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- 1850: in Tippah County, Miss. with parents.
1860: in Travis County, Texas with parents.
1862: enlisted in Confed Army with bro. William at Bastrop1-18-1862 and mustered in in Dallas 3-15-1862. Private, Co. B, 18th Tx Cav., Darnell's Regt. Card Nos. 50325978 and 6098.
1866: married Rebecca S. Karnes10-24-1866, Coryell Co. Book B, Page 65.
1870: per census, in City of Waco (Ed , pg21 (41?), Ln32, hse147, fam.162), June 1870: Robert Carter, 28, MS, saddle tree maker; Rebecca, 23, keeping house, KY; Mary, 2, TX; Next door to Richard Miller, wagonmaker, 36 AL; then next door to Im? Sadler, lawyer, 29, TN.
1876: Waco City Directory, there is an R.M. Carter at 10 N. 6th St. who was a mechanic.
1878-79: Waco City Directory, there is a Robert M. Carter at 10 N. 6th between Austin and Washington, a policeman.
1880: haven't found him on this census. On 1880 census the "married" box is checked for Rebecca but she and her daughters lived with her father, not Robert (Coryell, ED26, Sh31, Ln49, June 1880). Her father was Charles F. Karnes, born Virginia. His wife was Mary A., and there was a son George N., b. Texas and 11 years younger than Rebecca.
1900: haven't found him on this census.
Robert M. Carter "disappears" in the 1870s. Have found no notice of his death. No one claimed his Civil War pension. Rebecca is not living with him on the 1880 census, but it does say she is married, not widowed or divorced. Did he die or did they divorce? His wife and three of their daughters, in about the late 1880s, joined a commune called the Sanctified Sisters in Belton and moved to Wash. D.C. with them. They remained there the rest of their lives.
There is an R.M. Carter who married a Mattie M. Harris 1881 McLennan County. Have found no further information. Do not know who that is.
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Find A Grave
I am uncertain that the Robert Carter** buried at Holy Cross is actually the Robert M. Carter described below. Holy Cross is a Catholic Cemetery; but the Robert M. Carter described below was not Catholic, and his wife Rebecca Karnes was not Catholic. Also, the obituary** for the "Bob Carter" at Holy Cross states that he was eleven years younger than the Robert M. Carter described below. The only way I believe this Robert Carter is the same as Robert M. Carter below is if (1) there is a plausible explanation for why he was placed in a Catholic cemetery and (2) the age given in the obituary is incorrect.
**Obituary in Waco newspaper: "Robert Carter, old resident of city, died Aug. 21, 1897 in East Waco. Burial on 17th." [Based on Fall and Puckett records, date should be 16th not 21st.]
Fall and Puckett Funeral Home Records: "Carter, Bob 45 yrs; by McLennan County; d. of cancer, Aug. 16, 1897; int. at Catholic Cem., Aug. 17; 9.00; 10-2578"
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ROBERT M. CARTER
Robert M. Carter was born in 1841 in Tippah County, Mississippi, the son of James Carter and Salina Roxanna Dean. The Carters moved from Mississippi to Texas in 1851. Robert enlisted with his brother William L. Carter in the Confederate Army at Bastrop, Texas on 1-18-1862. They both served in Co. B, 18th Tx Cav., Darnell's Regiment. He married Rebecca S. Karnes in Coryell County, Texas on 14 Oct 1866. They had at least five children: Mary E., Lota Bell, Lela Rebecca, James Thomas, and Susie Effie. Robert was a wagoner and a saddler, and possibly a mechanic and a policeman in Waco, Texas in the 1870s. He disappears from the records as of 1880, at which time his wife and children appear on the census in the household of her father.
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1841 - 1897 (56 years)
