Releford Granville Carter joined the United Brrthren in Christ Church in 1859. He was granted a license to preach by his local church in 1881 and then in 1882 the Nebraska Annual Conference gave him a License to Preach in the entire Annual Conference. He served churches as follows(Gaps in this service indicate time off for health or other reasons):
1884-1886. Fillmore, Dudley and Geneva
1887. York
1888. Shiloh (near. York)
1889. Otterbein Plattsmouth
1895. Friend Pleasant Hill
1896-1897. Fairbury
1898. DuBois
1899. Vesta
1900. Crab Orchard
1901-1902. Maynard
1903-1904. Shiloh
1906. York
He passed away in 1929. [1] He is buried in the Andrew Cemetery, Friend, Saline, Nebraska, United States[2]
Sources
↑ First-hand information as remembered by Loren Mullins, Monday, January 6, 2014.
↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 December 2019), memorial page for Releford Granville Carter (22 Aug 1852–20 Oct 1929), Find A Grave Memorial no. 79580835, citing Andrew Cemetery, Friend, Saline County, Nebraska, USA ; Maintained by weston04 (contributor 47246634) .
See also:
"Lee Family Memories". Compiled by Alice Mullins Pickett
Also The Nebraska United Methodist Historical records housed at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8YL-VWG : 14 August 2017), Reniford Carter, Precinct M, Seward, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district ED 145, sheet 498D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,756.
"Nebraska State Census, 1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3X5-VDR : 11 March 2018), Robert G Carter in entry for August Peterson, 1885; citing NARA microfilm publication M352 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 499,546.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3B4-BHK : accessed 28 December 2019), Ralford G Carter, Western Precinct Crab Orchard village, Johnson, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 32, sheet 4A, family 76, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,931.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLHH-G93 : accessed 28 December 2019), R G Carter, Lockridge, York, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 200, sheet 3B, family 63, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 857; FHL microfilm 1,374,870.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCKX-129 : accessed 28 December 2019), Releford Carter, Johnson, Kimball, Nebraska, United States; citing ED 176, sheet 14A, line 8, family 216, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 995; FHL microfilm 1,820,995.
Acknowledgements
Gedcom from Lorri Carter as given by Eowyn Langholf
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