Descendants of ________ Carpenter b. abt 1747/1751 of SC d. abt 1782 GA - Progenitor of Group 16 of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project.

Notes


663. Grover Cephus Hampton

BURIAL: Macedonia Prim Bap Cemetery.


664. Edward Homer Hampton

They had at least 7 children.  Number 7 was a daughter who marred Frank
Patterson.
MARRIAGE: Married in Clay county, AL by W.N. HAYNES mg, Judge WIlbur B. NOLEN.

Edward Homer Hampton - born in Clay Co., AL.
Sometime after his marriage, Homer rearranged his name from Edward Homer to
Homer Edward.  Although Homer died at Citizen's Hospital in Talladega, AL,
his home at the time was in Anniston, AL.  He had a disease called
myelofibrosis.  This disease, similar to leukemia, is passed through the
females to their male children.
    Homer loved the church, but he loved his Lord even more.  He was
ordained a deacon by Bellview Baptist Church in 1936.  He believed in the
literal interpretation of the Bible.  One time, the church he belonged to at
the time, Leatherwood Baptist Church in Anniston, was voting on new deacons.
One of them, larry Jennings, was married, but had no children.  The scripture
in I Timothy 3:12 says:  ". . . ruling their children and their own homes
well."  If he had no children, he couldn't rule them well.  Therefore, Homer
voted against him.
    According to his daughter Sara, "One of the highlights in Daddy's life
was being able to help organize and build the first Bellview Baptist Church
(in Lineville, AL).  The services were held in our home for a long time while
the church was being built.  Mama had an old pump organ which she loved to
play so this provided our music.  It was in this church that I later accepted
Christ as my Savior."  According to records obtained from the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, the church was organized in 1942.  Homer was
the Sunday School superintendent for several years and was also one of the
messengers to the Associational meeting.  From Bellview, they moved to Good
Hope Baptist Church.
   During the war, he would ride a bus from Clay County to Talladega,
Talladega Co., to work in a war plant.
    Homer worked night shift at the Alabama Water Pipe Plant in Anniston.
During revival and on Sunday mornings when he had to work, he would come home
and sleep a couple of hours.  Then he'd get up and go to church.  He and
Lessie always had the preachers over to eat at least once during revival,
whether it be the lunch meal or the supper meal.
    In the late 1960s, he developed myelofibrosis.  Even on his bad days, it
seemed as though he was in church.  Charles Rutherford, pastor of Leatherwood
Baptist Church at the time of his death, said that he had vivid recollections
of Homer's last day at church.  The service was really good that morning, and
Homer really seemed to be enjoying it.  He said that suddenly the Lord
revealed to him that Homer would not be at church again.  He breathed a
prayer that Homer would be especially blessed that day.  He was.
    Although he did not drink later in life, he did drink a great deal when
he was young.  The change came when someone picked him up out of a ditch
drunk.  He never, apparently, drank again.  However, he did smoke and loved
his Camels.  People would get on to him about smoking, but he always replied
that when God convicted him of smoking, he would quit.  he never did.  The
last week he lived, he had to be hooked up to oxygen so that he could
breathe; nevertheless, he begged for a cigarette.
    Even though he smoked, he didn't want his grandchildren to smoke.  So,
he tried to teach them early the results of smoking.  When Elaine (Ruby's
daughter) and Ronnie (Sara's son) were both young, they managed to get his
cigarettes off of the refrigerator.  After much pleading, he let them smoke
some.  Another time is related by Ronnie:  "My favorite memory of Grandad
Hampton goes back to when I was about 4 years old. . . .Grandad was smoking
one of his non-filtered cigarettes and I wanted to be like him.  'Please,
please, let me have one.' 'No! No!'  But I continued to pester him until he
finally relented -- assuring me that I would not like it.  No matter, I had
to have a Grandad cigarette -- Puff-puff.  Turn green -- Dizzy -- Extreme
nausea -- Foul taste.  Thank you to this day, Grandad, for my lasting
impression of cigarettes."
    Homer was very special to all of his grandchildren, but perhaps more so
to Pam (Pauline's youngest daughter).  Pam stayed with them through the week
while Pauline worked; on weekends, she went home with her mom.  Homer taught
her how to ride her tricycle.  He put her feet on the pedal and would push
one foot down and then the other until she learned to ride.  After he died
when Pam was only six, she told Lessie that she wished she could walk on the
golden streets with him.
    Elaine related that on a trip to the grocery store with Homer, she
stayed in the car while he went into the store.  She began playing around and
knocked the car out of gear.  It started rolling back into the street.  Homer
got there first and stopped the car.  She says, "But you know, he didn't whip
me.  Just hugged me 'cause I didn't get hurt."
    When he ate oatmeal, he would break his toast into bits and drop them in
the oatmeal.  Then he would dip the oatmeal and toast out together to eat
them.  He also loved hot pepper and would always have some in his garden.  He
always had a garden until he became so ill that he couldn't work it.
    When his first granddaughter (Sharon) got married, he wouldn't attend
the wedding.  He said he had been to one wedding and that was enough.
    Lessie and Homer were supposed to get married in the spring despite
objections from both mothers.  (They were third cousins, and the  mothers
insisted that something would be wrong with their children.)  Homer had saved
up about $500.  A friend, Genie Burchfield, wanted him to sink the money into
a cotton crop.  Genie said they could make a lot of money and for him not to
listen to what Lessie had to say.  Homer loved Lessie and wanted her to share
in the decision.  So he asked her about using the money for the crop.  She
told Homer that until they got married, the money was his to do with as he
pleased. He put the money into the cotton crop.  But cotton sank to $.05 a
pound.  They didn't even make enough money to pay for what they had bought.
Because of this, Homer and Lessie didn't get married until the fall.
    When their children were very small, Lessie wanted a sewing machine.
Homer worked in a field for a man and earned $.50 a day in order to pay for
her a Singer treadle sewing machine.  It is currently in a grandson's
possession.
Per Sharon at:    Mhbthor@aol.com


Lessie Viola Carpenter

Lessie Viola Carpenter - my grandmother - born in Clay Co., AL.  She
died at Beckwood Manor Nursing Home in Anniston, Calhoun Co., AL and is
buried in Edgemont Cemetery in Anniston, Calhoun Co., AL.  Lessie and Homer 32
570 were married in Clay Co., AL.     While Homer and Lessie were courting,
Homer went by to see Lessie one day.  After he left, it came a tremendous
downpour and flooded some of the low areas.  Lessie had sat down to make some
clothes.  Nobie came to her and told her there was no use in her continuing
to make clothes, that Homer had been swept away and drowned.
When they decided to marry, they didn't tell anyone.  They wanted to get
married and present it as a finished accomplishment.  When they arrived at
the church, they were surprised to discover their family and friends there.
In fact, it seemed that everyone was there except for Lessie's best friend.
She wouldn't go because she wasn't invited.
She was a very gentle, sweet woman who adored her children and grandchildren.
She was a devout Christian and loved to listen to her brother Roy  preach.
She played the piano, but could only read shaped-note music.  She taught
Sunday School for many years and was dearly loved by all who knew her.  She
was a special, special lady to me.  I miss her greatly.
Side note to John:  I have an interview I taped with Grandmother in 1985 or
thereabouts.  It concerns a bad storm that went through Clay Co.  Our family
lost several members during this storm.  If you would like to have a
transcript of it, I will be glad to send it to you.  I also have several
other things, including an essay that a student volunteer at the nursing home
wrote about Grandmother.
Per Sharon at:    Mhbthor@aol.com

E-MAIL Data & Web Pages:
http://members.aol.com/DCPHX16107/index.html      CARPENTERS
http://members.tripod.com/~Donna_Carpenter/index.html   AVERYS
http://www.angelfire.com/az/CRUISE49/index.html   CRUISES
http://members.aol.com/RoxNGems/index.htm     Bramlett-COOPERS
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 Heath Boling
writes: Hi!  My name is Sharon Boling.  My grandmother, Lessie Hampton, was a
younger sister of your grandfather, Barney Carpenter.  I was given
your name by my mother's sister who got it from a cousin (a daughter of
Arthur Carpenter).  I believe she said that you had been in contact
with Aunt Nobie and had given her some information.  Unfortunately for me,
it hasn't yet filtered down this far. I will be glad to help you with
anything that I can do or tell you about the family.
I am also a niece of your Uncle Fred who married my father's sister,
Lillian Patterson.
It was interesting to see the pictures.  Although we have several
pictures of Granny Carpenter, our great-grandmother, you have some on
your web-page that I have not seen (the picture of her as a young lady
with her in-laws).  I would really like to have photographic copies of
these, if possible.  I will, in turn, send you what I have.
There are several people here in Alabama that are currently
researching the Carpenter line.  Unfortunately, I believe I am the only one who
has an e-mail address; at least, I don't have theirs.
I would really like to hear from you soon and will do anything that I
can to help.    Sharon Boling      NOTE:  The e-mail is in my son's name.

E-MAIL: Mon, 8 May 2000 From: Sharon Mhbthor@aol.com
John,
My grandmother Lessie Carpenter Hampton lived her last 7 years in a
nursing home.  In 1988, she developed an intestinal blockage.  When they
operated on her to do a colostomy, she had a heart attack and spent a month
in the hospital.  During that time, she was very much like a child.  Although
she regained her memory, she never completely regained her strength and was
wheelchair bound for the most part for the rest of her life.  My mother could
not care for Grandmother by herself and my mother's sisters were unable to
help.  So they put her in Beckwood Manor Nursing Home.  Although she had
always told us that when she got to where she couldn't do for herself to put
her in a nursing home, she hated it.  Nevertheless, my grandmother  never
lost her dignity despite the colostomy and the nursing home.  Even when she
was ill, she was still an "angel" to all who were around her.  The following
essay "She Reminds Me of an Angel" was written by a high school student who
volunteered at the Nursing Home.  She wrote it sometime before Grandmother
died.
   "Her wrinkled face looks up at me with delight, her aged eyes shining
brightly everytime I see her.  So much beauty lies beneath her fragile body
and her thin gray hair.  She reminds me of an angel and she always brings me
joy.  This 84-year-old woman named Lessie Hampton makes everyone who knows
her feel this way.
   I met Mrs. Hampton at the nursing home when I visited there with my youth
minister for church devotion.  She spoke softly, telling me her name and
thanking me for my visit.  Her smile never left her face for she loves to
have a new friend around to say hello to.
   Mrs. Hampton is a very intelligent, old woman, full of nothing but
sweetness.  She's the kind who'll always be there to  help anybody with any
problem.  She's brave and not afraid of death.  She's put all her faith in
God and says everytime I see her that she'll see me soon if the "Good Lord is
willing."
   She's shown me stacks of pictures and loves to tell stories.  I've seen
pictures of her old church, parents, children, grandchildren and friends.
She's told me stories about when her church burned down and when her children
were born.
   When she was young, she was beautiful, tall and slim brunette.  She loves
to keep things from the past and there's a story behind everything she
treasures.  She's always got something to tell me of her family, church and
experiences.
   I always enjoy visiting Mrs. Hampton because she never fails to bring a
smile to my lips, but sometimes tears to my eyes as well.
   Even though I haven't known Mrs. Hampton very long, I've learned much
about her and she's taught me a lot about changes in life.  I've always
thought that getting old meant the end of the most precious part of life, but
she's proved to me that it is just the beginning of the most precious part of
life.
   Her wheelchair, gray hair and wrinkled skin have disguised the tall
beauty she's always known, but she's still a beauty to me and to everyone who
knows her kind heart.  Jennifer Hurd"
I have to concur with Jennifer, she was and still is a beauty to me.
Sharon

Lessie Carpenter - This poem was written in 1917 when Grandmother was
ten years old.  She had rheumatic fever about that time and was not expected
to survive.  Her sister, Nobie, said that afterward Grandmother didn't have
to go to the fields and work.  Grandmother herself told me that she had to
take medicine with a lot of iron in it and that it ruined her teeth.
"My Best Wishes for You
L ong may you love and the world be better because you live in it.
E very good thing you strive for in life may you easily win it
S weetest pleasures that mortals on this Earth may know
S atisfy thy soul as into fair sweet womanhood you grow
I n all the sweetest virtues that make woman near divine
E ver as a guiding star, serenely in your circle shine.
Most Sincerely,
Uncle Joe Culpepper (age 77)
Home Americus, GA.


665. Clifton Hampton

RESIDENCE: Ashland,Clay,AL 520 Porter Ave Talladega.
BURIAL: Oakhill Cemetery.


Samuel Wilroy Loftis

E-MAIL:  Date:  Wed, 25 Apr 2001  From:  Sharon Mhbthor@aol.com
Wilroy Loftis is married to the former Frances Hampton.  Frances was the daughter of Clifton Hampton and Elizabeth ________.  Clifton is the son of  Cynthia Carpenter and Thomas E. "Tommy" Hampton.  Cynthia is the daughter of David Harlin Carpenter and Margaret Jane Harris.  Margaret Jane Harris is the daughter of Jackson Harris and _______.  David Harlin Carpenter is the son of  James Warren Carpenter, Sr., and Sarah Abigail "Sallie" Harlin.  All are buried in the Clay County, AL, area, except for Clifton who is buried in Talladega County, AL.
Sharon.
The obituary was taken from The Birmingham News for Wednesday, April 25, 2001.
Loftis, Samuel Wilroy, age 82, of Fultondale, AL., died Sunday, April 22,  2001. Mr. Loftis attended Walker Chapel United Methodist Church, Fultondale,  AL. He was a veteran of WWII; a member of VFW Post #10250; a member of  Teamster Retirees Lodge 612; and a member of Jacks Coffee Club afternoon session.. He was a retired truck driver. Visitation will be Wednesday, April  25, 2001 at 6 p.m. at the funeral home. Remains will lie in state at the  church from 1 p.m. until time of service. Funeral services will be held Thursday, April 26, 2001 at 2 p.m. at Walker Chapel United Methodist Church with burial in Walker Chapel Road Cemetery. Rev. Roy Williams, Rev. Carl Malone and Rev. Glen Parkin officiating. Survivors: wife, Frances J. (Fran) Loftis; one stepson, Barry McClendon and wife Cindy; one sister, Ida May Swafford; two grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Walker Chapel Funeral Home is directing.


667. Zachariah Thomas "Z.T." Hampton

Living in Arlington, VA 1998.

E-MAIL:
From: Mhbthor@aol.com
To: dcvegas@lasvegas.net ; jrcrin001@cox.net ; brotherfloyd@hotmail.com ; PaFae@aol.com ; rsoard@mindspring.com ; carpenter-l@rootsweb.com
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 7:31 AM
Subject: Obituary for Zacharie T. "Z.T." Hampton

The following obituary is for my great-uncle Z.T. Hampton.  He is a descendant of E. B. Hampton (Z. T., Thomas "Tommie", E.B.) and David Harlen Carpenter (Z.T., Cynthia, David Harlen).  The obituary was taken from the Hendersonville (NC) Times-News.
Sharon Boling

Zacharie T. Hampton, 90
Retired Navy Cmdr. Zacharie Thomas Hampton, 90, of Hendersonville and Chesapeake, Va., died Friday, May 31, 2002, in Park Ridge Hospital.
He was a native of Clay County, Ala., and the husband of Sylvia Hampton, who died in 1992. He retired from the Navy after 30 years of service. He was a World War II veteran and saw action at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was also a retired civil servant.
Survivors include two children, Andrew Charles Hampton of Chesapeake, Va., and Cynthia Hampton Miller of Hendersonville; a sister, Lela Mae Griffin of Talladega, Ala.; and five grandchildren, Leanna, Benjamin and Jacob Miller and Jessica and Joshua Hampton.
A funeral will be held at 5 p.m. today at Shepherd’s Church Street chapel. The Rev. Dewey Barnwell will officiate. Burial will be held at Arlington National Cemetery.
Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.


697. Mollie Mae Wolf

WOLFE, Milly "Mollie" Mae b: February 11, 1906 in Unk d: August 19, 1983 in GA? SOURCES-1: 1997 Per grandson, Don ................ +JOHNSON, Otis b: April 28, 1903 in Unk d: November 30, 1945 in Atlanta, GA SOURCES-1: 1997 Per grandson, Don


707. Willy Roy Carpenter

BIRTH: Clay county,AL OR Alexandria,,AL.


714. Willis Harmon Carpenter

BURIAL: Macedonia Baptist Cemetery


Rosa Lee Hart

BURIAL: Macedonia Baptist Cemetery.