Amanda Carter

1870–14 January 1955 (Age 85)
Jackson, Tennessee, United States

The Life of Amanda

When Amanda Carter was born in 1870, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Wylie Carter, was 42 and her mother, Polly E Whitehead, was 32. She had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Thomas Bransford Dixon. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 7, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 14 January 1955, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Bransford Dixon
1828–1914
Amanda Carter
1870–1955
Hugh Carter
1888–1961
Thomas Bradford Dixon Jr
1892–
Andy Herman Carter
1895–1960
Haskell A Carter
1897–1955
Beatrice Dixon
1899–

Spouse and Children

    Thomas Bransford Dixon

    Male1828–1914Male

    Amanda Carter

    Female1870–1955Female

children

(5)

Parents and Siblings

siblings

(10)

    Bransford Carter

    Male1858–Male

    James William Carter

    Male1859–1937Male

    Rhoda M Carter

    Female1860–Female

    Dorthula Carter

    Female1865–1942Female

    Bossell Carter

    Male1866–1953Male

+5 More Children

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 0

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

Age 8

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

Age 26

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

1 English: occupational name for a transporter of goods, Middle English cartere, from an agent derivative of Middle English cart(e) or from Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier, a derivative of Old French caret ( see Cartier ). 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 originally derived from Celtic.2 Northern Irish: reduced form of McCarter .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Sources (3)

  • Manda Carter in household of James Carter, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Amanda Carter in household of James Carter, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Amanda Carter in entry for Hugh Carter, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"

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