Carter Kennedy

 

    Grandma Kennedy and he would go on trips with Gladys’s family to St. Simon’s.

 

    This is the front of a postcard. The back says:

                    Carter Kennedy - 12 yrs.

Grandma Kennedy’s youngest boy was Carter Kennedy. His father was killed in an accident before Grandma Kennedy knew she was pregnant. She was also in a wreck while pregnant with him. He was ultimately born mentally handicapped. Gladys didn’t want that fact “officially” mentioned. She kissed his picture several times as she talked about him; she seemed to feel very fondly about him. She said that he was kind and fun and that he liked to fish. He would hitch on Rt. 341 to get to his fishing hole and back. He chewed tobacco and liked to read the paper. As a child, he was a playmate to the kids. He and his mama got along well, but after her death he was passed around between his siblings. For Fleming and Jennie, it became too much and they tried to put him in a home called Gracewood. Before they returned home though, he was sitting on their doorstep. Nettie cared for him for a long time, and Fleming and Delia provided for him. Eventually he was confined to a home and died there.