Magnolia "Maggie" Carter

Magnolia "Maggie" Carter, born Magnolia Gordon on April 25, 1956, is a living descendant in the Amanda Smith branch and the mother of the archive's founder. She worked as a registered nurse. She married twice and divorced twice, and kept the surname of her second husband, Michael Carter. She has recorded consent to be named in this archive; no photograph and no personal document is published for her.

No claim in this case has reached documented status.

• The eighty-acre place

  “John and Laura acquired approximately eighty acres, with a house, barns, livestock, a blacksmith shop, wells, orchards, pastures, streams, gardens, trees, and poultry.”

  Earliest known teller: Alma Smith Spearman · BT-TRD-00097

• Laura attended "Vicksburg College"

  “Laura Tolliver, while yet a student of Vicksburg College, was given in marriage to John Smith, a country farmer.”

  Earliest known teller: Alma Smith Spearman · BT-TRD-00098

• Bishop C. H. Mason in the Smith home

  “Around 1897 John and Laura Smith welcomed Bishop C. H. Mason into their home, extended an ongoing invitation for him to stay when in the area, their son Joe cared for his horse and buggy, and their oldest grandson Mason Harrison Smith was named for him.”

  Earliest known teller: Alma Smith Spearman · BT-TRD-00099

• The five-year separation

  “Hilliard was sold to another enslaver in Arkansas and separated from Bettie. Bettie's grief was so constant that her enslavers purchased Hilliard back, ending a separation the family remembers as lasting about five years.”

  Earliest known teller: Alma Smith Spearman · BT-TRD-00195

• Choctaw ancestry in Bettie's line

  “Family memory identifies Choctaw ancestry in the ancestry of Bettie Alexander Taliaferro, born about 1837.”

  Earliest known teller: Not recorded · BT-TRD-00604

• Shawnee ancestry in Hilliard's line

  “Family memory identifies Shawnee ancestry in the ancestry of Hilliard Taliaferro, born about 1823 in Virginia.”

  Earliest known teller: Not recorded · BT-TRD-00605

• Was Magnolia Gordon-Carter a child of Kermit Gordon?

  Under Investigation

  Which record — a birth certificate, a school record, an obituary, a funeral program or a church record — names Kermit Gordon as the parent of Magnolia Gordon?

• Is Amberly R. Carter-Mills a child of Magnolia Gordon-Carter?

  Family Tradition

  Obtain the amended Illinois birth certificate and record a redacted public extract establishing the mother-child relationship.

• · Locate and examine a census enumeration, birth record, death record naming parents, marriage record, obituary, Social Security application, church record or probate file.
• · Locate and examine a census enumeration, birth record, death record naming parents, marriage record, obituary, Social Security application, church record or probate file.

1. Family knowledge supplied by Amberly R. Carter-Mills

   Amberly R. Carter-Mills · BEFORE TILL research files · Authored Narrative

   Primary oral history — for the interviewee · Original image: Transcript verification pending · BT-SRC-00264

2. Statement of Amberly R. Carter-Mills concerning her mother, Magnolia "Maggie" Carter

   Amberly R. Carter-Mills, Founder, Creator & Descendant Archivist · BEFORE TILL archive, Hello Ambi, LLC · Original

   Primary oral history — for the interviewee · Original image: Transcript verification pending · BT-SRC-00317

3. Amended Illinois certificate of birth for Amberly R. Carter-Mills, 23 May 1985 — described derivative, no image published

   State of Illinois, Division of Vital Records · Held by the family; certified copy not yet ordered by the archive · Abstract

   Derivative source · Original image: Citation entered — image review pending · BT-SRC-00387

4. Bibliographic details pending — family history by Alma Smith Spearman

   Alma Smith Spearman · Authored Narrative

   Authored family history · Original image: Publication details pending · BT-SRC-00040

4 discrete observations were extracted from these sources for this case.