CARTER, Benjamin H. – Benjamin H. Carter was born December 7, 1830 in Tennessee, died before 1886 in Washington County, Arkansas. He married Lucy C. Young. They moved first to Texas, where their first child, Tennessee was born about 1855, then later moved to Arkansas, where they lived near the old Cross Roads School. Benjamin H. Carter served in the Civil War in Co. K, Stirman’s Arkansas Cavalry in 1863-1864. Lucy C. Carter, as widow of Benjamin H. Carter, drew pension on August 21, 1902. He is buried at McCord cemetery. He was the father of six children, five daughters and one son. [WCHS Flashback Vol. 15, No. 3]
Lucy C. Carter, widow of Benjamin H. Carter, filed Widow Application #13501 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate widow pension and it was received as allowed August 21, 1902 at the State, citing her husband’s service with Company K, Arkansas Cavalry from 1863 thru 1865. [State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives]