Captain Landon Carter
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Better Half
N 36° 21.230 W 082° 12.210
17S E 392015 N 4023867
Elizabethton, TN
Waymark Code: WM2B43
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/06/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
Views: 40
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Located in the Carter Family Cemetery
Location type: Section of a Cemetery/Mass Grave

Date of Birth: 1760

Date of Death: 1800

Cause of death: Died Later

Grave Marker Text:
Landon Carter
1760-1800
For Whom Carter County was named
Captain Revolutionary war, in South Carolina and Indian
Wars. Entry-Taker and Auditor Washington District 1784
Represented Washington District in House of Commons
North Carolina General Assembly, North Carolina Senate
1789 Secretary Franklin Conventions Speaker First
Senate Member First Council of State Secretary of State
Entry-Taker 1790 Lieut. Col Commandant Washington
District Militia Justice of Peace, Washington County.
Treasurer of Washington and Hamilton Districts.
Colonel in Campaign 1792 Trustee Martin's Academy
and of Greeneville College Brigadier-General of
Militia of Tennessee Built first Iron Forge in Tennessee
Married 1784.


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