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Note: I am Harry Baldwin Harter, son of Benjamin Clifton Harter and Frances Pauline Baldwin-Harter. I reside at 1038 Wagoner Drive, Wilmington, DE 19805. I was their only child. I was born September 29, 1926 in Newport, Delaware. Knew Lelah Porter as Lucille Harter. Children besides those names were Jane Lucille Hater, Nanie Harter (may have been named also as Martha Harter) nick named Nonie. There was also a J.C. Harter is dead. He may have been a Porter, son of Aunt Lyda Porter, who was a sister of Lucille Porter-Harter (not sure of their relationship). He was the only one who I know went to college and worked as an engineer for state highway department. Fletcher was astore keeper in North Augusta, South Carolina. Hugh Harter and Mary Harter finished their education in Newport and Wilmington, Delaware. Hugh did not finish high school. Mary did. Believe it was Wilmington High School. Hugh held various jobs but learned his trade as a machinist at DuPont Machine Shops. Hugh was also a marble shooting champion in Newport Publish school around 1927-27 and went to Atlantic City for regional championship. Did not win though. In the late 1950s he married Vera Denver. During the 30s was amember of the Delaware National Guard Battery H of New Castle, Delaware. Hugh Harter died in the 1970s I believe at the Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. Vera Denver-Harter died several years after her husband. They lived at 308 W.38th Street in Wilmington, Delaware Mary finished high school and was employed by Hearn's Grocery store on Washington and Conrad Streets, where she met Joe Hall. Joe got employment at DuPont Experimental Station in the late 30s operating prototype Nylon plant and was transferred to the original nylon major plant in Seaford, Delaware. He retired from DuPont's for physical reasons fora bad heart and later expired in 70s. They had one child, Jay Hall. Mary Harter-Hall died in 1990 in Laurel, Delaware. Jay Hall is still alive and resides in Laurel, Delaware and works for Delaware State Department of Transportation. Jane Lucille Harter was married once but divorced a man named Sam in Wilmington, Delaware. She owned a restaurant named, Lucille's at 30th and Market Streets in Wilmington, Delaware in the 40s until 1970s. Marth Harter-King died age 88-89 in the late 1990s. She was survived by her husband, Calvin King (who later died in the very late 1990s at age 94), and one son, Thomas King, who lives over in New Jersey. Louise Harter-Winkler died in 2001 at the age of 94 in Hickory, North Carolina, and is survived by her daughter, Frances and son Harold. Walter Winkler, her husband, had died many years before. My mother was Frances Pauline Baldwin-Harter, who married Benjamin Clifton Harter in 1923 in Newport, Delaware. B.C. Harter, known as Clif, was born to Lucille Harter in Greenwood, South Carolina in 1899. He also had an older brother named Clyde Harter also born in Greenwood. Greenwood is near "96" South Carolina and also the village of Plum Branch. There is also a Buddy Harter who currently resides in Ninety-Six, South Carolina, with a brother. He manages the Harter Family Reunion. They work in the local cotton mill and for years ran a butcher store in their spare time. Buddy is well known sportsman, hunting dog owner, and has a small farm where he raises a few beef cattle. There was an Aunt Ef (for Effie or Effreda). I think she was a sister of Aunt Lyda. There is a cousin near Greenwood, South Carolina called Pearl. Not sure of familial relationship.
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