George Jefferson Carter (1922)

CARTER, PIXLER, BREEDING, HAYNES

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Date: 2/6/2007 at 11:33:25

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
April 1922

GEORGE J. CARTER PASSES AWAY

George Carter, who has been sick for several weeks, passed away at his home in St. Charles, Monday night about 10 o’clock. The funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the Church of Christ, conducted by the pastor, Rev. L. R. Gans, and he was laid to rest in the St. Charles cemetery.

Mr. Carter was 69 years old and has lived in this town for many years, where by his quiet and kindly disposition, he made many friends, who with the bereaved wife and daughters and other relatives mourn his departure. George is the third of the Carter brothers who have passed away in about six weeks – W. A. passing away March 9th and B. F. on March 24th. The sympathy of the community goes out to the relatives who are called on to bear so much sorrow in so short a space of time.

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George Jefferson Carter (1922)

Carter, Pixler, Breeding, Haynes

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
April 1922

Obituary

George Jefferson Carter, son of Peter and Parthena Carter, was born in Adair county, Kentucky, on September 17, 1852, and passed away at his home in St. Charles, Iowa, on April 24, 1922, at the age of 69 years, 7 months and 7 days.

He came to Madison county with his parents in 1864, where he has resided ever since.

He was married to Allice Pixler, on April 12, 1883. To this union were born two daughters, Della and Blanche, who were at his bedside at death.

He leaves to mourn his death, his wife, who was so faithful during his sickness, his two daughters, Della and Blanche, and four grand-children, Rex, Max, George Lester and Ross, who knew their grand-pa as “daddy George.” He also leaves three brothers and two sisters – John M., James G., Robert, Mrs. Sarah Breeding and Mrs. Eliza Haynes, and many nieces and nephews and a host of friends.