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Charles married Ollie Lucille Carter. Ollie (daughter of John Bradford Carter and Beulah Elizabeth Carlton) was born on 28 Aug 1921 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; died on 29 Aug 2013 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lucille Carter Melde, 92, of Hemphill, died Thursday night in the Sabine County Hospital. Lucille was born in Hemphill to John Bradford and Beulah Carlton Carter. Lucille was married to the late Swede Melde, together they owned and operated Swede's Grocery and Service Station at the corner of Hwy 87 and FM 944. Lucille was a life resident of Hemphill and a member of the First Baptist Church.

Lucille is survived by her son Charles Melde and his wife Kathy of Hemphill and her niece Tina Butler of Hemphill. She was preceded in death by her husband Swede Melde and her sister Myrtle Horton.

Visitation will be from 6:00PM until 8:00PM, Friday, August 30, 2013, in the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr St., Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be at 10:00AM, Saturday, August 31, 2013, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Hemphill Cemetery.

www.starrfuneralhome.com
Print edition in The Sabine County Reporter, September 4, 2013, Page 12

Notes:

Besides farming, he helped his father and grandfather operate Carter's Ferry, and later he and his wife owned and operated cafes at various locations in East Texas. Virgie Speights, in November 1963, interviewed him prior to his upcoming eightieth birthday. He stated that he helped with the ferry "as soon as I was large enough." He recalled in great detail numerous incidents of feuding, fighting, and flight from the law. The ferry had previously been called the Paterson and Pugh Ferry, and the former owners met a tragic end, through such shenanigans. The river provided the Carters witha means of livelihood in many ways. They hauled pine knots to fire the boilers on various steamboats. Mr. Carter also made log runs down the Sabine River to Orange, which took 12 days and netted him $1 per day. They also raised cotton which they took to Robeline, Lousiana, necessitating they camp out during the trip.

In 1909, Mr. Carter came to Texas, walking from Pendleton to Strickland Crossing, where he caught a train to Browndell, worked in a sawmill for a week, and then came back to Pineland. There he worked various jobs, including curing some of the first logs sawed in the old Know Lumber Company Mill.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J69L-H5F
Name: John Bradford Carter
Death Date: 27 May 1973
Death Place: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Male
Race:
Death Age: 88 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1885
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Ben Carter
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Della Russell
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation:
Place of Residence:
Cemetery:
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2242845
Digital Film Number: 4005482
Image Number: 59
Reference Number: 48349
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

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Census Listings:

1910 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1
Enumerated 30 Apr 1910
SD 2 ED 131 Sheet 11A Stamped 96
Hemphill and Homer Road
175-177
Carter, John B M W 25 M1 0 La La La Farmer
Carter, Beulah E F W 16 M1 0 0/0 Tx Tx Tx
176-179
Quitman and Martha Carlton and Family

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine, JP 1
Enumerated 20 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 168 Sheet 24A
Bronson and Hemphill Road
466-488
Carter, Brad Head m W 34 M La La La Sawyer Lumber Mill
Carter, Bula Wf F W 24 Tx Tx Tx
Carter, Myrtle Dtr F W 7 S Tx La Tx
Carter, Masellr Dtr F W 5 S Tx La Tx
Anderson, Ernest Boarder M W 33 Wd Tx Tx Tx Laborer Lumber Mill

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1, East Mayfield
Enumerated 7 Apr 1930
ED 202-1 SD 19 Sheet 5A
320-85-88
Carter John B Head m W 45 M 25 La La La Lumber Stacker
Carter, Bulah E Wf F W 34 m 15 Tx Tx Tx
Carter, Myrtle Dtr F W 17 S Tx La Tx
Carter, Vivian M Dtr F W 15 S Tx La Tx
Carter, Ollie L Dtr F W 8 S Tx La Tx

John married Beulah Elizabeth Carlton in Oct 1909 in Pine Hill, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. Beulah (daughter of John T. "J. T." Carlton and Pharby Jane Strickland) was born on 26 Feb 1894 in Texas; died on 24 Sep 1957 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.2/MMLX-P34/p1
Name: Beulah Elizabeth Carter
Death Date: 24 Sep 1957
Death Place: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 63 years 6 months 28 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 26 Feb 1894
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: John Carlton
Father's Birthplace: Texas
Mother's Name: Pharby Jane Strickland
Mother's Birthplace: Texas
Occupation: Restaurant Owner
Place of Residence: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Cemetery: City Cemetery
Burial Place: Hemphill, Texas
Burial Date: 25 Sep 1957
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2135869
Digital Film Number: 4163603
Image Number: 2478
Reference Number: 51418
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


Wednesday, September 25, 1957 (Unknown newspaper)

MRS. B. CARTER of HEMPHILL, DIES

Services Will Be Held At 2 P.M. Today at Baptist Church

HEMPHILL, Sept. 24 (Spl) - Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist Church at 2 p.m. Wednesday for Mrs. Beulah E. Carter, 63, who died at 8:46 a.m. Tuesday after a short illness. Services will be under the direction of the Starr Funeral Home with the Rev. Clarence Howell officiating, assisted by Ronald Spears. The body will remain at the residence until time for services. Burial will be in Hemphill Cemetery. Pallbearers will be C. C. Rice, D. B. Speights, George Morris, Phillip Gandy, O. S. Chambers, Willie Self, Julian Smith, and J. H. Minton. Mrs. Carter was a member of the Baptist Church.

She and her husband, Brad Carter, owned and operated Carter's Caf? here since 1937, and leased it only two months ago when she became ill. Prior to this, they owned and operated the Streetcar-Barn Caf? in Beaumont from 1935 to 1937. Besides her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Horton and Mrs. Lucille Melding, both of Hemphill; two brothers, Benton Carlton of Hemphill and Alfred Carlton of Ranger, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Ollie Chops of Houston; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Born 26 Feb 1894, died 24 Sept 1957

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/obituaries/TXSabine_Obits_Surname-C.htm

Notes:

Married:
Virgie Speights writes that they were married in Pine Hill by Brother Marshburn. They went to Beaumont in 1935 and operated a cafe there until 1937. After that, they came back to Hemphill, and operated Carter's Cafe on the square until 1948, when they built there own building two blocks off the square on Highway 87 which the operated until 1957 when Mrs. Carter died.

Notes:

White and Toole show that he operated Carter's Ferry with his father, and with his son John Bradford Carter, for many years.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1900 Census
Louisiana, Sabine Parish, Ward 5
Enumerated 6 Jun 1900
SD 4 ED 93 Sheet 2A Stamped 92
39-40
Russell, EH and Emma and family
40-41
Carter, Ben B. W M Jan 1860 40 m 20 La La Tx Farmer
Carter, Della W F Jun 1866 33 M 20 7/6 La Al Al
Carter, Bradford W M May 1884 16 S La La La Farm Laborer
Carter, George W M Nov 1887 12 S La La La Farm Laborer
Carter, Elouise W F Nov 1890 9 S La La La
Carter, Laura W F Apr 1893 6 S La La La
Carter, Willie W M Jun 1894 5 S La La La
Carter, Robert W M July 1898 1 S
Russell, John Boarder W M July 1884 15 La La La Farm Laborer

Benjamin married Della Mary Russell on 11 Dec 1880 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Della was born in Jun 1866 in Louisiana; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(Research):

Census Listings:

1910 Census
Lousiaina, Sabine Parish, Ward 5
Enumerated 28 Apr 1910
SD 6 ED 107 Sheets 13B and 14A Stamped 112
204-208
Carter, Mary Head F W 44 Wd 9/7 La Al Al Farmer
Carter, George Son M W 22 S La La La Farm Laborer
Carter, Laura Dtr F W 17 S La La La Farm Laborer
Carter, Robert Son M W 12 S La La La Farm Laborer
Carter, Mary Dtr F W 9 S La La La
Carter, Nettie Dtr F W 6 S La La La

Notes:

(Research):

Census Listings:

1910 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1
Enumerated 30 Apr 1910
SD 2 ED 131 Sheet 11A Stamped 96
174-176 Augustus and Ida Strickland
175-177 John and Beulah Carter
176-178
Carlton, Quitman W Head M W 39 m1 14 Tx Ala Ala Farmer
Carlton, Martha A Wf F W 30 m1 14 4/4 Tx Miss Miss
Carlton, William E Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx Laborer Home Farm
Carlton, Ernest E Son M W 8 S Tx Tx Tx Laborer Home Farm
Carlton Aary E. Dtr F W 1 2/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Carlton, Martha E Dtr F W 1/12 S Tx Tx Tx
177-179
Carlton, John T Hed MN W 41 M1 17 Tx Ala La Farmer
Carlton, Pharby J Wf F W 45 m1 17 7/5 Tx La Miss
Carlton, Alfred H Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx Laborer Home Farm
Carlton, Lockey L Dt F W 8 S Tx Tx Tx
Carlton, Ollie E Dtr F W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Carlton, Volley B Son M W 4 S Tx Tx Tx
178-180 Thomas and Loye Jacks

John married Pharby Jane Strickland on 10 Aug 1891 in Sabine County, Texas. Pharby (daughter of William Strickland and Nancy Caroline Travis) was born about 1865 in Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]