maple trees furnished gallons of sweet sap to make maple syrup and maple sugar; in the fall its leaves of red and yellow mixed with the bright yellow of beech and hickory and the red leaves of sourwood and black gum to turn the hillsides into a riot of color.

     Massive oak trees scattered their nuts on the forest floor; thousands of chestnut trees showered bushels and bushels of sweet tasty nuts on the ground. Hickory and beechnuts were food for small game, wild grapes and persimmons were food for opossums, coons and wild birds.
Farmers didn’t have to worry with feeding their herds of hogs or flocks of turkeys; they let them run free in the woods and the mast was all the food they needed. Wild game was there for the taking: bears, deer, squirrels, coons, and wild turkeys for food and foxes, bobcats, mountain lions (panthers) and mink furnished an odd dollar or two for their pelts.

     Little wonder Pinkney settled here; the area was what a pioneer dreamed of: abundant timber, plenty of large and small game, and enough level or rolling land for acres of corn and pasture for livestock. It was a land of promise for any man.

     Not long after his home was finished, Pinkney, millwright that he was, decided the fast moving water of Stony Creek was just what he needed to run the saw mill and gristmill he wanted to build. A few hundred feet above his home he found an ideal place to build a dam to impound the water of the creek.

     It wasn’t too long until the mill had been built, from the dam down to the mill an elevated sluice way carried the water to the mill wheel, and the first of Carter’s mills on Stony Creek was in business.

     A few years later fire destroyed most of the mill, and Pinkney decided to replace it with a bigger and better mill with more power to turn the wheels. The second mill, after it was finished, included a wood working shop with a power drive lathe. After the new mill was built more and more people began using it.

     From over the hills and up the creek, they came. Some walking and carrying a sack of corn on their back, others on horseback with a sack or two of corn or wheat. Walking and riding they came. As they waited their turn at the mill they spent their time visiting, finding out how the neighbors were getting along, finding out who was sick, who had been in an accident, who had died, who had got married, who had a new baby. The mill soon became the place where neighbors met and socialized.

     The saw mill furnished the few boards they needed, the carpenter shop made simple furniture, tables, chairs and beds. Many of the people who died were buried in a coffin made in that shop. Sometimes the shop and mill would shut down while the workers took picks and shovels and went to dig a grave in one of the tiny family graveyards. Many was the time when the neighbors went to a home where death had come and sit up all night in the room with the corpse.

     Neighborly concern was a way of life with these early mountain people, hospitality knew no limit as neighbor shared with neighbor from what ever they had. Back then people just couldn’t get along without each other’s help.¹⁰

     Charles was a farmer and a millwright at Scott, Virginia, US.^6,1,7
     Charles Pinckney Carter married Nancy Egan, daughter of John Egan and Nancy McKinzie, on Nov 30, 1856 at Scott, Virginia, US, service performed by Issac Kern.^6,1,8,7,11
     Charles Pinckney Carter was one of the millwrights who constructed Duncan's Milll, which was completed around 1860; owner and miller at Duncan's Mill.

Duncan Mill

This landmark mill was blown away in the Rye Cove tornado of 1929. It was built by John Duncan, who came into Scott Co., VA around 1835, built the mill and his home on Cove Creek in the edge of Rye Cove. The mill was a log structure and ground both wheat and corn. John Duncan operated it until his wife's death in 1857 when he turned it over to his son-in-law George W. Johnson who ran it until his death in 1866.

Johnson had the log mill torn down and employed Pinkney Carter and George Peters, both noted millwrights, to build a new mill. Carter designed a three story mill with improved equipment for cleaning wheat. The new mill was completed about 1860, just prior to the out break of the Civil War.

This mill flew the Confederate flag and ground flour for the Confederacy all during the Civil War. Grain was hauled in from wherever available, stored and guarded by Confederate soldiers.

The flour left the mill by wagon and ox-drawn wagons for such places as the Confederate encampment at Pound Gap in Wise County on the Virginia-Kentucky line.

The mill was also a recruiting station for the Confederacy. On Saturdays rallies were held and speeches given to encourage enlistment in the Confederate Army.

In 1917 the third story of the mill was torn off and converted again into a two story building and rolling mill machinery added for grinding wheat, which was still in use when the mill was destroyed by a cyclone on May 2, 1929.

Mr. J. F. Johnson of Fort Blackmore told the writer the following story:
"I have heard my father speak of John Duncan standing in the door of the mill on April 15, 1865 when a Negro slave that once belonged to Washington Salling rode up and said, 'Good morning, Uncle John. How is your health? Uncle John have you heard any good news lately?' He replied; 'Nothing except that it has been reported General Lee surrendered last Friday morning.' The Negro leaned way back in his saddle, clapped his hands and hollowed, 'Bless God for that!' John Duncan jumped out the door and threw a rock at the Negro man. He was chastized for this act and he replied, 'No Negro can shout in front of me after my people have suffered so.' He had three grandsons shot down in one day at Gettysburg."^12,13

     Charles Pinckney Carter served in the 48th VA Infantry CSA Company C as a private. He enlisted in 1861 and served four years.^5,6,9
     Pinkney died on Aug 12, 1904 at age 71.^14,5,7,6,9
     He was buried at Carter Chapel Cemetery, Fort Blackmore, Scott, Virginia, US.⁴

     Charles Randolph Carter was born in 1806.^1,2
     Charles Randolph Carter died in 1853 at Bryantsville, Indiana, US.^1,3,2

     Charles T Carter was born in 1877 at Virginia, US.¹

           Charles Wesley Carter died at Elliot, Kentucky, US.³
     Charles Wesley Carter was born on Sep 15, 1799 at Russell, Virginia, US.³
     Charles Wesley Carter married Hannah Berry on Sep 26, 1822 at Scott, Virginia, US.^3,4
     Charles Wesley Carter married Rico Colohagh.³

     Her married name was Alley.¹
     Clara A. Carter married John J. Alley.^1,2,3
     Clara A. Carter was born in 1869.³

     Conley Esco Carter was born on Dec 2, 1885 at Virginia, USA.^1,3
     Conley Esco Carter married Mary Kate Mann on Dec 26, 1904.¹
     Conley died from lung cancer on Aug 3, 1944 at Dungannon, Scott County, Virginia, USA, at age 58.^1,4
     He was buried on Aug 5, 1944 at Carter Cemetery, Scott County, Virginia, USA.^2,5

           Conley Trigg Carter married Almira Jane Wagner.^1,4
     Conley Trigg Carter was born on Sep 14, 1855 at Scott, Virginia, US.^5,1,4,6,7
     Conley Trigg Carter died on Feb 6, 1939 at Elliott, Kentucky, US, at age 83.^8,1,4,7
     Conley Trigg Carter was buried at Trigg Carter Cemetery, Sandy Hook, Elliott, Kentucky, US.⁹

     Her married name was Christian.¹
     Cora Bell Carter was born on May 17, 1902 at Tennessee, US.^2,3
     Cora Bell Carter was educatedthrough the 7th grade.²
     Cora Bell Carter married John Derrick Christian on Aug 15, 1916 at Hawkins, Tennessee, US.^1,4
     Cora Bell Christian died on Dec 18, 1983 at Holston Valley Community Hospital, Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee, US, at age 81

     The Kingsport newspapaer carried the following gobituary.
Mrs. Cora Christian
CHURCH HILL — Mrs. Cora Carter Christian, 81, 518 Old Union Rd., Church Hill, died yesterday at 5:20 a.m. at Holston Valley Hospital & Medical Center after a long illness.
A lifelong resident of Hawkins County, she was a member of Barton's Chapel Primitive Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John D. Christian.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Julian (Vesta) Berry, Kingsport, Mrs. E.H. (Denean) Dewald, Church Hill and Mrs. Paul (Dorothy) Price, Bristol, Tenn; three sons, A. V. Christian, Church Hill, Johnny Christian, Church Hill and Garney Christian, Bradenton, Fla; 20 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from 7-9 tonight at Johnson Funeral Home and anytime at the residence of a daughter, Mrs. E.H. DewaId, 349 Edgewood St., Church Hill.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Fred Potter officiating.
Burial will be in Old Union Cemetery.
Kingsport Times News December 19, 1983, Page 30.⁵
     Cora Bell Carter was buried on Dec 20, 1983 at Old Union United Methodist Church Cemetery, Church Hill, Hawkins County, Tennessee, US.^5,3

     His married name was Emma Carter.
     Cowan W. Carter was born circa 1849 at Scott, Virginia, US.³ He was a farmer circa 1869 at Scott, Virginia, US, and in 1900 was operating a hotel in Gate City, Va.^4,3,5
     Cowan W. Carter married Ellen Gillenwater, daughter of David Gillenwater and Rebecca (?), on Nov 24, 1869 at Scott, Virginia, US, service performed by J.Carter.^4,3,2
     Cowan W. Carter held the office of Sheriff 1899-1903 Scott Co. in 1899 at Scott, Virginia, US.⁴