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Gives The Facts
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Home is where the heart is—
and where the heart of the acci
dent problem is, too.
According to the 1949 edition of
“Accident Facts”, statistical year
book of the National Safety Coun
cil, there were 35,000 home acci
., v, den t deaths m11948—wliiph tph
the home America's No 1 acci
dental killer.
Falls were the greatest cause of
home deaths last year, resulting in
18,200 fatalities. Burns, scalds
and explosions came next, with a
total of 0,000 deaths. Mechanical
suffocation caused 1,800 deaths, to
rank third in 1948.
Special studies show that more
than 25 percent of fatal home ac
cidents occur in the bedroom. The
yard and kitchen are the next
most hazardous locations at home,
causing about 12 and 10 percent of
the deaths respectively.
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A Patriarch of Indian Woods
Austin Carter, 9S Years Old
(Editor’s note: The following account was prepared by Maria
Carter Rascoe, daughter of Austin Carter and a practical nurse
of Windsor. Her words tell the story so graphically that it is
published here as written by her.—Bertie Ledger-Advance.)
Austin Carter was born in In
dian Woods township near Quit-1
sna in Bertie County September
18, 1851. Parents, Alfred Carter
and Mariah Carter, who were
slaves of Sallie Carter and whom
she turned over to her son-in-law
and daughter, Lewis Clara Bond.
Austin Carter was ten years old
at the time when'the Civil War
broke out.
His father, Alfred Carter, took
the family, his wife and three
children—Austin, the oldest—and
started to run away to the Yank
ees. By nightfall, they got in a
small canoe at Quitsna Landing
leaving the farm of Lewis Clara
Bond. Alfred Carter took a paddle,
the only one, to row the boat and
little Austin took a stick to help
his father paddle the boat. They
traveled along through the night
down the Roanoke River and had
gotten as far as Conine Creek near
Williamston by daybreak. They
crossed on the Martin County side
and as the sun was rising, they
dragged their boat along the river
bank in the woods to rest and
wait for another night as they
couldn't travel in the day time.
Later in the day a hog-feeder
from the Bertie side reported that
he heard children crying in the
woods, and a posse of white men
went with guns to search fofr the
Negro slaves that had run away.
When Alfred Carter saw them, he
took Austin by the hand and ran.
One of the posse of men said,
“halt", bht Alfred ahd Austin
didn't stop running so he shot Al
fred down and he fell holding
Austin’s hand. Austin screamed,
“He shot my daddy.” Lewis Clara
Bond and Jack Bond recognized
Austin and told the boys not to
shoot any more. To their surprise
they had put. sixteen buckshots in
Alfred's hip and leg. So they took
him up with the rest of the fam
ily and put them on a canoe and
paddled them to Cedar Landing,
where they took family and all
in a wagon to Windsor and put
them in jail. Austin’s first and
last time of ever being in jail.
After being in jail for two days
they took Austin, his mother and
the two sipall children, back to
Lewis Clara Bond's home to help
bring in the kindling and woo.d
around the yard. So there Austin
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lad to take the responsibilities of
i family. He tried earnestly to do
his best. They sent his father up
the country, leaving Austin home
with his mother to care for the
family. Alfred, Austin's father,
returned three years after the
Civil War was over to take over
the family.
Austin then was a husky lad of
17. Alfred was very proud of his
son, Austin. He presented three
sf.his.tKWy.res to \ostjn_a.rivine
frow, a mallet and a cross-cut
saw and taught him how to make
shingles for a living. Which Aus
tin took these with pride and he
still has the frow as a souvenir.
He worked side by side with his
father. At the age of eighteen, he
joined the Indian Woods Baptist
Church, of which he is a deacon
and has been for 53 years.
At the age of 26, he was married
to Rena Smallwood. To that union
12 children were born, they rear
ed 11 of them to manhood and
womanhood.
After eighteen years his wife
died. Two years from then he
married again to Rosetta Bryant.
They lived together for 20 years.
No children were born to them.
Austin decided to leave the
swamp and take farming as his
family was too large to be taken
care of in the swamp. By then
most of the children were going
to various places to make homes
and rear families of their'own.
Austin being single and having a
record of being an ideal husband
and a good provider, he was very
popular with the ladies. He was
often seen holding hands and
looking them closely in eyes.
However, he didn’t propose easily.
One widow from Brooklyn, N.
Y., visiting here for the summer
fell in love with him and after he
didn’t propose she went back to
Brooklyn, N. Y„ and it is said she
died of a broken heart. After
awhile he met another widow,
Mrs. Cloc Bryant whom he mar
ried. They were very loving, just
as two little children. They lived
together 12 years, two months and
two weeks, June 6. 1049.
Austin Carter is still very ac
tive, somewhat unusual for a man
of his age. He celebrated his 98th
birthday September 18, 1949,
with family and friends. He of
ten tells the boys “work is no
trouble and neither are the wom
en if you take them one at a time.”
He is still jolly with a good up
petite. He can walk a mile, feed
his chicken, pigs and horse every
day. He has never taken intoxi
cating beverages, smoked nor
chewed tobacco.
He retired from farming twe
years ago, but still makes his
home on his little farm in Indiar
Woods, about a mile from Indiar
Woods Church.
He is the only member left, ol
a family of seven children, al
though he was the eldest. He has
two sons, Theodore of Pittsburg!
and Walter of Portsmouth, anc
three daughters, Maggie of New
York, Maria (Rascoe) of Windsoi
and Ella of Indian Woods. Tht
accompanying photograph was
taken last week near the Indian
Woods Boptist Church.
Don’t Argue
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Many reasons have been ad
vanced to show the futility of ar
gument, but few can be more de
finitely convincing than those off
ered by Uncle Eben, the patriarch
of a certain Dixie village.
Taint much use o* arguin',”
counseled the wise old man. “Ef
you's talkin’ to a man dat has mo
sense dan you has, de bes' thing
you kin do is keep quiet an’ lis
ten. An’ ef you’s talkin’ to one
dat ain’t got as much sense as you
has, you's jes wastin’ yoh time!”
NOTICE
North Carolina, Martin County.
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
J. W. Bembridge, and wife, Cora
Bembridge, W. F. Bembridge and
wife, Virginia Bembridge, and J.
F. Bembridge, unmarried, vs.
Harriet Bembridge, T. D. Bem
bridge, H. G. Bembridge, unmar
ried, and Mary Bembridge Saw
yer and husband, Dewey Sawyer.
The defendants, Harriet Bem
bridge, T. D. Bembridge, Mary
Bembridge Sawyer and husband,
Dewey Sawyer, above named, will
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in
the Superior Court of Martin
County, North Carolina, for the
purpose of selling for division the
lightwood post where the Johnson
Railroad crosses the Manning
road, thence running Southward
along said road to the old John
Uardison line, thence Northward
with said John Hardison line to a
water oak in Poplar Branch,
thence down the run of Poplar
Branch to the Johnson Railroad,
thence Eastward along said rail
road to the beginning, containing
75 acres, mo»e or less, being the
same land deeded to Carthene L.
2nd Tract: Lying and being in
Jameaville Township, Martin
County and State of N. C„ bound
ed on the North by the N. C. I’ulp
Company, bounded on the East by
the Poplar Branch, bounded on
the South by J, W. Griffin, bound
ed on the West by the N. C. Pulp
Company Arthur Modlin tract,
containing 50 acres, more or less,
death to her children, by Durham
Hardison and wife, Mary A. Hard
ison, of record in the Public Reg
istry of Martin County in Book
XX .page. IQX...
lands owned as tenants in com
mon by the petitioners and the dc
designated as the James Betn
bridge land.
The said defendants, Harriet
Bembridge, T. D. Bcmbridge,
Mary Bembridge Sawyer and hus
band, Dewey Sawyer, will further
take notice that they are required
to appear before L. B. Wynne,
Clerk of Superior Court of Martin
County at his office in the court
house in the Town of Williamston
within 10 days after the 5th day of
December, 1949, and answer or de
mur to the petition filed in this ac
tion, or the petitioners will apply
to the court for thcirelief demand
ed in said petition.
This the 5th day of November,
i949.
L. B. Wynne,
Clerk of Superior Court of
Martin County.
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