Sixth Generation

2424. Carter Coffey Dalton was born in March 1838 in Tennessee. He lived with his parents in Grainger Co., TN on 15 October 1850. Carter died on 11 July 1877 at the age of 39 in Thorn Hill, Grainger Co., TN and was buried at Dalton Cemetery in Thorn Hill, Grainger Co., TN.^8799,8800

Carter Coffey Dalton and Nancy Elizabeth Whitsett were married on 19 August 1854 in Grainger Co., TN.^8795,8796 They^8795,8796 appeared in the census on 15 August 1860 in Grainger Co., TN.⁸⁷⁹⁷ They⁸⁷⁹⁷ appeared in the census on 25 August 1870 in Grainger Co., TN.⁸⁷⁹⁸ Nancy Elizabeth Whitsett, daughter of Nathan P. Whitsett and Elizabeth Coffey, was born on 5 September 1840 in Grainger Co., TN. She appeared in the census on 16 June 1880 in Grainger Co., TN.⁸⁷⁹¹ She appeared in the census on 2 June 1900 in Grainger Co., TN.⁸⁷⁹² Nancy appeared in the census on 21 April 1910 at Dist. 4 in Claiborne Co., TN.⁸⁷⁹³ Nancy died on 27 August 1915 at the age of 74 in Tazewell, Claiborne Co., TN and was buried at Campbell Cemetery in Tazewell, Claiborne Co., TN.⁸⁷⁹⁴

"She was the daughter of Nathan P and Elizabeth (Coffey) Whitsett.

"She married Carter J Dalton at the age of 13 on Aug 19, 1854, in Grainger County, Tennessee. According to court records, he beat her with a stick and she obtained a divorce. She married him the second time on Jan. 21, 1860 in Grainger County, Tennessee. 

"Carter and Nancy were the parents of Susan, Tandy, Betty Tennessee and Pleasant "Pleas" Dalton.

"After her husband's death in 1877, she had two children out of wedlock with Anderson Dalton. The children were Matilda and Milton Carter Dalton. Then she had a child out of wedlock with Tandy Dalton. This child was Charles S. Dalton.

"On Oct. 14, 1888, she married James Wiley Cozart, a widower some 28 years her senior. He died in 1906. After the death of her second husband, she resided with her son, Milton Carter Dalton, in Tazewell, Claiborne, Tennessee." [Rick Miller]

Carter Coffey Dalton and Nancy Elizabeth Whitsett had the following children: