When Lonnie Carter was born in March 1853, in Lowndes, Georgia, United States, her father, Isaac W. Carter, was 37 and her mother, Rachel Martha Sirmans, was 27. She married David Samuel Lightsey in 1872, in Lowndes, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in District 661 Naylor, Lowndes, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Naylor, Lowndes, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1930, in Lanier, Georgia, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Lakeland, Lanier, Georgia, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1860: Lowndes, Georgia, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: occupational name for a transporter of goods, from Middle English carter(e) ‘carter’ (Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier, Old French charetier, medieval Latin carettarius, carettator). The Old French word coalesced with the earlier Middle English word cart(e) ‘cart’, which is from either Old Norse kartr or Old English cræt, both of which, like the Late Latin word, were probably derived from Celtic. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Irish: shortened form of McCarter .
Americanized form of German Karter ‘carder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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