Black male, born about 1869 in either North or South Carolina. His death certificate calls him “Hamp” and gives his birthplace as South Carolina. He was about 66 years old and single at the time of his death on 27 January 1935. All information regarding his parents is filled in with “D.K.,” or “don’t know.” He died at 217 E. Blount St. in Pensacola, Florida. He was working for F.E.R.A. (Federal Emergency Relief Administration, replaced in 1935 by the WPA) as a laborer, which occupation he had held for 20 years. He worked up until the day before his death from bronchopneumonia following an accute upper respiratory infection. The physician who signed the death certificate, Dr. L.C. Fisher, Jr., did not treat him before his death. The informant on his death certificate was Annie Spralling of 219 E. Moreno Street. Mr. Carter was buried at the Escambia County Poor Farm Cemetery on January 28, 1935 by Morris Funeral Home.
Mr. Carter appears in the 1920 Federal Census for Pensacola, Florida, boarding at a house at 311 La Rua St. He was 49 years old and born in North Carolina of two parents born in North Carolina. His marital status was given as “married;” however, no wife was listed at the boarding house with him. His occupation was laborer, at a grocery store. He could read but not write.
Mr. Carter appears in two Pensacola City Directories. In the first, 1927, he was living at 216 N. Cevallos St. and worked as a fireman (which usually meant someone who tended a boiler or steam engine, not a firefighter).
In the 1931 City Directory, he was called “Hemp,” and lived at 510 E. Brainard St. No occupation was given. 510 E. Brainard St. was also the residence of Jacob and Annie Sprolling, so presumably he lodged with them. Annie was the informant on Hamp’s death certificate, but I have not found any other relationship between Hamp and the Sprollings. They are in the 1930 federal census for Pensacola at the same address, but Hamp was not living with them at the time and, in fact, I have not located him in the 1930 census at all.
I have not had any success locating him in any other records, at least, none that correspond to a year of birth or place of birth provided for him in the records I have. There appears to have been a Black man by the name of Hamp Carter in the southern part of the state; this man was married more than once, had several run-ins with the law, and died in 1944.
SOURCES:
Death Certificate of Hamp Carter (No. 792). Florida Certificate of Death, Florida Deaths, 1877-1939. Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Carter, Hampton. Year: 1920; Census Place: Pensacola, Escambia, Florida; Roll: T625_219; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 30. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.