JOSEPH
CARTER, farmer,
post-office Indian Run, was born August 6, 1827; His grandfather, Barzillas,
was born in New Jersey, but moved at an early day into Mercer County, now
Lawrence County, where he spent the rest of his days. There were six
children born to them, of which Nathaniel,
the father of Joseph, was the youngest and
only son, and who was married in 1826 to Elizabeth,
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Colwell) Carlon.
He settled on the old homestead, and there were eleven children born to
them: Joseph, Barzillas, William, John, Rebecca
(wife of Richard Rice), George,
Elizabeth (wife of Thomas Hannah), Nathaniel,
Newton B., Sarah (wife of George Bunny),
Hannah (wife of Matthew
Irving). Politically he was a Democrat, and died in 1860 at the age
of fifty-five years, and he and wife were members of the Presbyterian
Church. Joseph was married in 1850 to Eliza
J., daughter of Christian and Eliza (Teter)
Welker, of Lawrence County. He purchased a farm of John
Cunningham of 100 acres, in East Lackawannock Township, where he
engaged in farming and stock raising. They have had twelve children: Clara,
William, John A., Susan, Welker, Nathaniel, James, Austin B., Elizabeth
(wife of Charles Johnston), Joseph
P., David and Mary L., John A., Susan
and James died young. Joseph
was drafted in the late war, but was released on account of his health. He
was formerly a Democrat, but is now a champion of the Greenback
principles. He and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of
Mercer.
[Joseph Carter
died in 1899 and is buried in Carpenter Cemetery in Springfield Township.]
History
of Mercer County,
1888, page 892.
