Earl (Robert Lee) Carter

Male28 December 1920–4 October 2008

Brief Life History of Earl (Robert Lee)

When Earl (Robert Lee) Carter was born on 28 December 1920, in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, United States, his father, Henry Lee Carter, was 21 and his mother, Virdie Laura Rich, was 28. He died on 4 October 2008, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 87.

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Family Time Line

Henry Lee Carter
1899–1967
Virdie Laura Rich
1892–1980
Earl (Robert Lee) Carter
1920–2008
Earl R Carter
1920–2008
Orvel R Carter
1923–

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  • Earl Robert Carter, "United States Social Security Death Index"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (3)

World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 3

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1929 · The Great Depression Arrives

Age 9

Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.

1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 24

The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

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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