Son of David & Rachel Cooper Carter.

Husband of Keziah Grooms. Married Dec. 10, 1832.

Father of 17 children: David, Alwilda (m. Wells), William, James Raiford, Riley Benjamin, Rachel E.(m. O'Steen), John Cooper, Matilda Georgia, Tillman Henry, Louisa (m. Arnett), Sarah (m. Pellicer), A. Delores (m. Hatter), Martha "Mattie," Katherine "Kate or Katie" (m. Stevens), Mary Ketus (m. Johnston), and Minnie Idell (m. Morrison).

3/30/1889, by H.D. O'Quin: "George was like Saul among his brethern when he grew up - he was head and shoulders above them. I think he was taller than any of his name and large in proportion - he was known as Big George."

After the Civil War John Francis Tenney in his book Slavery, Secession and Success (1934) noted: "We found another family living a few miles back from the river, near what is now called Hastings, by the name of Carter, that is worthy of notice. George Carter had a young family of fifteen or sixteen children, none of them old enough to properly provide for the others, and Mr. Carter deemed it a greater duty to remain at home and care for his numerous family than to enter the ranks of any war party, and did so, but at great hazard, as he was hunted by conscription parties, and had to hide in the woods at night without fire, despite the inclemency of the weather. He managed to elude the conscription officers and provided for his wife and children, who have grown up to respected citizens. Mr. Carter always spoke of his experiences with great bitterness, as well he might."

Minnie Mae Johnston Deen (1885-1942, a granddaughter of George) told her daughter: "George Carter and his boys had been out cow hunting all day, and after supper, when the family retired to the parlor the girls were playing the organ and singing, as so often family enjoyed the evening thus in that day. Grandpa Carter said 'Well girls I've had a hard day and I'm tired, so if you will play my favorite hymn I think I'll retire.' So the girls sang MEET ME THERE, and Grandma Carter, sitting next to him, reached over and put her hand on his arm saying 'Well, old man, you have gone to sleep while they played your song', and indeed he had. He had quietly passed away while his daughters played and sang his favorite hymn."

A general Ref for his biography: Our Heritage, Volume III, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Jacob Carter of South Carolina," by Mary Ketus Deen Holland, 1974