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Chillon Conoway CARTER

Male 1830 - 1891  (61 years)


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  • Name Chillon Conoway CARTER  [1, 2] 
    Born 4 Feb 1830  , , Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Gender Male 
    Census 1850  , Monroe, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1870  , Monroe, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence , Barren, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • He also lived in Barren County at some point.
    Died 5 Aug 1891  , , Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 6 Aug 1891  Smiths Grove, Warren, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Smiths Grove Cemetery
    Warren County
    Warren County, Kentucky 
    Person ID I21335  An Armstrong & A Heffernan
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2015 

    Father Chillion CARTER,   b. 1807, , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1871, , Monroe, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Mother Louisiana MURPHY,   b. 1812, , , Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1879  (Age 68 years) 
    Family ID F7902  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lucinda Eveline MURPHY,   b. 3 Jul 1836, , , Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Feb 1894, , , Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 30 Nov 1854  , Monroe, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Children 
     1. Nancy G CARTER,   b. 2 Dec 1855, , Monroe, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Dec 1923, Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     2. Louisa Adella CARTER,   b. 16 Sep 1858, , Barren, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Dec 1924, Oakland, Warren, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2015 
    Family ID F7907  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • I've only included a couple of letters from CC to Bunch. They are all much the same, he asked for prayers and reassured his family that he was still alive.

      Chillon Conway Carter (1830-1891) was from Monroe County, Kentucky and served as a private in Co. K, 9 th Kentucky Infantry (Union). He married Lucinda E. Murphy (referred to by the nickname "Bunch" in the letters), and they had two daughters, Nancy and Louisa Adella (called "Deller" in the letters). C.C. Carter was injured at the Battle of Chickamauga and had a leg amputated. Most of Carter's letters were written for him by relatives in his company.

      Transcribed by Michael Ellis, September 2008 Chillon C. Carter to Lucinda E. Carter December the 5th 1861.

      Dear Wife and Children and frieds and conection it is threw the kind mercies of God that I am blest with the presant opportunity of dropping you a few lines to let you know that I am well and hoping that these few lines may find you well and doing well Bunch do the best you can and do not griev about me thar is no doubt bu what you want to see me but it is un???ssabr how bad I want to se you and the children I never expect to forget the tears that run over my face the last night we stad to gather I have tried to pray for you I want you to pray for me I believ that I will be blest with the opportunity of meeting you again in this world I want you to hug and kiss Nancy and deller for me tell them that pap is still alive Bunch I want you to come and see
      [page 2]
      me as soon as you can now if any of you gets sick I want you to se a docter and get him to right a sertificate to Cornel Grider I will come home and [Col. Benjamin C. Grider, 9th KY Inf.] if I get sick I want you to come and see me Bunch this is the third letter I have sent to you and I have never received any ancer Send word ever chanc you have how you are gettin a long Dear Uncle and Aunt you have bin a good father and mother to me and I want you both to pray for me now I send you all my best respects Uncle Jack you would be welcom hear during the war but I want you to tell all my friends that is able to fight for ther contry that wont volenteer that reguards my fealins to never come hear tell the young ladies that is any thang to me to never marry unless they get a soldier so I must Close sayin do the best you can and pray for us all
      C. C. Carter to L. E. Carter and Children

      Chillon C. Carter to Lucinda E. Carter Columba Ky Dec 30th 1861
      Dear companion it is with the greats Pleasure that I have the pleasure of Riting to you I am well at preasant Hoping thes few lines may find you and the children Injoying the same blessing from god I wat to se you all I would bee Glad to se you and to be at home With you but I feel like am serving you and my god and my country here Bunch I want to se you wors Than everybody els you know that you Are the one ganed my hearts best love If you ever come to me while I am as Far off as I am dont try to fetch the Children hug Nancy and delar for me tell them to be good childrn nevr let expenses hender you from coming To se me I was born Feb 11 th 1830 I Want you to pray for me I have trid to pray for you
      Dear Unkle and famley I send you my best love and respets I dont know what to say to you yet about renting my plase Miles be a good boy
      [page 2]
      And feed my mar tell I come home Tell Sary and will I hant forgt them Remaines your friend untell death
      C. C. Carter to L. E. Carter
      I Will Send <4?> cotton
      By H. Walbrt

      Chillon C. Carter to Lucinda E. Carter the 6th 186[2]
      Laurence County Mississppy May Dear wife and children I take this opportunity of writeing you a few lines to inform you that I am in tolerable good health at this time and I hope that when these lines come to hand that they may find you all well and doing well Bunch I am sorry to hear that you are Sick though I hope that you will soon get well be shore to not trouble your self about me I want you to do the best you can and put your trust in god and I want you to continue to pray for me for I intend to try to pray for you
      Bunch hits a painful thing to my poor heart to be away from you and the children but I intend to contend for yourn and my childrens Rights as long as I can raise my hand for I feell that hit is my bounden duty a debt that I owe to you and the children Bunch pray that I may have strong faith in God and put my hold trust in him I have got some money I wish you had but hit takes a good deal to do me here [page 2] Crackers I cannot eat I have to buy my bread and hit cost a heep
      Nancy and Deller your papy is still alive and wants to see you and your mother worse than he ever did bee good children and mind your mother for them is the sort that the good man loves Pap still hopes to get home and live with you and your mother again
      Dear Father and Mother I will drop a few lines to you I am sorry to hear of the Sickness that is in your family but these things wee all have to bear but let us all be shore to be prepared for the Solemn hour of death So when wee fall well fall to rise again and strike hands on th e bright frontiers of glory there I expect to get shet of my troubles I want you all to pray that I may live to get home again for I have got a heep to tell you all
      Uncle Jack I used to tell you that I did not beleive that there was a true Soldiers liveng now as did in Washingtons day but I tell you now there is as true soldier liveing nou as ever marked the green earth I will tell you hou you can tell them they are men that dont boast on their fighting
      [page 3]
      nor wish their enemies in hell for I have seen them tried I would write a heep to you if I could write myself I never intend that you Shell loose a thing by me or my family if I live to get home and if never see you on earth again I hope the goverment which I will help to restore will be worth more to all our children than I would be though my hearts desire and prair to Almighty God is that I may live to see the day when we Shall have peace in America again and will get home to See you all again
      Milles my dear brother I want you to be a good boy and remember me I still remember how your little hand felt when I told you fare well that morning I left you tell Wm Brown and Sarah I have not forgot them Sarah I humbly claim an intrust in your prairs James and Henderson got to us Safe last Saturday eavening and I cannot tel you how glad I was to see them again and to hear from you all again I must close my letter by Saying be sure to write to me the first chance So I remain your affectionate friend and husband till death from
      CC Carter to Le Carter

  • Sources 
    1. [S1776] 1850 Monroe KY, pg 877B, f/d #1006/1047.
      Chillion Carter

    2. [S1186] Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960, (FamilySearch.org), Carter, Nancy G.
      Conoway C Carter

    3. [S1776] 1850 Monroe KY, pg 877B, f/d #1006/1047.
      age 20, Kentucky

    4. [S1441] Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979, (FamilySearch.org), Carter, Chilion C.
      to Lucinda E Murphy, 30 Nov 1854, Monroe County


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