From Louisville, Kentucky, son of Mrs. Georgia Ovington. Patrolling with three other aircraft and involved in a midair collision in the clouds.

From Find a Grave:
Lieutenant Carter L. Ovington was the only son of Edward J. and Georgia Cheatham (Maize) Ovington. His father was one of the heads of the Ovington Brothers Company, a china business out of New York City. Because his father took care of the European end of the family business, Carter spent his first ten years in Germany followed by eight years in France.
Carter was only 19 years old when he joined the Escadrille Lafayette, an all-American squadron of volunteer pilots, organized and fighting for the Allies before the United States entered World War I. It was an elite group of just 38 pilots headed by a French commander, and Ovington was its secretary for three years. After the United States entered the war in April 1917, the group was disbanded, and most of its surviving pilots joined the U.S. Army Air Service. Ovington became a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army but was still attached to the French Air Service.
Lieut. Carter L. Ovington was killed when, while out on a mission, his plane had a mid-air collision with another plane from his squadron on 29 May 1918. This was during the time of the German offensive toward Chateau-Thierry. He crashed near the village of Lagery in the Marne Department, and his body was never recovered. His name is one of the 1060 listed on the chapel wall at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial under the heading "THE NAMES RECORDED ON THESE WALLS ARE THOSE OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN THIS REGION AND WHO SLEEP IN UNKNOWN GRAVES."
The name of Sergeant Carter L. Ovington (the highest rank he held in the French Army) is one of those honored on the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial.
After the War, his mother, Mrs. Georgia M. Ovington, made several trips to the village of Lagery. Eventually she had a bench made to honor her son (see pictures).
Lieutenant Carter L. Ovington was awarded the French Croix de Guerre, and in 1925, he became a Knight of the French Legion of Honor.