Peter Carder
The ancestors of Peter Carder were of German and English extraction, and were among the early settlers of Virginia, hut afterwards emigrated to the wilds of Kentucky, where Peter was born.
Sanford Carder, the father of Peter, was a soldier in the war of the revolution, serving all through that glorious struggle as a cavalry rider. He lived to see the colonies, dependent on the will of a foreign power, emerge into a grand and powerful nation.
While Peter was yet an infant, his parents immigrated to this county, where they remained till death called- them home—Sanford living to the extreme old age of ninety-nine years.
Peter was brought up in the primitive hahits of those days, acquiring but little education, and performing his part on the farm till he was twenty-eight years of age, when he was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Mouser, of Pickaway County, Ohio. By careful management and economical habits he became the possessor of a large amount of landed property near the county-seat. He died on the 17th day of May, 1863, and the " Carder Infirmary" stands to-day a noble monument to his benevolence and philanthropy.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County