Ina Anita (Carter) Wootton (1933 - 1999)

Born 31 Mar 1933 in Maces Spring, Scott, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Clifton Wootton — married 14 Dec 1973 in Sumner, Tennessee, United States

Died 29 Jul 1999 at age 66 in Hendersonville, Sumner, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Anita (Carter) Wootton is Notable.

Anita was born in 1933. She died in 1999 at the age of 66.

Anita was married three times. Her maiden name, "Carter" is on her burial page.

Spouse #1: Allen Dale Potter 1929 - 1996. He married 2nd, Peggy Jane Potts. Findagrave #97864976

Spouse #2: Donald S. "Don" Davis 1928 - 2015. They were married 2/23/1964 in Montgomery, Alabama. Per Alabama County Marriages, 1809 - 1950. Findagrave #50552523

Spouse #3: Robert Clifton "Bob" Wootton 1942 - 2017. Findagrave #178319498

1) Anita was a member of country music's most popular family, the Carter Family Singers. She found success on her own doing duets and as a folk solo act during the early 1950's to late 1960's. Her hits included "Bluebird Island," "Down the Trail of Achin' Hearts," "Busted," & "I'm Gonna Leave You." In the 1970's, she paired up with Waylon Jennings and made appearances with the Carter Family.

2) The following appeared in the Scott County Virginia Star, 8/4/1999: Legend’s Memory Will Live On. Country music lost another member of its royal family on 7/30 with the death of Anita Carter, 66. Anita Carter was the daughter of Carter Family matriarch, Maybelle Addington Carter and a performer for many years with her mother and sisters, June and Helen. Her sister, June Carter Cash, and her brother in-law, Johnny Cash, were with her. She had suffered for some time from rheumatoid arthritis. Born Ina Anita Carter, 3/31/1933, in Maces Springs, Virginia, she was the youngest of the Carter sisters but the first to begin singing with the first-generation Carter Family group. She joined her mother, Maybelle, her cousin, Sara Carter, and Sara’s husband, A.P. Carter, in 1938 while they were broadcasting on border radio stations in Texas. Her sisters followed soon afterward.

By 1943, Mother Maybelle and her daughters had begun their own career, broadcasting over a radio station from Richmond, Virginia. They later moved to the Tennessee Barn Dance in Knoxville, where Chet Atkins joined them in 1949. Anita Carter played stand-up bass and sang soprano in the group. Mother Maybelle and the Carter Family became 104 regular members of the Grand Ole Opry in 1950. They toured with Elvis Presley in 1956 and 1957 and joined Johnny Cash’s touring show in 1961.

Anita Carter was married twice, to music publishing executive and record producer Don Davis and to Bob Wootton, a guitarist with Johnny Cash. Both marriages ended in divorce. She was a descendant of Scott County pioneer families of Carter, Addington, Kilgore, Compton, and George and Susanna Snavely McConnell.

Sources

• Anita is buried at the Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee, USA. Her page lists and has links to her parents, 2 siblings, 3 spouses. There are pictures of her and of her headstone. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6168/anita-carter

• Anita: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9DQY-33L Lists her parents, 2 siblings, spouse Allen, spouse Donald, spouse Robert, 36 sources/notes.

• 1940 Census: Ina E. Carter. Age: 6. White, female. Home in 1940: Fulkerson Magisterial District, Scott, Virginia. Birth year/place: 1935 in Virginia. Household members: Ezra J. Carter, 41 (VA). Maebelle Carter, 29 (VA). Valerie J. Carter, 10 (VA). Helen M. Carter, 12 (VA). Ina E. Carter, 6 (VA).

• 1950 Census: Anita Carter. Age: 17. Home in 1950: Springfield, Greene, Missouri. Birth year/place: 1933 in Virginia. Occupation: musician, radio industry. Household members: Ezra J. Carter, 51 (VA). Maybelle Carter, 40 (VA). June Carter, 20 (VA). Helen Jones, 22 (VA). Anita Carter, 17 (VA). Glenn J. Jones, 23 (GA).

• Article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Carter