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Note: Notes for JAMES CARTER: JAMES CARTER, son of Jesse and Molsey, was born in Colleton district, SouthCarolina, in 1809, and came with his parents to Appling County, Georgia in 1819. He went to Lowndes County in 1825, settling on the west side of the Alapaha River. On the east side of the river and some three miles down the river, lived the family of John Bennett near the present town of Stockton, Georgia. In 1830, James Carter and Pollie (properly, Mary) Bennett were married. She was born in 1813. They settled on what became the old Dennis Wetherington place four miles south of present town of Naylor, where Mr. Carter farmed for several years. He sold out and moved further south in Lowndes county into territory that was in 1858 cut off into the new county of Echols. Mr. Carter and his wife lived there until their deaths, he dying in 1883 while on a visit to his son, Jackson, near Titusville, Florida. He was buried there. Mrs. Carter had died several years before. Mr. Carter served as a private in his father's militia company in the Indian War in 1838. He held public office several times, his first being as Justice of Inferior Court of Lowndes County 1849-1853. He served as Representative from Lowndes County, 1857-1858, and introduced the bill creating the new county of Echols. He then became the first senator from Echols County, serving 1859-1860. He also became the first county treasurer of Echols County, serving 1859-1868. He was Clerk of Superior Court of Echols County, one term, 1877-1879. He also served 1862-1865 as a Justice of the Inferior Court of Echols County. He was a member of the Masonic order, receiving his degrees in old Troupville Lodge, St. John the Baptist Lodge No. 184, which is now located in Valdosta. He received his degrees in 1854 and was demitted in 1857 to join in organizing Alapaha Lodge, No. 209, at what was then called "Troublesome", now Statenville. He was the first treasurer of the lodge, 1857-1858, and again served as such in 1871.
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