Grover Leroy Carter

1895 - 1967  (72 years)

• Name	Grover Leroy Carter
  Birth	4 Sep 1895	Hickory Flat, Benton, Mississippi
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Oct 1967	Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee
  Burial	Bethel Cemetery, Etta, Union, Mississippi
  Person ID	I11351	Brownlow
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	Andrew Jackson Carter,   b. 2 Aug 1873, Middleton, Hardeman, Tennessee, USA d. 16 Oct 1924, Walnut, Tippah, Mississippi, USA (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Roseabella Sherman,   b. Dec 1875, Marshall, Mississippi, USA d. 1920, Union, Mississippi, USA (Age 44 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	20 Nov 1894	Union, Mississippi, USA
  Divorce	Before 1901
  Family ID	F3804	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Annie Elizabeth Churchill,   b. 2 Jul 1893, Hickory Flat, Benton, Mississippi d. 27 Sep 1966, DeKalb, Bowie, Texas (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	27 Mar 1912	Mississippi
  Divorce	About 1920	Arkansas
  	While pregnant with their second son John Carter, Grover ran off on Annie and went to Spartanburg, South Carolina. 1920 census has her living in Arkansas with son G.L. a few months before John's birth.
  Children	+ 1. Gussie Loran Carter,   b. 16 Jan 1914, Mississippi d. 29 Apr 1995, DeKalb, Bowie, Texas (Age 81 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   2. John Douglas Carter,   b. 20 Mar 1920, McCrory, Woodruff, Arkansas d. 10 Sep 1966, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas (Age 46 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
  Family ID	F3816	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah Elizabeth Samples,   b. 1 Jan 1896, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee d. 14 Dec 1970, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	2 Jun 1920	Spartanburg, South Carolina
  	Sarah Samples is shown living in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with the family of her son Lon Goforth, following her divorce from Jim Suttles. There she met Grover and they married June 1920, and thereafter lived in Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee until 1922.
  Divorce	About 1922	Cocke, Tennessee
  	According to a family source, when daughter Vina was 9 months old, Grover Carter ran off on Sarah. He doesn't show up in any records again until the 1927 marriage to Thursie Emery in Cleveland, Ohio
  Children	+ 1. Vina Lee Carter,   b. 9 Apr 1921, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee d. 19 Jan 1998, Maynardville, Union, Tennessee (Age 76 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   2. Carter,   b. 11 Apr 1921, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee d. 11 Apr 1921, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee (Age 0 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
  Family ID	F3807	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2025

  
  

  Family 3	Theresa Emery,   b. 17 Apr 1891, Warren, Tennessee d. 24 Jun 1938, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	About 1927	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
  Children	1. Marilyn Marie Carter,   b. 17 Feb 1928, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio d. 28 Dec 2004, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee (Age 76 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
  Family ID	F3817	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2025

  
  

  Family 4	Mary Adeline Henderson,   b. 1 Jun 1884, Marshall, Madison, North Carolina d. 20 Nov 1973, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	After 1938
  Children	1. Marilyn Marie Carter,   b. 17 Feb 1928, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio d. 28 Dec 2004, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F3823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2025

  
  

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  Grover Leroy Carter

  
  

  Documents		Sarah Samples and Grover Carter Marriage Certificate, reprinted 20 June 1946
  		Carter, death certificate, 11 April 1921 Record of stillborn infant girl Carter to Grover L. Carter and Sarah Samples