On This Day in Family History - August 31

Ned Jackson Carter married Helen Loeta Padgett 1935

Ned Carter was the son of John Martin Carter and Amy Tamsett Carter

John Martin Carter was a brother of my great-great-grandmother Adaline Carter Arnold (mother of Annie Arnold Hicks)

Ned Carter and Helen Padgett had one child, Glynda Faye.

Here is what Glynda wrote about her father:

He was named for his Grandpa [Ned] Carter and his Grandpa [Jackson] Tamsett.  Ned is my father.  He was born 26 November 1909.  He married Helen Leota Padgett 31 August 1935.  They lived at Hardy, Desha and Banner [Arkansas].  She was not a well person but worked very hard, sewing for people  and in church.  She miscarried twice.  I was born 21 September 1939. She had a very hard labor.  She should have been in a hospital and had a caesarean, but she only had a country doctor that did not realize that.  She hemorrhaged and died 25 September.  She is buried at Pine Grove [Cemetery, in Floral, Arkansas].  

Ned and baby lived with the Padgetts for about five years.  Ned married Maxine Qualls Green in 1945.  I lived with them some, but mostly with my Padgett grandparents.  Maxine had a boy, Elvis, who was about three years old.  Ned and Maxine had no children.  

Ned was a “Jack of all Trades”.  He worked at sawmills, did mechanic work, worked for county road department and also worked as salesperson at two different building supply stores. He has been a piano tuner and rebuilds pianos too.  In fact, he still does a lot of piano work.  He has lived in Banner since 1939.  He plays the piano by ear and has played at Mt. Zion Baptist Church for many years.  He has been, and is a great dad. 

-- Glynda Faye Carter Tucker 1984

Here are some other pictures I have of Ned Carter

Ned Carter back row left, with Arnold and Hicks cousins

Back: Ned Carter, Ruby Hicks, Vada Carter, Irene Hicks, Agnes Carter, Ollie Carter. 

Front: Sylvia Arnold, Eldred Arnold, Aunt Birdie Arnold holding Arbon, Elvin Hicks, Annie Hicks holding Evalee, Aunt Amy Carter, Eulene Carter, Cleffie Hicks, Elmer Carter

Photo: Ned Jackson and Oscar Reeves 

(I don't know who Oscar Reeves is.)

Ned, Glynda and Glynda's husband Dwayne Tucker 1983

(I took this picture at the annual Carter/Arnold reunion)

Arbon Arnold and Ned Carter 1986