L. T. Carter Dies At Tacoma, Wash.
Brother of Mrs. A. H. Anderson Had Been Ill The Past Six Months
Mrs. A. H. Anderson of North Van Buren street received word this morning that her brother, L. T. Carter, of Tacoma, Washington, had passed away in the hospital at Tacoma, Monday evening following an illness of the past six months from heart trouble. He had been confirmed to the hospital since the 10th of November.
Mr. Carter was formerly of this place, having been reared from childhood in this county and was well known in the vincinity. He is survived by one son, Howard Carter, of Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs. Anderson of this city and Mrs. F. C. Tallman of Hollywood, California. The body will arrive here Saturday night, it is thought, and funeral services will likely be held on Sunday, although definite arrangements have not yet been made.

Mt. Pleasant News, December 2, 1930, page 1.
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Leroy Perry, first son of Howard and Eleanor (Lyon) Carter (son of Isaac G. Career, son of Isaac P. Carter), was born February 4,1857, Matthews, Grant county, Indiana; died 19 .
His childhood days were spent on the farm with his parents and as there was a good frame school house on the farm he attended school as soon as he was old enough to go. The year he was eight years old he went with the family to Mount Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, moving in wagons, camping out by the way. Here he grew to manhood on a prairie farm. As soon as he was old enough he took a team and assisted in plowing and harrowing and was not bothered with stumps and roots as his father was when he commenced to plow. A school house stood nearby where he attended school. Later he went to Mt. Pleasant to school and received a good education for a farmer's boy.
After he was of age, his father helped him and his brother- in-law to get an eight horse power separator threshing machine which they ran for a few years very successfully. Getting tired of farm work, he took a notion to railroad work and after learning telegraphy by working a year or more in Chicago and elsewhere, he went to Minnesota to follow his chosen profession. The winter was coming on and he being in rather poor health, he concluded to try outdoor work for the winter. Securing work as a teamster, he hauled and delivered wood in St. Paul during the winter of 1882 and 1883. The winter was a very severe one, but the outdoor work proved to be very beneficial to his health and in the spring he secured work on the St. Paul and Duluth railroad, first as extra man, then in St. Paul as night operator tile summer of 1883. He went to Hinkley in the fall as night operator, but was soon advanced to day work as operator and later to car clerk which position he held until Jan. 1, 1887, when he went to Sandstone Junction to take the agency there, staying there until May, 1888, when he was sent to Sandstone as agent. This office was discontinued in May, 1890. He was then sent to Barnum where he remained a little over six years.
Margaret Frances MacKenzie was born Jan. 21, 1863, Dalhousie, Mountain Pictou county, Nova Scotia; died Nov. 2, 1900, Duluth, Minnesota.
Her father was born in Scotland. Her mother was the daughter of Scotch parents. They were among the first to settle in this mountainous country, covered with hemlock and spruce and here is where she spent her young life. She attended the district school, walking about two miles to the school house and was prominent in the literary society, also a loyal member of the Good Templars. In conversation she was witty and had an answer for every one and her pleasant way of speaking made friends of all she associated with.
When about seventeen years old her mother was stricken with inflamatory rheumatism which left her a cripple all her life. For two years the daughter laid aside the joys of young people and was the constant companion of a helpless mother and only when the latter could get about did she relax her vigils. The family looked on her as an angel of mercy. A few years later, at the death of an older sister, she took charge of her five helpless children, taking care of them and taking the two youngest to their father, who had moved to Sandstone, Minnesota. There she met the railroad agent, who became her future husband. During her visit here, they frequently met and got better acquainted and afterwards corresponded.
In 1889 she went east, after spending one summer visiting her sister. She stopped at Boston, Mass., where she was employed by Mrs. Hemminway, a woman of wealth whose kind deeds of philanthropy are known far and near. Her business was to attend to and repair the clothing when it came from the laundry and put it away and help in the dining room, especially when they had a large company for dinner. While she was here the time was set for their marriage in July, 1892.
Leroy Perry Carter and Margaret Frances MacKenzie were married July 5, 1892, Boston, Massachusetts. To this union one child was born:
Howard Alexander, Sept. 25, 1895, Barnum, Minnesota; died 1
They went to her home in Nova Scotia on a visit and although some of her friends had tried to dissuade her from marrying a Yankee, they were kindly received. After a visit there they left for Minnesota, via Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington City, then west visiting his friends in Indiana and Iowa (his old home), then on to Barnum, Minnesota, where he took up the work he had laid down six weeks earlier.
They went to housekeeping in the depot upstairs and had been there a little over two years when the terrible Minnesota forest fires of Sept. 1, 1894, occurred in which several small towns were burned and a vast scope of the country burned over. The small town of Sandstone Wis. among them. Her brother-in-law, Mr. Gunn and family, lived there and saved themselves by going to the river and remaining in the water from five to ten P. M. In the morning everything that would burn was in ashes. The potatoes and onions were roasted in the ground. Part of the family came to their home the next day, nearly naked, to be dressed and cared for Mr. Gunn took the typhoid fever and she and his daughter cared for him through the fever. The girl took it and after several weeks' sickness died and thus this noble woman was called to care for her sister's girl, whom she cared for when her sister died.
In September, 1896, Mr. Carter was sent to Twentieth Avenue station in Duluth, where he worked until the station was discontinued in 1901. He worked as extra man at Rush City and Harris until March, 1902, when he was sent to Forest Lake, where he is now located, 1905. Me has seen the road he has worked for so long taken in by the Northern Pacific and he with it and is the oldest man in time of service (except two) on his division of the road. He has seen other men in both high and low position come and go, yet he still has his office and plenty of work to do.
Their married life was one of continued happiness and they were always conted with what they had. She made two trips to her Nova Scotia home and in 1899, when her mother died, he accompanied her home. The severe strain on her nerves during her mother's sickness from which she never fully recovered, left her in a bad condition to ward off an attack of typhoid fever which soon ended in her death. She was fully conscious and calling her husband to her, calmly gave him instructions about raising her boy and made arrangements about the funeral and burial, selecting the place in Hickory Grove cemetery, Henry county, Iowa, by the side of his mother. All of her instructions were carried out.
After the burial his sister, Alice went back to Duluth with him to keep house and help care for the boy and they have lived together ever since and get along nicely.
He was raised by Methodist parents and early in life manifested a desire for the better life and later by his devotion to Sunday school and church work. She was raised by strict Presbyterians, who always have their children study the shorter catechism. Their diet as children was plain and simple, consisting mostly of "oatmeal and souse." They both engaged in church and Sunday school work in the Presbyterian church, the few years she lived. She now rests from her labors and her good works follow her. He is now superintendent of the Sunday school at Forest Lake and took an active part in building a church in that town which is now completed.

"History of Isaac P. Carter Family and their Descendants" published in Washington, Iowa in 1905.