Members of the Carter family were "among the earliest settlers of Tennessee" and their descendants became "one of the most illustrious families in the state."
John Carter of Watauga Association Landon C. Carter, Revolutionary War soldier, namesake of Carter County, Tennessee while Elizabethton is named for his wife Elizabeth Maclin U.S. Representative William Blount Carter Mary Carter U.S. Representative Nathaniel Green Taylor Tennessee governor Alf Taylor Tennessee governor and U.S. Senator Robert Love Taylor Alfred Moore Carter Union Army officer Samuel Perry Carter Rev. William Blount Carter Secretary of Arizona Territory James Patton Taylor Carter
See also Landon Carter Haynes
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