Wiley Carter, I

Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States is Wiley Carter, I's second great grandson.

Wiley Carter married Ann Ansley in 1821 in Warren County. She was the daughter of Abel and Lydia Morris Ansley, and a granddaughter of Thomas and Rebecca Ansley and Jacob and Mary Ansley Morris. The Ansleys lived in Warren County. Wiley Carter sold his land in Warren County on Rocky Comfort Creek, near Gibson, in 1851 and moved permanently to his plantation in Schley County in Southeast Georgia, 20 miles north of Plains. The home, known today as the "Battle Place" is located, along with the family cemetery, on the Ellaville-Friendship Road (Georgia Highway 153) at its intersection with Georgia Highway 45.

It was here that Wiley Carter, farmer, planter, and Baptist, was buried when he died at the age of 66. His plantation contained 2400 acres in both Schley and Sumter Counties and produced 147 bales of cotton in 1860. Wiley's first wife, Ann, died c. 1848, and he remarried Mrs. Sarah Wilson, widow, of Newton County in 1849.

History of Schley County, Georgia" compiled and sponsored by the Schley Co, Preservation Society, c. 1982, W H Wolfe & Associates, Roswell, GA page 180, lists her as the 2nd wife of Wiley Carter. She was Mrs. Sarah Wilson, widow, of Newton Co, when Wiley married her about 1849 in Warren Co, Ga. Sarah married a Mr. Ross after Wiley's death, according to this article, which quotes from a longer article by Kenneth H. Thomas Jr which first appeared in "Georgia Life" Magazine, winter of 1976...