March 25

 Nancy Ellen Carter was born 25 March 1884

Ellen was the youngest of the children of Ned Carter and Jane Evans Carter. She was a sister of my great-great-grandmother Adaline Carter Arnold (mother of Annie Arnold Hicks). 

Ellen married Will Cartee 18 March 1898 (one week before her 14th birthday. Will was 21 years old.) Their first child, Maude, was born 01 January 1899, when Ellen was still 14 years old.

In this group photo, taken in 1916, Maude was 16 years old and married to Sam Hall.

GROUP PHOTO 1916: Back row - Sam Hall, Maude Cartee Hall, Will and Ellen Cartee (Their son Ralph, standing in front of Ellen, was born July 1915. Their oldest child Maude died in June 1919 from tuberculosis, and their last child, Dorothy, was born in October 1919.) 

Here is what my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks wrote about them:

  Ellen married Will Cartee the first time, and raised four children.  One of them was married when Will took up with a woman and left Aunt Ellen and of course, he soon wanted to come back but she wouldn’t have him back.  And she struggled and worked and raised her three children (one of her children had died), and did a fine job of it.  They are all married now and have nice families.  And she married a man that treats her right.  His name is Charlie Haigwood.  Her oldest girl died at about 25 years with T.B., I believe.  Her name was Maud.  Maud was married before her parents separated.  She had two sisters and one brother - Lillie, Ralph and Dorothy. 

Ellen Carter Cartee Haigwood died April 1972, age 88

Ellen and Charley are buried in Smith Cemetery, Alton, Missouri