Betty-Carol Sellen and Cynthia J. Johnson, American Folk Art: A Regional Reference by Kristin G. Congdon and Kara Kelley Hallmark, and Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists by Karekin Goekjian and Robert Peacock. Later life and death Carter was married to Teressa Lynn Craddock and lived in Mayodan, North Carolina. He attended Good News Baptist Church in Madison. He died on February 2, 2014, at his home in Mayodan. A funeral service was held at Sardis Primitive Baptist Church in Madison on February 22, 2014. He was buried in the Sardis Church Cemetery. On May 9, 2014, his estate was auctioned off. References 1943 births 2014 deaths 20th-century American painters 21st-century American painters American contemporary painters American male painters American male sculptors Baptists from North Carolina Contemporary sculptors Folk artists Outsider artists Painters from North Carolina People from High Point, North Carolina People from Madison, North Carolina Thomas Carter family Sculptors from North Carolina Deaths in North Carolina 20th-century Baptists 20th-century American male artists