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• Birth	23 Dec 1873	Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	31 Oct 1950	Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  	Cause: carcinoma with generalized mastitation
  Obituary	2 Nov 1950	Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  	Fulton Sun-Gazette
  	Illness Fatal to Miss Dorothy Carter Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon At Methodist Church Miss dorothy Carter died early Tuesday morning at the Callaway Hospital after a lingering illness. She had been a patient at the hospital for six weeks. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Court Street Methodist Church of which she had long been an active member. Dr. J.D. Randolph, former pastor of the church, will conduct the services, assisted by the present pastor, the Rev. Mark S. Horn. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery. The body will lie in state until the hour of the service at the Maupin Funeral Home. Miss Carter and her sister, Mrs. D.W. Herring made their home at 907 Court Street. she was a daughter of the late John R., and Margaret ann Carter and was born in Fulton and spent all of her life here. For a number of years she taught Latin and music in the Fulton public schools. Miss Carter served her church in nany ways. She was choir director for a time, she has been president this year of the Women's Society of Christian Service, the sponsor of the Dorothy Carter Missionary Circle, conference treasurer of the Missouri Conference of the Woman's Society of Christian Service for eighteen years and held other offices in the Hannibal District conference. She was a past president of the Woman's Club of fulton. Miss Carter was one of five children. Only Mrs. Herring is an immediate survivor. Other relatives surviving are a brother-in-law, E.L. Blackburn of Robinson, Ill., four nephews, David W. Herring of Robinson, Ill., Dorris Carter of Binghampton, N.Y., Joe Carter of Falls Church, Va., and Dr. John Ed Carter of Fort Wayne, Ind., two nieces, Mrs. Maurine Myers of Fulton and Mrs. Ruth Williams of Charleston, W. Va., and a great niece, Mrs. Arthur Howell, of St. Louis.
  _STAT	Never Married
  Buried	2 Nov 1950	Hillcrest Cemetery, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Person ID	I120	Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2011
  Father	John Robert Carter,   b. 5 Nov 1844, , Callaway, Missouri, USA ,   d. 22 Aug 1910, Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  Mother	Margaret Ann Fletcher,   b. 4 Dec 1845, , Callaway, Missouri, USA ,   d. 30 Dec 1939, , Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Married	30 Jan 1868	, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Family ID	F39	Group Sheet

• Photos		Carter Sisters Left side; Josephine Carter Herrring, Dolor Herring and their daughter Margaret Herring, Middle; Dorothy "Dolly" Carter, Right side; Elizabeth "Bess" Carter Blackburn and Ernest L. Blackburn. In front of John R. Carter's house on 10th Street, Fulton, Missouri, 1914.
  		Carter Ladies Front row, Margaret Ann Fletcher Carter (my great grandmother), w/o John R. Carter, Ella Flemming Carter, w/o my great granduncle William R. Carter, Louisa Hendrix Carter, 2nd w/o my great great grandfather John G. Carter, Ellen Carter Grogan my great grandaunt w/o Patrick Grogan. back row, Josehine Carter (my grandmother), Bettie Carter (my great…
  		Carter Sisters Picture taken Aug. 14, 1898 in Colorado Springs, Co. My grandaunts, Nova, Bess, and Dolly Carter. The men are J.B. Snyder and Charles Bocking.
  		Carter, Dorothy "Dolly" Dorothy "Dolly" Carter was my grandaunt. She was a daughter of John R. Carter and Margaret Ann Fletcher. This picture was taken in Fulton Missouri in 1899, part of a larger picture of a Fulton high school Latin class she taught.
  		Carter, Dorothy "Dolly" Dorothy "Dolly" Carter, 1873 - 1950, d/o John Robert Carter and Margaret Ann Fletcher. Picture taken 1940, Fulton, Missouri. She was my grandaunt.
  Headstones		Dorothy Carter Dorothy Carter, Dec. 23, 1873 - Oct. 31, 1950. Dorothy Dollie Carter was a daughter of John Robert Carter and Margaret Ann Fletcher. She was my grandaunt. She never married.
  Death Certificates		Death certificate of Carter, Dorothy Dollie 23 Dec 1873 - 31 Oct 1950. She was my grandaunt.
  Misc Documents		Carter home, Fulton, Missouri This was the house where my great grandmother, Margaret Ann Fletcher Carter lived later in life, her daughters; Dollie Carter and Bess Carter Blackburn also lived here. My grandmother, Josephine Carter Herring owned this house in the 1940's and 1950's. 907 Court Street, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri.
  		Carter, John R. home, Fulton, Missouri This was my great grandfather, John R. Carter's family home. My grandmother, Josephine Carter grew up in this house. The house was sold and the land used to build the Fulton High School in 1937. Inscription on back of picture says farm land and creek ran behind the house, east 10th Street, Fulton.

• Notes

  In 1899 she was the Latin and Music teacher at Fulton High School. Dollie died in the Callaway hospital. She was there for 6 weeks. At the time of her death, she lived in the house on Court Street with her sister (my grandmother), Josephine Carter Herring. Dollie never married. She taught in the Fulton schools for many years. She was ill for a year before she died. Josephine lived in the Court Street house for 5 or 6 more years, then she sold it and moved back to her house on 9th Street. The Court Street house was where Margaret Carter lived in her later years. Josephine Carter Herring (Mrs. D.W. Herring) signed the death certificate.

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  Event Birth - 23 Dec 1873 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA Died - Cause: carcinoma with generalized mastitation - 31 Oct 1950 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA Obituary - Fulton Sun-Gazette - 2 Nov 1950 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA Buried - 2 Nov 1950 - Hillcrest Cemetery, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth