Carter, Elias Mills 1843 – 1909

CARTER, CAMERON, BAKER, JAGGER, ARNOLD

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/27/2023 at 09:01:03

Source: Decorah Republican Nov. 4, 1909, P2 C3

OBITUARY.
E. M. Carter of Hesper, Iowa, seventh child and second son of Horatio L. and Julia L. Carter, was born May 10th, 1843, in Brimfield, Ohio, and died Oct. 30, 1909, at Hesper, Iowa. Death was due to cancer of the bladder.
Elias Mills Carter, familiarly know to his friends as Don or Don Pedro.(a nickname given him in childhood by an uncle), was one of a family of twelve children, of whom one brother and five sisters are now living.
Educated in the public school and finishing at Hiram College while Gen. Garfield was its president, he was an ardent anti-slavery Republican. In 1862, following the example of an elder brother who later lost his life in the battle of Antietam, he enlisted in Co. H. 85th Ohio Vol. Inf., was mustered out on account of camp fever, but after recovering re-enlisted in Co. F. 184th Ohio, and served until the close of the war.
Not long afterward he came to Winneshiek county, Iowa, where his father owned some land, and lived for a time at Decorah. Forty years ago, on Nov. 4th, 1863, he married Margaret Cameron of Hesper, where Mr. Carter has always been active in temperance, church and Sunday school work, has held various township offices, and for nearly thirty years served as Notary Public and as Hesper correspondent of the Decorah Republican.
There being no Congregational church in Hesper, to which denomination he and all of his people had belonged Mr. and Mrs. Carter united many years ago with the Methodist church of that place.
The deceased survived by his wife and three daughters, Mrs. Fred Baker of Decorah, Edna Carter, who resigned her position at Drayton, N. D., to assist in the care of her father, and Dora Carter, principal of the McGregor high school, all of whom were with him at the last. There were also present at his bedside two sisters, Mrs. Helen E. Jagger and Mrs. Dora E. Arnold of Tallmadge, O., who have been visiting and helping in the home for several weeks.
The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the Friends church in Hesper Rev. M. Willett of Decorah officiating, assisted by Rev. H. C. Carter and Rev. Irving Melnott. Beside many from the surrounding community there were a party of seven veterans from Decorah—Messrs. Cadwell, Couse, Cratsenberg, Oxley, L. and C. L. Holcomb and John open—in attendance.
Many beautiful floral tributes from friends and relatives in Hesper, Decorah, McGregor and Ohio were in evidence to the bereaved family of the tender sympathy that went out to them in their affliction and of the respect in which the deceased was held.
In the death of Mr. Carter the REPUBLICAN feels that it has lost one of its particular friends During the many years that he served as our Hesper correspondent we learned to know his ability, his sterling integrity, his upright, Christian character, and the many traits which make for the best in manhood, and he was always found on the side of right living and a high standard of citizenship. We shall miss his genial calls which he always made when in Decorah as we know his friends and neighbors are missing his presence in the places that have known him so well during his long residence at Hesper. In every relation, either in public or in the family circle, he was true to very ideal—thoughtful, considerate and just.

Source; Decorah Republican Nov. 4, 1909, P6 C4

After an illness of about ten weeks, E. M. Carter passed quietly away the forenoon of Saturday Oct. 30th. The service will be held from the Friends church this afternoon at 2 o’clock. Dr. Willett of Decorah will conduct the service, assisted by Rev. H. C. Carer and Rev. Irving Melnott. The G. A. R. post of Decorah will have charge of the services at the grave. The obituary will appear in another column.

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