Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center The Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center, formerly known as the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia, was a hospital. Currently, it is a nursing care facility, but was the birthplace of former United States President James Earl Carter Jr., who was born there on October 1, 1924 when his mother was working there as a registered nurse. Originally built in 1921 by Doctors Samuel, Thaddeus and Bowman Wise, children of early Plains settlers Dr. Burr T. Wise and Laura Addy Wise, the 60-bed sanitarium was one of the first small hospitals in Georgia to be recognized
Lillian Asplund was haunted by the memory of the faces of her father and brothers at the railing of the ship while the life boat was launched. Lillian, her mother and brother were rescued by , which had arrived at the scene shortly after four o'clock in the morning. Lillian and her brother were loaded into burlap bags and hoisted to the ship's deck. Aboard the "Carpathia", Lillian remembered: A woman took all my clothes off me. My clothes had gotten very dirty and wet in the lifeboat. My mother was trying to find me. She was saying, 'I have a daughter!'