According to the 1880 Federal Census,[10]
Ben's father was born in Ireland and his mother in Scotland. He himself is consistently recorded in family records as having been born in Franklin, Morrow County (formerly Knox County), Ohio, which fits with the above, and having died and been buried in Athelstan, Iowa. He certainly grew up in Ohio (he was only about nineteen when he married his first wife), but some of his children's records[11]
show that he was born in Pennsylvania.
According to the 1885 Iowa Census, both Benjamin's and Sarah's parents are native-born.[12]
The Ancestry.com records on him are very confused, because there is a Benjamin W Carter born in Hardin County, KY 1811 and living there until his death in 1863, while the Benj W Carter born in Ohio is well documented as having died in 1895. But often both Benjamins' children are attributed to this one.
One record says Ben W's father's name was Joseph and not William, but this must be a different Ben.
I cannot find an incontrovertible marriage record to Eliza H McCan in 1830.
According to this record, Benjamin Carter was appointed administrator of the estate of John McCan (his father-in-law?).
To make things more confusing, Benjamin W Carter of Kentucky married Elizabeth Mobberly in 1829 (1830), so since the first married Elizabeth Acton, for a while both wives would have the same name. Both Ben's have a daughter named Mary, born about the same time. Beyond that, the two appear different. The second Ben has a sister named Sarah, (unless the Kentucky Carter's father, also named Benjamin, married a woman 21 years younger? ... That would explain Susannah as his baby sister, and Sarah as stepmother, younger than himself) .
It is extremely improbable that this confusion is due to these two being the same person, not only because of the death dates, but because he would have had to have shuttled back and forth between Ohio and Hardin County, KY at least four times in a few years.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Pedigree Resource File, database, FamilySearch : accessed 2016-01-29), entry for Benjamin W /Carter/ (and Sarah Remington).
↑Pedigree Resource File, database, FamilySearch : accessed 20 May 2019), entry for Eliza H. /McCan/, cites sources; "RichardKannarr" file (2:2:2:MMDV-YHK), submitted 10 November 2015 by KannarrRichardAllen1 [identity withheld for privacy].
↑United States Census, 1840, Page: 19, database with images, FamilySearch : 24 August 2015), Ohio > Pike > Not Stated > image 42 of 95; citing NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
An almost perfect match to the ages of the children listed in the Squire genealogy; ages are just a tiny bit older. Both Benjamin and Eliza match.
Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 7
↑Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013, database with images, FamilySearch : 15 July 2014), Pike > Marriage records 1815-1846 vol 1 > image 175 of 238; county courthouses, Ohio. 1840
Note that Benjamin is listed as widowed in this record.
↑Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992, database, FamilySearch : accessed 29 January 2016), Benj Carter and Sarah Gordon, 16 Nov 1854; citing Mahaska Co., Iowa, reference 2:3Q54BF3; FHL microfilm 985,381.
↑1856 Iowa state census, Ancestry.com. Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
↑United States Census, 1860, database with images, FamilySearch : 24 March 2017), Iowa > Madison > Winterset > image 22 of 24; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, (Fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
↑United States Census, 1870, database with images, FamilySearch : 22 May 2014), Iowa > Union > Jones > image 7 of 20; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Improperly transcribed as Berry (instead of Benj) Carter.
↑United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch : 24 December 2015), Iowa > Union > Jones > ED 225 > image 16 of 25; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)
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Carter-23759 and Carter-14859 appear to represent the same person because: The is the Benjamin Carter that married Elizabeth Acton. He lived mostly in Ohio, and one child's census record lists him as being born in Pennsylvania. But other details match.