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Submitted: 3/10/13 • Approved: 9/19/23 • Last Updated: 9/22/23 • R845376-G0-S3
PRIVATE
Company D 17 Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
December 19, 1839 - Unknown
*Obituary
WCHS Flashback Vol. 15, No. 3
CARTER, Jourdain Hasty – Dr. Jourdain Hasty Carter, better known as “Dr. Jerd”, practiced in the vicinity of Sulphur and Carter, Arkansas. He was born December 19, 1839 in Tennessee. He enlisted at Fayetteville on November 18, 1861 (age 21) as a private in Co. D of the 17th Arkansas Infantry and served until 1865. He was wounded during this time and drew a pension on August 15, 1909 in Washington County. It is said that he was at one time around Cassville, Missouri during the war. He told that the Feds ran them out of Cassville and pushed them at “double-time” to Blockade Holler, from which point he stated he walked home. Dr. Jerd married Sarah Jane Irvin on July 30, 1868. She was born in 1851 in Illinois. After her death, Jerd married her sister, who helped bring up the three children of his first marriage. None of Jerd’s children married, so there are no descendants today. However, his memory is fresh in the minds of his nieces and nephews, and many tales about “Uncle Jerd” keep him alive in the hearts of their children. “Uncle Jerd"loved a joke, practical or otherwise. This trait seems to be a dominant one among the Carters. (John F. Carter tells that he has heard Dave Jones tell about how John C. Carter and his father, the old Dr. George Carter, would “rawhide” each other.) In our family are some amusing stories of the practical jokes Jerd played on his brother, Dr. George Carter, and his good friend, Bayless Shumate. Dr. Jerd Carter, his wife and his three children are buried in McCord Cemetery near Elkins, Arkansas.
*Obituary (Pension)
State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives
J.H. Carter filed Veteran Application #13511 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate pension and it was received as allowed August 15, 1909 at the State, citing service with Company D, 17th Arkansas Infantry from 1861 thru 1865, during which time he was wounded.
*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Washington County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
Contributed on 3/10/13 by judyfrog
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