SENECA CARTER
August 17, 1804 - August 16, 1858
Two great granddaughters of Seneca Carter, Ann & Mary, have informed me that data contained in the letter by Kenley Schroeder about Seneca is wrong and I'm here now to try to get it all corrected.
Seneca Carter, son of Dr. Asa Carter and his second wife Ruth Culver
of Weathersfield, Vermont, married Mary Gray, the daughter of Dr. Henry Gray and his wife Margaret Carpenter. They married in Weston, Vermont on December 22, 1835. Of this union four sons were born, three of which died in infancy. The only surviving child was Henry Gray Carter born in Weston, Vermont October 11, 1836. Henry was a
Captain in the Civil War, fighting in the New Mexico and Louisiana Campaigns. After Mary's death, Seneca married the younger sister of Margaret Carpenter (Mary's aunt), Azubah Carpenter. They were married in Keene, New Hampshire by "Cousin" Mark Carpenter on September 1, 1845. Unlike Kenley's letter, Seneca never had a daughter.
Dr. Seneca Carter graduated in 1828 from the Vermont Medical School in Woodstock, Vermont. He practiced medicine in Weston, Vermont (not NY as the article states). In the late 1840s he moved to Barre,
MA and owned a store called the "Nichols and Carter Emporium". His second wife, Azubah and her baby Fredrick S. Carter, died in 1849 and Dr. Carter came to Texas. He published a newspaper in Galveston called the "Galveston Journal". His son later joined him, and they moved to Milam County. Seneca died suddenly in Milam County, Texas in 1858 and may have been buried in the Gordon Family Cemetery because he and the Gordons were good friends and they may have offered a burial place to his distraught young son after the death of his father. Perhaps there was no established cemetery near their farm.When Henry died he was buried in Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.
