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Lydia Alta Blackledge Carter

Birth	:	31 Aug 1868 Randolph County, Indiana, USA
Death	:	28 Nov 1963 Ulysses, Grant County, Kansas, USA
Burial	:	Ulysses Cemetery, Ulysses, Grant County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.5625000, -101.3082962
Description	:	The Ulysses News, 5 December 1963, Page 1 MOTHER OF SIX SENERATIONS DIES AT 95 YEARS Mrs. Alta Carter, 95, a Grant county resident for 52 years, died Thursday, Nov. 28, in Bob Wilson Memorial hospital where she had a patient five days after suffering a stroke at her home, 305 South Hickok Street. Survived by 98 descendants, Mrs. Carter represented the first of six generations in this community to which she came with her husband, the late Levi Carter, in January 1911 to a farm southeast of the present site of Ulysses, then a two year... Read More	The Ulysses News, 5 December 1963, Page 1 MOTHER OF SIX SENERATIONS DIES AT 95 YEARS Mrs. Alta Carter, 95, a Grant county resident for 52 years, died Thursday, Nov. 28, in Bob Wilson Memorial hospital where she had a patient five days after suffering a stroke at her home, 305 South Hickok Street. Survived by 98 descendants, Mrs. Carter represented the first of six generations in this community to which she came with her husband, the late Levi Carter, in January 1911 to a farm southeast of the present site of Ulysses, then a two year old town called New Ulysses. Mr. Carter died here in June 1927 and she continued to live on the farm with a bachelor son, Charlie, until his death, before moving to Ulysses. Since then she has lived here alone except in times of illness when she lived with other sons or daughters. Mrs. Carter was born Lydia Alta Blackledge, 31 August 1868, near Winchester, Ind., and came to Kansas with her family in 1873 to Rice county where she grew up in the Sterling and Lyons communities. She married Mr. Carter there 12 April 1887. They lived in Stafford County until coming to Grant county 52 years ago. Eight of their 13 children survive. Preceding her were Walter B., Charles Ernest, Milton Harvey, Vina Pearle and Florence Belle. Her eight surviving children are Clarence N. Carter and Jennie Hampton of Ulysses, Ora Carter of Lakin, Mrs. Viola Oliver of Johnson, Mrs. Ethel Simpson of Tampa, Fla., Mrs Marie Ungles of Sunland, Calif., Ted Carter and Mrs. Lena Overton. Mrs. Don Peterson of Ulysses and Miss Ruth Oliver of Johnson are two of her 19 grandchildren in addition to 47 great grandchildren and 24 great, great grandchildren. Six of her great grandsons, James Peterson, Lynn Christian, Robert Carter, Merrill McCue, Kenneth Christian and Gerald Ray Wood, served as pallbearers at her funeral on Saturday, Nov. 30. The services were conducted at the Ulysses Methodist Church with Rev. Robert Peters officiating. Burial was in the Ulysses Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers were Jno. W. Alford, Jesse Limper, Russell Bechtelheimer, J. E. Rixon, Clarence Morgan and Dan C. Sullivan.

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Lydia Alta Blackledge Carter's memorial is located at: Ulysses Cemetery, Ulysses, Grant County, USA.
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Lydia Alta Blackledge Carter death on 28 Nov 1963 in Ulysses, Grant County, Kansas, USA
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Latitude: 37.5625000
Longitude: -101.3082962

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Levi Plummer Carter

(1855 - 1927)

Siblings

(unknow - unknow)

Mazana Jane “Jennie” Blackledge Meador

(1871 - 1954)

Rhoda Ethel Blackledge Welker

(1883 - 1966)

Children

Charles Earnest Carter

(1889 - 1950)

Milton Harvey Carter

(1891 - 1928)

Clarence Nathan Carter

(1892 - 1981)

Viola Ruth Carter Oliver

(1898 - 1981)

Jennie M. Carter Hampton

(1900 - 1978)

Theodore Roosevelt Carter

(1902 - 1986)

Vina Pearle Carter

(1907 - 1937)

Florence Belle Carter

(1914 - 1931)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Ulysses Cemetery
Ulysses, Grant County, USA
Coordinate: 37.5625000, -101.3082962

2. Grant Mennonite Church Cemetery
Ulysses, Grant County, USA
Coordinate: 37.5663500, -101.1987900

3. Hurst Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.5612830, -101.1984370

4. Zionville Cemetery
Grant County, USA
Coordinate: 37.4319000, -101.3700027

5. Golden Cemetery
Grant County, USA
Coordinate: 37.4756012, -101.4578018

6. Shockey Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.6713982, -101.4816971

7. William H. Glazier Burial Site
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Coordinate: 37.6846890, -101.1090320

8. Canaan Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.5839005, -101.0164032

9. ODea Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.3727989, -101.1243973

10. Moscow Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.3394012, -101.1917038

11. Woodsdale Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.3230780, -101.1930430

12. Wayland Neighborhood Cemetery (Defunct)
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Coordinate: 37.6571300, -101.6182300

13. Liverpool Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.4319300, -101.6075700

14. Dudley Township Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.4542007, -100.9805984

15. Dermot Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.3480988, -101.5464020

16. Young Family Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.3518230, -101.0514950

17. Menno Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.7938995, -101.5655975

18. Hartland Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.8931007, -101.3591995

19. Haskell County Cemetery
Sublette, Haskell County, USA
Coordinate: 37.5546989, -100.8771973

20. Ivanhoe Cemetery
Haskell County, USA
Coordinate: 37.6417007, -100.8707962

21. Golden Plains Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.2718330, -101.0431556

22. Mitchell Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.6866989, -101.7435989

23. Johnson Cemetery
Johnson, Stanton County, USA
Coordinate: 37.5701300, -101.7777600

24. Goldamer Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.7730598, -100.9072266