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profession and has a generous practice. He is a member of the professional societies, the Masonic order and fraternities, Omega Up- silon Phi, Theta Nu Epsilon. He is a Dem- ocrat in politics, and a meml)er of the Chris- tian church.

Dr. Terrell married. October 21, 1903, Daisy, daughter of Dr. Charles Ellett, a doc- tor of medicine who died comparatively young, in Richmond, iler mother, Adelaide (Moody) Ellett, is }el living, a resident of Beaver Dam. \*irginia.

John W. Carter. Among the prominent families of the Old Dominion illustrious in Colonial days for personal worth and talent, for their distinguished social position, for the prestige that came from the possession of high political office, and for the considera- tion that attached to the ownership of large landed estates and many slaves none took precedence over the Carters. John Carter, of "Corotoman," the first of the family in Virginia, came over from England in the year 1640. He settled first in Upper Nor- folk, now Nansemond county, represented that county in the house of burgesses, was granted as "Col. John Carter," four thou- sand acres of land in October, 1665, and later moved to Lancaster county. Virginia, where he held continuous high official posi- tion. Prom Colonel John Carter springs the Carters of Pittsylvania. Carter arms : "Azure a chevron or, impaled between three wheels."

John Wesley Carter, of Danville, Virginia, a twentieth century representative of the family, is a son of Jeduthan (2) Carter and a grandson of Jeduthan (i) Carter, the lat- ter, who died aged seventy, a farmer and lifelong resident of Pittsylvania county. He married Martha Rogers, also a native of Pittsylvania county, wdio bore him eleven children, Jeduthan (2) being the youngest of the family, now all deceased.

Jeduthan (2) Carter was born at the home farm eight miles north of Danville. January 20, 1821, died December 5, 1895. ^"^^ ^^^^ deputy sheriff of Pittsylvania county and a merchant at Chatham, but after his mar- riage moved to Lynchburg, where as a mem- ber of the firm of Carter & Nowlin he en- gaged in the grocery business for three years. He then moved to Concord, Halifax county, where he purchased a mill and farm

proj^erty at Halifax, the property now known as "Leader." He was there engaged in milling, merchandising and farming five hundred acres until his retirement to Dan- ville, his residence until death. He was a gallant officer of the Confederacy, Captain of Company V, Thirty-eight Regiment Vir- ginia Infantry, attached to Pickett's divi- sion. He was with that division in their famous charge across the bullet-swept plain of Gettysburg and w^as one of the compara- tively few wdio escaped with their lives. He was engaged in many other battles of the war Init escaped all i)erils and lived to see the l)itterness between the sections swept away and his country reunited.

He married Anna Hubbard, born in Hali- fax county, Virginia, November 20, 1820, died in Pittsylvania county, aged fifty-six years. Three of their eight children are living: Mary Ann, married Thomas A. Fitz- gerald and resides in Danville ; John Wes- ley, of whom further ; Minnie Anderson, married T. A. Gregory, both deceased ; Sallie Hobson, born 1854, died February, 1897; Elizabeth Stone, died in infancy; Joel William, born 1858, now a partner with his brother, John W. ; Jeduthan (3), died aged twelve months ; Marion Epps, died in child- hood. Mrs. Anna (Hubbard) Carter, the mother of these children, was a daughter of Joel Hubbard, a wealthy farmer of Halifax county, and a Baptist preacher. He died aged eighty-eight years, the father of thir- teen children by his wife, Elizabeth (Stone) Hubbard, who died aged fifty years.

John Wesley Carter was born at the home- stead in Halifax county. Virginia, now known as "I^eader," March 25, 1855. He attended the public schools until fourteen years of age and outside of school hours did a boy's work around his father's store and mill. At age of fourteen he became a clerk in a store at Riceville, and on January I, 1873. located in Danville. Virginia. He was a clerk for one year for ^^^ P. Robinson ^^ Company and four years for J. F. Rison. He then became a partner of the firm, Hod- nett & Carter, and tw^o and a half years later founded the business he is yet engaged in, as John W. Carter & Company, his partner being his brother, Joel \\'. Carter. This is a wholesale grocery business, they being pioneers in Danville in this line, and they conduct a local and state business. John