November 8

Nancy Jane Evans Carter was born 08 November 1838 in Tennessee

(She was called Jane, and I have found only one document that confirms her first name was Nancy.)

Jane Evans Carter was my great-great-great-grandmother.

She was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Bishop Evans.

Jane was the mother of Adaline Carter Arnold.

PHOTO: Six generations - Sarah Bishop Evans, Jane Evans Carter, Adaline Carter Arnold, Annie Arnold Hicks, Cleffie Hicks Burford, Wathada Burford Thomas (my mother)

Jane Evans married Ned Jonas Carter  in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois 17 December 1865.  

Ned and Jane had eight children. Jane had two children from a previous marriage and Ned had three children from a previous marriage.

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

My Grandmother’s name was Jane Evans before marriage. She married a man by the name of Evans.  They had two children, Elizabeth and Joe. After a few years her first husband died and she soon married a man by the name of Carter and he soon died.  No children were born to them.  Then she married again, a man by the name of Ned Jonas Carter.  This man had three children, Margaret, Mary, and Wesley so that made them five children to start with.  Then they had several children.  I will try to call their names.  Sarah, Parlie, Adaline (my mother), John, Beckie, Tilda, George and Ellen.

PHOTO: Josiah Marion 'Joe' Evans

PHOTO: Elizabeth Evans and her husband Russ Byrd, with their children

PHOTO: Mary Elizabeth Carter Dunn (I don't have a picture of her husband Luke Dunn)

PHOTO: Margaret Carter Rhoades and Ellen Carter Cartee

PHOTO: Sarah Carter with her husband Albert Betts and their children

PHOTO: Paralee ('Parlie') Carter with her husband David Owen and their children

PHOTO: Adaline Carter with her husband Henry Arnold and their children

PHOTO: John Martin Carter and his wife Amy Tamsett

PHOTO: Matilda ('Tilda') Carter and husband Thomas Cartee

PHOTO: George Thomas Carter with his wife Laura and their children

Here is what a Carter cousin - Glynda Carter Tucker - wrote.

Jane was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Bishop Evans. She first married her step brother William Evans. William was the son of Jane's step-mother (her Father's second wife) Elizabeth Sitten; and his surname was Walker, but he took the name of Evans from his step-father.  So, they were not actually blood related, just related by marriages of their parents. After William Walker Evans’ death, she married Thomas Carter. After Thomas Carter's death, she married Ned J. Carter. (Thomas and Ned were not related.) So it was, that Jane married 3 times and only changed her name once. 

More from Annie:

My Grandma lived to be about 50 years old. She died when I was about 3 years old.  I can barely remember when she died in 1896.  She had T.B., but died from taking an overdose of calomel and getting salivated.  You see, when you take calomel and if you eat anything salty or hot coffee soon after taking it, it salivates you.  It makes your mouth real sore and even makes your teeth fall out when it gets real bad, and if you don’t get it stopped it goes to the stomach and eats your stomach up and kills. People used to take calomel for malaria.  We don’t have malaria in the north, but it used to be real bad in the warm climates before the land was cleared up much. 

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Most of this information is included in my book The Woods Is Full of 'Em, available on Amazon.

This book contains many pictures and stories about the Carter/Arnold/Hicks branches of the family tree.