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Elizabeth "Bess" Carter  1875 - 1934

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• Nickname	Bess
  Birth	28 Nov 1875	Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	4 Nov 1934	Lebanon, Laclede, Missouri, USA
  	Cause: Injuries from a car accident
  Obituary	5 Nov 1934	Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  	Fulton Sun-Gazette
  	Fulton Woman Killed In Auto Accident (front page, large type, all caps.) Mrs. E.L. Blackburn Crushed Under Wrecked Car Near Lebanon Sunday Four Others Hurt Miss Ina Smith May Be Hurt Internally - Judge Herring Severely Injured. Mrs. Bessie Carter Blackburn, proprietor of the Fashion Shop, a Fulton millinery establishment, and one of the best known and popular busines women in Callaway county, was killed in an automobile accident on Highway No. 66, one mile south of Lebanon, at about 9:30 o'clock, Sunday morning. With Mrs. Blackburn at the time were her husband, E.L. Blackburn; her brother-in-law, Judge D.W. Herring of Fulton; Miss Ina Smith of Mr. Vernon, director of dramatics at the Fulton State Hospital, and Charles Kyle, also of Mt. Vernon, employed in the occupational therapy department at the Fulton State Hospital and a music student at William Woods College in Fulton. The Blackburns and Judge Herring were on their way to Mt. Vernon to visit Miss Margaret HErring, daughter of Judge Herring, and Miss Smith and Kyle had gone along with the intention of spending the day with home folks. The accident occurred when two automobiles, coming in an opposite direction to the one in which the Blackburn party were riding, approached on the highway at a rapid rate and were crowding the black line on a curve at that point on Highway 66. Mr. Blackburn sought to give them all the room possible to avoid a collision and in doing so his auto got off the concrete onto the gravel shoulder and it turned over. It rolled down a steep embankment and was badly wrecked, the top being crushed in. Mrs. Blackburn was caught under the machine. Her chest was crushed and it is believed a bursting blood vessel there caused her death. A bruised place on her left temple indicated that she received a severe blow there. The other occupants of the car were hurtled through the top as it was crushed and were catapaulted free of the car. Judge Herring was thrown through a nearby fence. His injuries consist of a bad scalp wound, a sever injury to his left eye, a cut on the right arm and injury to his back. Miss Smith was cut on the right shoulder, suffered a fracture of the right collar bone, a deep gash on her right leg and has possible internal injuries. Judge Herring and Miss Smith were taken to a hospital at Lebanon. There were in no condition Sunday afternoon, to make the trip back to Fulton. Mr. Kyle talked over the long distance telephone, Monday morning, with officials of the hospital at Lebanon and was informed that it would be twenty-four hours before it could be determined whether or not Miss Smith has been injured internally. Judge Herring was reported to be resting comfortably. The Herndon-Taylor-Blattner ambulance was sent to the scene of the accident about 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning and brought back to Fulton the body of Mrs. Blackburn, which had been taken to a Lebanon undertaking establishment soon after the accident and prepared for burial. Fred Blattner accompanied Ed Herndon in another automobile and brought back Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Kyle. The Blackburn car, badly wrecked, was left at Lebanon. Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Kyle escaped with cuts and bruises. Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Kyle attempted to remove the car off of Mrs. Blackburn but were unable to do it. The accident soon attracted a large crowd of passing automobilists and willing hands soon assisted in getting the body of Mrs. Blackburn from under the car. Mrs. Blackburn was born in Fulton, a daughter of John and Margaret Carter. She was married April 23, 1901, to E.L. Blackburn and they had lived all their married life in Fulton. Surviving her are her aged mother, one brother, T.Ed Carter of New. Bloomfield, and two sisters, Mrs. D.W. Herring and Miss Dorothy Carter, both of Fulton. Mrs. Blackburn was a graduate of the Fulton high school and also was graduated in music from Synodical College. She was a member of the Methodist Church. She entered the millinery business in Fulton in 1915 and had been continuously in that undertaing up t the time of her death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon at the home on Court street, the Rev. J.N. Boyd officiating, and burial will be in Hillcrest cemetery. Mrs. Blackburn was a woman of much charm and a most friendly and cheerful disposition. During her long business career in Fulton, she acquired a large circle of friends not only among the people of Fulton, but those in the county as well. By all of these she was held in the highest esteem for amiable ways, always having a smile and cheery word for everyone. Ina social way Mrs. Blackburn also was a most capable and entertaining hostess, besides adding to her full ability in church work. Her sudden death, consequently, came as a severe shock to the entire community.
  Time of Death	10:00 a.m.
  Buried	6 Nov 1934	Hillcrest Cemetery, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Person ID	I121	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
  Family	Ernest Leavell Blackburn,   b. 6 Sep 1871, Readsville, Callaway, Missouri, USA ,   d. 23 Nov 1958, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Married	23 Apr 1901	Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  	Ernest L. Blackburn of Durant in the county of Blue, and the state of Indian Teritory who is over the age of 21, and Miss Anna B. Carter of Fulton in the county of Callaway and the state of Mo. who is over the age of 18 years, license granted April 22, 1901, John M. Bryan, Recorder of Deeds. A minister of the Gospel did at Fulton in said county on the 23rd day of April, 1901 unite in marriage the above named persons. J.H. Jackson
  Marriage	23 Apr 1901	Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  	Marriage record states they were married in Fulton, Missouri by J.H. Jackson, minister of the gospel, on April 23, 1901.
  Last Modified	05 Apr 2009
  Family ID	F662	Group Sheet

• Photos		Blackburn, E.L and Bess Carter E.L. and Elizabeth "Bess" Carter Blackburn. Bess Carter Blackburn was my grandaunt, daughter of John R. Carter and Margaret Ann Fletcher. Ernest Leavell Blackburn was a son of James R. Blackburn and Eugeneia Nunnelly.
  		Blackburn, Elizabeth "Bess" Carter Blackburn, Elizabeth "Bess" Carter, 1875 - 1934, d/o John Robert Carter and Margaret Ann Fletcher, w/o Ernest Leavell Blackburn. Picture taken about 1905, Fulton, Missouri. She was my grandaunt.
  		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 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.
  Headstones		Elizabeth Carter Blackburn Bess C. Blackburn, Nov. 28, 1875 - Nov. 4, 1934. Elizabeth Carter was a daughter of John Robert Carter and Margaret Ann Fletcher. She was my grandaunt. On Apr. 23, 1901 in Fulton, Missouri, she married Ernest Leavell Blackburn.
  Marriages		Marriage, Blackburn - Carter 1901 Marriage license of Ernest Leavell Blackburn and Elizabeth "Bess" Carter Record of marriage, Ernest L. Blackburn of Durant in the county of Blue, and the state of Indian Teritory who is over the age of 21, and Miss Anna B. Carter of Fulton in the county of Callaway and the state of Mo. who is over the age of 18 years, license granted April 22,…
  Death Certificates		Death certificate of Blackburn, Elizabeth "Bess" Carter 28 Nov 1875 - 4 Nov 1934. 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

  From the pictures I have seen of her, she seemed to always be smiling. She ran a milinary shop in Fulton for many years. 1930; Census Place: Fulton, Callaway, Missouri; Roll: 1180; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 10; Image: 96.0. Name: Anna B Blackburn Home in 1930: Fulton, Callaway, Missouri Age: 53 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1877 Birthplace: Missouri Relation to Head of House: Daughter Parent's Name: Margarit A Spouse's Name: Earnest L Race: White Occupation: Proprietor of milinary shop Household Members: Name Age Margarit A Caster 84 Dorothy A Caster 55 Anna B Blackburn 53 Earnest L Blackburn 58 (Medical):Car accident, highway 66, Lebonon Missouri, Car ran off road and turned over in ditch. Internal hemorrhage, fracture of sternum and ribs, cuts and abrasions of face, possible fracture mandible. Dead at scene of accident.

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  Event Birth - 28 Nov 1875 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA Married - 23 Apr 1901 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA Marriage - 23 Apr 1901 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA Died - Cause: Injuries from a car accident - 4 Nov 1934 - Lebanon, Laclede, Missouri, USA Obituary - Fulton Sun-Gazette - 5 Nov 1934 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA Buried - 6 Nov 1934 - Hillcrest Cemetery, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth