Did you know about Jimmy Carter’s deep family roots in the CSRA?

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Former President Jimmy Carter, the one Georgian to occupy the Oval Workplace, visited the Augusta space at the very least as soon as, however his household’s roots right here date again greater than two centuries.

Again when he was the Peach State’s governor in 1973, he got here to the Backyard Metropolis for a few days.

Whereas within the space, he met some residents and signed autographed images, in keeping with media studies. Additionally on the agenda have been stops in Thomson and Appling, visits to native homes of worship and conferences with native leaders.

He was touring the state to get Georgians’ suggestions on state authorities, however his eyes have been already on Washington. He mentioned he wasn’t completely satisfied in regards to the state of the economic system or the federal authorities.

Deep ties to the CSRA

Though Carter grew up a whole lot of miles from right here, his household first settled within the CSRA after coming to Georgia.

The Carter household got here to America from England in 1637, initially settling in Isle of Wight County, Va., and later discovering its technique to Bertie County, N.C., in keeping with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.

Carter’s fourth great-grandfather, Kindred Carter, moved to Georgia and settled in what’s now McDuffie County between 1773 and 1800.

In 1798 in Columbia County, Kindred’s son James, Carter’s third great-grandfather, married Eleanor “Nellie” Duckworth, whose household was from Warren and Columbia counties. The couple settled in 1815 alongside White’s Creek on a 500-acre plantation about 4 miles northwest of Thomson.

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Their oldest son, Wiley, married Ann Ansley in 1821 in Warren County, the place her household was from. Finally, Wiley Carter bought his land in Warren County on Rocky Consolation Creek, close to Gibson, in 1851 and moved to land about 20 miles north of Plains.

However his son Littleberry Walker Carter stayed in Warren County, the place he married Mary Ann Diligent Seals. They lived in an space that grew to become Glascock County in 1857.

Round 1860, Littlebery and Ann Carter, Jimmy Carter’s great-grandparents, moved to the Plains space like a lot of the remainder of the household had. That was simply after Jimmy Carter’s grandfather, William A. Carter, had been born.

It was in Plains the place the long run president was born on Oct. 1, 1924, to Earl Carter, a farmer and businessman, and Lillian Carter, a registered nurse.

It was a beginning that in the end put the small group on the worldwide map.

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