U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Carter, Lorenzo Dow (1884-1959) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 404 LORENZO DOW CARTER, a merchant and farmer of Meade District, was born January 19, 1884. His parents were Isaac Carter and Barbara C. Houser. Isaac Carter was a member of Company C., 133 West Virginia State Militia, under Captain Daniel Gould. Was captured at Centerville September 12, 1863, and taken to Richmond, where he was confined in Libby Prison, and underwent all the hardships of prison life. He returned home on the 9th of June, 1864, a living skeleton. Mr. Carter has been trustee of schools of Upshur County. Is a farmer, a Methodist in religion and a Republican in politics, and Upshur County has no better or more upright citizen than Isaac Carter. His grandfather was Albert Carter of Virginia, who immigrated to what is now West Virginia, in 1858, settling on the farm now owned by Isaac Carter, Albert Carter died at the age of 67 years. Served in the war of 1812. At the beginning of the Civil War, his father enlisted in Company C., 133d West Virginia State Militia and was among those captured at Centerville in 1862. He was educated in the common schools and has had much experience in optioning and selling coal lands in the neighborhood where he lives, and has lived for the past five years. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Marriages, Upshur County, WV (Page 296) L. D. Carter (age 60, single, born in Upshur County, WV) son of Isaac and Barbara Carter Lydia Mae Hyre (age 49, single, born in Upshur County, WV) dau of Alpheus and Gertrude Hyre were married September 26, 1944 at Frenchton, W.Va. by William Gay Feather, a minister of the Gospel ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #'59-008616 FULL-NAME: Lorenzo Dow Carter BIRTH-DATE: January 19, 1884 BIRTH-PLACE: West Virginia DEATH-DATE: June 28, 1959 at 75 years of age DEATH-PLACE: St. Joseph's Hosp., Buckhannon, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Farmer FATHER: Isaac Carter MOTHER: Barbara Houser CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Lymphatic Leukemia INFORMANT: Mrs. May Carter (of French Creek) BURIAL: Center Chapel, French Creek, W.Va. There's a double-tombstone in Chapel Cemetery, Upshur County, WV CARTER Mae Hyre (1895-1969) L. D. (1884-1959) ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------