Herbert Eugene Carter (1919 - 2012)

Born 27 Sep 1919 in Amory, Monroe, Mississippi, United States

Husband of Mildred Louise (Hemmons) Carter — married 21 Aug 1942 in Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama, United States

Died 8 Nov 2012 at age 93 in Opelika, Lee, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Herbert Carter is Notable.

Herbert Eugene Carter was one of the original thirty-three members of the Tuskegee Airmen. He flew 77 missions with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.

Herbert was born in Amory, Mississippi on September 27, 1919. He was one of ten children in his family. His father, George Washington Carter, was African-American, while his mother, Willie Ann Sykes Carter, was Native American. George Washington Carter was Amory's superintendent of utilities.

On August 20, 1942, Herbert married Mildred Louise Hemmons in Alabama.^[1]

He was the last surviving Tuskegee Airman from Mississippi. On August 7, 2020, Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama named its newest airport terminal the Colonel Herbert E. Carter Terminal.

Herbert died, at the age of 93, on November 8, 2012 at the East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Alabama. He is buried at the Greenwood Cemetery, Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21D-XQ7F : 19 February 2021), Herbert Eugene Carter and Mildred Louise Hemmons, 20 Aug 1942; citing Election Precinct 29 Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,877,327.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100413856/herbert-eugene-carter: accessed 06 October 2022), memorial page for LTC Herbert Eugene “Gene” Carter (27 Sep 1919–8 Nov 2012), Find A Grave: Memorial #100413856 citing Greenwood Cemetery, Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Lisa (contributor 47155679) .

See Also:

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM1T-3NB : accessed 6 October 2022), Eugene Carter in household of George Carter, Amory, Monroe, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 29, sheet 5B, line 97, family 128, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1159; FHL microfilm 2,340,894.
• Wikipedia Profile for Herbert Carter
• Family Search Profile for Colonel Herbert Eugene Carter