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plantation house, which included a large library, burnt down in the mid-twentieth century. One son, Pleasant Jiles Carter (1847-1931) inherited some of the plantation land and a log cabin, consisting of one large downstairs room with a stone fireplace, and one upstairs room. He built a larger log house across from the cabin and converted the smaller house into a kitchen. He was married to Sarah
Catherine Sharp (b 1855), daughter of George Valentine Sharp and Jane Tickle Sharp, and had ten children. Some of their children, including a son named Yancey Ligon Carter, were born in this house. Yancey, who became a justice of the peace and a trial lawyer, rented one of the houses with his wife, Mary Elizabeth Morton Carter, until they left and bought a farm in
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Virginia. Thomas and Sarah had ten children who were born on the plantation. Thomas and Sarah are buried in the family cemetery, connected to a cemetery for those enslaved on the plantation, located on the plantation. The plantation was divided among their children. The original
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Wentworth, were later sold by the family. In 2021, the log cabins and cemetery were bought back by members of the family. A photography exhibit on the houses, and on the Carter family, taken by Carter descendant and photographer
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Lieutenant-Colonel
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