Finding Aid to the James Lanier Carter Collection

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
THE JAMES LANIER CARTER (1909-1987) COLLECTION
The collection includes genealogical notes, note cards, reports, and photographs
concerning the RAMSEY and allied families of Virginia.
BOX 1

BOX 2

BOX 3

1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5
1-6
1-7
1-8
1-9

RAMSEY Family - I
RAMSEY Family - II
RAMSEY Family - III
RAMSEY Family - IV
RAMSEY Family - V
Clan RAMSAY Newsletter
Pension, Thomas F. RAMSEY
Photographs, RAMSEY
RAMSEY Coat of Arms

Family Genealogical Records
2-1 ANDERSON
2-2 BEVERLY
2-3 BUCKWALTER
2-4 CARTER
2-5 CLEMENT -I
2-6 CLEMENT -II
2-7 HOY
(Correspondence)
2-8 HUTCHINGS
2-9 LANIER
2-10 MAHAN
2-11 MOON

2-12
2-13
2-14
2-15
2-16
2-17
2-18

NORTH
PIGG
ROBINS
RUTLEDGE
WARD
WOMACK -I
WOMACK -II

2-19 WOODS
2-20 YOUNG
2-21 ZIEGLER

Note Cards, RAMSEY surname, other surnames

MS1371

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JAMES LANIER CARTER (1909-1987)
James Lanier CARTER, son of Chesley Lanier CARTER and Mary Belle MOON,
was born 18 February 1989, in Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He attended the
University of Virginia and was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh.
He married 8 September 1934, in Chatham, Jewel Anderson RAMSEY, daughter of W.
E. RAMSEY and Nannie ANDERSON, of Pittsylvania County.
During World War II, James L. CARTER served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.
An investment banker and owner of an antique store in Lynchburg, James L.
CARTER was actively involved in the Lynchburg Bird Club, the Society of Colonial
Wars, and the Society of the Cincinnati. He died 30 August 1987, in Lynchburg, and was
buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery.
[Obituary, Lynchburg News & Daily Advance, 31 August 1987, Sect. B, p. 2 col. 1; James L. Carter
Collection, MS1371, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]

MS1371