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Submitted: 7/20/21 • Approved: 7/20/21 • Last Updated: 7/23/21 • R438967-G0-S3
October 10, 1885 - August 5, 1963
*Obituary
R.S.M. Carter, Pioneer Merchant, Claimed After Lengthy Illness
Death came to R.S.M. Carter, 77, in a Lubbock hospital at 9:15 p.m. Monday. Health of the pioneer Crosby merchant had been declining since he underwent surgery March 20.
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church. Rev. Otis Testerman and Rev. Bill Kent officiated.
With the passing of Robert Stanley Marion Carter, another link with Crosby county´s earliest beginnings is lost. He had lived in all three of Crosby´s county seats - Estacado, Emma and Crosbyton.
He had personally known such early day figures as colonizer Paris Cox, editor John W. Murray, sheriff Felix Franklin, pioneers Hank Smith and George M. Hunt and others.
Stanley Carter was born in Kentucky October 10, 1885, son of Dr. J. W. and Teresa May Carter. The family moved to Estacado four years later where his father practiced medicine.
When Stanley was six, the family moved to Emma. He returned to Estacado at 10 to attend the famous South Plains Academy. He worked at various jobs in Emma - carpentering, blacksmithing, surveying, pharmacy.
Carter married Katie Davis, January 10, 1904, in the Emma schoolhouse. Four years later, his father lent him $375 to buy stock and set up Emma Hardware Company.
When the county seat moved to Crosbyton in 1910, Carter placed rollers under his building and tractors pulled the firm overland to Crosbyton. The 10 mile move took 10 days and Carter liked to recall that he was open for business every day of it.
He continued to operate the store, now Hudman Hardware, until 1946. After selling it, he devoted his time to farming.
Active in civic affairs, Carter held several public posts including city councilman and school trustee. He was an enthusiastic golfer and helped lay out Silver Falls golf course as well as organize the club.
Survivors include his wife, Katie; six daughters, Mrs. Elmer Reed and Mrs. Pete Parks, both of Lubbock; Mrs. J. P. Hackley and Mrs. Francis Karr, both of Amarillo; Mrs. Fabian Lemley, Crosbyton, and Mrs. Bill Blackwood, Dallas; two brothers, Clayton Carter and Russell Carter, both of Lubbock; a sister, Mrs. Harvey Allen, Amarillo; 15 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
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