"while he seemed like a nice guy with a neat story, I knew it was way too good to be true. There's a reasonable argument to be made that Otto Carter's real birthday was actually a lot later.
There's another FindAGrave.com page for an Otto "Don" Carter who also was born in Grant County, Indiana, in 1887, who would have been 71 at the time of the recording. Otto Carter was born as Otto Marine, the second child of Solomon Marine and Sarah Alameda Tweedy, but he later changes his name after his mother would remarry when he was a child. It was actually his stepfather, Millard Fillmore Carter, who was born in 1856 (just 3 years after the president Millard Fillmore leaves office), who would have been 102 years old in 1958. No record of what happened to his stepfather or the rest of his (known) family.
There seems to be no record I can find of a travelling vaudeville roller skater named Otto Carter before 1945. No record of his parents being famous skating stars either. There's also no record of Otto "Don" Carter of even having a wife or children, and he conveniently leaves their names out in every interview he gives. I'm gonna call bullshit on this one."
Osmanthus 17 points 8 months ago
It's a hoax.
"while he seemed like a nice guy with a neat story, I knew it was way too good to be true. There's a reasonable argument to be made that Otto Carter's real birthday was actually a lot later.
There's another FindAGrave.com page for an Otto "Don" Carter who also was born in Grant County, Indiana, in 1887, who would have been 71 at the time of the recording. Otto Carter was born as Otto Marine, the second child of Solomon Marine and Sarah Alameda Tweedy, but he later changes his name after his mother would remarry when he was a child. It was actually his stepfather, Millard Fillmore Carter, who was born in 1856 (just 3 years after the president Millard Fillmore leaves office), who would have been 102 years old in 1958. No record of what happened to his stepfather or the rest of his (known) family.
There seems to be no record I can find of a travelling vaudeville roller skater named Otto Carter before 1945. No record of his parents being famous skating stars either. There's also no record of Otto "Don" Carter of even having a wife or children, and he conveniently leaves their names out in every interview he gives. I'm gonna call bullshit on this one."