Lavinia Jane CARTER

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Union Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, Living with the David Ward family in Union Parish, Louisiana

Family/Spouse: Jeremiah Sherwood AULDS. Jeremiah was born on 2 Feb 1841 in Sumter County, Alabama; died on 18 Aug 1916 in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Aulds Chapel Cemetery, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living in Union Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Name:
Derril B. Carter married Mary Ward in Union Parish Louisiana on 28 August 1845. They had three daughters before he perished in the same epidemic that claimed the lives of Mary's younger brother, David Washington Ward, and their neighbor, Thomas T. Ratliff in early September.

Derril married Mary WARD on 28 Aug 1845. Mary was born about 1825 in Louisiana; died before 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with husband in Union Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Union Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Name:
Mary Ward was the eldest child of David Ward and his wife, Cynthia Seale. She moved with her parents into what became southern Lowndes County Alabama about 1829 or 1830, and in January 1837, they moved west, settling in the Bayou d'Loutre region of what later became Union Parish Louisiana, about seven miles east of Farmerville. Mary married Derril B. Carter on 28 August 1845. He died in 1852, and she remarried in July 1853 to Eleazor Slawson, known as "Azor."

In 1860, Mary and Azor lived with her aunt and uncle, Clarenda Seale and William Ham, with Azor working as Ham's overseer. Azor joined Company G, 31st Louisiana Infantry Regiment in the spring of 1862 and served for the duration of the war.

Mary died between 1860 and 7 December 1867 in Union Parish Louisiana.