John Bradford Carter

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.

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Name: John Bradford Carter
Death Date: 27 May 1973
Death Place: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Male
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Death Age: 88 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1885
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Father's Name: Ben Carter
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Mother's Name: Della Russell
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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]

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She appears to have remarried, as in 1963 she was referred to as "Mrs. Myrtle HORTON of Hemphill."

Family/Spouse: Edward Richmond Frost. Edward was born before 1913; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She is likely their daughter, "Mrs. C. A. McBride, who died in 1938."

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.

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Print edition in The Sabine County Reporter, September 4, 2013, Page 12

Family/Spouse: Charles L. "Swede" Melde. Charles was born on 3 Jun 1918; died on 2 Aug 1975; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]