Gertrude Elizabeth Carter

1913-1981 · Virginia

Born 1913, Virginia

Died 1981

Father: Ashby Carter

Mother: Sarah L. Carter

Children include Donlad

Gertrude Elizabeth Carter was born on 31 December 1913 in Virginia. She went by Elizabeth: the 1950 census calls her that, her son's marriage certificate names her Elizabeth Gertrude Carter, and her gravestone reads Elizabeth Carter Waddell.

Her parents were Ashby Carter and Sarah L. Carter of Fauquier County, and she was one of their eight children. On Thursday 12 October 1939 she married Fred Albert Waddell, who was three years younger, at Berryville in Clarke County. Both were then living at Rectortown. Her father had died the year before. Their daughter Doris L. was born about 1941, and twin sons, Douglas and Donald LeRoy, followed on 3 June 1942 at Rectortown, Fauquier County.

In May 1950 the family lived in a house on a farm in Scott district, Fauquier County. Elizabeth was 36 and kept house while Fred repaired radios for a retail radio store. A niece, Marilyn Furr, aged 15, lived with them; three of Elizabeth's sisters married into the Furr family.

Elizabeth was widowed in December 1979. She died on 25 May 1981, aged 67, and was buried next to Fred at Sharon Cemetery, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia.

Her mother, Sarah L. Carter, died at Middleburg on 3 March 1957, on her 78th birthday, and named "Mrs. Fred Waddell, Rectortown" among her eight children.

Parents

Sarah L. Carter (1879-1957)

Ashby Carter (d. 1938)

Children

Donlad Waddell (1942-2021)

Sources

Virginia Certificate of Marriage no. 22915, Fauquier County, 28 August 1961, clerk's no. 126; Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1989, FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QK96-B5H4, image ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9TN-5S7L-4

1950 United States census, Scott district, Fauquier County, Virginia, enumeration district 31-26, sheet 6, lines 5 to 10, enumerated 18 May 1950; National Archives 1950 census, image 43290879-Virginia-115587-0008

Obituary of Donald L. Waddell, Short Funeral Services, Georgetown, Delaware, April 2021 (tributearchive.com/obituaries/20636213); also on Find a Grave, memorial 274538904

Find a Grave, memorial 19419790, Gertrude Elizabeth Carter Waddell, Sharon Cemetery, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, photograph added by Hope, 17 May 2007

Commonwealth of Virginia certificate of death, state file no. 79-037498, Fred Albert Waddell, filed 17 December 1979; Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987, FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QVRC-9DGD, image ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9PB-MSMX-H

1950 census, Fauquier County, ED 31-26, sheet 6; Virginia marriage certificate no. 22915, 1961; Find a Grave memorial 19419790 (stone).

Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 18 October 1939, page 4; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, TFD19391018.1.4

Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 7 March 1957, page 8-C, "Mrs. Sarah Carter Dies on Birthday; Services Tuesday"; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, TFD19570307.1.24

1950 census, Fauquier County, ED 31-26, sheet 6; Virginia marriage certificate no. 22915, 1961; Find a Grave memorial 19419790 (stone).; Fauquier Democrat, 18 October 1939, page 4; Fauquier Democrat, 7 March 1957, page 8-C (Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia).

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