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Claude Olis Carter
20 Dec 1888 – 6 Mar 1949
| Birth | 20 Dec 1888 |
| Death | 6 Mar 1949 |
| Cemetery | Crown Hill Cemetery Wheat Ridge , Jefferson County , Colorado , USA |
| Added by | Michelle Hamlin Peterson on 25 Dec 2022 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242337385 |
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Claude Olis Carter (often his name is mistakenly written Otis, but his World War I Draft card shows Olis, and his own signature on that card confirms this middle name) was born in Indianapolis to Mary Farnham Mood. She was not married at the time and never told Claude who his father was. He was forced to work in the mines at age 7 or 8 with the man she later married, Phillip Mood who was a miner. Mary's sister Eva Farnham Carter and her husband Joseph J Carter adopted Claude and raised him from about 9 years old. Family oral history is that Eva and Joseph wanted to adopt him because they didn't agree with how he was made to work in the mines at such a young age. He grew up in the Carter family and later became a machinist, eventually working for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. He courted Matilda Blanche Jameson and later married her on Dec. 12, 1912 at 12:12pm (all 12's!) in Northestern Colorado. They had 4 children, Opal, Kenneth, Eulah "Sally" and Iola Berdeen. They settled in Denver and Claude worked in the former Burlington rail yards still standing near the junction of I-70 and I-25 north of Denver. He was a locomotive machinist until he had a stroke in 1947. He took up wood working as a hobby after the stroke, but died a few years later in 1949 at the age of 60.
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- Cecil Roscoe Carter 1891–1978
- Ida Olive Carter Jameson 1894–1979
- James Dolan Carter 1898–1967
- Julia Vineta Carter Owen 1906–1979
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- Opal E. Carter Haynes 1914–1959 FaG
- Kenneth Francis Carter 1916–1990 FaG
- Eulah Veneta Carter Kahm 1917–1989 FaG
- Iola B. Carter Roesch 1922–2000 FaG
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