Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887,
Taylor County.

JAMES W. CARTER was born in Adair County, Ky., January 24, 1851, and is
the ninth in a family of twelve children born to George W. and Polly A.
(Rabern) Carter, the former of whom was a native of Russell and the latter
a native of Pulaski County, Ky.  They were of Irish and English descent
respectively.  George W. Carter was born in 1812, and received his
education at Georgetown and Danville Academies.  He commenced to teach
at the age of seventeen and continued the same, most of the time in
connection with agricultural pursuits, until 1878, when he retired from
active business.  He first bought a partially improved farm in his native
county of Russell; from there he removed to Pulaski County, where he was
married, and the removed to Adair County, where he bought the farm upon
which he yet resides.  He is and has been for a number of years a
magistrate or justice of the peace of his district.  From early life he
has been a devoted and consistent member of the Baptist Church.  He is
also a member of the Masonic fraternity.  His father, Thomas I. Carter,
was a native of the "Old Dominion;" was a soldier in the war of 1812, and
was killed in one of the early battles of the war.  Mrs. Polly Ann (Rabern)
Carter departed this life in 1867.  She was a life-long member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Her father, John Rabern, was also a native of
Virginia, but while yet a young man removed to the wilderness of southern
Kentucky, where he was afterward married to a Miss Rainwater.  James W.
Carter received a fair common school education in youth, and was employed
on the home farm until he was sixteen years old, when he left home and was
afterward employed on a farm and in the live stock trade until 1871, after
which he farmed on his own account for two years.  He then engaged in the
grocery trade at Haskinsville, Green County, continuing until the fall of
1873.  He then removed to Lebanon, Ky., where he was engaged in the
commission and grocery trade, both wholesale and retail, until 1875.  He
then engaged in the liquor trade at the same place, which he continued
until 1880.  He then engaged in the lumber trade and hotel business at
Campbellsville, Ky., which he continued for three years, after which he
took a tour through the Western States, returning to Taylor County, Ky.,
in 1884, where he has since been engaged in agricultural pursuits.  In
1886 he was an independent candidate for the office of county assessor.
Mr. Carter was married January 22, 1871, to Miss Martha E. Sublett, a
native of Cass County, Mo., born September 16, 1856; she is a daughter of
James A. and Elizabeth (Moore) Sublett, both natives of Taylor County,
Ky., and of Irish and English descent respectively.  Mr. and Mrs. Carter
have been blessed with six children: John H. and an infant not named
(both deceased), who were twins: Berry A. (deceased); Robert R., Minnie
W. and Jesse A.  Mrs. Carter is a devoted member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Carter belongs to no church, but is a member of
the Masonic fraternity, the I.O.O.F. and K. of H.; in politics he is a
Republican.

Carter Rabern Rainwater Sublett Moore
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Adair-KY Pulaski-KY Russell-KY Green-KY Marion-KY Cass-MO VA

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