THE SHUG HILL CONMUNITY

John L. (Shug) Carter

In the early 1800’s, in Clarke County, about six and a half miles west of Shubuta, in the Red Clay Hill Country, one hill was known as Shug Hill. On the route 3 road stood the Carter, McCree, and Evans family mailboxes close together.

Northeast of the hill was a home of Kaleb and Jennie McClendon Carter, who had bought land and settled there from slavery. They had two sons, Nelson and Charles. Nelson and his wife Elizabeth McClendon Carter had nine children, and Charles and his wife Anne Heidleberg Carter had fifteen children. Out of the union of Nelson and Elizabeth came Anne Frances Cager McCarty who had four children, Albert Nelson Carter who had five, and Rev. John Lemuel and Mary Ella Carter who gave birth to twelve children. Mingo and Elizabeth Carter Johnson had two children and Oicar and Lugenia Carter Wilson had eight children. From these close knit Christian families came seven generations of grandchilden and great grandchildren