Hattie Arbelle Carter

  General Notes:

The North Carolina Birth Index 1800-2000 database at ancestry.com records:
Hattie Arbelle Carter
Date of Birth: 6 Oct 1899 / Gender: Female / Race: White / Birth County: Surry / Parent1 Name: Wm Leander Carter / Parent2 Name: Emma Moody / Roll Number: B_C092_68001 / Volume: 7 / Page: 75

The 1900 Federal Census for Mount Airy, Surry Co., NC, District 111 records Hattie B. Carter living with her parents William L. (May 1871 - NC/NC/NC) and Emmie D. (Nov 1874 - NC/NC/NC) Carter and siblings Cannon L. (April 1894) and Orvil B. (Aug 1896). Next door is Tyre A. (Feb 1868) and Rosie J. (May 1874) Moody with 3 sons Howard F. (July 1890), Willie R. (Feb 1894), and Claraton W. (Nov 1897). Also in their household is the widowed mother Lillie Ann [Letty] Moody (Aug 1857 - NC/NC/NC). William and Tyre are both farmers. William and Emma have been married for 7 years.

The 1900 Federal Census for Salem Town, Winston Township, Forsyth Co., NC, District 111 records Hattie Carter (11) living with her parents William L. (39 - NC/NC/NC) and Emma D. (35 - NC/NC/NC) Carter and siblings Carmon (15), Arvel (13), and Odell (5). William works as a job hand in a tobacco factory.

Hattie Carter, her son, Robert, and his wife, Florence, were brutally murdered by Fred Klenner, Jr. (Fritz). Their bodies were discovered in the home of Hattie Newsom, 3239 Valley Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Robert was found lying on the floor in the archway leading from the living room. He had been shot five times, the fatal one in the back of his head.

Hattie married Robert Wesley Newsom Sr. on 1 Apr 1918 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co., NC. (Robert Wesley Newsom Sr. was born on 2 Feb 1898 in North Carolina and died on 21 Mar 1980 in Winston Salem, Forsyth Co., North Carolina.)