Elizabeth Carter
Born 16 Apr 1797, Caswell County, NC
Died: 1839, Sumner County, TN, Buried in Carter Cemetary (lost)
Father: Joseph Carter
Mother: Ann Mallory
Married: Enoch Simpson 29 Dec 1818 in Caswell Co, NC
Our Child: Aaron Sanford Simpson

Enoch and Elizabeth moved to Sumner County, TN soon after their marriage.
On 29 December 1818 in Caswell County, North Carolina, Enoch Simpson married his first wife, Elizabeth Carter, daughter of Joseph and Ann (Mallory) Carter of Caswell County. Elizabeth was born in Caswell County on 16 April 1797. She was the mother of six children: Aaron Sanford, Mary Ann, William C., Nancy E., Katherine Odie and Elizabeth Simpson.

After the birth of their first child in 1819, Enoch and Elizabeth (Carter) Simpson followed his brother, Roger Simpson, to Giles County, Tennessee and settled on Richland Creek. It was here that their second and third children were born. However, in the winter of 1824-25, they moved again, this time to Sumner County, Tennessee, settling on Deshea Creek. The reason for the second move may have been precipitated by the relocation of Elizabeth's parents from Caswell County, North Carolina to Sumner County at about the same time. In the early 1830s, the Simpsons moved again, this time to the Dry Fork of Bledsoe Creek, taking up a farm formerly owned by Robert and Elinor McKissack. They expanded the original one room log house by adding a frame room to the north, connected by a breezeway, and a board and batten kitchen wing to the east. This house still stands today on the east side of Rock Bridge Road.

Elizabeth (Carter) Simpson died in 1839, and family tradition says that she was buried with her family in the Carter Cemetery near Bransford, Sumner County, Tennessee. The cemetery has not been located, and may have been destroyed.

Carter Family History