Harry Carter and Cora Landrum were twenty-four when they married at a preacher's house on July 18, 1932 in Warm Springs, Bath County, Virginia.

The 1940 census revealed Harry was a laborer in the wood yard at the Paper Mill. He had worked fifty weeks of the year and earned $720. They owned their home and their real estate value was $1000. They were living at the same residence on Reservoir Hill in Alleghany County, Virginia as in 1935. Harry had a fourth grade education and Cora had a sixth grade education. Household members: Taft H. Carter (34), Cora (34) and Larry T. (5).

They rented out their original home on Reservoir Hill after they built their new home next door which faced Pocahontas Avenue. They moved in just before their son, Glenn was born in 1942.

Their children:

Larry Thomas Carter (b.1935)
Leonard Lee Carter (b.1940 d.2000)
Glenn William Carter (b.1942)
Johnny Carson Carter (b.1945)

Cora died just thirteen days before their forty-eighth wedding anniversary in 1980.

Obituary
(Covington Virginian, July 5, 1980)

{{MRS. CORA CARTER - Mrs. Cora Landrum Carter, 72 of 518 Pocahontas Ave., Covington, died this morning in Alleghany Regional Hospital.

She was born February 15, 1908 in Alleghany County, a daughter of the late Arch Landrum and Julie Vance Landrum. She was a member of the McAllister Memorial Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include her husband, Harry T. Carter; four sons, Larry Carter of Bossier City, La. Leonard Lee Carter of Hot Springs, Glenn William Carter of Titusville Fla. and Johnny C. Carter, Ridgeway; two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Carter and Mrs. Lilly Hooker both of Hot Springs; four brothers, Fred Landrum of Covington, Hugh Landrum of Hot Springs, Thomas Landrum of Portsmouth, John Landrum of Clifton Forge; twelve grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

The funeral service will be held Monday at 2 pm in the chapel of the Arritt Funeral Home with the Rev. Harold E. Moffitt Jr. officiating. Interment will be in Union Chapel Cemetery, Bath County.

The family will be at the funeral home Sunday evening from 7 until 8:30 pm.}}

Funeral record revealed Cora Carter was affiliated with the McAllister Memorial Presbyterian Church. She died Saturday July 5, 1980 at 12:45 am. Her parents were Arch Landrum and Julia Vance. Pallbearers were Emmett Mays, Slick Mays, Herman Hooker, Clayton Steele, Glenn Spellman and Kenneth Jamison. Alternates: Clyde Hooker and Harold Perry. The singers sang; The Old Rugged Cross, Just A Closer Walk With Thee and Precious Memories.

Cora lived to age 72.