Major Carter did not live long enough, however, to see the community
he helped to found expand into a city. He died in 1814. His wife survived
him until 1827.
Both were buried in what is now the East Ninth St. Cemetery. For years their tombstones stood there, moss covered, the inscriptions more and more weatherworn.
Then a great grand-daughter of the Carters, Jessie Martin Carter, cooperating with the Early Settlers Association, restored the monument. They had made a bronze plate and had it affixed to the old tombstone. They had only four words inscribed on the bronze plate—but the four words were sufficient. The inscription reads, “Others Fled—They Remained.”
SOPHRONIA NORTON, the daughter of Samuel Norton, first settler in Crawford County, was the first white child born in Crawford County. Her father came from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, and he erected his pole cabin on a clearing before it was surveyed or offered for sale. In this cabin Sophronia was born.
