CARTER, Mrs. Clarissa, Beeville Bee, Wednesday, 31 Dec 1890:

Surrounded by sorrowing friends and relatives last Sunday at 3 o’clock, Mrs. Clarissa Carter, 
wife of Giles Carter, passed from this earth to an eternal rest.  Monday evening her remains were 
followed to her last resting place in the Beeville Cemetery.  Deceased is a daughter of Allen Carter 
Jones, ones of the 1st settlers of Texas, who is also the father of Capt. A. C. Jones of this city.  
Mrs. Carter was born 62 years ago in Nacogdoches and was reared among the stirring events 
in the history of Texas as a republic.  In 1842 she was married to Giles Carter who survives her, 
and has been a resident of Bee County since 1856.  Mrs. Carter has been a constant member of 
the Methodist Church for the past 30 years.  For the last 25 years Mr. Carter has been afflicted 
with paralysis, rendering him an invalid which Mrs. Carter herself, has been an intense sufferer 
from rheumatism