Walter Duncan Carter

Male27 August 1929–1 November 2000

Brief Life History of Walter Duncan

When Walter Duncan Carter was born on 27 August 1929, in Strang, Mayes, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Jack Wilburn Carter, was 22 and his mother, Sallie Ellen West, was 22. He married Charlotte Marilyn Bissing on 20 April 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He died on 1 November 2000, in Langley, Mayes, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 71.

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Walter Duncan Carter
1929–2000
Charlotte Marilyn Bissing
1932–2009
Marriage: 20 April 1952

Sources (5)

  • W D Carter, "United States 1950 Census"
  • W D Carter, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
  • W D Carter, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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  • Marriage
    20 April 1952Los Angeles, California, United States
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    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1931

    Age 2

    The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

    1941 · Comanche Code Talkers

    Age 12

    Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken. 

    1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

    Age 19

    The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

    Name Meaning

    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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