CARTER, Charles

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ November 10, 1939, p. 1 PIONEER CONGRESS PAIR LAID TO REST PRESCOTT—Death claimed one of the prominent cattle raising figures of Yavapai county when Charles Carter, Congress Junction justice of the peace, died at a local hospital early Sunday morning, two days after his wife, Mrs. Catherine Rudy Carter, had succumbed to a lingering illness. The deaths ended one of the stories of development of this area by hardy pioneers. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carter had been residents of Yavapai county since the 1870’s children of this county’s earliest settlers, and outstanding figures in the growth of Northern Arizona as a cattle raising district. Funeral services were conducted from the Lester Ruffner Funeral Home in Prescott Sunday afternoon for both Mr. and Mrs. Carter. Burial in Mountain View Cemetery, followed by special services conducted for Carter by the local I.O.O.F. Carter, who had been in ill health for several months, was in a local hospital when his wife succumbed Thursday morning. He died at 1:30 o’clock Sunday morning. They leave a son, Howard carter, Yavapai county deputy sheriff at Yarnell, a daughter, Mrs. Earl Shride, of Congress Junction and two grandchildren. Pallbearers at the services were J. Van Dickson, R. M. Robbins, Roy Hays, C. C. Jackson, Charles Evans and Lyle Sharpneck.