Descendants of William Carpenter of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, now part of Bristol County, MA

Notes

1289. Willett Carpenter

Number 109 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H.
Carpenter, 1901.
He married about 1752.  Per Alden J. Bennett (Page 85) Spouse may have been a
Fowler.

1291. Deborah Carpenter

Number 111 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H.
Carpenter, 1901.

BIRTH: This Deborah may have been born as early as 1724.
!MARRIAGE: Not proven adequately.

Arnell Dickinson

Joan Dickinson Soo of San Leandro, CA submitted this potential information in
a letter dated 29 July 1998.

NAME: Maybe Arnold instead of Arnell.
!SOURCE: Descendants of Captain John and elizabeth Howland Dickinson of Oyster
Bay, Long Island - Marguerite S. Dickinson Library of Congress #CS71 D553 1968
Page 25 "...buried in Bedford, NY m(1) Deborah Carpenter 1724-1751 m(2) Mary
Ackerly lived on land from Margaret DePeyster Westchester Co. NY.  Bedford NY
Wills: Book A, page 243  June 1787.  To Loving wife.  To eldest son Nathaniel,
sons Jesse and Arnell, daughter Elizabeth Brundage, Mary Powell, and Jermina
Green.  Ex: Nathaniel and Jesse Dickinson Wit Hannah Hallock date May 9, 1791."

3410. Nathaniel Dickinson

SOURCE: Descendants of Captain John and Elizabeth Howland Dickinson of Oyster
Bay, Long Island - Marguerite S. Dickinson Library of Congress #CS71 D553 1968
Page 25 "...(His mother died June 23, 1751 m. Leah Lippincott from L.I. (farmer
of Dover, Monmouth Co. NJ)" Further down the page a note "(all from record in
Albany, NY)" possibly citing the DAR bible record copied by Clara Banks of
Peekskill, NY member of Pierre VanCortland Chapter, DAR Peekskill, NY.

1299. Jeremiah Carpenter

NOTE: One Jeremiah in the Carpenter Memorial was split into two.
The correct one is Jeremiah, son of Christopher, Oliver, Abiah, then William.
The one in error is Jeremiah, son of Oliver, Abiah then William.
JRC 12/2008 - See Gene's comment below and Carpenter Sketches.
Jeremiah Carpenter-7864 b. 18 Jun 1715 East Greenwich, RI d. 5 Mar 1792, in 78th yr. (as per Reynolds Carpenter Bible rec.; prob. 1793 [will dtd 24 Jul 1792)] Bennington, VT

Number 669 on page 129.  No family listed. Listed as son of Christopher, Oliver, Abiah, then William.
COMPARE to:
Number 204 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 75. Listed as son of Oliver, of Abiah.
Family on page 130 (#100).

BOOK- GENEALOGY: Amos B. Carpenter, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA.  Also known as the CARPENTER MEMORIAL. Published 1898 By: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, MA
Number 669 on page 129.  No family listed.   In one record it appears he
married an Arnold - Probably Mary Arnold b. 1716 daughter of Israel.

WILL: See father's notes for will information.  Children in this family are
based on the will's listing of married children and grandchildren.  done by
exclusion.
BIRTH: Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.  First Series - Birth, Marriages
and Deaths.  By James N. Arnold (1891) - Volume 1 - Kent County:
1-7 Carpenter, Jeremiah, of Christopher and Mary, June 18, 1715.

Gene Zubrinsky says that there should be Christopher Carpenter-17435 b. 1740 in this family

Elizabeth Reynolds

NOTE: Correct spouse reassigned. See notes for Jeremiah.

FATHER: Was her father named Joseph?
GRAVESTONE: Gravestone indicates death as March 1799.  Age 78 years.
AFN:CR6T-16

E-MAIL: Sat, 21 Aug 1999. From: Linda Hannah .
Dear John R.,
I just got 50 pages of Reynolds/Carpenter printout from Steve Roth who
has a new Reynolds book out. He has proven to me that Elizabeth Reynolds, b.
abt.1700 d. Mar 1799, married on 25 Dec 1735  to Jeremiah Carpenter, b. 1716
d. Mar 1792 (I just got back from the Carpenter Hill Orchard Cemetery where
they are buried in Benninton, VT) is not the daughter of Frances Reynolds
but of Joseph Reynolds III, son of Joseph Jr, son of Joseph Sr, son of James
and Deborah Reynolds, the first immigrants!
In the probate of Joseph III's will he gives Jeremiah Carpenter 114
lbs sterling. As you know back then they gave the money to the husband of
the daughter. This is the money they used to buy the 800 acres on what is
now called Carpenter Hill in Bennington. I always wondered how they got
moved up there from RI! So Henry Suydam Reynolds was mistaken in his book on
that fact.
I am asking Mr. Roth to send me the original probate paper if it
exsists or where to find the information.

3412. Christopher Carpenter

Born about Dec 1739 or Jan 1740. Died at 10 weeks of age.

3414. Meribah Carpenter

Number 697 and 702 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 130 and 131.
Listed twice with the same birth date.

3416. Mary Carpenter A Twin

Number 695 and 700 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 130 and 131.
Mary is listed twice, same birth and death info.
One record has a birth date for the second Mary as 25 Oct. 1745.

3418. Elizabeth Carpenter

Number 701 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 131.

3419. Jemima Carpenter

Number 696 1/2 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 130.
She married a John Potter and went to Pownal and Middletown, VT.  He was a
farmer.

3420. Isabel Carpenter

Number 696 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 130.

3421. Molly Carpenter

Number 693 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 130.
She married William Cobb and went west (To New York state?).
William Cobb was a Revolutionary War soldier and he died in Marcellus, Onondaga
county, New York.  He was a farmer.

3423. Hannah Carpenter

Number 694 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 130.

Edmund Rathbun

Edmund was the son of John Rathbun III and Patience Fish

This information was submitted by Ruby Joan Moody Angell, Box 568, Oilton, OK,
74052-0568, John Proctor wrote to her in Nov of 1995 for a connection to the
Fish family, as Paulina Fish, married Andrew Smith on Oct. 26th,
1853.   Andrew Smith was Lucile Latsons, John's mother, grand-father.

Mary Arnold

Marriage and children now seem questionable. More research needed.

1301. Robert Carpenter

Number 671 on page 129 of the Carpenter Memorial.
Family on page 244 and 245 (# 254).

Robert served in Continental Line with Capt. Keith's Co., Col. Michael
Jackson's Regiment. Served from April 24, 1777 to Oct. 7, 1777.
He was reported as killed on Oct. 7, 1777.
Enlisted as a corporal for 3 years 9 Feb 1778, in Capt. Aaron Grays Co.,
Col Pyrcheon's regiment.

Gene Zubrinsky wrote:
Robert Carpenter, Sr.- (b.1722 RI - d.1777 NY) Here is a link to Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, 3:125.  Click here: Ancestry.com - Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Images Online)

http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/View.aspx?dbid=7726&path=Massachusetts+Soldiers+and+Sailors+of+the+Revolutionary+War%2c+Vol+3.Soldiers+and+Sailors.unknown.125&cr=0&sid=&gskw=

The service record for Robert Carpenter (about halfway down the page) begins by identifying him as from "Kingstown (also given Palmer)." It was presumably the assumption that this was Kingstown, Rhode Island, that caused Amos B. Carpenter to paraphrase (poorly) this service record as part of the listing for Christopher5's son Robert (ABC, 129). That, of course, is dubious on its face: rarely did a Rhode Island resident enlist in the Massachusetts Line. More to the point, however, "Kings Town" was one of the so-called archaic names of Palmer (William Francis Galvin, Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities and Towns in Massachusetts, 5th ed. [Boston, 1997], 89-90). The elder Robert therefore cannot, on the basis of his service record at least, be identified as the Robert Carpenter born at East Greenwich on 25 (not 5, as per ABC, 149) March 1722, son of Christopher5 (Oliver4, etc.)./FONT>

BIRTH: CM has 25 Mar 1722 as birth date and another record has 5 Mar 1722.

DEATH: Died during the Battle of Bemus Heights, near Saratoga during the
Revolutionary War. See note above regarding death and possibe resurrection.
The family has a document from Washington D. C. stating he
was killed Oct. 7, 1777. He was a gallant defender of freedom for which
his descendants can be very proud!

BOOK: Carpenter, Rehoboth Family, Book 929.273 C225c, G.S. by Amos B.
Carpenter, pub. 1898. p. 129. Robert was son of Christopher, son of
Oliver, etc.  He was the third child of Christopher."Robert was b.
March 5, 1722, at East Greenwich;  m. lst Charity Roberts Oct 26, 1755; md. 2nd
Mercy. Page 244, in the Carpenter, Rehoboth Family book above,  Robert
b.1722, has six children.  There is information on that page for the first
5, and Robert (b. abt. 1775,) is listed as #6, and he is the only one listed
without dates.  Robert of 1722 may have had a daughter that isn't listed.
Robert of 1775 is by the second marriage so his mother would be Mercy.
Mr. Abner Loomis raised Robert of 1775 after his father was killed
in the Revolutionary War and Robert of 1775 married Phebe McNair.

BOOK: Thacher's American Revolution, Hurlbut, Williams and Co. American
Subscription Publishing House, Hartford, Conn. 1862,  p. 100-101.
"Oct 6, 1777 An express passed through this city, on it's way to
General Gates' headquarters, with the information that a detachment of troups
from New York, supposed to be about four thousand, under command of
Sir Henery Clinton and General Vaughan, have undertaken an
expedition up the north river their object undoubtedly is to possess themselves
of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton in the highlands, and to make a
diversion in favor of Burgoyne.  General Putman was stationed at Peekskill with
a small force, but being totally unable to cope with the enemy, has
retired to some distance should this expedition be crowned with
success, it will be in the power of Sir Henery Clinton to convey his
army to this city and even to our camp at Stillwater, which will place our
army between two fires.  Should General Gates detach a part of his
troups to opose the march of General Clinton, it will liberate
Burgoyne and he would probably force his way to this city.  In either event,
the consequences must be exceedingly disastrous to our county.  We tremble
with apprehensions."
(Oct 7, 1777 Robert Carpenter b. 1722 is reported killed in the
Battle of Bemis Heights--Stillwater, N.Y.)
Oct 8, 1777 "The anticipated important intelligence has just
reached us, that a most severe engagement took place yesterday, between the two
armies, at a place between Stillwater and Saratoga, called Bemis'
Heights.  It is supposed to be the hardest fought battle, and the most
honorable to our army, of any since the commencement of hostilities.
The enemy was completely repulsed in every quarter and his defeat was
attended with irreparable loss of officers, man artillery, tents and
baggage.  Or officers and men acquired the highest honor; they fought
like heroes, and their loss is very inconsiderable.  General Arnold
has received a wound in his leg.  I am impatient to receive the particular
details of this capital event."

BIRTH: Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.  First Series - Birth,
Marriages and Deaths.  By James N. Arnold (1891) - Volume 1 - Kent County:
1-7 Carpenter, Robert, of Christopher and Mary, Mar. 25, 1722.

MORE: The following data is from Donna Hellewell of Aptos, CA.
Letter from Helen Fox, in NY.  "To verify the lineage Mrs. Snyder sent, look at Bowen's  "Woodstock Families:  Vol. III goes from Wm to Robert.  "A History of Palmer, Mass" has mention of Robert Carpenter in the Revolution, so I guess we can accept our records as correct."

Thacher's American Revolution, Hurlbut, Williams and Co. American Subscription Publishing House, Hartford, Conn. 1862, excerpts p.100-101.

"Oct 6, 1777 An express passed through this city, on it's way to General Gates' headquarters, with the information that a detachment of troups from New York, supposed to be about four thousand, under command of Sir Henery Clinton and General Vaughan, have undertaken an expedition up the north river their object undoubtedly is to possess themselves of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton in the highlands, and to make a diversion in favor of Burgoyne.  General Putman was stationed at Peekskill with a small fource, but being totally unable to cope with the enemy, has retired to some distance should this expedition be crowned with success, it will be in the power of Sir Henery Clinton to convey his army to this city and even to our camp at Stillwater, which will place our army between two fires.  Should General Gates detach a part of his troups to opose the march of General Clinton, it will liberate Burgoyne and he would probably force his way to this city.  In either event, the consequences must be exceedingly disastrous to our county.  We tremble with apprehensions."

Oct 8, 1777 "The anticipated important intelligence has just reached us, that a most severe engagement took place yesterday, between the two armies, at a place between Stillwater and Saratoga, called Bemis' Heights.  It is supposed to be the hardest fought battle, and the most honorable to our army, of any since the commencement of hostilities. The enemy was completely repulsed in every quarter and his defeat was attended with irreparable loss of officers, man artillery, tents and baggage.  Or officers and men acquired the highest honor; they fought like heroes, and their loss is very inconsiderable.  General Arnold has received a wound in his leg.  I am impatient to receive the particular details of this capital event."

Oct 7, 1777 Robert Carpenter b. 1722 is reported killed in the Battle of Bemis Heights, Stillwater, N.Y.  The family has a document from the National Archives, Washington, DC stating he was killed Oct. 7, 1777.  He was a gallant defender of freedom for which his descendants can be very proud!

Amos B. Carpenter, REHOBOTH BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY; 1303-1898; Amherst, Mass., Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1898, 929.273 C225c, p. 129. Robert was the son of Christopher, son of Oliver, son of Abiah, etc.  He was the third child of Christopher.  "Robert was b. March 5, 1722, at East Greenwich;  m. lst Charity Roberts, Oct 26, 1755; md. 2nd Mercy. Robert Carpenter of Kingston enlisted as Corporal in the Continental army, in Captain Keith's company, Col. Michael Jackson's regiment; served from April 24, 1777 to Oct. 7, 1777; reported killed Oct. 7, 1777."  Page 244-245, Robert, b. 1722, has six children.  There is information for the first five and Robert (b. abt. 1775) is listed as #6, and he is the only one listed without dates.  Robert of 1775 is by the second marriage so his mother would be Mercy.  Mr. Abner Loomis raised Robert of 1775 after his father was killed in the Revolutionary War and Robert of 1775 married Phebe McNair.

The Carpenter, Rehoboth Family book has an usual comment, it says: "Robert was b. March 5, 1722, at East Greenwich;  m. lst Charity Roberts Oct 26, 1755; md. 2nd Mercy.  'Robert Carpenter of Kingston enlisted as Corporal in the Continental army, in Captain Keith's company, Col. Michael Jackson's regiment; served from April 24, 1777, to Oct, 7, 1777; reported killed Oct 7, 1777; enlisted again in the Continental army, Capt. Aaron Gray's company, Colonel Pyncheon's regiment; enlisted for three years Feb. 9, 1778.'"

This is a strange entry in the book and could be researched further to see who enlisted for 3 years Feb. 9, 1778.

Charity Alice Roberts

First Wife of Robert Carpenter b. 1722.  Charity b. abt. 1733 West Greenwich, Kent, RI.  Another account said, Warwick, RI.  Still another gave 24 Oct 1755, of Kent, East Greenwich, this must be the wedding date as they had children in 1756.

3427. Christopher Carpenter

NAME: Not mentioned in grandfather's will dated 7 Apr 1762.  Probably deceased
by 1762.

Book, Carpenter, Rehoboth Family, Book 929.273 C225c, G.S. by Amos B. Carpenter, pub. 1898,   On  p. 244, Robert b. 1722 is the father in the family #254, and his son  Christopher is #1.  (Robert is child # VI in his family. but it is believed that this Robert b. abt 1775 and who md. Phebe McNair, is by a second wife, Mercy.) (p. 129. Robert, son of Christopher #671, Family #97. is the Robert b. 1722 as a child.)

3429. Phebe Carpenter

DEATH: Not mentioned in grandfather's will dated 7 Apr 1762.  Probably deceased?

Carpenter, Rehoboth Family, Book 929.273 C225c, G. S. by Amos B. Carpenter pub., 1898, p. 245.

1304. Sarah Carpenter

Number 674 on page 129 of the Carpenter Memorial.

BIRTH: Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850.  First Series - Birth,
Marriages and Deaths.  By James N. Arnold (1891) - Volume 1 - Kent County:
1-7 Carpenter, Sarah, of Christopher and Mary, Mar. 5, 1729-0.

1305. Oliver Carpenter

Number 675 on page 129 of the Carpenter Memorial.
No family listed.

WILL: Oliver was not mentioned in his father's will.  Only the
married children were listed in the will dated 7 April 1762.
Since he would have been about 30, it is assumed that he died prior to 1762.

1306. Nicholas (See Notes) Carpenter

Number 676 on page 129 of the Carpenter Memorial.
Family on page 245 (# 255).  A merchant.
The AF has him born in Frederick, Maryland.

NOTE: IT SEEMS DATA FROM 2 NICHOLAS CARPENTERS ARE COMBINED HERE?
Questions:  Did this Nicholas Carpenter come from the Zimmerman line or as noted from RI?
The death data is obviously from the Zimmerman Nicholas.  Both have fathers named Christopher?
A comparison of the children in each will help resolve this.  Please see the notes below. JRC 4/2002

WILL: Nicholas was not mentioned in his father's will. Only the married
children were listed in the will dated 7 April 1762.
MISC: He moved to Maryland, thence to Virginia and lastly to Harrison
County, Ohio in about 1775.
He was murdered by indians, while taking a drove of cattle to Meereto or some
place in Ohio.  He was Judge of the court for Harrison for 15 years.  He had on
his farm a gun and blacksmith's shop, a store and a school house.  All this was
on his own property.  He owned 2,000 acres of land and had a orchard of 400
bearing apple trees at the time of his death.  He carried the produce on mules
over the mountains at that early day.  His death was very much lamented by the
people.  Had he not met with an early death he would have been one of the great
and rich men of this country.  He died at the early age of 48 years.  Taken
from H. P. Hildreth's History of the Early Days.
The above account was given to Amos B. Carpenter by David Carpenter, grandson
of Nicholas, when he was 80 years of age.  The tradition by him was that three
brothers came from Germany.  Their names were Christopher, Emanuel and David.
David went south and was never heard from again.  Emanuel settled in
Pennsylvania and his heirs are there in the 1890s.  However, Amos B. Carpenter
disproved the tradition. (WHOA! SEE "NOTE:" above and E-MAIL: below!)

E-MAIL:
Posted by: TerryLee Carpenter Date: March 17, 2002 at 17:23:33
In Reply to: Re: Isaac M. & violet Harwood Carpenter by Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny  of 5710
Sandra,
I did a little looking at the library this afternoon, and found a record that states your Isaac M. Carpenter who married Violet Harwood was a son of Norman and Mary (Nelson) Carpenter. There's a marriage record for Norman E. or B. Carpenter to Mary J. Nelson in 1895 in Elkhart Co. IN. That Norman Carpenter appears to be a son of George W. Carpenter, who was a son of Elias Carpenter the son of John Carpenter the son of Nicholas Carpenter who was born c1745 and was killed by an Indian war party in the winter of 1791 near Waverly, WV. This Carpenter family was of Germanic origin, and their surname was originally Zimmermann. They first settled in the Monongalia later Harrison Co. VA / WV area before the American Revolution, and this one branch (John's) migrated to Elkhart Co. IN before 1830. This particular line needs some more research, but this should give you a good starting point.
Terry
MORE:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/carpenter/messages/5600.html
Posted by: Terry Date: March 18, 2002 at 17:39:12
In Reply to: Re: Isaac M. & violet Harwood Carpenter by Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny  of 5710
Sandra,
This should help:
Nicholas Carpenter, born c1745, was stated by one source to be the son of Nicholas Carpenter who was “a native of Germany, who emigrated to America during the Colonial days” whose father was “a native of Germany, but removed to England, where he died” [CBP:558]; this indicates that he may have been one of the emigrants from the Palatinate in Germany who immigrated to England then to America with the tide of Palatinate refugees who followed that route during the early 1700s. There is significant disagreement among researchers about whether this Nicholas was related to the other Nicholases in western VA, and absolute proof is lacking. There is a persistent error in published research on Nicholas Carpenter of Harrison Co. VA which originated with the Carpenter family history published in 1898 by Amos B. Carpenter [ABC] which wrongly places Nicholas as a son of Christopher and Mercy (Taylor) Carpenter of the East Greenwich RI family of English Carpenters. A descendant states that Nicholas was a son of Christopher Carpenter whose surname was originally Zimmermann, who was born c1707, son of Heinrich and Salome (Rueffner) Zimmermann who came to Lancaster Co. PA from Switzerland in the early 18th Century [SDC]. He further states that the name of the wife of Christopher Carpenter is not yet known, and that Christopher Carpenter removed from Lancaster Co. PA where there is a church record of the birth of Johann Nicholas Zimmerman on 21 Dec 1742 to Christoph Zimmerman, who is the Nicholas Carpenter of Harrison Co. WV who was killed by Indians at Marietta OH in 1791 [TR]; Christopher Zimmermann / Carpenter settled in Frederick Co. MD -- Nicholas’ older children appear to have been born in MD. Nicholas Carpenter settled in Harrison Co. VA during the 1770s; a posited brother, Christopher Carpenter, settled nearby. Nicholas’ will, dated 1791 and recorded in Harrison Co. WV, names five sons, states that he had daughters but does not name them, and states that his wife was with child at the time. A 1798 deed of sale of land names his children then of age and living, and their spouses. Nicholas and Mary Carpenter had thirteen documentable children, among whom was:
5. John Carpenter, born c1772 in MD, died 25 Mar 1855 in Elkhart Co. IN [CBP]. He was a minister. He resided in IN during the early 1800s, and settled at Goshen, Elkhart Co. IN, where he was enumerated in 1830, 1840, and 1850. He married on 27 Oct 1791 in Harrison Co. VA to Sarah Bush (or possibly nee Wolfe) who was born c1772, died 26 Mar 1855. The possibility that he might also be the John Carpenter who married on 3 Mar 1794 in Harrison Co. VA to Sarah Radcliff has not been ruled out. Son:
      5a. Elias Carpenter, born c1797 in VA, enumerated in Elkhart Co. IN 1830, 1840, and 1850; he was listed as the County Treasurer in the 1850 census. He married c1827 to Elizabeth _?_, born c1805 in VA [NAMP]. Children:
             5a1. John Carpenter, born c1828, married on 2 Nov 1854 in Elkhart Co. IN to Mary J. Hoke.
             5a2. George W. Carpenter, born c1830, married on 9 Oct 1858 in Elkhart Co. IN to Nancy Vanhorn, parents of:
                    5a2a. Norman B. Carpenter, born c1859. He is probably the Norman B. Carpenter who married on 28 Feb 1895 in Elkhart Co. IN to Mary J. Nelson, parents of:
                           5a2a1. Isaac M. Carpenter, born 31 Oct 1896, married on 18 Mar 1916 in Elkhart Co. IN to Violet Harwood.
             5a3. Isaac Carpenter, born c1834.
             5a4. Catherine Carpenter, born c1836.
             5a5. Elbridge Carpenter, born c1840.
             5a6. Leticia J. Carpenter, born c1843.
             5a7. David Carpenter, born c1847.
Terry
MORE:
Posted by: Terry (ID *****7761) Date: April 07, 2002 at 18:48:44
In Reply to: Re: Isaac M. & violet Harwood Carpenter by Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny  of 5710
Sandra,
The Ritchie Co. Historical Society has for sale a 22"X42" laminated map with a booklet by local historian Barr Wilson that has information about Nicholas Carpenter's cattle drive and other items of interest about settlers and events in that area. The book is described on the RCHS's web page at if you are interested.
Terry
MORE:
Posted by: Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny Date: March 17, 2002 at 18:28:15
In Reply to: Re: Isaac M. & violet Harwood Carpenter by Terry  of 5710
Terry,
Words cannot express how much I appreciate your time in
helping me find my Carpenter lineage...my father left us
when I was seven and I have been looking all these years
for information on my Carpenter Family...I can really do
some "damage" at the History Commission in Little ROck now.
:)
It is people like you who are kind enough to help those of
us who get stuck..My Doss Line is complete and I am now
applying for my DAR on my gggg-grandfather, who served in
the VA COntinental Line from Pittsylvania CO, VA...
If I can ever help you with Arkansas info, please don't
hesitate to ask..
Best Regards,
Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny :)
MORE:
----- Original Message -----
From: Sandra Samoyedny
To: John R. Carpenter
Cc: Terry Carpenter
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 7:42 PM
Subject: RE NICHOLAS CARPENTER
John,
   Thanks for the info, however, somebody along the way has
really had a "no-brainer".  I take my line all the way back from
me to the parents of Nicholas; Heinrich and Salome Zimmerman(
Carpenter being the Anglican translation)  My information comes
from two very respected Carpenter Family researchers, Richard
Carpenter and Terry L. Carpenter.  My 4th great-grandfather,
Re. John Carpenter, b. 1772 in MD and my great-grandmother,
Sarah Bush Carpenter, settled in Goshen, Elkhart CO, IN and
both died in June 1855 one day apart.  They are buried in
Oak Ridge Cemetery in Goshen IN.  All of their children,
except Elias were born in Indiana and he was born in OH.
   The Zimmerman children of Heinrich and Salome were as
follows:    Gabriel b 1704 Switzerland and d abt Mar 1767 in
Lancaster CO, PA.
                   Emanuel: who became a very prominent judge in Pa.
                   Salome Carpenter
                   Jacob Carpenter
                   Henry Carpenter
                   Daniel Carpenter
                   Mary Carpenter
                   John Carpenter
                   Nicholas Carpenter
   Henirich was b Sept 07, 1673 in Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.
Nicholas (mine) was the son of Christopher Carpenter who
settled in Lancaster CO, PA.  He was christened Johann Nicholas
Carpenter and was . Dec 21, 1742.  He d on OCt 4, 1791, while
driving a herd of cattle to Marietta, OH .  An Indian war party
led by the Chief Tecumseh, killed him and he was buried on
the bank of the Ohio River in what is now Wood CO, W.V.  He
and his wife Mary had 13 proven children.
   Thank you for responding to my reply...it is a pity that Mr.
Amos Carpenter didn't take the time to document and research
his material..that would have solved many a problem with these
Carpenter Families being so mixed up and hard to unravel.
                                   Regards,
                         Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny

E-MAIL:  ----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Crockett York
To: John R. Carpenter
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 9:13 AM
Subject: Nicholas Carpenter file
John
I have a few differences from what you have here is what I have
a few places I have additional to what you have sent and some of what you sent I did not have
Linda York
linda_crockett_york1@verizon.net

Descendants of *Nicholas Carpenter

Generation No. 1

1.  *NICHOLAS8 CARPENTER  (*CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Dec 21, 1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died Oct 04, 1791 in "Carpenter's Run", near Waverly, Virginia (Now West Virginia).  He married *MARY WOLFE 1764 in Virginia, daughter of *JOSEPH WOLFE.  She was born 1745 in Virginia, and died 1816 in Harrison County, West Virginia.

Notes for *NICHOLAS CARPENTER:
RELATIONSHIP: 4th great grandfather of Douglas A. York

He moved to Maryland thence to Virginia and lastly to Ohio. He was murdered by Indians 10-4-1791 while taking a drove of cattle to Meereto or some place in Ohio. He was judge of the court for Harrison county for 15 years. He had on his farm a gun and blacksmiths shop, store and schoolhouse, all of which were his own property. He owned 2,000 acres of land, had an orchard of 400 bearing apple treas at the time of his death. He carried the produce on mules over the mountains at that early day. His death was very much lamented by the people. Had he not met an early death he would have been one of the great and rich men of this country. He died at the early age of 48 years. Taken from H.P. Hildreaths History of the Early days. The above account of the family was given to the author (Hildebreath) by David Carpenter grandson of Nicholas, when he was nearly 80 years old. The tradition by him was that 3 brothers came from Germany, Their names were Christopher, Emanuel and David. David went south and was never heard from-- Emanuel settled in pa and his heirs are there yet!  Occupation: Merchant
Carpenter's Run--- The exact spot is said to have been on land owned by John Prine Sharp. Mr. Carpenter was a man of Prominence having served as Justice Sherriff of his county-- and trustee of Randolph Academy at Clarksburg, but was at the time of death a cripple from a wound previously received."
Clarksburg was officially established as a town in Oct 1785, by an act of the Gen Assembly of Va. in the following words:
"1. Whereas a considerable no of lots have been laid off of houses built by the proprietors of the place fixed for the erection of the courthouse, and other public buildings in the county of Harrison and appreciation being made to this assembly that the same be established as a town."
"2. It is therefore enacted that the said lots so laid off, or those to be laid off, by the trustees shall be and the same are hereby established a town by the name of Clarksburg, and that William Haymond, Nicholas Carpenter, John Meyers, John McAlly and John Davidson, gentlemen are hereby appointed trustees of the said town, who or any 3 of them shall have the power from time to time to settle and determine all disputes concerning the bounds of said lots, and in the case of the death, resignation, or removal -- out of the county-- any one or more of the trustees -- it shall be lawful for their freeholders of said town to elect and choose others in their stead and those so chosen shall have the same power and authority as anyone, particuarly named in this act."
"Th justice commissioned by the Governor as the first county court were James Anderson, Nicholas Carpenter, Thomas Cheney, Henry Delay, John P. Durvall, Salanthiel Goff, Patrick hamilton, William lowether, and Benjamin Wilson. The 12 justices met and held the first session of county court at the home of Gov. Jackson on the Buchanan River on 7-20-1784. The day appointed and formally organized the county by the election of the county officers and selection of Clarksburg as the county seat.
from page 14 " Old Grist Mills of harrison Co."
This placque appears on the courthouse lawn
"Clarksburg --established 1785 -- named for George Rodgers Clark,  John Simpson camped here in 1764 --- early permanent settlements were made by the Davidsons, Cottrails, Seth hickman, Nicholas Carpenter, and others."

WILL OF NICHOLAS CARPENTER --- 1791
" In the name of God Amen, I, Nicholas Carpenter of Harrison County and state of Virginia, being in perfect health and memory, thanks be to God, calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament. That is to say principle and first of all i give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the decision of my executors to be hereafter named, nothing doubting but at the general resurrection that I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as trusting such world estate wherewith has pleased God to bestow with in this life.
I give and demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:
First of all my will is that all my just and lawful debts be paid and also my will is that my beloved wife whall have 3 horses and colts, the old horse and black mare and colt., and 13 cattle and 14 sheep and all of my household furniture; also my will is that my home place be divided in 3 parts that is beginning at the river opposite a large forkett Chestnut tree thence 100 yards above the house of Wolf, hence straight to the run, thence yp the run, thence up said run to the low gap at the head of the allience hollows to the back chestnut tree at the beginning and all that part i bequeath to my son, David; also my will that David should have a sorrell horse known by the name as his horse. Also my will is that my son John shall have all the land that lieth up the river about the mouth of Pring Run and up the said run to the road at the smithshop thence along the said road to the head of it. My land joining Davidson's at the schoolhouse-- including all that string of bottom -- and so down the river to begin and my will is that all that residue of the said place to be my beloved wife's third during her life and after her death to my son Nicholas for his part and my will is that 243 acres that lieth on middle fork of 10 mile creek to be my son Christopher's and 547 acres lying on the waters of limestone to be my son Joseph's and my will that David and John, my 2 sons shall divide the Smithwork equal between them and if either of the 2 brothers should die without issue their part to be equally between surviving brothers and my will to that after all my lawful debts are paid what money is left to be divided among my daughters. I also appoint my trusty friend William Haymond and John Wade Loffurrow and Alexander Rowand join with my wife -- my lawful executors and do revoke all former wills and pronounce this my last will and testament.
Nicholas Carpenter ( seal )
Signed and published and declared by the said Nicholas Carpenter as last will and testament in presence of each of their subsribed names: William haymond, Joseph Gregory, Joseph Shelton
Monday 11-28-1791 -- we the subsribors being appointed by court of Harrison County to appraise the personal essate of nicholas Carpenter deceased have met and being duly sworn do appraise:
Among the numerous articles of livestock, farming tools, furniture, and smith tools, here are a few of the many being appraised in English monies, allowing they are still using that money.
1 black calf--9 shilling                                              1 dutch oven ---8 shilling
1 red calf --10 shilling                                               1 new anvil-----6 pound 8 shilling
3 walnut chair --6 shilling                                          1 log chain ----12 shilling
1 spinning wheel -15 shilling
for a total of 115 pounds and 12 shilling -- Then they met and went over his 3 smith books for a total owed the estate in the merchant book to 26 pounds 19 shilling 5 pence. A total owed the estate of 149 pounds 10 shilling 11 1/2 pence.

will book 1, 1788-1794 Harrison co., W.Va. Courthouse

researcher this line: Phillip D. Byrer -- Bx 132 High St., - Atwood, In 46502
In regard to the ancestry of Nicholas Carpenter 1742-1791 of Harrison County, now West Virginia, there has been a persistent error, initiated in a Carpenter Family History by Amos B. Carpenter. In it he indicates wrongly that Nicholas was the son of a Christopher Carpenter (which is true) and a Mercy Taylor of the East Greenwich, Rhode Island family of Carpenter. This error has persisted, and can even be found on the Internet. Actually, Christopher Carpenter, or originally Christian Zimmerman, born 1707, was the son of Heinrich Zimmerman and Salome Rueffner, who came to Lancaster County Pennsylvania from Switzerland in the early 18th Century. The wife of this Christopher Carpenter was not Mercy Taylor. In fact, her name is not now known. Christopher Carpenter removed from Lancaster County and settled in Frederick County, Maryland. There is a church record in Lancaster County of the birth of Johann Nicholas Zimmerman, December 21, 1742 to Christoph Zimmerman, name of mother not given. This is the Nicholas Carpenter of Harrison County, West Virginia, who was killed by Native Americans at Marietta, Ohio in December 1791.
    The above is from Rhomas Rider Zrider@earthlink.net

HARRISON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
DEED BOOK 3
APRIL 12, 1798
JOHN MCCALLY & OTHERS
TO DEED
WILLIAM DAVIS
THIS INDENTURE made the twelfth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety eight in pursuance of a Decree of the Worshipful the County Court of Harrison between
JOHN MCCALLY AND SARAH HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE NICHOLAS CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABEL CLEMANS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE HEIRS OF NICHOLAS CARPENTER DECEASED of the County of Harrison and State of Virginia of the one part and William Davis of the County and State aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that they the said John McCally and Sarah his wife DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABELL CLEMANS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE in obedience to the siad Decree and in Consideration of the sum of one hundred Dollars Current money to them in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained sold aliened enfeoffed and Confirmed and by these presents do grant bargain sell alien enfeoff and Confirm unto the said William Davies a certain tract or parcel of Land lying and being in the said County of Harrison and state of Virginia Situate on both sides of the Middle Fork of ten Mile Creek being a Tract of land granted by the Commonwealth of Virginia to NICHOLAS CARPENTER by Patent bearing Date the twenty fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and Eighty Six and bounded as followeth Begining ... Crossing said Fork ... unto the said William Davis his heirs and assigns forever and they the said JOHN MCCALLY AND SARAH HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE NICHOLAS CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABEL CLEMENS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE for themselves their heirs &c do covenant that they will forever warrant and Defend the said Tract or parcel of Land against the Claim of them the said JOHN MCCALLY AND SARAH HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE NICHOLAS CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABEL CLEMENS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE their heirs and assigns and against all persons whatsoever Claiming by through or under them or either of them unto the said William Davis his heirs and assigns (but this not to be considered a General Warranty it being only the intention of the partys to make a Special warranty against themselves their heirs &cIn Witness whereof they the said the said JOHN MCCALLY AND SARAH HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE NICHOLAS CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABEL CLEMENS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE have hereunto set their hands and affixed their Seals the Day and year first above written -
Heirs of NICHOLAS CARPENTER DECEASED MCCALLY all interlined before signing Delivery
JNO. MCCALLY, SARAH MCCALLY, DAVID SLEETH, CATHARINE SLEETH, DAVID CARPENTER
NICHOLAS CARPENTER, ABEL CLEMENS., MARY CARPENTER, JOHN BROWN, MARGARET BROWN
JOHN CARPENTER, SARAH CARPENTER, BARBARA CLEMENS
Harrison County June and July Courts 1798
This Indenture was acknowledged by JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE JOHN MCCALLY AND SARY HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH & CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER NICHOLAS CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE ABEL CLEMENS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE (the femes being privily Examined as the Law directs and Consenting to William Davis for 243 acres and it is ordered to be Recorded & that a Commission issue to take the Relinquishment DAVID CARPENTERS WIFES Right of Dower By the Court   Teste Ben Wilson C.H.C.
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Death: 4 OCT 1791 in ,,Ohio
LDS Baptism: 27 AUG 1952
Endowment: 4 DEC 1953
Sealing Child: 17 MAR 1955 Temple: SGEOR
         Source:  Jack --rootsweb file --

I do not know the reference for Mary Wolfe being the daughter of Joseph Wolfe and Mary Ranfrau, although I have seen it in print. As far as I am concerned it has not been verified. Nicholas Carpenter was NOT the son of Christopher Carpenter and Mercy Taylor. This is an error that has come down froma work on the Carpenter Family by Amos Carpenter. Actually, Nicholas was born in Lancaster Co Pa in December 1742 (I have a reference) the son of Christopher Carpenter with no mother named.(I have seen one reference that says that Christopher Carpenter was married to Mary Ranfrau). The grandfather of Nicholas Carpenter was Henry Carpenter, German: Heinrich Zimmerman, who came to Lancaster Co. Pa from Switzerland. There is extensive data on the Zimmerman Family. Christopher Zimmerman was born 1707 and left Lancaster County at an early date and settled in Frederick County, Maryland. The Rhode Lisland Carpenters are not related to the Pennsylvania Zimmermans.
Rhomas Rider Zrider@earthlink.net
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CARPENTER in McCLELLANDS RIFLES: Nicholas CARPENTER (German name Zimmerman) was a resident of Frederick County, MD in 1772, just before moving to West Virginia. Family members say that in 1764 this Nicholas Carpenter was in Captain McClelland's Rifle Company of Frederick County militia.

posted to
The Allegheny Regional Family History Society
Post Office Box 1804
Elkins, West Virginia, 26241
arhfs@yahoo.com
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Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny  < badpuppy@cyberback.com >
places his birth in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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He moved to Maryland thence to Virginia and lastly to Ohio. He  was murdered by the Indians Oct. 4, 1791 while taking a drove ofcattle to Meereto or some place in Ohio. He was Judge of thecourt for Harrison County for 15 years. He had on his farm agun and blacksmith's shop, store and schoolhouse, all of whichwere his own property. He owned 2,000 acres of land, had anorchard of 400 bearing apple trees at the time of his death. Hecarried the produce on mules over the mountains at that earlyday. His death was very much lamented be the people. Had he notmet an early death he would been one of the great and rich menof this country. He died at the early age of 48 years. Takenfrom H. P. Hildreths History of the Early Days. The above account of the family was given to the Writer by David Carpenter grandson of Nicholas, when he was 80 years of age. The tradition by him was that three brothers came from Germany.Their names were Christopher, Emanuel and David. David went South and was never heard from. Emanuel settled in Pennsylvania and his heirs are there yet.
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From: Sandra Samoyedny
To: John R. Carpenter
Cc: Terry Carpenter
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 7:42 PM
Subject: RE NICHOLAS CARPENTER
John,
Thanks for the info, however, somebody along the way has really had a "no-brainer". I take my line all the way back from me to the parents of Nicholas; Heinrich and Salome Zimmerman( Carpenter being the Anglican translation) My information comes from two very respected Carpenter Family researchers, Richard Carpenter and Terry L. Carpenter. My 4th great-grandfather, Re. John Carpenter, b. 1772 in MD and my great-grandmother, Sarah Bush Carpenter, settled in Goshen, Elkhart CO, IN and both died in June 1855 one day apart. They are buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Goshen IN. All of their children,
except Elias were born in Indiana and he was born in OH. The Zimmerman children of Heinrich and Salome were as follows: Gabriel b 1704 Switzerland and d abt Mar 1767 in Lancaster CO, PA.
Emanuel: who became a very prominent judge in Pa.
Salome Carpenter, Jacob Carpenter, Henry Carpenter, Daniel Carpenter, Mary Carpenter, John Carpenter. Nicholas Carpenter
Henirich was b Sept 07, 1673 in Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. Nicholas (mine) was the son of Christopher Carpenter who settled in Lancaster CO, PA. He was christened Johann Nicholas Carpenter and was . Dec 21, 1742. He d on OCt 4, 1791, while driving a herd of cattle to Marietta, OH . An Indian war party led by the Chief Tecumseh, killed him and he was buried on the bank of the Ohio River in what is now Wood CO, W.V. He and his wife Mary had 13 proven children. Thank you for responding to my reply...it is a pity that Mr. Amos Carpenter didn't take the time to document and research his material.
that would have solved many a problem with these Carpenter Families being so mixed up and hard to unravel.
Regards, Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny
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Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net >
e-mail of 8-18-2002
has basically the same info as we have except for 2 children
he has child #2. Calharue Carpenter  b. abt 1766 and child # 12 Emanuel Carpenter  b. abut 1783 in Ohio  . I did not have these 2 children and I do not believe they belong here
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source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
places his birth in Lancaster Co., Pa. and death near Marietta, Ohio
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Nicholas Carpenter, born c1745, was stated by one source to be the son of Nicholas Carpenter who was "a native of Germany, who emigrated to America during the Colonial days" whose father was "a native of Germany, but removed to England, where he died" [CBP:558]; this indicates that he may have been one of the emigrants from the Palatinate in Germany who immigrated to England then to America with the tide of Palatinate refugees who followed that route during the early 1700s. There is significant disagreement among researchers about whether this Nicholas was related to the other Nicholases in western VA, and absolute proof is lacking. There is a persistent error in published research on Nicholas Carpenter of Harrison Co. VA which originated with the Carpenter family history published in 1898 by Amos B. Carpenter [ABC] which wrongly places Nicholas as a son of Christopher and Mercy (Taylor) Carpenter of the East Greenwich RI family of English Carpenters. A descendant states that Nicholas was a son of Christopher Carpenter whose surname was originally Zimmermann, who was born c1707, son of Heinrich and Salome (Rueffner) Zimmermann who came to Lancaster Co. PA from Switzerland in the early 18th Century [SDC]. He further states that the name of the wife of Christopher Carpenter is not yet known, and that Christopher Carpenter removed from Lancaster Co. PA where there is a church record of the birth of Johann Nicholas Zimmerman on 21 Dec 1742 to Christoph Zimmerman, who is the Nicholas Carpenter of Harrison Co. WV who was killed by Indians at Marietta OH in 1791 [TR]; Christopher Zimmermann / Carpenter settled in Frederick Co. MD -- Nicholas' older children appear to have been born in MD. Nicholas Carpenter settled in Harrison Co. VA during the 1770s; a posited brother, Christopher Carpenter, settled nearby. Nicholas' will, dated 1791 and recorded in Harrison Co. WV, names five sons, states that he had daughters but does not name them, and states that his wife was with child at the time. A 1798 deed of sale of land names his children then of age and living, and their spouses. Nicholas and Mary Carpenter had thirteen documentable children, among whom was:
5. John Carpenter, born c1772 in MD, died 25 Mar 1855 in Elkhart Co. IN [CBP]. He was a minister. He resided in IN during the early 1800s, and settled at Goshen, Elkhart Co. IN, where he was enumerated in 1830, 1840, and 1850. He married on 27 Oct 1791 in Harrison Co. VA to Sarah Bush (or possibly nee Wolfe) who was born c1772, died 26 Mar 1855. The possibility that he might also be the John Carpenter who married on 3 Mar 1794 in Harrison Co. VA to Sarah Radcliff has not been ruled out. Son:
      5a. Elias Carpenter, born c1797 in VA, enumerated in Elkhart Co. IN 1830, 1840, and 1850; he was listed as the County Treasurer in the 1850 census. He married c1827 to Elizabeth _?_, born c1805 in VA [NAMP]. Children:
             5a1. John Carpenter, born c1828, married on 2 Nov 1854 in Elkhart Co. IN to Mary J. Hoke.
             5a2. George W. Carpenter, born c1830, married on 9 Oct 1858 in Elkhart Co. IN to Nancy Vanhorn, parents of:
                    5a2a. Norman B. Carpenter, born c1859. He is probably the Norman B. Carpenter who married on 28 Feb 1895 in Elkhart Co. IN to Mary J. Nelson, parents of:
                           5a2a1. Isaac M. Carpenter, born 31 Oct 1896, married on 18 Mar 1916 in Elkhart Co. IN to Violet Harwood.
             5a3. Isaac Carpenter, born c1834.
             5a4. Catherine Carpenter, born c1836.
             5a5. Elbridge Carpenter, born c1840.
             5a6. Leticia J. Carpenter, born c1843.
             5a7. David Carpenter, born c1847.
Terry
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Barr Wilson, in his history of the Carpenter family of northwestern Virginia,  cites various sources that suggest that Nicholas Carpenter may have been of German origin, and that prior to-or perhaps intermittent with, in several cases-settling in the area of the West Fork of the Monongahela River in northwestern Virginia, he may have lived, inter alia, in Lancaster Co., Pa.; Frederick Co., Md.; the Patterson's Creek area of then Hampshire County, Va.; Fayette Co, Pa.; and Westmoreland Co., Pa.  At some point it will be important to look more carefully into these leads, with the hope of pinning down his precise origins.
Wherever he and his family had migrated from, or possibly temporarily retreated to (in the face of Indian incursions), it would appear that no later than 1772 Nicholas Carpenter had laid claim to land in the West Fork area of what after 1784 became Harrison County, Va.  This is suggested by the granting of land certificates by the Board of Commissioners-which had been established by an act of May 1779 of the Commonwealth of Virginia for settling the claims made in western Virginia to unpatented lands-to Carpenter which read: (i) "Nicholas Carpenter, assignee of John Simpson is entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia County on the West Fork, opposite to the mouth of Elk Creek to include his settlement made in the year 1772;" and (ii) "Nicholas Carpenter 400 acres on Ten Mile Creek at the mouth of Carter's Run by right of residence to include his improvement made in 1772."

Until 1776, this area was part of the vast West Augusta District of Virginia, but in that year, Monongalia Co. (along with two others, Ohio and Yohogania counties) were formed from this district and included land which today makes up the extreme southwestern counties of Pennsylvania.  Pressures were already building, however, for further partition of this area into even smaller and more manageable administrative units.  Thus on November 6, 1777, a petition was presented to the Virginia General Assembly that called for the creation of yet a smaller administrative unit, one which would include the "settlement on the Westfork of the Monongalia."  This petition was signed by 215 settlers, including Nicholas Carpenter, and read as follows:
"To the Honble the Speaker & Gen. of the House of Delegates of Virginia the petition of a number of the Inhabitants of Tigers Valley Settlement and the Westfork of Monangalia River and Buckhannan's Creek Settlement.
"Humbly Shewth that your Petitioners Labours under great Hardships from their being obliged to tend Court town in Order to have their necssary business done at the distance of one hundred miles from the nearest Inhabitants in the Tiger's Valley, One hundred fifty from the nearest Settlement on the West fork of Monangalia and two hundred miles from the best [least?] Inhabited part of our Settlement, which great distance & exceeding badness of the roads, and the difficulty of crossing eight large Mountains, forty Miles of which Road is uninhabited, Viz: from the Tiger's Valley Waters to Powtowmack Waters.  We are infomed that the old part of Augusta are Petitioning to have the same Divided into Smallor counties for the Conveniencey of the People:  We your Petitioners-Humbly pray we may not be join'd to any County that lies to the East of the Allegania Mountains, nor Included in any County on the waters of James river or the South branch of Powtomack, nor Mononglia county, for we flatter ourselves we are able to Build & support all Publick buildings necessary for a County town-Therefore we your Petitioneers-humbly request your Honourable House would take their Case under your Consideration & Grant them a New County including the Tiger's Valley Settlement & the Settlement on the Westfork of the Monongalia and also Buckhannan's Creek Settlement, which will greatly ease your Petitioners and Very as in duty shall ever Pray-"
The petition notwithstanding, this region encompassing the then settlements in the Tygarts Valley, along the Buckhannon River, and around the upper reaches of the West Fork of the Monongahela (which flowed north)-remained in Monongalia Co. until 1784.  Unfortunately, Monongalia Co. court records from that early period are not extant, as the court records were destroyed by fire in 1796.  Therefore we have little in the way of documentary evidence about Nicholas Carpenter's activities between 1772 and 1784.  He did appear on the 1782 Monongalia Co. enumeration of heads of households, with a recorded household of 8 whites and no blacks.   In 1783, Nicholas Carpenter also appeared on the first (extant) personal property tax list for Monongalia Co, with 3 horses and 6 head of cattle.
Also in January 1783, the name of Nicholas Carpenter appears as one of more than 2,000 signers of a petition to the Continental Congress asking that the area inhabited by settlers "on the West side of the Laurel Hill and Western Waters" be established as a fourteenth state in light of the alleged negligence of Virginia and Pennsylvania-which were disputing over this territory??in protecting them.  This petition, which is transcribed in full in Appendix 1, is rather curious, as by the time it was formally submitted, Virginia and Pennsylvania had apparently settled their quarrel over the disputed land, namely the southwestern corner of present?day Pennsylvania which had been claimed by both states.  According to one historian of southwestern Pennsylvania, Raymond M. Bell, the signatures on the petition were actually collected over the period 1780?82, and were mostly from present?day counties of southwestern Pennsylvania and present?day Brooke, Ohio and Monongalia counties of West Virginia.  Actually, the extant list of signatures seems to be all in one hand, so itself is a transcription.  Bell notes that the presentation of the petition was a reasonably bold step, for in December 1782 the Pennsylvania Assembly had made it an act of treason to present such a petition.  He goes on to say that the "running of the Virginia?Pennsylvania boundary line in 1783 and the visit in the same year by the Rev. James Finley ...to placate the inhabitants evidently brought the matter to a close."

As a hunter, Carpenter had apparently established a "hunting camp" referred to as "Carpenter Hollow" in or near present?day Salem, which is a few miles west of Clarksburg.  Wilson quotes one source in this connection: "Carpenter had no sooner arrived than he established and maintained a camp at Salem for hunting and trapping buffalo, elk, deer, bear, wolves, and wild turkeys and the camp was used as a travelling station between Clarksburg and the Ohio river as well as the site of an Indian Fort."   Wilson goes on to describe in some detail where he thinks the trail ran which Carpenter and others used for hunting purposes, but which was probably also the trail along which Carpenter drove cattle in 1791 on his ill?fated final trip to the Ohio River (see section 1.b.).  According to Wilson, the trail followed very roughly the path of today's U.S. Highway 50.
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AFN: 4KLT-7S
number 676 on page 129 of Carpenter Memorial
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Son Christopher was killed with Nicholas in 1791 and the 243 acres willed to him were sold in 1798 to William Davis. Heirs listed were Sarah and John McCally, Catherine and David Sleeth, David and Catherine Carpenter, John and Sarah Carpenter, Nicholas and Mary Carpenter, and John Brown, Barbara and Abel Clemens
Comment 5: By 1791 Nicholas is described as a crippled by reason of a wound he received some years before

Land patent: 25 Oct 1786, 243 acres patent on Middle Fork, 10 Mile Creek (later willed to son Christopher). After the killing of both Nicholas and son Christopher, the land was sold in 1798 to William Davis for $100 by the family

Military service: Draft registrat Rev. War from Virginia

More About *NICHOLAS CARPENTER:
Cause of Death: killed by Indians (Tecumseh's)
Comment 1: High Sheriff of Va.,/ Coronor
Comment 2: 1784, Judge of new Co. of Va.
Medical Information: was crippled from Rev. war service
Military/ Draft registrat: Rev. War from Va.
Occupation: Sheriff,Judge (Commissioner of the Harrison County Court), Blacksmith, Gunsmith, Merchant (Trader), Coroner, Hunter, Farmer (Also raised cattle) and Justices of the Peace for Harrison County, Virginia
Property: 1772, Monongalia County, 1784 -- 400 acres, West Fork, opposite mouth of Elk, including his settlemetn made theron in 1772
Tithables: 1785, He is found on John McCalley's list of tithables from the mouth of Limestone up both sides of the West Fork River to Lost Creek, Harrison County, Virginia
Will: 1791, Va. /  we have transcript copy
Wounded: Oct 04, 1791, by Tecumsech's, indians near Waverly, W. Va.1

Notes for *MARY WOLFE:
4th great grandmother of Douglas york

supposedly was a niece of Aaron Burr ( 377.ged, Date of Import: Nov 4, 1999.
although to date no proof of this lineage has been found to support this claim

source for Mary as daughter of Joseph Wolfe
Title: A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America
Author: Amos B. Carpenter
Publication: Amherst, MA: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1898
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Page: 129

Nicholas Carpenter's widow Mary appears to have married for a third time to Enoch Betts on October 26, 1800.   Wilson provides evidence that she had probably died before 1811.

NICHOLAS CARPENTER
Submitted by:  Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny ( 5th great-granddaughter )
to Harrison County, West Virginia website.

Nicholas Carpenter was head of one of the pioneering families to settle in what is now known as present-day Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia.  Nicholas Carpenter was a pioneer in many respects when he came to West Virginia in the later part of the 1700s.  He was a gunsmith, blacksmith, hunter, merchant, trader and  raised cattle.  He was appointed Sheriff, Coroner and one of the Commissioners of the Harrison County Court.  In his later years he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Randolph Academy.
There are several areas in Harrison County that bare his name, such as: "Carpenter Hallow" where he has a hunting camp that is near present day Salem, just outside of the city of Clarksburg.  He was a hunter of buffalo, elk, deer and other wild game.  This camp was also used as a station between Clarksburg and the Ohio River for weary travelers seeking shelter and safety from the Indians.  This area was also tamed by Carpenter, who with his sons cleared a trail for driving cattle to the eastern markets in Ohio.  Mr. Carpenter raised his cattle to be sold to the Army and other markets, and this trail is roughly the path of what is now known as U. S. Highway 50.

His name appears on the first personal property tax list for Harrison County in 1785.  He  was appointed to a commission to cut a trail for a road on or near the mouth of the Little Kanawha River in present day Parkersburg.  On January 7, 1789 he was one of several men who voted from Harrison County in the first presidential election.  He sat on the jury of the first meeting of a Superior Court for Virginia that included Harrison, Monongalia and Randolph Counties.

On Oct 4, 1791 he and several men including one of his young sons were taking a drove to cattle to Ohio were attacked and massacred on a placed now referred to as "Carpenter's Run".  An Indian war party  led by Chief Tecumseh.  This story repeated several times in print and according to the legends, Carpenter had befriended Tecumseh as a child and as an act of kindness towards him he fixed the future great Chief's rifle.   After recognizing his old friend, Tecumseh ordered that Nicholas and his son not be scalped.  He ordered that the Nicholas be wrapped in a blanket, new moccasins be placed on his feet  and as a sign of great respect  his rifle was to be buried with him.  The bodies of he and his young son Nicholas Jr. were buried in present day Wood County along the bank of the Ohio River.

Nicholas and wife Mary Wolfe Carpenter raised thirteen children in the West Virginia wilderness.  They were honest hard working people who weren't afraid to venture out into a land unknown. With hard work they prospered and left a legacy for us the generations who were to follow.

This is but one of hundreds of stories of brave pioneers who were instrumental in the settlement of the State of West Virginia.  Nicholas descended from Swiss/German immigrants who came from Europe in search of a better life and he left this world making it a better place for all who followed his path.

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Capt. Nicholas Carpenter. Oct 4, 1791 he and son Chrisopher were killed by Tecumseh's War Party. Capt Carpenter was stationed at Neal's Fort when he as killed. The place of the killing was named "Carpenter's Run". He was also a prominent citizen, serving as justice, sheriff of his county and a trustee of Randolph Academy of Clarksburg, W.VA
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David Wolf (Woolf) - Harrison Co VA Land Grant 1786
Message: VA Grants 6, pp. 216-17
Library of Virginia Digital Collection:
Land Office Patents and Grants
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David Wolf
210 Acres
Harrison
Exd.

Patrick Henry Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, To all to whom these
presents shall come, Greeting; Know ye, that by Virtue and in consideration of part of a
Land Office Treasury Warrant Number two thousand two hundred and twenty five Issued
the Sixteenth Day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty two there is granted
by the said Commonwealth unto David Woolf assignee of Nicholas Carpenter a certain
tract or parcel of Land Containing two hundred and ten Acres by Survey bearing date the
third Day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, Lying and being in the
County of Harrison on both sides of the middle fork of ten mile Creek including the Sugar
Bottom and Bounded as followeth (To wit) Beginning at a Black Oak and running thence
North Seventy degrees West one hundred and Sixty poles Crossing the said fork to a Sugar
tree South forty five degrees West two hundred and three poles to a Cucumber tree South
forty nine degrees East one hundred and fifty poles Crossing the said fork, to a Black Oak
North forty four degrees East two hundred and Sixty one poles to the Beginning With its
appurtenances; to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land, With its
appurtenances, to the siad David Woolf and his Heirs for ever. In Witness whereof the
said Patrick Henry Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set
his Hand & Caused the Lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be Affixed at Richmond,
on the Twenty fifth Day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand and seven
hundred & eighty six, and of the Commonwealth the Eleventh.
P. Henry
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SURNAMES: WOLF; WOOLF; HENRY; CARPENTER
NOTE: Transcriber's comments are in brackets [ ].
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VA Grants 42, pp. 300-301
Library of Virginia Digital Collection:
Land Office Patents and Grants
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Thomas Haymond
312 Acres
Harrison
Exam'd

James Wood Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, To all To whom these
presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, That by virtue of two Land Office Treasury
Warrants, Numbers twenty one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine and thirteen
thousand seven hundred and thirty, there is granted by the said Commonwealth, Unto
Thomas Haymond Assignee of Nicholas Carpenter Attorney for Christopher Carpenter
by Survey bearing date the tenth day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety
Seven a Certain Tract or parcel of Land containing three hundred & twelve Acres lying
& being in the County of Harrison on a drain of the Ohio River Called the big run and
bounded as followeth to wit Beginning at three Beeches Corner to Isaac Williams and
running thence by his lines, North forty one & a half degrees West fifteen poles to a Sugar
tree, North eighty three degrees East fifty isx poles to a poplar and Beech, North twenty
Seven and a half degrees East twenty three poles to an Ash on a line of Land Surveyed
for Benjamin Talbort thence with said line South Sixty four degrees East three hundred
poles crossing Said run five times to a white oak, thence South twenty six degrees West
two hundred poles crossing the said run twice to a Sugar tree, North forty eight degrees
West three hundred and forty seven poles crossing the Same run to a line of Isaac
Williams's thence with the same North thirty six degrees East fifty poles to the Beginning.
With its appurtenances; To have and To hold the said Tract or parcel of Land with its
appurtenances, to the Said Thomas Haymond and his Heirs forever. In Witness whereof
the said James Wood Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto
Set his Hand and Caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at
Richmond, on the fourth Day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and ninety nine, and of the Commonwealth the twenty third.
James Wood
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SURNAMES: HAYMOND; WOOD; CARPENTER; WILLIAMS; TALBORT
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"History of Harrison County by Dorothy Davis"
The picture of the Nicholas Carpenter house is on page 9.

Carpenter - "A Preliminary History of the Carpenter Family"
by Walter and Lloyd Carpenter.
Carpenter - Nicholas & Christopher Carpenter Vol II #1 &
Vol III #1 of IV and Vols I, II, III & IV of IV (all #3).
By Barr Wilson.
Carpenter - Nicholas & Christopher Carpenter Vols. I, II &
III of III. (2 copies)

Rosemary Bachelor's
> Carpenter family history journal The Epistle,
> (no date or volume recorded), but probably 1970s: "The
> Children of Nicholas & Mary (Wolfe) Carpenter.
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  DESCREPENCY AS TO THE PARENTS OF NICHOLAS ----
 The Thomas Carpenter Family by Walter F. Carpenter in Fulton County Folks Volumn 2
page 129
" Christopher first lived in North Kingston, where his first 2 children were born, then he went to Greenwich, where 3 children were born; No doubt it was on the land his fathere deeded him in July 27, 1774 In 1737 he went to Fredericks Co., Md and here was born nicholas, my Grea-grandfather, also Christopher Jr. and sister Barbara. Nicholas and his brother Christopher were later early settlers in Harrison Co., Va. according to our records Barbara married Benjamin Brown in Providence, R.I. and probably returned to R.I as we have no further records of her"
Nicholas Carpenter was born in Fredericks Co., Md in 1743. He married Mary Wolfe, daughter of Joseph Wolf, near 1770, probably in Md. or Pa. We know he lived for some time in Pa. and served as a private in cApt. Wm McClelland's riflemen from Frederick Co., Md. in 1764, Nicholas Carpenter served as a member of Westmoreland County Rangers which was comprised of men from the Monongahala Valley
John Hardin was captain of this company. In April of 1763 Nichlas Carpenter's name was placed on Capt. (now Major) Hardin's claim sheet asking pay for services rendered for the army.
Nicholas Carpenter and mary Wolf Carpenter had 13 children
1) Catherine Carpenter, married David Sleeth
2) Sarah Carpenter, married john McCalley
3) Christopher Carpenter born before 1770 married Catherine Leggett 1-8-1804
4) David Carpenter born 1770, married Catherine McCullough  6-29-1793
5) John Carpenter born 1772 married Sarah Bush 10-27-1791
6) Margaret Carpenter married John Brown 5-4-1791
7) Barbara Carpenter married Abel Clemens 6-10-1794
8) Mary Carpenter married her cousin Nicholas son of Christopher 9-3-1792
9) Nicholas Carpenter Jr  born 1780 -killed by Indians at the time his father was killed 10-4-1791
10) Joseph Carpenter married Jemima Bennett 9-28-1805
11) Elisabeth carpenter married Isaac Clemmens 2-3-1801 and came to Fulton Co., Ind
12) Thomas Carpenter b. 12-20-1790 he died in Fulton Co., Ind 2-25-1869
13) Nancy Carpenter b. 3-15-1792  married Thomas Powell came to Miami Co., Ind

Nicholas Carpenter was a very prominent man and very wealthy for the Clarksburg section of VA now WVA. I will quote from H.P. Hilbreath's History of Early times "Nicholas Carpenter was probably born in Md. in 1743. He married Mary Wolf, daughter of Joseph Wolf sometime near 1770, He died by Indians led by Tecumseh. (Note added by the Carpenter family: that Carpenter had fixed a young indian's gun some years previous and he had not charged the young indian anything. Carpenter was not scalped or his body mutilated when found a good blanket was wrapped around the body and a new pair of Indian moccasins was on his feet. Tecumseh was the young indian for whom Carpenter had fixed his gun some years before. When Tecumseh recognized the man they had killed as the white man who had fixed his gun, he repaid in the only way he knew.)
years later, Christopher Carpenter while in Urbana, Ohio talked to one of the Indians in the party that had killed his father in 1791. Mr. Carpenter was with his 10 year old son and 8 drovers taking a drove of cattle to marietta, Ohio and also to the army at Fort Harmer. Carpenter was judge of the court of Harrison County for 5 years. He had on his farm a gunsmith shop. a blacksmith shop, store and school. He owned 2,000 acres of land, an orchard of 400 bearing trees at the time of his death. He carried the produce over the mountain on mules at this early day. his death was very much lamented by the people. Had he not met an early death he would have been one of the great and rich men of the country. He died at the early ate of 48.
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Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
has her parents as

Father: John WOLFE
Mother: Annie HOFFMAN
and as a sister to Katherine Wolfe Sleeth ---   but there is a large age difference
doesn't seem to fit
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Mary, wife of Nichlas, died in 1816. she had married Thomas Cooley, 20 Nov, 1792. He was a Presbyterian Minister. they were called into court on different occassions in reguards to the way funds of the will of Nicholas were handled and later he was forced to give up his rights or license to perform marriages.
Nicholas built a two story house at 512 Milford Street, Clarksburg, Harrison, WV. The house stood for 100 years before it was torn down. The house was built in 1786.

The following was found on reel 29,311 at the LDS library. The subject is Virginia State Land Office-index of abstracts of patents and grants.:
Page 42 Nicholas Carpenter Oct. 30, 1786 242 acres "On both sides of the Middle Fork of Ten Mile Creek."
Page 134 and following Thomas Powell Apr. 26, 1787 3000 acres "On Elk River adjoining said Pennells survey No 31.
Page 101 Joseph Carpenter Mar., 7, 1798 408 acres "On the upper side of the4 Little Kenhawa River adjoining land of James Neal."

No land on this reel was noted for the Clemens family. Perhaps they rented or lived with other owners.

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The list of children for this marriage comes from a deed entry and other researchers.

Deed Book 3, April 12, 1798, "This indenture made the 12th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight in pursuance of a decree of the worshipful in the County Court of Harrison between John McCally and Sarah his wife, David Sleeth and Catharine his wife, David Carpenter and Catherine his wife, John Carpenter and Sarah his wife, Nicholas Carpenter and Mary his wife, John Brown and Margaret his wife, Abel Clemens and Barbara his wife, heirs of Nicholas Carpenter deceased." Nicholas' heirs sold his land to William Davies for $100.

Nicholas is mentioned in the 1785 and 1787 census of Harrison County, VA.
1785:
There are 7 whites in 1 dwelling with 1 out building.
1787:
Head of house is over 21 years old. He has 1 son 16-21, no slaves, 6 horses, and 9 cattle.

He is listed on the voter list for Harrison County, VA, on Jan. 7, 1789, for the election for the first president of the United States.

Nicholas was killed by Indians. The following is from Chronicles of Border Warfare".

"In the month of September, Nicholas Carpenter set off to Marietta with a drove of cattle to sell to those who had established themselves there; and when within some miles from the Ohio river, encamped for the night. In the morning early, and while he and the drovers were yet dressing, they were alarmed by a discharge of guns, which killed one and wounded another of his party. The others endeavored to save themselves by flight, but Carpenter being a cripple (because of a wound received some years before) did not run far, when finding himself becoming faint, he entered a pond of water where he fondly hoped he should escape observation. But no! Both he and a son who had likewise sought security there, were discovered, tomahawked and scalped. George Legett, one of the drovers, was never heard of; but Jesse Hughes succeeded in getting off though under disadvantageous circumstances. He wore long leggings, and when the firing commenced at the camp, they were fastened at top to his belt, but hanging loose below. Although an active runner, yet he found that the pursuers were gaining and must ultimately overtake him if he did not rid himself of this encumbrance. For this purpose he halted somewhat and stepping on the lower part of his leggings, broke the strings which tied them to his belt; but before he accomplished this, one of the savages approached and hurled a tomahawk at him. It merely grazed his head, and he then again took to flight and soon got off."

"It was afterwards ascertained that the Indians by whom this mischief was effected, had crossed the Ohio river near the mouth of Little Kenhawa, where they took a Negro belonging to Captian James Neal, and continued on towards the settlements on West Fork, until they came upon the trail made by Carpenter's cattle. Supposing that they belonged to families moving, they followed on until they came upon the drovers, and tying the Negro to a sapling made an attack on them. The Negro availed himself of their employment elsewhere, and loosing the bands which fastened him, returned to his master."

Another account from the Internet:

In October of 1791, a scouting party of Shawnee Indians led by a young warrior-chief named Tecumseh, was patrolling along the Ohio River in Wood county, Virginia. The Shawnee still claimed the "western" region of Virginia at that time. Tecumseh (1768?-1813), the great Shawnee leader, who fought against United States expansion into the Midwest in the early 19th century, was born at the Shawnee town of "Old Chillicothe" located on the Madd River in southwestern Ohio. He was the son of a Shawnee warrior who was killed fighting white settlers in the Battle of Point Pleasant during Lord Dunmore's War (1774). Isaac Williams was a Virginia Militia scout during that Campaign.
Seven miles north of Williams Station, Tecumseh, around 16 at that time, and his Shawnee patrol encountered and captured a young slave named Frank Wycoff, owned by Isaac Williams. Frank had been searching for horses that had wandered off near Kerr's Island (presently Buckley's Island, in the Ohio River adjacent to Marietta). The Indians had traveled with their captive for seven miles north to Bull Creek where they spotted Captain Nicholas Carpenter and five soldiers, driving a herd of toward Fort Harmar. Fort Harmar obtained its military supplies from the US Army Supply Depot at Clarksburg, Virginia (West Virginia). There had already been several cattle drives over a crude road that traveled from east to west along Bull Creek to the Ohio River, then down stream along the Ohio River to Williams Station where they were then ferried across the Ohio River to Fort Harmar.
It was growing dark when Captain Carpenter reached Bull Creek, so he decided to set up camp and wait until the next morning before continuing on to the ferry crossing. Even though there had been signs of Indians in the area, there had been no hostile acts for months. Perhaps this was why Captain Carpenter did not post a sentry at his camp that night. That was his last mistake. Tecumseh discovered Captain Carpenter's camp just before dark and decided to attack on the early the following morning! At the crack of dawn, young Tecumseh and his small band of warriors left Frank Wycoff tied to a tree some distance away while they crept up and surprised the unwary soldiers. Meanwhile, Frank Wycoff had managed to untie himself and rush back down to Williams Station to get help! By the time that Isaac Williams and a party of would be rescuers managed to get up to Bull Creek, about three hours had elapsed. Captain Carpenter and four of his men were already dead; one trooper was still alive, but badly wounded.
In 1792, Tecumseh was only around 16 years old. This was Tecumseh's first recorded killing of white settlers.

In an article by H.P. Hildreth's History of Early Times: Note added that Carpenter had fixed a young Indian's gun some years previous and he had not charged the young Indian anything. Carpenter was not scalped or his body mutilated when found and a good blanket was wrapped around the body and a new pair of Indian moccasins was on his feet. Tecumseh was the young Indian for whom Carpenter had fixed his gun some years before. When Tecumseh recognized the man they had killed as the white man who had fixed his gun, he repaid in the only way he knew.
Years later Christopher Carpenter while in Urbana, Ohio, talked to one of the Indians in the party that had killed his father in 1791. Mr. Carpenter was with his 10-year-old son and eight drovers taking a drove of cattle to Marrietta, Ohio, and also to the army at Fort Harmer. Carpenter was judge of the court of Harrison County for 15 years. He had on his farm a gunsmith shop, a blacksmith shop, store and school. He owned 2,000 acres of land, and orchard of 400 bearing trees at the time of his death. He carried the produce over the mountain on mules at this early day. His death was very much lamented by the people. Had he not met an early death he would have been one of the great and rich men of this country. He died at the early age of 48.
The minute book of Harrison County vol. 1 states that Nicholas Carpenter was in Harrison County, VA(now WV) in the year 1772 as in that year he bought of John Simpson 400 acres of land. Carpenter built a two-story log house on this land in 1786 that stood more than 100 years.

Nicholas built a two story house at 512 Milford Street, Clarksburg, Harrison, WV. The house stood for 100 years before it was torn down. The house was built in 1786.

The following was found on reel 29,311 at the LDS library. The subject is Virginia State Land Office-index of abstracts of patents and grants.:
Page 42 Nicholas Carpenter Oct. 30, 1786 242 acres "On both sides of the Middle Fork of Ten Mile Creek."
Page 134 and following Thomas Powell Apr. 26, 1787 3000 acres "On Elk River adjoining said Pennells survey No 31.
Page 101 Joseph Carpenter Mar., 7, 1798 408 acres "On the upper side of the4 Little Kenhawa River adjoining land of James Neal."

No land on this reel was noted for the Clemens family. Perhaps they rented or lived with other owners.

Father: Joseph WOLFE b: 1719
Mother: Mary RANFRAU b: Abt. 1719

Wanda Mitchell    wanmit@nwinto.net    2005

Marriage Notes for *NICHOLAS CARPENTER and *MARY WOLFE:
marriage date of 2-3-1802  HarrisonCo.,  W.Va.  from : Glenn Edmison
This date is quesionable as there are children born before this date
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Nicholas Carpenter, born c1745, was stated by one source to be the son of Nicholas Carpenter who was "a native of Germany, who emigrated to America during the Colonial days" whose father was "a native of Germany, but removed to England, where he died" [CBP:558]; this indicates that he may have been one of the emigrants from the Palatinate in Germany who immigrated to England then to America with the tide of Palatinate refugees who followed that route during the early 1700s. There is significant disagreement among researchers about whether this Nicholas was related to the other Nicholases in western VA, and absolute proof is lacking. There is a persistent error in published research on Nicholas Carpenter of Harrison Co. VA which originated with the Carpenter family history
published in 1898 by Amos B. Carpenter [ABC] which wrongly places Nicholas as a son of Christopher and Mercy (Taylor) Carpenter of the East Greenwich RI family of English Carpenters. A descendant states that Nicholas was a son of Christopher Carpenter whose surname was originally Zimmermann, who was born c1707, son of Heinrich and Salome (Rueffner) Zimmermann who came to Lancaster Co. PA from Switzerland in the early 18th Century [SDC]. He further states that the name of the wife of Christopher Carpenter is not yet known, and that Christopher Carpenter removed from Lancaster Co. PA where there is a church record of the birth of Johann Nicholas Zimmerman on 21 Dec 1742 to Christoph Zimmerman, who is the Nicholas Carpenter of Harrison Co. WV who was
killed by Indians at Marietta OH in 1791 [TR]; Christopher Zimmermann / Carpenter settled in Frederick Co. MD -- Nicholas' older children appear to have been born in MD. Nicholas Carpenter settled in Harrison Co. VA during the 1770s; a posited brother, Christopher Carpenter, settled nearby. Nicholas' will, dated 1791 and recorded in Harrison Co. WV, names five sons, states that he had daughters but does not name them, and states that his wife was with child at the time. A 1798 deed of sale of land names his children then of age and living, and their spouses. Nicholas and Mary Carpenter had thirteen documentable children, among whom was:5. John Carpenter, born c1772 in MD, died 25 Mar 1855 in Elkhart Co. IN [CBP]. He was a minister. He resided in IN during the early 1800s, and settled at Goshen, Elkhart Co. IN, where he was enumerated in 1830, 1840, and 1850. He married on 27 Oct 1791 in Harrison Co. VA to Sarah Bush (or possibly nee Wolfe) who was born c1772, died 26 Mar 1855. The possibility that he might also be the John Carpenter who married on 3 Mar 1794 in Harrison Co.
VA to Sarah Radcliff has not been ruled out. Son:5a. Elias Carpenter, born c1797 in VA, enumerated in Elkhart Co. IN 1830, 1840, and 1850; he was listed as the County Treasurer in the 1850 census. He married c1827 to Elizabeth _?_, born c1805 in VA [NAMP]. Children: 5a1. John Carpenter, born c1828, married on 2 Nov 1854 in Elkhart Co. IN to Mary J. Hoke. 5a2. George W. Carpenter, born c1830, married on 9 Oct 1858 in Elkhart Co. IN to Nancy Vanhorn, parents of:5a2a. Norman B. Carpenter, born c1859. He is probably the Norman B. Carpenter who married on 28 Feb 1895 in Elkhart Co. IN to Mary J. Nelson, parents of:5a2a1. Isaac M. Carpenter, born 31 Oct 1896, married on 18 Mar 1916 in Elkhart Co. IN to Violet
Harwood.
5a3. Isaac Carpenter, born c1834.
5a4. Catherine Carpenter, born c1836.
5a5. Elbridge Carpenter, born c1840.
5a6. Leticia J. Carpenter, born c1843.
5a7. David Carpenter, born c1847.
Terry
MORE:
Posted by: Terry (ID *****7761) Date: April 07, 2002 at 18:48:44
In Reply to: Re: Isaac M. & violet Harwood Carpenter by Sandra Carpenter Samoyedny of 5710
Sandra,
The Ritchie Co. Historical Society has for sale a 22"X42" laminated map with a booklet by local historian Barr
Wilson that has information about Nicholas Carpenter's cattle drive and other items of interest about settlers and
events in that area. The book is described on the RCHS's web page at
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 source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
places this marriage as about 1759

listed on 1787 Tax List along with Christopher CArpenter
Heir deed April 12, 1798 lists children and wife for original grant
Nov 20, 1787 Qualified as sheriff, History of Harrison County by H. Haymond
Apr 23, 1788 Trustee, Randolph Academy
5-18-1789 to view road
7-20-1789 to survey road
Listed on Monongalia Head of Family in 1782 and on Harrison in 1785
Killed by Indians 10-4-1791
Property, Monongalia County, 1784 -- 400 acres, West Fork, opposite mouth of Elk, including his settlemetn made theron in 1772
Property 10-25-1786, 243 acres patent on Middle Fork, 10 Mile Creek
Will 1791, asks for property to be divided into 3 parts . First part to son David, second part to son John and third part to his wife and after her death to son Nicholas, 243 acres on Middle Fork, of 10 Mile Creek, to son Christopher. 547 acres on waters of Limestone to son Joseph. Any money left to be divided among daughters.

Son Christopher was killed with Nicholas in 1791 and the 243 acres willed to him were sold in 1798 to William Davis. Heirs listed were Sarah and John McCally, Catherine and David Sleeth, David and Catherine Carpenter, John and Sarah Carpenter, Nicholas and Mary Carpenter, and John Brown, Barbara and Abel Clemens
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Barr Wilson says that Nicholas Carpenter was married to a Mary Wolfe, presumably in Pennsylvania or Maryland.  Again, this possibility will be examined in the future, but by taking Wilson's own work into account and also relying on the Sleeth vs. McCally case cited in the June 30, 2001 report ("John Wolf of Northwestern Virginia") we may speculate with a reasonable degree of assurance as to the names of Nicholas' children, of which there were apparently thirteen (see Appendix 2).  Among these children, the following are particularly noteworthy.  First, the apparent eldest, Sarah, married John McCally,  of which more in section 2 of this report.  The third daughter and probably fifth child, Mary, apparently married her first cousin, also named Nicholas Carpenter, who was the son of Nicholas Sr.'s brother Christopher.   The fifth daughter, and presumably seventh child, Barbara, married Abel Clemons in 1794 , and along with their eight children was axed to death by her husband in Clarksburg, Va. in November 1805.  For this crime, her husband was executed in Morgantown in June 1806.   Nicholas Carpenter, Jr., presumably the eighth child, was killed along with his father by the Indians in October 1791, when he was about twelve years of age (see section l.b.).   Finally, the sixth daughter and thirteenth and youngest child, Nancy, was born around six months after her father Nicholas was killed (see section l.b.).
With the creation of Harrison Co. out of Monongalia Co. in 1784, a clearer picture of Nicholas Carpenter begins to emerge.  Various bits of information, including his will and estate settlement (see section l.c.), suggest that Carpenter was a man of numerous interests, including as a gunsmith, hunter, storekeeper, trader and cattle drover.  He was also mentioned in several contexts as a "pious man," and notably is not discussed by the early historians as one of the rather notorious, and frequently fanatic, frontier Indian fighters (such as Jesse Hughes or Lewis Wetzel).  He was among thirteen members of the Simpson Creek Church who in 1787 "petitioned 'for a new constitution' in order to meet in a church house that had been built in 1784 near the mouth of Elk Creek (in what is now West Clarksburg)" and was now to be called the Hopewell Baptist Church.

The extent of Carpenter's activities as a smith and a storekeeper is suggested by the records of the appraisal and settlement of his estate (see section l.c., and appendices 4?6).

The Harrison Co. records show that Carpenter was also a man of considerable civic impulses.  On July 20, 1784, Nicholas Carpenter met as one of the justices at the first meeting of the Harrison Co. court, which was held at the house of George Jackson on the Buckhannon River.   George Jackson was a brother of Edward Jackson, the paternal grandfather of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, who was born in Clarksburg in 1824.

At this first meeting of the county court, Nicholas Carpenter was one of two men to be appointed as county coroner.   He also was one of the justices at the second meeting of the county court, this time held in the new settlement of Clarksburg at the home of Hezekiah Davisson, in August 1784.

In October 1785, the General Assembly of Virginia named Nicholas Carpenter one of five trustees of the town of Clarksburg, which was being formally established.   The next month, Carpenter and the other member of a two man committee, John Powers, reported to the county court that John Prunty, contractor, had completed construction of what the historian Haymond believes was a temporary log jail.   In 1785, Nicholas Carpenter appears on the first extant personal property tax list for Harrison County, compiled by his son?in?law John McCally, with six horses and 8 head of cattle.   On the census for that year, for Harrison County, Nicholas Carpenter is recorded as having "seven white souls" in his household.
The next autumn, in October 1786, the General Assembly of Virginia appointed a commission of six, including Nicholas Carpenter, "to lay out and open a wagon road from some point on the State road as deemed best by them to the mouth of the Little Kanawha River, now Parkersburg."

In March 1787, Nicholas Carpenter and John McCally, as securities for the contractors, entered into a bond with them for the construction of a courthouse in Clarksburg.   The next month, Carpenter was appointed by the county court to be the tax commissioner for the second district of Harrison County, after Randolph County was created, to the east, out of Harrison.  His district "shall be on the west side and bounded by the first district and down the Ohio County line to the Monongalia county line and thence along said line to the West Fork river; thence up said river to the mouth of Simpsons Creek; thence up the largest fork of said creek to the head thereof, and crossing the dividing ridge to the head of Shooks Run; thence down the said run to the County line; thence up said line to the first district, which shall be one and the second district."
In 1787, Carpenter was qualified as sheriff of Harrison County.   Aside from his duties as a county official, Carpenter was also actively involved in the establishment of the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg, which was meant to be a western Virginia competitor of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. On April 23, 1788, Nicholas Carpenter along with George Jackson, county clerk Benjamin Wilson and John Powers took the oath as trustees for the Randolph Academy.   After three failures to achieve a quorum of trustees for this institution, finally on September 16, 1788 a quorum was achieved which included Nicholas Carpenter and eleven other trustees.

On January 7, 1789, Nicholas Carpenter was one of 131 men who voted from Harrison County in the United States' first presidential election.   These voters constituted around 43 percent of the 300 or so individuals whose names appeared on the personal property tax lists for Harrison County that year.  On May 4, 1789, Carpenter showed up to sit on a grand jury of what appears to have been the first meeting of a Superior Court for the district of Virginia composed of Harrison, Monongalia, Ohio and Randolph counties, at the Monongalia Co. courthouse in Morgantown.  Not enough others joined him to constitute a proper jury, however, and those not showing up were each fined four hundred pounds of tobacco.
According to Haymond, a Thomas Wallcutt [Wolcott?] of Massachusetts, who in that early period had taken a trip to Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingham and Ohio rivers, returned in March 1790 to the east by "the Virginia route...in company with one or two companions." Wallcutt apparently kept a journal, and during this return journey??the Marietta to Clarksburg leg of which appeared to have taken about four days by foot??he stopped at the Carpenter's.  Wallcutt noted: "...took dinner at the Carpenter's.  They appear to be good livers and good farmers.  Have a good house and seem very clever people.  Mr. Carpenter has gone down the Country.  They have been on the frontier here for fifteen years and have several times been obliged to move away.   I got a dish of coffee and meat for dinner.  We crossed over the West Branch of the Monongahela over to Clarksburg."  Two days later, Wallcutt records that "...Met Mr. Carpenter on his return home.  He appears to be a very clever man."
The death of Nicholas Carpenter, at the hands of Indians possibly led by Tecumseh, is described in some detail in several early books dealing with the frontier history of northwestern Virginia.  While the accounts differ a bit in the details, the main elements of the story remain the same regardless of who is recounting the tale.  Perhaps the most complete discussion is to be found in McWhorter's Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia (1915), who also quotes at length from two early sources and from which we quote in turn:
"When forts were built along the Ohio, Indian incursions into Virginia became less frequent.  The garrisons of these forts and the settlers who gathered about them created a demand on the settlements on the Western Monongahela for beef and milk cows.  In 1791 we find Jesse Hughes with Nicholas Carpenter, in his ill?fated enterprise undertaken to supply this demand at Fort Harmer at the mouth of the Muskingum.  The ensuing brief account of this occurrence is taken from Withers:
'In the month of September, Nicholas Carpenter set off to Marietta with a drove of cattle to sell to those who had established themselves there; and when within some miles from the Ohio river, encamped for the night.  In the morning early, and while he and the drovers were yet dressing, they were alarmed by a discharge of guns, which killed one and wounded another of his party.  The others endeavored to save themselves by flight; but Carpenter being a cripple (because of a wound received some years before) did not run far, when finding himself becoming faint, he entered a pond of water where he fondly hoped he should escape observation.  But no! both he and a son who had likewise sought security there, were discovered, tomahawked and scalped.  George Legget, one of the drovers, was never after heard of; but Jesse Hughes [the notorious early Indian fighter] succeeded in getting off though under disadvantageous circumstances.  He wore long legging, and when the firing commenced at the camp, they were fastened at top to his belt, but hanging loose below.  Although an active runner, yet he found that the pursuers were gaining and must ultimately overtake him if he did not rid himself of his incumbrance.  For his purpose he halted somewhat and stepping on the lower part of his legging, broke the strings which tied them to his belt; but before he accomplished this, one of the savages approached and hurled a tomahawk at him.  It merely grazed his head, and he then again took flight and soon got off.

'It was afterwards ascertained that the Indians by whom this mischief was effected, had crossed the Ohio river near the mouth of the Little Kenhawa, where they took a negro belonging to Captain James Neal, and continued on towards the settlements on West Fork, until they came upon the trail made by Carpenter's cattle.  Supposing that they belonged to families moving, they followed on until they came upon the drovers; and tying the negro to a sapling made an attack on them.  The negro availed himself of their employment elsewhere, and loosening the bands which fastened him, returned to his master.'
The more elaborate description of the foregoing tragedy is given by Hildreth:
'The year 1791 was more fruitful in tragical events than any other during the war, in the vicinity of Marietta.  After that period the attention of the Indians was more occupied with the troops assembled on the borders of their own country, or already penetrating to the vicinity of their villages.  The United States troops stationed at the posts within the new settlements, drew a considerable portion of their meat rations from the inhabitants of the western branches of the Monongahela, about Clarksburg, especially their fresh beef.  Several droves had been brought from that region of the country in 1790 and '91 and sold to Paul Fearing, Esq., who had been appointed Commissary to the troops.  A considerable number of cattle, especially milk cows, were also sold to the inhabitants of Marietta.  Among those engaged in this employment was Nicholas Carpenter, a worthy, pious man, who had lived many years on the frontiers and was well acquainted with a forest life.  He left Clarksburg the last of September, with a drove, accompanied by his little son, ten years old, and five other men, viz: Jesse Hughes, George Legit, John Paul, Barns, and Ellis.  On the evening of the 3rd of October, they had reached a point six miles above Marietta, and encamped on a run half a mile from the Ohio, and since called 'Carpenter's run.'  The cattle were suffered to range in the vicinity, feeding on the rich pea vines that then filled the woods, while the horses were hoppled, the leaves pulled out from around the clappers of their bells, and turned loose in the bottom.  After eating their suppers, the party spread their blankets on the ground and lay down with their feet to the fire.  No guard was set to watch the approach of an enemy.  Their journey being so near finished, without discovering any signs of Indians, that they thought all danger was past
'It so happened that not far from the time of their leaving home, a party of six Shawanese Indians, headed as was afterwards ascertained, by Tecumseh, then quite a youth, but ultimately so celebrated for bravery and talents, had crossed the Ohio river near Bellville, on a marauding expedition in the vicinity of Clarksburg.  From this place they passed over the ridges to 'Neils's Station,' on the Little Kenawha, one mile from the mouth, where they took prisoner a colored boy of Mr. Neil, about twelve years old, as he was out looking for the horses early in the morning.  It was done without alarming the garrison, and they quietly proceeded on their route, doing no other mischief; pursuing their way up the Kenawha to the mouth of Hughes' river, and following the north fork, fell on to the trail from Clarksburg to Marietta.  This took them about three days.  There was no rain, and the leaves so dry that their rustling alarmed the deer, and they could kill no game for food.  Their only nourishment for that period was a single tortoise, which they divided among them, giving Frank, the black boy, an equal share.  As he was much exhausted and discouraged, they promised him a horse to ride on their return.  These circumstances were related by Frank after his escape.
'Soon after leaving the north fork of Hughes' river, they fell onto the trail of Carpenter's drove, and thinking it made by a caravan of settlers on their way to the Ohio, they held a short council.  Giving up any further progress towards Clarksburg they turned with renewed energy and high spirits upon the fresh large trail, which they perceived had very recently been made.  So broad was the track made by the cattle and four or five horses that they followed it without difficulty, at a rapid pace all night, and came in sight of the camp fire a little before daylight.  Previous to commencing the attack, they secured Frank with leather thongs to a stout sapling on the top of an adjacent ridge.  The trampling of the cattle and the noise of the horse bells greatly favored the Indians in their approach, but as there was no sentinel there was little danger of discovery.  Tecumseh, with the cautious cunning that ever distinguished him, posted his men behind the trunk of a large fallen tree, a few yards from the camp, where they could watch the movements of their enemies.
'At the first dawn of day Mr. Carpenter called up the men, saying they would commence the day with the accustomed acts of devotion which he had long practiced.  As the men sat around the fire, and he had just commenced reading a hymn, the Indians rose and fired, following the discharge with a terrific yell, and rushed upon their astonished victims with the tomahawk.  Their fire was not very well directed, as it killed only one man, Ellis from Greenbrier, and wounded John Paul through the hand. Ellis instantly fell, exclaiming, 'O Lord, I am killed!'  The others sprang to their feet, and before they could all get their arms which were leaning against a tree, the Indians were among them.  Hughes who had been an old hunter and often in skirmishes with savages, in his haste seized on two rifles, Carpenter's and his own, and pushed into the woods, with two Indians in pursuit.  He fired one of the guns, but whether with effect is not known, and threw the other away.  Being partly dressed at the time of the attack, his long leggins were only fastened to the belt around his waist and were loose below, entangling his legs, and greatly impeding his flight.  To rid himself of this encumbrance he stopped for a moment, placed his foot on the lower end, and tore them loose from his belt, leaving his legs bare from the hips downward. This delay nearly cost him his life.  His pursuer then within a few feet of him, threw his tomahawk so accurately as to graze his head.  Freed from this impediment he soon left his foe far behind.  Christopher Carpenter, the son of Nicholas, now living in Marietta, says he well remembers seeing the bullet holes in Hughes' hunting shirt after his return.'In the race the competitors passed near the spot where Frank was concealed, who described it as one of the swiftest he had ever seen.  John Paul, who had been in many engagements with the Indians, escaped by his activity in running.  Burns [sic], a stout, athletic man, but slow of foot, was slain near the camp after a stout resistance.  When found a few days after his jack knife was still clasped in his hand, and the weeds trampled down for a rod or more around, showing he had resisted manfully for life.  George Legit was pursued for nearly two miles, overtaken and killed.  Mr. Carpenter, although a brave man, was without arms to defend himself, and being lame could not run rapidly.  He therefore sought to conceal himself behind some willows in the bed of the run.  He was soon discovered, with his little boy by his side.  His captors conducted him to the spot where the black boy had been left, and killed both him and his son.  What led to the slaughter, after they had surrendered, is not known.  He was found wrapped in his blanket, with a pair of new Indian moccasins on his feet, and his scalp not removed.  It is supposed that these marks of respect were shown him at the request of one of the Indians whose gun Carpenter had repaired at Marietta the year before, and had declined any compensation for the service.  He was by trade a gunsmith  This circumstance was told to C. Carpenter, many years after, by one of the Indians who was present, at Urbana in Ohio.  It is another proof of the fact, that an Indian never forgets an act of kindness, even in an enemy.'Tecumseh and his men, after collecting the plunder of the camp, retreated in such haste, that they left all the horses, which had probably dispersed in the woods at the tumult of the attack.  They no doubt feared a pursuit from the rangers at Marietta and Williams' station, who would be notified by the escape of their prisoner, Frank, who in the midst of the noise of the assault contrived to slip his hands loose from the cords, and hide himself in a thick patch of hazel bushes, from which he saw a part of the transactions.  After the Indians had left the ground, he crept cautiously forth, and by good fortune took the right direction to Williams' station, opposite to Marietta. A party of men was sent out the next day, who buried the dead as far as they could then by found.  Frank returned to his master, and died only a few years since."'

According to Haymond,  the Harrison County court officially certified the exact date of death of Nicholas Carpenter, presumably in connection with a court case relating to his heirs, on November 20, 1820:  "It being this day proved to the satisfaction of the Court by the oath of David Carpenter, that Nicholas Carpenter was killed by the Indians on the 4th day of October in the year 1791, and that Nancy Carpenter, daughter of the said Nicholas Carpenter, was born on the 15th day of March 1792, and ordered that the same be certified."

Nicholas Carpenter appeared on the personal property tax lists for Harrison Co. during 1785?86 and 1788?91.

Nicholas Carpenter left a will, but it is rather curious on several counts.  First, it seems to this writer to be less formal and to have more colloquialisms and misspellings than I have encountered in other wills of that general period.  This may suggest that it was based more directly on the actual words of the testator than was common at the time.  Second, it is undated.  Third, it would seem to have been somewhat out of date at the time of his death, for his youngest son Thomas is not mentioned by name in the will.  Finally, Nicholas Carpenter's signature is only partially illegible  in the copy-in the county court's will book-which has come down to us.
Nicholas Carpenter evidently owned three blacksmith shops as well, although it is unclear whether these were at three separate locations, or simply that three smiths worked at the one "smith shop" mentioned in his will.  The three smiths, each of whom kept separate books and whose receivables were considered by the appraisers as due his estate rather than to the smiths themselves, were Christopher Carpenter (presumably his son), Alexander Rowan, and Jacob Ragan.  Among the 157 individuals deemed to have an open account with these smiths were our Jacob Wolf (6 shillings owed to Christopher Carpenter's smith book, and 8 shillings owed to Jacob Ragan's) and John McCally (one pound, 11 shillings and 2 pence owed to Christopher Carpenter's book).  The total amount due the three smiths was 48 pounds, 2 shillings and 4 pence.  In total, the appraisers calculated that 149 pounds, 10 shillings and 11  pence were due the estate from the various debtors.  They noted, however, that "...we Conceive it not possible that the Whole of it [accounts receivable] can be Collected therefore the part thereof that may Be Collected is all that Can be Said to be 'Valouable."' (See Appendix 4).  Needless to say, Nicholas Carpenter did business with the majority of the heads of household in Harrison Co. at that time.

Heirs of Nicholas Carpenter                                            Jno. McCally (LS)
Deceased McCally [...] all                                            Sarah McCally (LS)
interlined before signing &                                            David Sleeth (LS)
Delivery                                                                            Catharine Sleeth (LS)

Harrison County June and July                             Abel Clemens (LS)
Courts 1798 This Indenture                                            Mary Carpenter (LS)
was acknowledged by John Brown                                 John Brown (LS)
and Margaret his wife John                                            Margaret Brown (LS)
McCally and Sery his wife David                           John Carpenter (LS)
Sleeth & Catharine his wife David                          Sarah Carpenter (LS)
Carpenter Nicholas Carpenter and                         Barbara Clemens (LS)
Mary his wife Abel Clemens and
Barbara his wife and John
Carpenter and Sarah his wife
(the femes being privily Examined
as the Law directs and Consenting)
to William Davis for 243 acres
and it is ordered to be Recorded
& that a Commission Issue take
the Relinquishment David Carpenters
Wifes right of Dower
By the Court

Teste Ben Wilson C.H.C.

Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file
he was  Judge, Blacksmith, & Farmer
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More About *NICHOLAS CARPENTER and *MARY WOLFE:
Marriage: 1764, Virginia

Children of *NICHOLAS CARPENTER and *MARY WOLFE are:
2. i. CATHERINE9 CARPENTER, b. 1765, Red Stone Fort, Frederick County, Maryland; d. Jun 17, 1828, Fink Creek, Gilmer County, West Virginia; Stepchild.
3. ii. MARGARET CARPENTER, b. 1765, Hardy County, West Virginia; d. Bef. 1850, Lewis County, West Virginia.
4. iii. SARAH CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1764, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. Aft. 1827.
iv. CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER, b. 1768, Fredericks County, Maryland; d. Aft. 1828, Marietta, Ohio; m. CATHERINE LEGGETT2, Jan 08, 1804; b. Abt. 1768.

Notes for CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER:
 census: 1785 Harrison County, Virginia
killed by Indians along with his father at Marietta Ohio ( it has since been found that Nicholas --age 10 was the son killed along with the father in 1791
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
October 04, 1791  as date of death

 The Thomas Carpenter Family by Walter F. Carpenter in Fulton County Folks Volumn 2
page 129
places his marriage date as 1-8-1804 ---- which is after the date given as date of death
years later, Christopher Carpenter while in Urbana, Ohio talked to one of the Indians in the party that had killed his father in 1791.
There is a letter which has surfaced to support that this Christopher did not die with the father in 179
see note:
Tom Ebling   tgebling@verizon.net   1-13-2005

ARticle by Jesse Hughes on this Indian Massacre http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kell/bonnett/JHBOTH.TXT
is saved in My Documents
 When forts were built along the Ohio, Indian incursions into
Virginia became less frequent.  The garrisons of these forts and
the settlers who gathered about them created a demand on the
settlements on the Western Monongahela for beef and milk cows.
In 1791 we find Jesse Hughes with Nicholas Carpenter, in his ill-
fated enterprise undertaken to supply this demand at Fort Harmer
at the mouth of the Muskingum.  The ensuing brief account of this
occurrence is taken from Withers.
    "In the month of September, Nicholas Carpenter set off to Marietta with a
drove of cattle to sell to those who had established themselves there; and when
within some miles from the Ohio river, encamped for the night.  In the morning
early, and while he and the drovers were yet dressing, they were alarmed  by a
discharge of guns, which killed one and wounded another of his party.  The others
endeavored to save themselves by flight; but Carpenter being a cripple (because
of a wound received some years before) did not run far, when finding himself
becoming faint, he entered a pond of water where he fondly hoped he should escape
observation.  But no! both he and a son who had likewise sought security there,
were discovered, tomahawked and scalped.  George Legget, one of the drovers, was
never after heard of; but Jesse Hughes succeeded in getting off though under
disadvantageous circumstances.  He wore long leggins, and when the firing
commenced at the camp, they were fastened at top to his belt, but hanging loose
below.  Although an active runner, yet he found that the pursuers were gaining
and must ultimately overtake him if he did not rid himself of his encumbrance.
For this purpose he halted somewhat and stepping on the lower part of his
leggins, broke the strings which tied them to his belt; but before he
accomplished this, one of the savages approached and hurled a tomahawk at him.
It merely grazed his head, and he then again took flight and soon got off.
    "It was afterwards ascertained that the Indians by whom this mischief was
effected, had crossed the Ohio river near the mouth of the Little Kenhawa, where
they took a negro belonging to Captain James Neal, and continued on towards the
settlements on West Fork, until they came upon the trail made by Carpenter's
cattle.  Supposing that they belonged to families moving, they followed on until
they came upon the drovers; and tying the negro to a sapling made an attack on
them.  The negro availed himself of their employment elsewhere, and loosening the
bands which fastened him, returned to his master."
    The following more elaborate description of the foregoing
tragedy is given by Hildreth.

    "The year 1791 was more fruitful in tragical events than any other during
the war, in the vicinity of Marietta.  After that period the attention of the
Indians was more occupied with the troops assembled on the borders of their own
country, or already penetrating to the vicinity of their villages.  The United
States troops stationed at the posts within the new settlements, drew a
considerable portion of their meat rations from the inhabitants of the western
branches of the Monongahela, about Clarksburg, especially their fresh beef.
Several droves had been brought from that region of the country in 1790 and '91
and sold to Paul Fearing, Esq., who had been appointed Commissary to the troops.
A considerable number of cattle, especially milk cows, were also sold to the
inhabitants of Marietta.  Among those engaged in this employment was Nicholas
Carpenter, a worthy, pious man, who had lived many years on the frontiers and was
well acquainted with a forest life.  He left Clarksburg the last of September,
with a drove, accompanied by his little son, ten years old, and five other men,
viz: Jesse Hughes, George Legit, John Paul, Barns, and Ellis.  On the evening of
the 3rd of October, they had reached a point six miles above Marietta, and
encamped on a run half a mile from the Ohio, and since called 'Carpenter's run.'
The cattle were suffered to range in the vicinity, feeding on the rich pea vines
that then filled the woods, while the horses were hoppled, the leaves pulled out
from around the clappers of their bells, and turned loose in the bottom.  After
eating their suppers, the party spread their blankets on the ground and lay down
with their feet to the fire.  No guard was set to watch the approach of an enemy.
Their journey being so near finished, without discovering any signs of Indians,
that they thought all danger was past.
    "It so happened that not far from the time of their leaving home, a party of
six Shawanese Indians, headed as was afterwards ascertained, by Tecumseh, then
quite a youth, but ultimately so celebrated for bravery and talents, had crossed
the Ohio river near Beilville, on a marauding expedition in the vicinity of
Clarksburg.  From this place they passed over the ridges to 'Neil's Station,' on
the Little Kenawha, one mile from the mouth, where they took prisoner a colored
boy of Mr. Neil, about twelve years old, as he was out looking for the horses
early in the morning.  It was done without alarming the garrison, and they
quietly proceeded on their route, doing no other mischief; pursuing their way up
the Kenawha to the mouth of Hughes' river, and following the north fork, fell on
to the trail from Clarksburg to Marietta.  This took them about three days.
There was no rain, and the leaves so dry that their rustling alarmed the deer,
and they could kill no game for food.  Their only nourishment for that period was
a single tortoise, which they divided among them, giving Frank, the black boy, an
equal share.  As he was much exhausted and discouraged, they promised him a horse
to ride on their return.  These circumstances were related by Frank after his
escape.
     "Soon after leaving the north fork of Hughes' river, they fell onto the
trail of Carpenter's drove, and thinking it made by a caravan of settlers on
their way to the Ohio, they held a short council.  Giving up any further progress
towards Clarksburg they turned with renewed energy and high spirits upon the
fresh large trail, which they perceived had very recently been made.  So broad
was the track made by the cattle and four or five horses that they followed it
without difficulty, at a rapid pace all night, and came in sight of the camp fire
a little before daylight.  Previous to commencing the attack, they secured Frank
with leather thongs to a stout sapling on the top of an adjacent ridge.  The
trampling of the cattle and the noise of the horse bells greatly favored the
Indians in their approach, but as there was no sentinel there was little danger
of discovery.  Tecumseh, with  the cautious cunning that ever distinguished him
posted his men behind the trunk of a large fallen tree, a few yards from the
camp, where they could watch the movements of their enemies.
    "At the first dawn of day Mr. Carpenter called up the men, saving they
would commence the day with the accustomed acts of devotion which he had long
practiced.  As the men sat around the fire, and he had just commenced reading a
hymn, the Indians rose and fired, following the discharge with a terrific yell,
and rushed upon their astonished victims with the tomahawk. Their fire was not
very well directed, as it killed only one man, Ellis from Greenbrier, and wounded
John Paul through the hand.  Ellis instantly fell, exclaiming, 'O Lord, I am
killed!' The others sprang to their feet, and before they could all get their
arms which were leaning against a tree, the Indians were among them.  Hughes, who
had been an old hunter and often in skirmishes with savages, in his haste seized
on two rifles, Carpenter's and his own and pushed into the woods, with two
Indians in pursuit.   He fired one of the guns, but whether with effect is not
known, and threw the other away.  Being partly dressed at the time of the attack
his long leggins were only fastened to the belt around his waist and were loose
below, entangling his legs, and greatly impeding his flight.  To rid himself of
this a encumbrance he stopped for a moment, placed his foot on the lower end, and
tore them loose from his belt, leaving his legs bare from the hips downward.
This delay nearly cost him his life. His pursuer then within a few feet of him,
threw his tomahawk so accurately as to graze his head.  Freed from this
impediment he soon left his foe far behind.  Christopher Carpenter, the son of
Nicholas, now living in Marietta, says he well remembers seeing the bullet holes
in Hughes' hunting shirt after his return.
    "In the race the competitors passed near the spot where Frank was concealed,
who described it as one of the swiftest he had ever seen.  John Paul, who had
been in many engagements with the Indians, escaped by his activity in running.
Burns, a stout, athletic man, but slow of foot, was slain near the camp after a
stout resistance.  When found a few days after his jack knife was still clasped
in his hand, and the weeds trampled down for a rod or more around, showing he had
resisted manfully for life.  George Legit was pursued for nearly two miles,
overtaken and killed.  Mr. Carpenter, although a brave man, was without arms to
defend him and being lame could not run rapidly.  He therefore sought to conceal
himself behind some willows, in the bed of the run.  He was soon discovered, with
his little boy by his side.    His captors conducted him to the spot where the
black boy had been left, and killed both him and his son.  What led to the
slaughter, after they had surrendered, is not known.  He was found wrapped in his
blanket, with a pair of new Indian moccasins on his feet, and his scalp not
removed.  It is supposed that these marks of respect were shown him at the
request of one of the Indians whose gun Carpenter had repaired at Marietta the
year before, and had declined any compensation for the service.  He was by trade
a gunsmith.  This circumstance was told to C. Carpenter, many years after, by one
of the Indians who was present, at Urbana in Ohio. It is another proof of the
fact, that an Indian never forgets an act of kindness, even in an enemy.
    "Tecumseh and his men, after collecting the plunder of the camp, retreated
in such haste, that they left all the horses, which had probably dispersed in the
woods at the tumult of the attack.  They no doubt feared a pursuit from the
rangers at Marietta and Williams' station, who would be notified by the escape of
their prisoner, Frank, who in the midst of the noise of the assault contrived to
slip his hands loose from the cords, and hide himself in a thick patch of hazel
bushes, from which he saw a part of the transactions.  After the Indians had left
the ground, he crept cautiously forth, and by good fortune took the right
direction to Williams' station, opposite to Marietta.  A party of men was sent
out the next day, who buried the dead as far as they could then be found.  Frank
returned to his master, and died only a few years since."
     Colonel Joseph Barker assisted in burying the bodies of
Carpenter and his men.
     From the foregoing it would appear that Hughes had adopted
the Indian mode of dress so popular with the half-wild hunters
and scouts in the latter years of the Indian wars on the Virginia
border.  Tradition says that Hughes was surprised by the Indians
near the Buckhannon Fort when entangled with loose leggins, and
with difficulty effected his escape.  Doubtless this story had
its origin in the Carpenter occurrence

"Christopher Carpenter, the son of Nicholas, now living in Marietta, says he well remembers seeing the bullet holes in Hughes' hunting shirt after his return" (refers to the killing of his father and brother by the Indians).

Above found In "Border Settlers" the story of Jesse Hughes, the great Indian Scout of Western Virginia.

See site below for full story.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kell/bonnett/JHBOTH.TXT
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Hi Linda

Here is a little info on Christopher Carpenter being a witness for the will of Jonas Johnson.
Tom
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Johnson, Jonas - will made Nov. 2, 1815, probate march 1816.
Wife Ruth; children Perley (a minor), Amy H., Lydia, Ann, Mary Johnson. Witness: Christopher Carpenter, Elizabeth and Catherine Clark, George Dunlevey.
Note: Jonas Johnson born Feb. 14, 177, died Feb. 6, 1816. Ruth his wife born Jan. 3, 1800, died Aug. 26, 1823.
Above found in "Abstracts of wills and administrations of estates of Washington County, Ohio : with miscellaneous notes and references"
Columbus, Ohio: unknown, 1946?, 67 pgs.

Comment (by me Tom): Christopher Carpenter is found living next door to the family of Ruth Johnson in the 1820 census, Marietta Township, Washington County, Ohio. page 208.
There is also a Clark family living a few doors down the street (found in same census).
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More About CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER and CATHERINE LEGGETT:
Marriage: Jan 08, 1804

5. v. DAVID CARPENTER, b. 1770, Fredericks County, Maryland; d. 1847, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
6. vi. JOHN CARPENTER, b. 1772, Fredericks County, Maryland; d. Mar 26, 1855, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.
7. vii. BARBARA CARPENTER, b. 1776, Fredericks County, Maryland; d. Nov 10, 1805, Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia; Stepchild.
8. viii. MARY CARPENTER, b. 1778, Fredericks County, Maryland; d. 1816; Stepchild.
ix. NICHOLAS CARPENTER, b. 1780, Fredericks County, Maryland; d. Oct 04, 1791, "Carpenter's Run, near Wavery, Virginia.

Notes for NICHOLAS CARPENTER:
F377.ftw, Date of Import: Nov 4, 1999 killed by Indians along with his father

Title: Reproduced on Broderbund Software's Family Archive CD #117
Author: Amos B. Carpenter
Publication: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 1898
Note:
1 TYPE Book
1 PERI "A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America.
Text: "Carpenter's of Rehoboth"

Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net >
e-mail of 8-18-2002
has his birth as about 1773

there is a Nicolas Carpenter 1830 Marietta, Washington Co., Ohi0
with males  4 under 10, 1: 10-15-; 1-15-18; 2 -16/20; and 1 45-60
with females 1 under 10; 1-10/15; 1=15/18; 1- 16/20; 1- 24-45
( this would be the nephew of Nicholas Carpenter who was killed by the Indians

Hi Linda

This Christopher would fit (with dates of Christopher, son of Nicholas Sr.) and this Christopher is living next to Joseph Carpenter (very common for family to live close together). This Joseph Carpenter may be the son of Nicholas Sr.

I also found some evidence that points to Nicholas Jr. (and not Christopher) as being to one killed with his father.

"Christopher Carpenter, the son of Nicholas, now living in Marietta, says he well remembers seeing the bullet holes in Hughes' hunting shirt after his return" (refers to the killing of his father and brother by the Indians).

Above found In "Border Settlers" the story of Jesse Hughes, the great Indian Scout of Western Virginia.

See site below for full story.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kell/bonnett/JHBOTH.TXT

Tom

More About NICHOLAS CARPENTER:
Cause of Death: killed by Indians

9. x. ELIZABETH CARPENTER, b. 1782, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. Abt. 1850, Fulton County, Indiana.
xi. JOSEPH CARPENTER, b. 1784, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. Aft. 1860; m. (1) JEMIMA BENNETT, Sep 28, 1805; b. Abt. 1785; d. Bef. 1847; m. (2) ANNA WILCOX, Aug 05, 1847, Fulton County, Indiana; b. 1802, Pennsylvania; d. Aft. 1860.

Notes for JOSEPH CARPENTER:
Listed in the 1830, Logan County, OH, census.
Ages: 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-30 40-50 50-60
Male: 2 1 1 1(husband)
Female: 2 1 1(wife)

1860 census:  Akron, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana
page 237
Carpenter    Joseph     75  b. Va
                   Anna         58  b. Pa
                  Thomas     71  b. VA.

Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file

Title: World Family Tree
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Electronic
Page: Volume 46, Tree 459

Joseph Carpenter, born 1784 in Virginia; died Aft. 1860. He married (1) Jemima Bennett 28 Sep 1805. He married (2) Anna Wilcox 05 Aug 1847 in Fulton County, Indiana; born 1802 in Pennsylvania.

Notes for Joseph Carpenter:

Listed in the 1830, Logan County, OH, census.

Ages: 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-30 40-50 50-60

Male: 2 1 1

1(husband)

Female: 2 1

1(wife)

More About Joseph Carpenter:

Comment: 1827, He was living in Bellfonte, Logan County, Ohio

More About Joseph Carpenter and Jemima Bennett:

Marriage: 28 Sep 1805

More About Joseph Carpenter and Anna Wilcox:

Marriage: 05 Aug 1847, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for JEMIMA BENNETT:
Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file

More About JOSEPH CARPENTER and JEMIMA BENNETT:
Marriage: Sep 28, 1805

Notes for ANNA WILCOX:
Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file

Marriage Notes for JOSEPH CARPENTER and ANNA WILCOX:
Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file

More About JOSEPH CARPENTER and ANNA WILCOX:
Marriage: Aug 05, 1847, Fulton County, Indiana

10. xii. *THOMAS CARPENTER, b. Dec 20, 1790, Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (now W.Va.); d. Feb 25, 1869, Fulton County, Indiana.
11. xiii. NANCY ANN CARPENTER, b. Mar 15, 1792, Fredericks County, Maryland; d. Apr 09, 1877, Miami County, Indiana.
xiv. EMANUEL CARPENTER3, b. Abt. 1783.

Generation No. 2

2.  CATHERINE9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1765 in Red Stone Fort, Frederick County, Maryland, and died Jun 17, 1828 in Fink Creek, Gilmer County, West Virginia.  She married DAVID WALLACE SLEETH Abt. 1780 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia), son of JOHN SLEETH and MARY WALLACE.  He was born May 01, 1752 in Frederick County, Virginia, and died Jun 25, 1839 in Gilmer, Lewis County, West Virginia.

Notes for CATHERINE CARPENTER:
may have been born Fredericks County, Maryland

date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file
places her birth at Red Stone Fort, Fredericks Co., Md (now Brownsville, Pa)
Believed to buried Farnsworth Plantation, Gilmer Co., WV

Catherine Carpenter, born Abt. 1764; died 17 Jun 1828 in Fink Creek, Gilmer County, West Virginia. She married David Wallace Sleeth 17 Jun 1828 in Lewis County or Harrison County Virginia (now West Virginia); born 01 May 1752 in Frederick County, Virginia; died 25 Jun 1839 in Gilmer, Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

More About David Sleeth and Catherine Carpenter:

Marriage: 17 Jun 1828, Lewis County or Harrison County Virginia (now West Virginia)

More About CATHERINE CARPENTER:
Burial: Farnsworth Plantation, Gilmer County, West Virginia

Notes for DAVID WALLACE SLEETH:
researcher this line: Mary Sleeth Creamer ---GodivaM@westco.net
         she states that they had 14 children

Gina Oltmanns places his birth as 5-18-1752

: Paul Skinner has him married to Elizabeth Wolfe

Birthdate found as 18 May 1769 per "West Virginians in the Revolution, pg 61"

ID: I3103
Name: David W. SLEETH
Sex: M
Birth: 18 May 1752 in Fredrick County, VA
Death: 28 Jun 1839
Note:
David is buried on the Farnsworth Plantation, near Troy, Gilmer Co., WV.
Two unmarked graves beside David's are believed to be those of his wives.

Father: John Alexander SLEETH b: in Scotland
Mother: Mary Ann WALLACE b: in Scotland

Marriage 1 Catherine CARPENTER
Children
John SLEETH
George Washington SLEETH
Catherine SLEETH
Sarah McCally SLEETH
Jane SLEETH
Mary SLEETH b: 1780
Margaret SLEETH b: 1785 in Harrison County, (W)VA
Nicholas C. SLEETH b: 1795
David W. SLEETH(JR.) b: 25 Dec 1796
Alexander K. SLEETH b: 28 Feb 1797
Henry Waldeck SLEETH b: 11 Oct 1800
Thomas Jackson SLEETH b: 12 Jan 1807
Nancy SLEETH b: 1813

Marriage 2 Susanna SIMPSON
Married: 5 Apr 1834 in Lewis County, (W)VA

Military Service: Rev War Soldier
Event: Fact Birthdate found as 18 May 1769 per "West Virginians in the Revolution, pg 61"
Reference Number: 4961
Note:
CLARKSBURG EXPONENT---PAGE 98

At the first session of the Harrison County Court held July 20, 1784, David Wallace Sleeth was appointed one of three persons to view and lay out a road from Richard's Fort (then near what is now West Milford) by way of Edmund West Mill to the home of John Hacker on Hacker's Creek. At the same time, the elder John Sleeth was commissioned to celebrate the rites of matrimony and was recommended to the Governor for appointment to the Office of Magistrate.

While John Sleeth Sr. and sons, Alexander, David Wallace, Thomas and John took part in the Revolutionary War, only David became a pensioner. Either the Elder of Junior John Sleeth was among those who chased Indians after Elizabeth, wife of John Freeman, had been slain in the middle of 1779 as she and two other women were in the field picking greens.

David Wallace Sleeth was a member of Captain James Booth's Company of Rangers and indian spies in 1777-1778, having enlisted in May 1777 at West's Fort on Hacker's Creek for a period of eighteen months, according to his declaration for a pension made August 7, 1832. After Captain Booth was killed in June 1778, the Company was under command of Lieutenant Edward Freeman until November when that officer left for Kentucky without issuing discharge papers for his men. Soon after that David Wallace Sleeth joined Captain George Jackson's Company of scouts at Buckhannon and served until the latter part of 1780. He received a pension of $80 per annun.

Besides his army service, David Sleeth doubtless aided in the construction of the first West Fort on Hacker's Creek. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Harrison County on April 8, 1817 and a School Commissioner for Lewis County in 1819, after that County was formed. Records show he held the Office of Magistrate as late as 1825.

David Wallace Sleeth died June 28, 1839 and was buried on the Old Farnsworth Plantation located about a mile up Fink Creek in Gilmer County. His grave was found in recent years (1934) in the woods along side a beech tree with cut stones around it, presumably cut and placed there by his son, Henry Waldeck Sleeth, or ordered done by him. Two other unmarked graves were found there and it is believed these were the graves of his two wives.

According to the TRANSALLEGHENY HISTORICAL MAGAZINE: Page 269, Vol I: "David Sleeth takes 200 acres on Hackers Creek adjoining Samuel Bonnet.....1770."

Taken from WEST VIRGINIANS in the REVOLUTION, page 61: "David W. Sleeth, born in Frederick County, Virginia on May 18, 1769. Resided in Monongalia County, Virginia (now Lewis County), in May 1777, when he enlisted as a private under Captains Booth, Jackson and Davis. He applied for [a pension in Lewis County, VA, which was granted in 1833, but upon later investigation his name was stricken from the rolls."

Father: John Alexander SLEETH b: 1727 in Renfrow, Scotland
Mother: Mary Ann WALLACE b: ABT 1725 in Scotland or Ireland

David W. Sleeth, a son of John and Mary Ann Sleeth, was born May 18, 1752 in Fredrick county, Virginia. He married Catherine Carpenter, the daughter of Nicholas and Mary Carpenter. Catherine's father, Nicholas owned land at Redstone, near Brownsville, Pennsylvania. He came to Harrison county in 1772 and made settlement on the present site of Stealey Heights, in Clarksburg, Harrison county.
At the first session of the Harrison county court held on July 20, 1784, David W. Sleeth was appointed one of three persons to view and lay out a road from the Richards fort, then near what is now West
Milford, by way of the Edmund West mill to the home of John Hacker on Hacker's Creek.
David W. Sleeth was a member of Captain James Booth's company of rangers and spies in 1777-78, having enlisted in May 1777, at West's fort on Hacker's creek for a period of eighteen months, according to his declaration for a pension made August 7, 1832. After Captain Booth was killed in June 1778, the company was under command of Lt. Edward Freeman until November, when that officer left for Kentucky
without issuing discharge papers to his men. Soon after that David W. Sleeth joined Captain George Jackson's company of scouts at Buckhannon and served until the latter part of 1780. Besides his army service, David W. Sleeth, qualified in January 1793, as a deputy sheriff and three months later was recommended to the govenor of the state for appointment of lieutenant of militia.
In 1794, he was sent to Richmond by the county court to convey thirty-two copies of the acts of the general assembly and of Congress to Harrison county. He was appointed a justice of the peace for
Harrison county, April 8, 1817; and a school commissioner for Lewis county in 1819, after that county was formed. Records show he held the office of magistrate as late as 1825. Catherine (Carpenter) Sleeth died June 17, 1828. After Catherine's death, David W., Sr. married Mrs. Susanna Simpson. David
and Susanna were married April 5, 1834 in Lewis county, Virginia. David W. Sleeth, Sr. died on June 28, 1839 and is buried on the Farnsworth Plantation, near Troy, Gilmer county, WV. Two unmarked graves beside David's are believed to be those of his wives.
Source: Don Norman File HCPD.

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David Wallace Sleeth was born May 18, 1752 in Frederick Co., VA (in the part that is now WV) and married Catherine Carpenter before 1785. He died June 28, 1839. His parents were John Alexander and Mary Ann (Wallace?) Sleeth. David was my ggg-grandfather.
Mary Sleeth Creamer           genforum posting

More About DAVID WALLACE SLEETH:
Burial: Farnsworth Plantation, Troy, Gilmer County, West Virginia
Military/ Draft registrat: Rev War

More About DAVID SLEETH and CATHERINE CARPENTER:
Marriage: Abt. 1780, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

Children of CATHERINE CARPENTER and DAVID SLEETH are:
i. GEORGE WASHINGTON10 SLEETH.

Notes for GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEETH:
Source:
Diane E. Younker  

ii. JANE SLEETH, m. HENRY STALLMAN, May 1839.

More About HENRY STALLMAN and JANE SLEETH:
Marriage: May 1839

iii. JOHN SLEETH.

Notes for JOHN SLEETH:
Source:
Diane E. Younker  

iv. SARA MCCALLY SLEETH, m. HENRY WYANT, Jun 20, 1816.

Notes for HENRY WYANT:
Henry Wyant was the brother of Mrs. Henry Waldeck Sleeth

More About HENRY WYANT and SARA SLEETH:
Marriage: Jun 20, 1816

12. v. MARY SLEETH, b. Apr 11, 1782, Harrison County, (W) Virginia; d. Oct 09, 1864, Lewis County, West Virginia.
13. vi. MARGARET SLEETH, b. Abt. 1785, Harrison County, Virginia (West Virginia); d. Aft. 1860, Gilmer County, West Virginia.
14. vii. NICHOLAS C. SLEETH, b. Dec 15, 1795, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. 1850, Near Burnt House, Ritchie county, Virginia.
15. viii. DAVID WALLIS SLEETH, b. Dec 25, 1796, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Jul 05, 1851, Smithville, Ritchie County, Virginia.
16. ix. ALEXANDER K. SLEETH, b. Feb 28, 1797, West Virginia; d. Jun 27, 1841, Burnt House, Ritche County, Virginia.
x. CATHERINE SLEETH, b. 1800, West Virginia; m. SAMUEL BRANNON, Jul 21, 1821, Harrison County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for CATHERINE SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Notes for SAMUEL BRANNON:
samual brannon was one of the first pioneers to california

More About SAMUEL BRANNON and CATHERINE SLEETH:
Marriage: Jul 21, 1821, Harrison County, (West) Virginia

17. xi. HENRY WALDECK SLEETH, b. Oct 11, 1800, Fredericks County, Virginia; d. Jan 07, 1874, Lewis County, Virginia.
18. xii. THOMAS JACKSON SLEETH, b. Jan 12, 1807; d. May 03, 1855, Virginia.
19. xiii. NANCY SLEETH, b. 1813; d. Dec 06, 1870, Lewis County, Virginia.

3.  MARGARET9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1765 in Hardy County, West Virginia, and died Bef. 1850 in Lewis County, West Virginia.  She married JOHN J. BROWN May 04, 1791 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia)4, son of JOHN BROWN and ELEANOR BOGARDUS.  He was born Abt. 1764 in Lewis County, West Virginia, and died Sep 14, 1835 in Lewis County, West Virginia.

Notes for MARGARET CARPENTER:
Known as "Peggy"  from Mark G. Brown

Sources:
Title: History of Harrison County
Author: Henry Haymond
Publication: 1910
Note: A list of Marriage's Celebrated in the County from 1784-1794
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Text: lists her as Margaret Carpenter
Title: History of Harrison County
Author: Henry Haymond
Publication: 1910
Note: A list of Marriage's Celebrated in the County from 1784-1794
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book

. Margaret Carpenter, born Bet. 1765 - 1774 in Hardy County, Virginia (now West Virginia); died Bef. 1850 in Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia). She married John J. Brown Jr. 04 May 1791 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia); born Bet. 1764 - 1774 in Hampshire County or Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia); died 13 Sep 1835 in Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

More About Margaret Carpenter:

Comment: 1827, She was living in Lewis County, Virginia

More About John J. Brown Jr.:

Military service: Revolutionary War Veteran-Virginia Militia

More About John Jr. and Margaret Carpenter:

Marriage: 04 May 1791, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia

born abt 1766 Hardy W.Va --Source: : Kurt Cook
Ancestry file

Info from Wanda Radosovich (wanmit@nwinfo.net).Descendants of Nicholas Carpenter, Mar 2002 From Family Tree Maker.com "Ancestors of Mark Gregory Brown". 8/25/1999.

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Glen Edmison ancestry file
has her birth as about 1774

John R. Carpenter  has her birth as abt 1766 Hardy Co., WVA
and in file of Nicholas Carpenter as abt 1774

Notes for JOHN J. BROWN:
place of birth  from Mark G. Brown  mbrown19@kc.rr.com
list of children  from Mark G. Brown mbrown19@kc.rr.com
born HampshireCo.,  W,Va. Source: : Kurt Cook

Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net >
e-mail of 8-18-2002
has his birth as about 1774

Marriage Notes for MARGARET CARPENTER and JOHN BROWN:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
has the marriage date of 4-19-1792 Harrison County, W.Va

1791  May 04               John Brown - Margaret Carpenter
HARRISON COUNTY, V/WV MARRIAGES 1784-1795

More About JOHN BROWN and MARGARET CARPENTER:
Marriage: May 04, 1791, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia)4

Children of MARGARET CARPENTER and JOHN BROWN are:
i. EDWARD I.10 BROWN.
ii. ELIZABETH BROWN.
iii. MARGARET MILLY BROWN.
iv. NANCY BROWN.
v. MARY BROWN, b. Bet. 1790 - 1800.
20. vi. THOMAS BROWN, b. Abt. 1791, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. Bet. 1840 - 1850.
vii. ELEANOR BROWN, b. Abt. 1792.

Notes for ELEANOR BROWN:
Source: Kurt Cook

viii. SARAH JANE BROWN, b. Bet. 1794 - 1804.
21. ix. JOHN G. BROWN, b. Sep 15, 1815, Lewis County, West Virginia; d. Sep 16, 1906, Allerton, Wayne County, Iowa.
x. JAMES BROWN, b. Abt. 1796.

Notes for JAMES BROWN:
Source: Kurt Cook

22. xi. DAVID E. BROWN, b. Sep 09, 1801, Virginia; d. Apr 05, 1889, Ritchie County, West Virginia.
xii. JOSEPH BROWN, b. 1804.
xiii. SAMUEL C. BROWN, b. 1814.

4.  SARAH9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Abt. 1764 in Harrison County, West Virginia, and died Aft. 1827.  She married JOHN MCCALLY Abt. 1779.  He was born 1766, and died Bef. 1807.

Notes for SARAH CARPENTER:
may have married 2 to a Powell
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

John G. Jackson vs. Sarah McCally et al (1807)

Harrison County Court, April 22, 1807:

John G. Jackson vs. Sarah McCally & John Webster: Motion in chancery ordered That the Deft. John Webster be [excused] from paying away any moneys he has in his hands of the Deft McCally untill the further order of this Court.

Harrison County Court, June 15, 1807:

John G. Jackson vs. Sarah McCally etc.: In Chancery order of proclamation September court next in the ordinary form agt. the absent Deft.

Harrison County Court, November 18, 1807:

John G. Jackson vs. Sarah McCally Administrator or Executor [. . .] of the Estate of John McCally deed & John Webster: In Chancery This day came the Complainant by his attorney & it appearing that publication as to said Sarah McCally has been duly made according to Law and the bill and Exhibits being [...] and [...] it is ordered & decreed by the Court that the Defendant Webster in April next out of the money then to become due to the Said McCally's representatives do pay to the Comptl. Twenty dollars with costs of their Suit.

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Mary Ackerman-Lang  ancestry file
places her birth in 1766 in East Greenwich, RI

ii. Sarah Carpenter. She married (1) Mr. Powell; died Bef. 1827. She married (2) John McCally Bef. 1770.

Notes for Sarah Carpenter:

Notes: Biography: Based on Harrison County deed of 1798, listing Nicholas Carpenter heirs, including David and Catherine Sleeth and including the other five oldest children.

Nicholas Carpenter Deeds Harrison County, VA (now West Virginia)

Copyright 1997 by Jane Hunter Hodgson. Jane Hunter Hodgson grants

USGenWeb Archives the right to post this information.

This information may be freely copied, but may not be sold.

More About Sarah Carpenter:

Comment: 1827, She was a widow in new Boston, Ohio

More About John McCally and Sarah Carpenter:

Marriage: Bef. 1770

Notes for JOHN MCCALLY:
McCally / McCalley

dates:  Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net >
e-mail of 8-18-2002

Harrison County Deed Records, April 15, 1799
John and Sarah McCally, to John Runyan, 206.5 acres; Davisson Run
Wit: John Carpenter and John Radcliff
Harrison County Deed Records, Aug 22, 1804
John and Sarah McCally of Wood Co., Va to John Carpenter, of Harrison Co., VA any interest in estate of Nichols Carpenter, deceased.
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FROM: Richard James  8-21-2002

John McCally married Nicholas Carpenter's eldest daughter Sarah, presumably well before 1770, since she gave birth to Mary McCally, who appears not to have been their eldest child, already in 1783.   As well be seen, John McCally and his father?in?law were involved in many Harrison Co. civic activities together, and from the timing of the above marriage it would appear they were acquainted long before they settled in the West Fork area.  Whether their families moved to that region together is not now known, but it is possible.  The earliest record we have of John McCally in the West Fork area is an apparent land claim he made in 1775:  "John McColley is intitled to four Hundred acres of land in Monongalia County adjoining lands Claim'd by Thomas McColley in the right of Residence to include his improvement made in the year 1775."   One wonders whether Thomas McColley was John's father or his brother.  That perhaps John McCally permanently settled in the West Fork area somewhat after Nicholas Carpenter is suggested by the absence of McCally's name from the 1777 petition for a new county mentioned earlier (see section l.a.).  McCalley does appear on the census for Monongalia Co. for 1782, however, as John "McColley" with a household of three.   He also appears on the first extant personal property tax list for Monongalia Co., in 1783, with 3 horses but an illegible number of cattle.   His name also appears on the aforementioned 1783 petition to the Continental Congress for the creation of a fourteenth state west of Laurel Mountain on the "western waters," and perhaps significantly and not surprisingly in light of his later political activities, his name comes at the end of the petition.  This could conceivably mean he was its author.
After 1784, and the establishment of Harrison Co., we find more references to John McCally.  The first county court, the one that met in the house of George Jackson, recommended McCally, along with nine others, to be a justice of the peace for Harrison Co.   In August of that year, the court records show him testifying in a case involving John Wolf (obviously, given the early year, the elder John Wolf of the Elk Creek area).   During the November 1784 session of the county court, John McCally sat as a justice of the court.

In 1785, John McCalley was one of several men who were appointed commissioners to take a census of all tithables in Harrison County.  His district extended "from the mouth of Limestone up both sides of the West Fork River to Lost Creek," and included Nicholas Carpenter.   On that year's enumeration, his own household was reported as containing 4 white souls.   In October of that year, John "McAlly" was named by the General Assembly of Virginia as one of five trustees, along with Nicholas Carpenter, of the new town of Clarksburg.
John McCally and Captain Edward Jackson (Stonewall's grandfather, it will be recalled) were appointed commissioners by the Harrison Co. court on March 23, 1786 "to settle with Greenbrier County the expenses of running the dividing line between Harrison and Greenbrier at five shillings per day."   On March 21, 1787, John "McCalley," along with his father?in?law Nicholas Carpenter, provided security for the contractors for the Harrison Co. courthouse.

On April 18 of that year, and following the establishment of Randolph Co. out of Harrison, John "McCalley" was appointed tax commissioner for the first district of Harrison Co.  This district was defined as follows: "Beginning at the mouth of Brown's Creek on the East side of the West Fork, thence up said creek to the head thereof, and along the dividing ridge between Lost Creek and Elk Creek to the Randolph County line, and thence along said line and the Greenbrier County line to the Ohio River, thence up said river to the Ohio County line, thence along the last mentioned line to the head of Ten Mile Creek, thence down along the dividing line between said creek and the waters of the West Fork River to the head of Davisson's Run, thence down said run to its junction with the West Fork River, thence up said river to opposite the mouth of Browns Creek, thence crossing the West Fork River to the beginning..."
At the first meeting of the trustees of the new Randolph Academy at which there was a quorum, on September 16, 1788, the trustees (among whom, it will be recalled, was Nicholas Carpenter) appointed a three?man committee, including John McCally, William Haymond and Daniel Davisson, to "superintend the building" of the academy.   The author of a regional history, Core, notes that the trustees, 'scattered over such a large frontier area, often found it impossible to have a quorum for transaction of business, and requested the general assembly to add to the board ten more members," including John McCally.

Along with his father?in?law, Nicholas Carpenter, John "McCalley" was also among the 131 persons who voted at the courthouse in Clarksburg in the first presidential election on January 7, 1789.   In May of that year, John "McCauley" joined Nicholas Carpenter and others at the first attempted sitting of the Superior Court for the district of Harrison, Monongalia, Ohio and Randolph counties, held at the courthouse in Morgantown in Monongalia Co.   In September of that year, John "McCally" showed up for the first sitting of the grand jury which actually had a sufficient number of members.
In the June court of 1790, the county court recommended John "McCalley" as a proper person to fill the office of sheriff. On January 17, 1791, he was qualified as sheriff, and Haymond lists him as Harrison Co. sheriff for 1790 (and presumably 1791, since no one else is mentioned for that year).

Although sheriff and a captain (see below) of the county militia, this apparently did not always constrain John McCally to a state of strict sobriety.  At a meeting of the Virginia Council of State on October 19, 1790, attended by the Governor and seven members of the council, it was recorded that:
"Upon the appeal of Captain McColly of the Harrison militia arrested at the instance of Col. George Jackson, and tried by a General Court martial whereof Colonel Benjamin Wilson was President, charged with having subjected himself to liquor and demeaned himself unbecoming an Officer, The said Court martial were of opinion the said Captain McColly should be censored and that he should be suspended from his command as a Captain for one year.  The board having considered the Evidence and facts, disapprove the sentence and proceedings and order that the said John McColly resume the command of his company in the militia of the County of Harrison."

Along with other community leaders, John McCally is recorded as attending a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Randolph Academy on February 23, 1793, at which the details of the long?delayed construction of the school were discussed.   A few months later, in July, the trustees resolved to hire the Reverend George Towers as a teacher at the Academy.  (It will be recalled from the companion report on John Wolf that Towers performed the marriage ceremony in March of 1798 for John Wolf and Mary McCally, the daughter of John. )

John McCally, together with John Haymond, was elected from Harrison Co. to the House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly in 1793   It was in their capacity of delegates that McCally and Haymond were authorized by the Harrison Co. court in September of that year "to sell all the wolf head certificates belonging to this County for not less than 13S. 6D. in the pound."

The historian Haymond notes that the Randolph Academy "finally opened its doors for pupils in the Fall of 1795 under the supervision of the Reverend George Towers, a Presbyterian Minister, a native of England and a graduate of the Oxford University, who is described in the advertisement of the Trustees as a 'Gentleman of undoubted character and abilities, who has engaged to teach the Latin and Greek languages, the English gramatically, Arithmetic and Geography"'   He also mentions that John McCally is listed as attending a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Randolph Academy on December 21, 1799.   According to Haymond, "tradition states that the institution flourished for some years and that after the charter expired, the building was used for educational purposes until about the year 1842.  Mr. Towers died in 1816."

Davis notes that "poor transportation destined the academy from the time it opened its doors to serve students in the area of Clarksburg and to have on its board of trustees only outstanding citizens of the county seat of Harrison rather than men who lived great distances from the institution."  In addition to the tuition charged for individual courses (the school's opening advertisement had noted that the "price of tuition will be, for the Latin and Greek, sixteen dollars, for Geography, six dollars, for Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, five dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly.  Genteel boarding can be had in the town or neighborhood on reasonable terms."), the school was supposed to be supported by one?sixth of the surveyors' fees from the four surrounding counties which had formerly gone to help finance the College of William and Mary, but it had trouble collecting these payments and was in constant financial distress.

While the character and various business interests of Nicholas Carpenter are reasonably clear, John McCally is a bit more difficult to read.  That he was a local leader is evident from the foregoing.  But what else was he?
He and Sarah (Carpenter) McCally had at least five children: John, Jr., Nicholas, Mary, Jane and Elizabeth.   As noted in the companion report (see footnote 72), all three daughters and their husbands appear to have removed to Ross Twp., Greene Co., Ohio by the early 1800s, and their oldest son may have moved to Greene Co. as well.  Both sons seem to have moved away from Harrison Co. fairly early on, as their names do not appear on the personal property tax lists for that county.

John McCally may well have been a farmer, as most men were in those days, but there is evidence to suggest he may have been a local land speculator as well.  Between 1788 and 1804, he was recorded as the grantor for 26 deeds in Harrison County,  and between 1785 and 1796 he recorded 8 grantee surveys for land in that county.   One of these surveys, dated November 16, 1795, was for 50,000 acres on the "Waters of the Ohio river & waters of Little Kenhawa [Kanawha] between the Military Claims on said rivers and Reedy Creek"
McCally was also rather litigious, although that seems not to have been all that unusual in those days on the American frontier.  During 1803?06 alone, he appears to have been a party to at least 14 different suits in the Harrison Co. court.   While many of these appear to have involved real estate, John McCally also was occasionally in court for cases involving some kind of violence.  Thus in the records of the Superior Court for the district of Harrison, Monongalia, Ohio and Randolph counties, we find on September 21, 1791 that the Court issued a process against John "McColly" and two others, including one Thomas Asberry "for a breach of the peace," and against a fourth defendant for assault and battery."   On November 21, 1791, the Commonwealth of Virginia brought a case in this court against John "McColly" "upon an Indictment for an Assault."   In the Superior Court held on May 3, 1793, the attorney for the Commonwealth "said he will not further prosecute an Indictment against John "McCalley" who stands charged with having committed an assault and Battery on the body of Thomas Asburry.  Therefore it is Ordered that the same be dismissed."  The court at the same time dismissed an indictment against Asburry for assault against McCally.

Again on September 22, 1794, we find a suit in the Superior Court brought against John "McColly" "in Trespass assault & battery" by one Thomas "Colly," who was probably the second husband of Nicholas Carpenter's widow Mary (see section l.c.)   On May 5, 1795, John "McCally" pled innocent of these charges, as brought by Thomas "Cooly."   This case was dismissed on September 21, 1795, for "want of Security of Costs."
By September 3, 1804, John and Sarah McCally had moved from Harrison Co. to Wood Co. to the west, between Harrison and the Ohio River.  This is evident from a deed by which they sold to one John Horst the property "Near the West fork river upon both sides of the Main road Leading from Clarksburg,,,, it being the Same tract of [sic] upon which said McCally resided for Many Years..." (see Appendix 9).  Indeed, John McCally, who had appeared on the personal property tax list (PPTL) for Harrison Co. during 1785?86, 1788?90 and from 1792 onwards, last was mentioned on the list in 1803.   While a "McCauley," with no first name, appears on the Wood Co. PPTL for one year, 1805,  it is not clear whether this was he.

That John McCally had died by 1807 is evident from a case in the Harrison Co. court from April to November of that year which pitted John G. Jackson against Sarah McCally (and a John Webster) and which by November was referred to as John G. Jackson vs. Sarah McCally Administrator or Executor [...] of the Estate of John McCally decd & John Webster (see Appendix 10).  No record could be found of a will or an estate settlement for John McCally in Harrison Co., and similar records for Wood Co. were not readily available to this writer.
At this point it is unclear what if any relation Dr. James McCally was to our John McCally.  Aside from being a prominent member of the Clarksburg community, Dr. McCally is most known for delivering Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson on January 20/21, 1824 in Clarksburg.   Although he first appears on the PPTL in Harrison Co. in 1799, which might suggest he was a son of Johnm, he is not listed as an heir, devisee or legal representative of John McCally in Sleeth vs. McCally (1814-1822.   James McCally begins to appear regularly in county court cases about the time that John McCally died.

Thomas A. Wolf
Washington, D.C.
July 15, 2001

Sale of Land by John and Sarah McCally (1804)

THIS INDENTURE made this third day of September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred & four between John McCally & Sarah his wife of Wood County & State of Virginia of the one part & John Horst of the County of Harrison & State of Virginia of the other part.  Witnesseth that the said John McCally & Sarah his wife for & in consideration of the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars to them in hand paid by the said John Horst at or before the ensealing & delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged have Granted bargained Sold Aliened Enfeoffed & confirmed & by these presents do grant bargain sell alien Enfeoff & confirm unto the said John Horst his heirs & Assigns a certain tract or parcel of Land lying & being in the County of Harrison & State of Virginia Situate Near the West fork river upon both sides of the Main Road Leading from Clarksburg up said river and adjoining Lands of Issac Davisson Thomas McCann & other it being the Same tract of [sic] upon which said McCally resided for Many Years and bounded as followeth Viz,

Beginning at a beech & White Oak near a small Spring & running thence South Twenty-three degrees East one Hundred & fifty poles to a whiteoak near the Run thence North fifty two & half degrees East Eighteen poles to a Maple South Sixty Eight poles to an Ash on the Hill near a Sugar Camp South Sixty Six degrees West one Hundred poles to a redoak on the Hill North Eighty six and a half Degrees West one Hundred & Sixty six poles to a Locust Wright's Corner North Ten Degrees East Twenty seven poles to a Sugartree Wright's corner North Eighty seven Degrees West fifteen poles to a Chesnut Oak Wright's corner North Sixty four Degrees West forty eight poles to a Hickory Dacons corner & with three of his Lines North Sixteen degrees East Sixty Six poles to two Lynns & a Sugar tree South Eighty Degrees West Seventy three poles to a beech & Dogwod North Seventeen Degrees West Twelve poles to a whiteoak John Runyans corner south thirty six degrees East thirteen poles to a Spanish oak & Gum Rowans corner and with four of his Lines North Seventeen Degrees East Eighty poles to a white oak North fifty four Degrees East thirty four poles to a beech North Seventy and an half degrees East forty two poles to an Ironwood North twelve Degrees East Twenty five poles to a whiteoak on a Line of the original patten North Sixty six degrees East Continued to the beginning Containing three hundred & Twenty two Acres together with all Houses Barns buildings, Stables Yards gardens orchards Lands tenements meadows pastures feedings commons woods underwoods ways waters water courses priviledges profits commodities advantages emoluments hereditaments & appurtenances WHATSOEVER to the said Tract of Land belonging or appurtaining or with the Same used & enjoyed or accepted reputed taken or known as part parcel or member thereof or as belonging to the same or any part thereof & the reversion &. reversions remainder & remainders Yearly & other Rents issues & profits thereof & of every part & parcel thereof.

To Have & To Hold the said tract of Land with the Tenements hereditaments & all & Singular other the premises herein before mentioned or intended to be bargained & Sold & Every part & parcel theeof with every of their Rights members & Appurtenances unto the said John Horst his heirs & assigns forever to & for the only proper use & behoof of him the said John Horst his heirs & assigns forever & the said John McCally & Sarah his Wife for Themselves & their heirs the said Tract of Land with all & Singular the premises & Appurtenances before mentioned unto the said John Hurst his heirs & assigns free from the claims of them the John McCally & Sarah his wife or either of them their [sic] of their heirs & of all & every person or persons WHATSOEVER shall will or do warrant & forever Defend by these presents

In Witness Whereof the said John McCally & Sarah his wife have hereunto set their hands & Seals the Day & Year first above written

John McCally (seal)
Sarah McCally (seal)

At a Court held for Harrison County On the 3rd Day of September 1804

This Indenture of bargain & Sale was presented in court & Acknowledged by John McCally & Sarah his wife (she having been first privily Examined & Consenting) and ordered to be recorded

Teste Ben Wilson C.H.C.

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48Kelly Shaw   ancestry file
Sherylynn (Robinson) Jones  ancestry file
gail burton ancestry file

In March 1787, Nicholas Carpenter and John McCally, as securities for the contractors, entered into a bond with them for the construction of a courthouse in Clarksburg. The next month, Carpenter was appointed by the county court to be the tax commissioner for the second district of Harrison County, after Randolph County was created, to the east, out of Harrison. His district "shall be on the west side and bounded by the first district and down the Ohio County line to the Monongalia county line and thence along said line to the West Fork river; thence up said river to the mouth of Simpsons Creek; thence up the largest fork of said creek to the head thereof, and crossing the dividing ridge to the head of Shooks Run; thence down the said run to the County line; thence up said line to the first district, which shall be one and the second district."

HARRISON COUNTY, VIRGINIA

DEED BOOK 3

APRIL 12, 1798

JOHN MCCALLY & OTHERS

TO DEED

WILLIAM DAVIS

THIS INDENTURE made the twelfth day of April in the Year of ourLord one thousand seven hundre d and Ninety eight in pursuance of a Decree of the Worshipful the County Court of Harrison be tween JOHN MCCALLY AND SARAH HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE NICHOLAS CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABEL CLEMANS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE HEIRS OF NICHOLAS CARPENTER DECEASED of the County of Harrison and State of Virginia of the one part and William Davis of the County and State aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that they the said John McCally and Sarah his wife DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABELL CLEMANS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE in obedience to the siad Decree and in Consideration of the sum of one hundred Dollars Current money to them in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained sold aliened enfeoffed and Confirmed and by these presents do grant bargain sell alien enfe of and Confirm unto the said William Davies a certain tract or parcel of Land lying and being in the said County of Harrison and state of Virginia Situate on both sides of the Middle Fork of ten Mile Creek being a Tract of land granted by the Commonwealth of Virginia to NICHOLAS CARPENTER by Patent bearing Date the twenty fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and Eighty Six and bounded as followeth Begining ... Crossing said Fork ... unto the said William Davis his heirs and assigns forever and they the said JOHN MCCA LLY AND SARAH HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE NICHOLAS CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABEL CLEMENS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE for themselves their heirs &c do covenant that they will forever warrant and Defend the said Tract or parcel of Land against the Claim of them the said JOHN MCCALLY AND SARAH HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE NICHOLAS CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE

JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABEL CLEMENS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE their heirs and assigns and against all persons whatsoever Claiming by through or under them or either of them unto the said William Davis his heirs and assigns (but this not to be considered a General Warranty it being only the intention of the partys to make a Special warranty against themselves their heirs &c

In Witness whereof they the said the said JOHN MCCALLY AND SARAH HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER AND CATHARINE HIS WIFE JOHN CARPENTER AND SARAH HIS WIFE NICHOLAS

CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE AND ABEL CLEMENS AND BARBARA

HIS WIFE have hereunto set their hands and affixed their Seals the Day and year first above written -Heirs of NICHOLAS CARPENTER DECEASED MCCALLY all interlined before signing Delivery

JNO. MCCALLY

SARAH MCCALLY

DAVID SLEETH

CATHARINE SLEETH

DAVID CARPENTER

NICHOLAS CARPENTER

ABEL CLEMENS

MARY CARPENTER

JOHN BROWN

MARGARET BROWN

JOHN CARPENTER

SARAH CARPENTER

BARBARA CLEMENS

Harrison County June and July Courts 1798

This Indenture was acknowledged by JOHN BROWN AND MARGARET HIS WIFE JOHN MCCALLY AND SARY HIS WIFE DAVID SLEETH & CATHARINE HIS WIFE DAVID CARPENTER NICHOLAS CARPENTER AND MARY HIS WIFE

ABEL CLEMENS AND BARBARA HIS WIFE (the femes being privily Examined as the Law directs and Consenting to William Davis for 243 acres and it is ordered to be Recorded & that a Commission issue to take the Relinquishment DAVID CARPENTERS WIFES Right of Dower

By the Court

Teste Ben Wilson C.H.C.

More About JOHN MCCALLY and SARAH CARPENTER:
Marriage: Abt. 1779

Children of SARAH CARPENTER and JOHN MCCALLY are:
23. i. MARY10 MCCALLY, b. 1779, Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. Jul 07, 1856, Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
24. ii. ELIZABETH MCCALLY, b. Feb 12, 1781, Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. May 18, 1818, Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
iii. JOHN MCCALLY.

Notes for JOHN MCCALLY:
Sherylynn (Robinson) Jones  ancestry file

iv. NICHOLAS MCCALLY, b. 1789.
v. JANE MCCALLY.

5.  DAVID9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1770 in Fredericks County, Maryland, and died 1847 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  He married CATHERINE MCCULLOUGH Jun 29, 1793 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia), daughter of JAMES MCCULLOUGH and RACHEL LEWIS.  She was born 1773 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died Aft. 1850 in Harrison County, West Virginia.

Notes for DAVID CARPENTER:
researcher this line:  Thomas Rider
F377.ftw, Date of Import: Nov 4, 1999

source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
places his death as after 1850 Harrison County, Virginia

listed on Harrison County head of families in 1792
Oct 17, 1805 sold 155 acres to Jacob Eib  Harrison County deed book 6, p21
1810 census, Harrison Co., Va

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Title: World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1
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Linda,
    Janice sent me your information on David Carpenter, well, the one who died in Fairfield Co.,OH around 1847-8.  But, I think the one I need is the David married to Catherine McCullough.  This one:ID: I033482 Name: David
Carpenter Sex: M Birth: 1770 in
Fredericks County, Maryland Birth: 1768
in Earl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Birth:
ABT. 1770 in Md. Death: 1847 in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania LDS Baptism:
SUBMITTED Endowment: SUBMITTED
Reference Number: C1E5Z4

Father: Nicholas Carpenter b: 21 DEC
1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Mother: Mary Wolfe b: 1745 in Virginia

Marriage 1 Catherine McCullough b: 1773
in Chester County, Pennsylvania
 Married: 29 JUN 1793 in Harrison
County, Virginia (now West Virginia)
Children
1. Elizabeth Carpenter b: BET. 1790 -
1795 in Harrison County, West Virginia
2. Lewis Carpenter
3. Mary Carpenter b: 1808
4. Martha Carpenter b: 1816
    We have a John T. Wilson b. ca 1795-6 near Winchester,VA.  He married his second wife, Nancy Carpenter, in 1826, in Logan Co., OH.  Through the process of elimination, the only three Carpenter men living in Logan Co.,OH, in 1826, were David married to Catherine McCullough, and his two brothers, John who married Sarah Bush or Buck and Thomas.  Although John and Sarah Bush Carpenter removed to
Elkhart,IN, as did John T. and Nancy Carpenter Wilson, John Carpenter's Will clearly names his children and Nancy was not one of them.
    I checked in Fulton Co.,IN, where Thomas Carpenter ended up, and his information shows that she was not his daughter.  David, John and Thomas had a sister Nancy, who married another man and is buried in Fulton Co.,IN.  So, that leaves David married to Catherine McCullough.  Oh, you may also find this interesting,the neighbors of the Carpenter brothers, in Logan Co,OH, were Samuel McCullough's descendents.
    My sources are Wills,probates, tax records, deed records, census records and County Histories.  Up until right now, you have been the first person to identify any of David Carpenter and Catherine McCullough's children.  No one else that I have gotten in touch with had any idea what ever became of
David.  He seemed to vanish.  Do you know for sure that he died in Pennsylvania?  Are you sure about the dates?  If you are, I will be at the Pennsylvania Archives on Thursday to look up his probate or Will.  Are you sure it was Lancaster,PA, the records are seperated by County.  Please let me know as much as you can.
    I live in PA, near the Archives, so I can look for documentation.
Thank you,
Mary Wilson
PS Our Nancy Carpenter was born in 1810.

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David Carpenter, born Bet. 1768 - 1770 in Earl, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Catherine McCullough 29 Jun 1793 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia); born 1773 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Aft. 1850 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

Notes for David Carpenter:

Found on a list of scouts from Harrison County call out after the murder of his father Nicholas and brother Christopher. He served as scout from March 15, to Dec 1, 1792 (262 days) at 5 Shillings a day.

History of Harrison County, West Virginia

Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Print. Co., 1973, 500 pgs. (found on page 127)

More About David Carpenter:

Comment: 1827, He lived near Clarksburg, Virginia

More About David Carpenter and Catherine McCullough:

Marriage: 29 Jun 1793, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia

More About DAVID CARPENTER:
Baptism (LDS): SUBMITTED5
Endowment (LDS): SUBMITTED5
Sealed to child (LDS): SUBMITTED5

More About DAVID CARPENTER and CATHERINE MCCULLOUGH:
Marriage: Jun 29, 1793, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

Children of DAVID CARPENTER and CATHERINE MCCULLOUGH are:
25. i. ELIZABETH10 CARPENTER, b. Bet. 1790 - 1795, Harrison County, West Virginia.
ii. LEWIS CARPENTER, m. ELIZABETH STEWART, Sep 19, 1821.

Notes for LEWIS CARPENTER:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

Notes for ELIZABETH STEWART:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

Marriage Notes for LEWIS CARPENTER and ELIZABETH STEWART:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

More About LEWIS CARPENTER and ELIZABETH STEWART:
Marriage: Sep 19, 1821

iii. MARY CARPENTER, b. 1808.

Notes for MARY CARPENTER:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

iv. MARTHA CARPENTER, b. 1816.

Notes for MARTHA CARPENTER:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

6.  JOHN9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1772 in Fredericks County, Maryland, and died Mar 26, 1855 in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.  He married SARAH BUSH Oct 27, 1791 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, daughter of MICHAEL BUSH and CATHERINE.  She was born 1773 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, (W) Virginia, and died Mar 26, 1855 in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for JOHN CARPENTER:
AFN: 8HBP-NN    and Pike family records from Helen Utter Pike / Quaker records.

Title: Hackers Creek Descendants
Note: Family Histories of the original families who helped settle the Hackers Creek Va/WVa.area.

Residence : Indiana
occupation:  Reverend / farmer
Source:  Rootsweb file of Sandra --
Source: Don Ryan
Source: Terry Lee Carpenter  posting to Rootsweb
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Notes of Linda Crockett York
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
has  his birth as Abt 1763 Botetouret Co., Va.
Dick also has this John Carpenter married to Sarah Radcliff ---
Dick is the only source found to date that gives a second marriage here -- and if this is correct then
none of the children of the first marriage belong there --- I don't think this second family belongs to this John Carpenter --I think we are talking about 2 different John Carpenters

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Sandra
has him as John W. Carpenter
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1830-1840-1850 census: Goshen, Elkhart Co., Indiana
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This may be about this John Carpenter --- but is probably about the John who married Sarah Radcliff
included here because some researchers think these 2 John's were actually the same person
My research has shown that John son of Nicholas was in Indiana while the John M: Sarah Radcliff did not come to Indiana --but only came west as far as Ohio

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Title: World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1
Author: Brøderbund Software, INC.
Publication: Release date: August 22, 1996

Glen Edmison  ancestry file

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

John Carpenter, born Abt. 1772 in Maryland; died Jun 1855 in Elkhart County, Indiana He married Sarah Bush 27 Oct 1791 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia).; died Jun 1855 in Elkhart County, Indiana

Notes for John Carpenter:

He resided in Indiana during the early 1800s, and settled at Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana, where he was enumerated in 1830, 1840, and 1850.
More About John Carpenter:

Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery in Goshen Indiana

Comment: 1827, He lived near Logan County, Ohio

Occupation: minister

More About Sarah Bush:

Burial: Jun 1855, Oak Ridge Cemetery in Goshen Indiana

More About John Carpenter and Sarah Bush:
Marriage: 27 Oct 1791, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

Patty LaPlante    patty.laplante@gmail.com    ancestry file
places his birth in Botetourt, Virginia

More About JOHN CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana
Occupation: farmer/ minister

Notes for SARAH BUSH:
name may have been Buck or Bush /  Sarah Buck

 SOURCES
AFN: 8HBP-NN    and Pike family records from HElen Utter Pike / Quaker records.
Title: 1784-1800 Marriage Records, Harrison County, West Virginia
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Title: World Family Tree, Vol. 5
Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc.
Publication: Release date: August 22, 1996
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Family Archive CD
Page: #0580
Title: History of Harrison County
Author: Henry Haymond
Publication: 1910
Note: A list of Marriage's Celebrated in the County from 1784-1794
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Text: Harrison County, West Virginia Marriages 1784-1799

Father: John BUSH b: 21 Sep 1726 in Germany
Mother: Mary HACKER
from Sherri Phipps  rootsweb file
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: Edna
has this information --- no other marriages listed
Name: Sarah BUSH
Sex: F
Birth: 1772 in Harrison Co. WVa
Death: 1855 in Elkhart,Ind
Change Date: 24 MAR 2002 at 15:27:11

Father: John BUSH b: 21 SEP 1726 in Germany
Mother: Mary HACKER

Marriage 1 John CARPENTER
Children
Elias CARPENTER
Nicholas Lee CARPENTER
David B CARPENTER
JOHN
Catherine CARPENTER
Elizabeth CARPENTER
Sarah CARPENTER
Mary CARPENTER
Amy CARPENTER
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NOTE:  Gary L. Cottrill
HAS  John Bush m: Mary Hacker as son of Michael Bush m: Catherine
Sarah has been listed as a daughter of Michael by some and as a dau of John by others
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Paul Skinner
shows Sarah Bush Carpenter as a dau of Michael and Catherine

Source: Linda Fager < teflin@juno.com> 8-9-2004
Sandra:    ancestry file
has birth as 1769 Pa.
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Jennifer Kellogg  
Name: Sarah BUSH
Given Name: Sarah
Surname: Bush
Sex: F
Birth: 1773 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia/Harrison Co., VA
Death: 26 Mar 1855 in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana
Residence: Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Glen Edmison  ancestry file
has her birth as 1773

More About SARAH BUSH:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for JOHN CARPENTER and SARAH BUSH:
1791  Oct 27               John Carpenter - Sarah Bush
HARRISON COUNTY, V/WV MARRIAGES 1784-1795

More About JOHN CARPENTER and SARAH BUSH:
Marriage: Oct 27, 1791, Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia

Children of JOHN CARPENTER and SARAH BUSH are:
26. i. CATHERINE10 CARPENTER, b. 1794, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. Apr 20, 1862, Fulton County, Ohio.
27. ii. DAVID B. CARPENTER, b. 1794, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. 1886, Virgil City, Missouri.
28. iii. ELIAS CARPENTER, b. Dec 07, 1797, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. Jun 20, 1860, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
29. iv. NICHOLAS LEE CARPENTER, b. Dec 09, 1803, Weston, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Feb 05, 1872, Green Township, Marshall County, Virginia.
30. v. MARY CARPENTER, b. 1807, Monongalia County, West Virginia; d. Oct 18, 1891, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.
31. vi. ELIZABETH CARPENTER, b. 1804, Virginia; d. Mar 28, 1891, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
vii. AMY CARPENTER, b. 1812; d. Apr 02, 1848, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for AMY CARPENTER:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

More About AMY CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

32. viii. JOHN CARPENTER, b. Jul 20, 1812, Ohio; d. Aug 12, 1854, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.
ix. SARAH CARPENTER, b. 1814, Ohio; m. JOHN COOK, Aug 21, 1837, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for SARAH CARPENTER:
Sarah may be the Sarah Carpenter, born c1815-1820, who married on 21 Aug 1837 to John Cook, however, that Sarah was a daughter of John Carpenter. But there is a connection to a Nicholas Carpenter: John was son of Nicholas Carpenter of Harrison Co. VA (now WV) who was killed by Indians on 4 Oct 1791, so this Sarah was a granddaughter of Nicholas. Nicholas did have a daughter Sarah, but she was born c1766 and married John McCally.
posted by Terry (Genforum 5752 Carpenter board)

Thank you Terry. You are right! The Killed by indians was especially helpful because it jogged my memory about a paper I found and filed under the wrong line! It was written by my 3great grandmother about her great grandfather Nicholas who was "surrounded by 19 indians and one negro and shot" while Taking cattle from virginia to ohio. I can find no published record that states the number of Indians, though I'm sure there were embellishments over time!
Julia Fox  
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Steve Riddle
has her as a daughter of
Father: William Carpenter , Jr.
Mother: Elizabeth Porter
son of
Father: William Carpenter
Mother: Elizabeth Smith Mudge
an apparently completely different Carpenter line
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Linda Fager    8-22-2004

More About JOHN COOK and SARAH CARPENTER:
Marriage: Aug 21, 1837, Elkhart County, Indiana

7.  BARBARA9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1776 in Fredericks County, Maryland, and died Nov 10, 1805 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia.  She married ABEL CLEMENS Jun 24, 1794 in Clarksburg, Harrison county, West Virginia, son of JOHN CLEMANS and ELIZABETH CLEMANS.  He was born 1772 in New Jersey, and died Jun 20, 1806 in Morgantown, Harrison County, West Virginia.

Notes for BARBARA CARPENTER:
mother of 8 --she and her children were killed by husband Abel Clemens
also found as Barbary

Barbara Carpenter, born Abt. 1776; died 10 Nov 1805 in Clarksburg, Harrrison County, Virginia of Murdered by her husband. She married Abel Clemans 24 Jun 1794 in Harrison County, Virginia; born Bet. 1772 - 1775 in New Jersey.

Notes for Barbara Carpenter:

Clarksburg, Virginia, November 1805

Last night Abel Clemmons, at his place of residence upon the lands of Col. George Jackson, within about half a mile of the town of Clarksburg, under circumstances of the most unprecedented cruelty, murdered his wife far advanced in pregnancy, and their eight small children, the eldest about 12 years old, by striking them on the head with an axe, while they were asleep in their separate beds, laying in the same room. The wounds he gave, it is supposed, produced instant death, dispatching one at a blow, and every circumstance induces a belief, that thus despatched, were unknowing to the catastrophe of the others. Clemmens had been preparing for some time for his removal to the state of Ohio. A man named Neisly, went early this morning to the house, and was admitted by Clemmons, who was in great agitation, and apparently in a state of insanity, the family supposed were asleep, except of little girl niece of the Clemmons, who stayed all night in the house, and knew nothing that occurred. Neisly after conversing for some time with Clemons left the house unsuspicious of what had happened. A brother of Clemmons who lived some miles off, soon afterwards came to the house and found him in it, he inquired where the family were, Clemmons said asleep, he approached one of the beds to awake the eldest boy, when he immediately discovered that all the children in it were murdered! He accused his brother with the crime, and ran and alarmed the neighbors, before they assembled Clemmons had fled. Here was exhibited a scene the most shocking to relate, the wife and an infant in her arms lay in one bed, four daughters in another, two boys and one girl in a third, all murdered by the husband and father, and what is very remarkable he had always lived with them in a most affectionate manner, and they bore a character of honesty and industry. Clemmons had been for several weeks in a gloomy melancholy mood, occasioned, it was supposed, by his great anxiety for the welfare of his family, and total disregard of the moral precepts for which we were made. He is about thirty three years old.

At a County Court held on the 28th of November 1805, Abel Clemmens was arraigned charged with murder. He plead not guilty and the Court directed that he be sent to Morgantown for trial in the District Court. He was tried, and found guilty and hanged in 1806 to a locust tree, which stood near the Decker's Creek, Middle Bridge close to Morgantown.

Clemmens cabin stood at the East end of Clarksburg between Pike Street and the Philippi road near the old Jackson graveyard. After committing the deed he fled to the woods, and for several days was hid in a cliff of rocks north of town, west of and near the present B&O Station, which are still known as Clemmens rocks, but being driven desperate by hunger and his own tortured feelings he came in and surrendered himself to the authorities.

Clemmens in his confession stated he was driven to this horrible act from fear that his children would starve, and by a power that called to him to do it that he could not resist. He was probably insane but "brain storms" and the insanity dodge cut no figure in the Courts of that day and justice was meted out in strict compliance with the law.

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Will: Of Abel Clemans, Dated June 20, 1806. Recorded in Harrison County, West Virginia, will book 1 page 228, Devisers: Mother and others, shown by will which reads: "It is my will that my mother should have the whole of my estate except fifty dollars that I want her to give to Isaac Clemmans my brother and if there is anything left at her death for mother to leave it to my sister's son Abel Armstrong & I want mother to keep what clothes there is of mine for him and I want Isaac to give that fifty dollars that he is to give to Little Corongs and I want mother to give the two older girls clothes to sister Betsy and the rest of the little girls clothes to Isaac's little Polly and two little boys clothes to Abel and Billy. Witness my hand & seal this twentieth day of June 1806. Witness Charles Byrn.

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More About BARBARA CARPENTER:
Cause of Death: murdered/by husband

Notes for ABEL CLEMENS:
Clemens / Clemons

Abel murdered his wife and 8 small children. He was tried and found guilty and was hanged from a locust tree.
Barbara (married Abel Clemons in 1794 .  In November 1805, he axed to death her and their eight children in their cabin in Clarksburg.  He was executed in Morgantown in June 1806 ).

Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net >
e-mail of 8-18-2002
has his birth as about 1775

Will: Of Abel Clemans, Dated June 20, 1806. Recorded in Harrison County, West Virginia, will book 1 page 228, Devisers: Mother and others, shown by will which reads: "It is my will that my mother should have the whole of my estate except fifty dollars that I want her to give to Isaac Clemmans my brother and if there is anything left at her death for mother to leave it to my sister's son Abel Armstrong & I want mother to keep what clothes there is of mine for him and I want Isaac to give that fifty dollars that he is to give to Little Corongs and I want mother to give the two older girls clothes to sister Betsy and the rest of the little girls clothes to Isaac's little Polly and two little boys clothes to Abel and Billy. Witness my hand & seal this twentieth day of June 1806. Witness Charles Byrn.

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Father: John CLEMANS b: UNKNOWN

Mother: ELIZABETH b: UNKNOWN

Marriage 1 Barbara CARPENTER b: ABT 1776 in ?

Married: 24 JUN 1794 in Harrison County, Virginia 1

Children

Elijah CLEMANS b: ABT 1794

Hester CLEMANS b: ABT 1796

Rachel CLEMANS b: ABT 1797

Mary CLEMANS b: ABT 1798

Elizabeth CLEMANS b: ABT 1800

Benjamin CLEMANS b: ABT 1801

Parthena CLEMANS b: ABT 1803

Amos CLEMANS b: ABT 1804

Sources:

Title: Marriage Records

Text: Marriages of Virginia Residents Vol I, Part II, Surnames C-D, Page 102

More About Abel Clemans and Barbara Carpenter:

Marriage: 24 Jun 1794, Harrison County, Virginia

More About ABEL CLEMENS:
Cause of Death: execution for murder

Marriage Notes for BARBARA CARPENTER and ABEL CLEMENS:
Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net >
e-mail of 8-18-2002
has the date as 6-10-1794  ( as does source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

1794    Jun 24               Able Clemans - Barbara Carpenter
HARRISON COUNTY, V/WV MARRIAGES 1784-1795

More About ABEL CLEMENS and BARBARA CARPENTER:
Marriage: Jun 24, 1794, Clarksburg, Harrison county, West Virginia

Children of BARBARA CARPENTER and ABEL CLEMENS are:
i. ELIJAH10 CLEMENS, b. 1794, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Nov 10, 1805, Clarksburg, Harrison County,( West) Virginia.

Notes for ELIJAH CLEMENS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

ii. HESTER CLEMENS, b. 1796, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Nov 10, 1805, Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for HESTER CLEMENS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

iii. RACHEL CLEMENS, b. 1797, Harrison County,(West) Virginia; d. Nov 10, 1805, Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for RACHEL CLEMENS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

iv. MARY CLEMENS, b. 1798, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Nov 10, 1805, Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for MARY CLEMENS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

v. ELIZABETH CLEMENS, b. 1800, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Nov 10, 1805, Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for ELIZABETH CLEMENS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

vi. BENJAMIN CLEMENS, b. 1801, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Nov 10, 1805, Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for BENJAMIN CLEMENS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

vii. PARTHENSE CLEMENS, b. 1803, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Nov 10, 1805, Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for PARTHENSE CLEMENS:
Parthanese or Parthena
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

viii. ANN CLEMENS, b. 1805, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Nov 10, 1805, Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for ANN CLEMENS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --    has this child as Amos

8.  MARY9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1778 in Fredericks County, Maryland, and died 1816.  She married (1) NICHOLAS CARPENTER Sep 03, 1792 in Harrison County, West Virginia, son of CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER and SARAH.  He was born 1769, and died 1855.  She married (2) JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT Oct 26, 1795 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia), son of JACOB SCHOOLCRAFT and REBECCA PARSONS.

Notes for MARY CARPENTER:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002 AFN: 8HBP-NN
shows Christopher as spouse

Wanda Mitchel-- Familyhistory.com / Carpenter board message #43 --- gives spouse as Nicholas Carpenter
5. Mary (probably married her first cousin, Nicholas Carpenter (son of Christopher Carpenter, brother of Nicholas Carpenter, Sr.), in 1792 ).
Source: : Richard A. Dutton
    note:  conflicting information on spouse

source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
has her married 1) Thomas Cooley and 2) James Schoolcraft
Doubtful that she married Thomas Cooley as the mother Mary Wolfe Carpenter re-married to a Thomas Cooley -- I think it was the mother and not the daughter that this marriage record is for.

I do not know if this Mary is the same one who married james Schoolcraft in 1795 or not -- if so then Nicholas probably died between 1792 and 1795 ??????

Notes for NICHOLAS CARPENTER:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
1830 census: Harrison County, Va.

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Glen Edmison ancestry file

Nicholas Carpenter Jr, born Abt. 1778 in Fredericks County, Maryland. He married Mary Carpenter 03 Sep 1792 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

More About Nicholas Carpenter Jr:

Comment: He is listed as a child of Nicholas Carpenter in July 1798 court records

Marriage Notes for Nicholas Jr and Mary Carpenter:

History of Harrison County, West Virginia

Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Print. Co., 1973, 500 pgs

Marrage found on page 450

More About Nicholas Jr and Mary Carpenter:

Marriage: 03 Sep 1792, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

there is a Nicolas Carpenter 1830 Marietta, Washington Co., Ohi0
with males  4 under 10, 1: 10-15-; 1-15-18; 2 -16/20; and 1 45-60
with females 1 under 10; 1-10/15; 1=15/18; 1- 16/20; 1- 24-45

Marriage Notes for MARY CARPENTER and NICHOLAS CARPENTER:
Nicholas and Mary were first cousins

1792   Sep 03               Nicholas Carpenter - Mary Carpenter
HARRISON COUNTY, V/WV MARRIAGES 1784-1795

More About NICHOLAS CARPENTER and MARY CARPENTER:
Fact 1: First cousins
Marriage: Sep 03, 1792, Harrison County, West Virginia

Marriage Notes for MARY CARPENTER and JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

More About JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT and MARY CARPENTER:
Marriage: Oct 26, 1795, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

Child of MARY CARPENTER and JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT is:
i. JEREMIAH10 SCHOOLCRAFT, b. 1798; m. MARGARET MILLER, Oct 05, 1828, Butler Coounty, Ohio.

Notes for JEREMIAH SCHOOLCRAFT:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

Notes for MARGARET MILLER:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

Marriage Notes for JEREMIAH SCHOOLCRAFT and MARGARET MILLER:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002

More About JEREMIAH SCHOOLCRAFT and MARGARET MILLER:
Marriage: Oct 05, 1828, Butler Coounty, Ohio

9.  ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1782 in Harrison County, West Virginia, and died Abt. 1850 in Fulton County, Indiana.  She married ISAAC CLEMANS Feb 03, 1801 in Harrison County, West Virginia, son of JOHN CLEMANS and ELIZABETH CLEMANS.  He was born 1779 in New Jersey, and died Dec 13, 1853 in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for ELIZABETH CARPENTER:
source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
has her birth as about 1785

Elizabeth Carpenter, born Bet. 1782 - 1785 in Virginia (now West Virginia); died Aft. 1850. She married Isaac Clemens 03 Feb 1801 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia); born Abt. 1779 in New Jersey; died 1853 in Henry Twp, Fulton County, Indiana

More About Elizabeth Carpenter:

Census: 1850, 1850 census, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana, we find all the family living there. Elizabeth brother Thomas and his family are also living in same township

Comment: 1827, Her and her family were living in Bellfonte Logan County, Ohio

Notes for Isaac Clemens:

Census Records *****

1820

Logan County, Ohio

Male less than 10 = 1, 10 - 16 = 1, 16 - 18 = 1, 16 - 26 = 1, 26 - 45 = 1 (Husband), # in Agriculture = 3; Female 5 - 10 = 1, 26 - 45 = 1 (Wife)

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1830

Logan County, Ohio

Male less than 5 = 1, 15 - 20 = 2, 10 - 30= 2, 30 - 40 = 1, 50 - 60= 1 (Husband);

Female 5 - 10 = 1, 50 - 60 = 1 (Wife)

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1850

Fulton County, Indiana

July 24, 1850

Henry Twp

Dwelling 13, Family 13

Clemmons, Isaac, age 71, male, Farmer, born in New Jersey

Elizabeth, age 65, female, born in Virginia.

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Fulton County Probate Court Docket A 1838 - 1856

Page 216 - 217 Dec. 16, 1853, Isaac Clemmons, Sr. Est,; Nicholas Clemmons, Admr.; $150.00 bond; Isaac Clemmons & Peterson Morris, surety; First report sale bill & Inv. Continued.

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"History of Logan Co, Ohio (1880) by Baskin & Co. Historical publishers pg 336 - Lake Twp, Isaac Clemens is mentioned as an elector 1818; pg 532 early settler - Isaac Clemans.

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Genealogy and Local History in Logan County, Ohio

History of Logan County and Ohio (1880)

Page 530

Among early settlers were Alexander Trout, Joseph and David Dearduff, James Craig, John Williams, Samuel Firestone, Daniel Downs, Isaac Clemons, John and George Mefford, John Price, Daniel Martin, John Parish, George Strickland, Dennis Moore, John F. Amos, John Bronson, Philip Shade and George Weaver.

From this period the arrivals in this section increased with hopeful rapidity--the era of peace and prosperity had surely arrived. Progress was slowly, surely made; the log houses became more numerous and the clearings increased rapidly in area. Frame buildings began to appear; the pioneers, assured of safety, laid better plans for the future, resorted to new industries, enlarged their possessions, and improved the means of cultivation. More commodious structures took the place of the old ones; the large double cabin of hewed logs took the place of the smaller hut; log and frame barns were constructed. Next society began to form itself; the schoolhouse and the church appeared, and though rude, unsightly and decidedly uncomfortable withal, yet they were a log stride onward. Still there remained a vast work to perform, for as yet only a beginning had been made in the Western woods. The brunt of the struggle, however, was past, and a way opened into the wilderness.

Father: John CLEMANS b: UNKNOWN

Mother: ELIZABETH b: UNKNOWN

Marriage 1 Elizabeth CARPENTER b: ABT 1785 in West Virginia

Married: 3 FEB 1801 in Harrison County, West Virginia 2

Note:

Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850

www.ancestry.com

Groom Given Name Groom Surname Bride Given name Bride Surname Marriage Date County

ISAAC CLEMENS ELIZABETH CARPENTER 03 February 1801 Harrison

Children

John Burris CLEMANS b: ABT 1801 in Harrison County, West Virginia

Abel CLEMANS b: ABT 1805

Mary "Polly" CLEMANS b: ABT 1 MAY 1805

Jesse Lafayette CLEMANS b: ABT 1808 in Lake Twp, Logan County, Ohio

Thomas CLEMANS b: 10 NOV 1811 in Champaign County, Ohio

Samuel J. CLEMANS b: ABT 1815 in Logan County, Ohio

David CLEMANS b: 11 JAN 1816 in Logan County, Ohio

Isaac CLEMANS b: 15 MAY 1819 in Logan County, Ohio

Malinda CLEMANS b: 21 APR 1823 in Logan County, Ohio

Nicholas CLEMANS b: 26 FEB 1824 in Logan County, Ohio

Sources:

Title: Death Records

Repository:

Call Number:

Media: Book

Text: Fulton County Probate Court Docket A. Dec 16, 1853 ........

Title: Marriage Records

Text: Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850

www.ancestry.com

More About Isaac Clemens:

Burial: Hoover Cemetery (Mt. Hope) , Athens, Fulton County, Indina

More About Isaac Clemens and Elizabeth Carpenter:

Marriage: 03 Feb 1801, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

Notes for ISAAC CLEMANS:

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Isaac Clemens was born in New Jersey in about 1779. It is not sure what his father's name was but some people think it was Julius or John. His family may have passed through Fayette County, PA in about 1790 and then lived in Harrison County, WV from about 1795-1810. He did have a brother Abel who married Barbara Carpenter and he married Barbara's sister Elizabeth Carpenter. Isaac's mother's name was Elizabeth.From WV the family moved to Logan County, OH where he and some sons purchased land. By 1840, they moved to Miami and Fulton County, IN where they settled.
The family was made up of farmers that seemed to like living on the edge of the new frontier.

Source:
Cathy Clemens

6856 Newcastle Ave.
Reseda, CA 91335
United States
5776
RACNestle@aol.com

Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net >
e-mail of 8-18-2002
places his birth as abt 1782

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1820
Logan county, Ohio
Male less than 10=1,  10-16 =1, 16-18 = 1, 16-26=1, 26-45 =1
1 in agriculture
female 5-10 =1, 26-45 =1 (wife)
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1830
Logan County, Ohio
Male less than 5=1, 15-20 =2, 10-30=2, 30-40=1, 50-60 =1 (husband)
female 5-10 =1, 50-60 =1 (wife)
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1850
Fulton Co., Ind
7-24-1850  Henry Twp
dwelling 13, family13,
Clemmons, Isaac   age 71  male  farmer, b. NJ
Elizabeth  age 65  female,  b. in Va.
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Fulton co probate court docket A 1838-1856
page 216-217   12-16-1853
isaac Clemmons, Sr.  Est: Nicholas Clemmons, Admr:  $150.00 bond:  Isaac Clemmons and Peterson morris surety: first report sale bill and inv., continued.
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Hitory of Logan Co., Ohi (1990) by Baskin and Co Historical publishers  pag 336 --lake Twp
Isaac Clemens is mentioned as an elector 1818 ;  pag 532 early settler
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Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file
Thomas Carpenter is listed in the 1820 census of Lake Township, Logan County, OH. Listed are:
Boys--3 less than 10, 1 26-45; Girls--1 less than 10, 1 26-45 and 1 person in agriculture. He is also listed in the 1830 census of Logan County, OH. Listed are: Boys--1 less than 5, 2 10-15, 1 15-20, 1 40-50; Girls--2 5-10, 1 30-40.

The marriage of Elizabeth "Betsy" Clemens and Thomas Carpenter is told in Laura E. Clemens Beeber's paper, "The Clemens Family After Coming to America". Betsy was supposedly a sister of Isaac Clemens that was born in 1779 in NJ. Laura was born in about 1868 and she wrote the paper on July 18, 1939 in West Los Angeles, CA. An article by Walter F Carpenter says that Thomas married Meacey(Mersey or Mercy) Clevenger. He has a marriage certificate as well as grave marker. Walter was born in 1895.

Thomas Carpenter later marries a Nancy Harsh in Fulton, IN, June 22, 1848. Nancy 47 OH has three children listed in the 1850 census of Fulton County: Simon 19 OH, Malinda 17 OH, and William 12 OH, all with the last name of Harsh. Notice that John Burris Clemens marries a Hester Ann Harsh. Hester A 35 PA is listed in the1850 census of Fulton, IN, with children Lucretia 10 OH, Benj. F. 9 OH, Anicer T. (male) 4 IN, Sarah J. 4, David J. 1 IN, Sarah A. 4 IN, and William 11/12, all with the last name of Harsh. It looks like Nancy and Hester A. were sister-in-laws by marriage.

Meacey and Thomas are buried in Gilead Cemetery in Fulton County, IN.

More About ISAAC CLEMANS:
Comment: Parents of 11 children

More About ISAAC CLEMANS and ELIZABETH CARPENTER:
Marriage: Feb 03, 1801, Harrison County, West Virginia

Children of ELIZABETH CARPENTER and ISAAC CLEMANS are:
33. i. JOHN BURRIS10 CLEMANS, b. 1801, Harrison County, W. Virginia; d. Feb 28, 1855, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.
34. ii. MARY POLLY CLEMANS, b. Abt. May 01, 1805, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. May 29, 1871, Fulton County, Indiana.
iii. ABLE CLEMANS, b. 1806, Harrison County, W. Virginia; d. 1806, Harrison County, W. Virginia.

Notes for ABLE CLEMANS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

35. iv. JESSE LAFAYETTE CLEMANS, b. 1808, Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aft. 1870.
36. v. THOMAS CLEMANS, b. Nov 10, 1811, Champaign County, Ohio; d. Nov 20, 1901, Macy, Miami  County, Indiana.
37. vi. SAMUEL J. CLEMANS, b. 1815, Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio; d. Oct 02, 1890, Fairbault, Rice County, Minnesota.
38. vii. DAVID CLEMANS, b. Jan 11, 1816, Bellfountain, Logan County, Ohio; d. May 01, 1881, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana.
39. viii. ISAAC CLEMANS, b. May 15, 1819, Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aug 09, 1887, Reamsville, Smith County, Kansas.
40. ix. MALINDA CLEMANS, b. Aug 11, 1823, Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aug 30, 1896, Fulton County, Indiana.
41. x. NICHOLAS CLEMANS, b. Feb 26, 1824, Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio; d. Feb 08, 1893, Grant Township, Fulton County, Indiana.

10.  *THOMAS9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Dec 20, 1790 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (now W.Va.), and died Feb 25, 1869 in Fulton County, Indiana.  He married (1) *MEACY CLEVENGER Apr 26, 1814 in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio.  She was born Mar 10, 1795 in Virginia, and died Feb 27, 1846 in Fulton County, Indiana.  He married (2) NANCY THOMPSON Jun 22, 1848 in Fulton County, Indiana, daughter of *JOHN THOMPSON and *NANCY STOUFFER.  She was born Apr 28, 1801 in Stark County, Ohio, and died Jan 12, 1867 in Miami  County, Indiana.

Notes for *THOMAS CARPENTER:
RELATIONSHIP:  3RD GREAT GRANDFATHER OF DOUGLAS YORK

Thomas was  9 mo. old when his father was killed by Tecumseh's Indians, near the Ohio River in what is now W. Va. and now known as carpenter's Run.
.We do not know at what time Thomas left Va., but he was as a young man a resident of Logan County, Ohio near Bell fountain. It was probably here that all of his children were born. At least some of his brothers and sisters were also residents of Logan County We have no record of any of them coming to Fulton Co.In., unless possibly Barbara who married Abel Clems, and this is uncertain that she was ever in Fulton County. Sometime near 1843 Townsend Evans deeded 80 acres of land -but this was not the main home place. We also find the same 80 acres deeded to his son William 5-17-1844, Who in turn deeded it to Benjamin on 5-17-1849, his youngest brother. It was located  sec 29, twp 30, Range 5.
Thomas bought one of the long rifles which Walter Carpenter once owned. He said he wanted to hand it down to the youngest son as he himself was the youngest and they were the ones who never got anything from home, and so the gun has been passed down and helped to keep the family history alive.
Thomas is also remembered as a great bee-hunter.  Mentioned twice in the history of Akron, In (Fulton Co) by Brundize.

researcher this line:  Richard Dutton -- richarddutton@localhost
Sources : AFN: 8HBP-NN    and Pike family records from HElen Utter Pike / Quaker records.

Thomas carpenter 1790-1869
Thomas Carpenter was born in or near the edge of Clarksburg, Va. (now W.VA) Harrison county 20 Dec 1790. He did die in Fulton County, In 25 Feb 1869 at the age of 79 years, 3 months and 5 days. He married Meacy Cleavenger sometime near 1814. She was born 10 March 1795 and died in Fulton county In 27 Feb 1846. they are both buried in the cemetary at the north edge of the village of Gilead, Ind
Thomas was but 9 months old when his father was killed by Indians, on 4 Oct 1791, near the Ohio River in what is now W. Va and now known as Carpenter's Run.

Deed Book, Harrison County, WV Oct 2, 1805
1820 census Logan County, OH lists three children, 3 males, one female under 10.
1830 census, Lake Twp, Logan County, OH
1840 census, Miami County, IN
1850 census, Fulton County, IN lists him as 60 years old, and worth $1600.

Carpenter, Thomas
 State: Indiana Year: 1850
 County: Fulton Roll:  M432_146
 Township: Henry Twp Page:  409
 Image: 496

Carpenter  Thomas      60  b. Va
                 Nancy        49   b. Oh
                 Simeon Harsh  19  b. Oh       (son-in-law)
                 malinda            17   b. Oh       (daughter)
                 William             12   b. Oh      (Simeon's brother)

1860 census:  Akron, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana
page 237
Carpenter    Joseph     75  b. Va
                   Anna         58  b. Pa
                  Thomas     71  b. VA.

both Thomas and Nancy Carpenter have died before the 1870 census is taken

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
Thomas came to Fulton County, Indiana in 1840. Townsend Evans deeded him 80 acres of land in the SE part of Henry Township in 1843.  In 1857, Thomas deeded the same 80 acres to his son Benjamin, who was my grandfather. He received $900 for it or @11.25 an acre, as shown in the deed book in the courthouse in Rochester. Thomas was married in Urbana, Oh to Meacy Clevenger Apr 26 1814.

Thomas and Meacy lived shortly after their marriage in Belfountain, Logan County, Ohio. We do not know the exact date when Thomas Carpenter left Va. and came to Ohio. We do know from a court record in Deed Book No 5, harrison County, Va. Oct 2, 1805, that Thomas was there then.
Thomas is listed in the census of Logan Co., Oh for 1820. He and Meacy were married at that time, of course,. and had 4 children (3 males and 1 female), under 10 years of age.  He is also listed in Logan County in 1830. We find him listed in 1840 in Miami Co., Ind and Meacy died 2-27-1846 in Fulton Co.
at the age of 51. She is buried in the Gilead cemetery, Miami Co., Ind. In the 1850 census of Fulton Co., Thomas is listed as 60 years old and his work at $1600 which was quite a sum in 1850.
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Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file
Thomas Carpenter is listed in the 1820 census of Lake Township, Logan County, OH. Listed are:
Boys--3 less than 10, 1 26-45; Girls--1 less than 10, 1 26-45 and 1 person in agriculture. He is also listed in the 1830 census of Logan County, OH. Listed are: Boys--1 less than 5, 2 10-15, 1 15-20, 1 40-50; Girls--2 5-10, 1 30-40.

The marriage of Elizabeth "Betsy" Clemens and Thomas Carpenter is told in Laura E. Clemens Beeber's paper, "The Clemens Family After Coming to America". Betsy was supposedly a sister of Isaac Clemens that was born in 1779 in NJ. Laura was born in about 1868 and she wrote the paper on July 18, 1939 in West Los Angeles, CA. An article by Walter F Carpenter says that Thomas married Meacey(Mersey or Mercy) Clevenger. He has a marriage certificate as well as grave marker. Walter was born in 1895.

Thomas Carpenter later marries a Nancy Harsh in Fulton, IN, June 22, 1848. Nancy 47 OH has three children listed in the 1850 census of Fulton County: Simon 19 OH, Malinda 17 OH, and William 12 OH, all with the last name of Harsh. Notice that John Burris Clemens marries a Hester Ann Harsh. Hester A 35 PA is listed in the1850 census of Fulton, IN, with children Lucretia 10 OH, Benj. F. 9 OH, Anicer T. (male) 4 IN, Sarah J. 4, David J. 1 IN, Sarah A. 4 IN, and William 11/12, all with the last name of Harsh. It looks like Nancy and Hester A. were sister-in-laws by marriage.

Meacey and Thomas are buried in Gilead Cemetery in Fulton County, IN.
Row 2
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Thomas Carpenter is listed in the 1820 census of Lake Township, Logan
County, OH. Listed are:
Boys--3 less than 10, 1 26-45; Girls--1 less than 10, 1 26-45 and 1
person in agriculture. He is also listed in the 1830 census of Logan
County, OH. Listed are: Boys--1 less than 5, 2 10-15, 1 15-20, 1 40-50;
Girls--2 5-10, 1 30-40.
The marriage of Elizabeth "Betsy" Clemens and Thomas Carpenter is told in
Laura E. Clemens Beeber's paper, "The Clemens Family After Coming to
America". Betsy was supposedly a sister of Isaac Clemens that was born
in 1779 in NJ. Laura was born in about 1868 and she wrote the paper on
July 18, 1939 in West Los Angeles, CA. An article by Walter F Carpenter
says that Thomas married Meacey(Mersey or Mercy) Clevenger. He has a
marriage certificate as well as grave marker. Walter was born in 1895.
Thomas Carpenter later marries a Nancy Harsh in Fulton, IN, June 22,
1848. Nancy 47 OH has three children listed in the 1850 census of Fulton
County: Simon 19 OH, Malinda 17 OH, and William 12 OH, all with the last
name of Harsh. Notice that John Burris Clemens marries a Hester Ann
Harsh. Hester A 35 PA is listed in the1850 census of Fulton, IN, with
children Lucretia 10 OH, Benj. F. 9 OH, Anicer T. (male) 4 IN, Sarah J.
4, David J. 1 IN, Sarah A. 4 IN, and William 11/12, all with the last
name of Harsh. It looks like Nancy and Hester A. were sister-in-laws by
marriage.
Meacey and Thomas are buried in Gilead Cemetery in Fulton County, IN.
Facts about this person:
Alt. Born Abt. 1790

Jennifer Kellogg  opalring@attglobal.net    Aug 2003/ Ancestry file
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Thomas Carpenter, born 20 Dec 1790 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia ); died 25 Feb 1869 in Fulton County, Indiana He married (1) Meacy Jane Clevenger 26 Apr 1814 in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio; born 10 Mar 1795 in Virginia; died 27 Feb 1846 in Fulton County, Indiana He married (2) Nancy Thompson 22 Jun 1848 in Fulton County, Indiana; born 28 Apr 1801 in Ohio.

Notes for Thomas Carpenter:

Notes for THOMAS CARPENTER:

Thomas was 9 mo. old when his father was killed by Tecumseh's Indians, near the Ohio River in what is now W. Va. and now known as carpenter's Run. We do not know at what time Thomas left Va., but he was as a young man a resident of Logan County, Ohio near Bell fountain. It was probably here that all of his children were born. At least some of his brothers and sisters were also residents of Logan County We have no record of any of them coming to Fulton Co.In., unless possibly Barbara who married Abel Clems, and this is uncertain that she was ever in Fulton County. Sometime near 1843 Townsend Evans deeded 80 acres of land -but this was not the main home place. We also find the same 80 acres deeded to his son William 5-17-1844, Who in turn deeded it to Benjamin on 5-17-1849, his youngest brother. It was located sec 29, twp 30, Range 5.

Thomas bought one of the long rifles which Walter Carpenter once owned. He said he wanted to hand it down to the youngest son as he himself was the youngest and they were the ones who never got anything from home, and so the gun has been passed down and helped to keep the family history alive.

Thomas is also remembered as a great bee-hunter. Mentioned twice in the history of Akron, In (Fulton Co) by Brundize.

researcher this line: Richard Dutton -- richarddutton@localhost

Sources : AFN: 8HBP-NN and Pike family records from HElen Utter Pike / Quaker records.

Thomas carpenter 1790-1869

Thomas Carpenter was born in or near the edge of Clarksburg, Va. (now W.VA) Harrison County Dec. 20, 1790. He did die in Fulton County, on Feb 25, 1869 at the age of 79 years, 3 months and 5 days. He married Meacy Cleavenger sometime near 1814. She was born 10 March 1795 and died in Fulton county In 27 Feb 1846. they are both buried in the cemetary at the north edge of the village of Gilead, Ind

Thomas was but 9 months old when his father was killed by Indians, on 4 Oct 1791, near the Ohio River in what is now W. Va and now known as Carpenter's Run.

Deed Book, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia) Oct 2, 1805

Thomas emigrated with 2 of his older brothers to Champaign Co., OH. He went to Fulton Co., IN in 1840. He was deeded 80 acres of land in the SE part of Henry Twp. in 1843. In 1857 he deed this land to his son Benjamin for $900. Another source gives date of birth as 04 Oct 1791

1820 census Logan County, Ohio lists three children, 3 males, one female under 10.

1830 census, Lake Twp, Logan County, Ohio

1840 census, Miami County, IN

1850 census, Fulton County, IN lists him as 60 years old, and worth $1600.

Thomas Carpenter is listed in the 1820 census of Lake Township, Logan County, OH. Listed are:

Boys--3 less than 10, 1 26-45; Girls--1 less than 10, 1 26-45 and 1

person in agriculture. He is also listed in the 1830 census of Logan

County, Ohio. Listed are: Boys--1 less than 5, 2 10-15, 1 15-20, 1 40-50;

Girls--2 5-10, 1 30-40.

Carpenter, Thomas

State: Indiana Year: 1850

County: Fulton Roll: M432_146

Township: Henry Twp Page: 409

Image: 496

Carpenter, Thomas 60 b. Va

Nancy 49 b. Oh

Simeon Harsh 19 b. Oh (son-in-law)

malinda 17 b. Oh (daughter)

William 12 b. Oh (Simeon's brother)

1860 census: Akron, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana

page 237

Carpenter Joseph 75 b. Va

Anna 58 b. Pa

Thomas 71 b. VA.

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2

Thomas came to Fulton County, Indiana in 1840. Townsend Evans deeded him 80 acres of land in the SE part of Henry Township in 1843. In 1857, Thomas deeded the same 80 acres to his son Benjamin. He received $900 for it or @11.25 an acre, as shown in the deed book in the courthouse in Rochester. Thomas was married in Urbana, Ohio to meacy Clevenger April 26, 1814.

Thomas and meacy lived shortly after their marriage in Belfountain, Logan County, Ohio. We do not know the exact date when Thomas Carpenter left Va. and came to Ohio. We do know from a court record in Deed Book No 5, harrison County, Va. Oct 2, 1805, that Thomas was there then.

Thomas is listed in the census of Logan Co., Oh for 1820. He and Meacy were married at that time, of course,. and had 4 children (3 males and 1 female), under 10 years of age. He is also listed in Logan County in 1830. We find him listed in 1840 in Miami Co., Ind and Meacy died 2-27-1846 in Fulton Co. at the age of 51. She is buried in the Gilead cemetery, Miami Co., Ind. In the 1850 census of Fulton Co., Thomas is listed as 60 years old and his work at $1600 which was quite a sum in 1850.

Father: Nicholas CARPENTER b: ABT 1743 in Maryland

Mother: Mary WOLF b: UNKNOWN

Marriage 1 Meacy CLEVENGER b: 10 MAY 1795

Married: 26 APR 1814 in Urbana, Ohio 1

Note:

Children

William CARPENTER b: 15 MAR 1815 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio

Joseph CARPENTER b: 1819 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio

Lucinda Ann CARPENTER b: 11 FEB 1822 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio

Emily Catharine CARPENTER b: 1825 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio

Benjamin CARPENTER b: 13 APR 1830 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio

Melinda CARPENTER b: BET 1832 AND 1833 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio

Sources:

Title: Fulton County Folks, volume 2

Repository:

Call Number:

Media: Book

Text: Thomas Carpenter Family page 115

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1820 Census Ohio Series: M33 Roll: 90 Page: 78 (Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio)

More About Thomas Carpenter:

Age at time of death: 79 years, 3 months, 5 days

Burial: Gilead cemetery, Miami County, Indiana

Census: 1820, Family living in Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio. Living next door was Isaac Clemmans and family (Isaac's brother Abel had married Thomas's sister Barbara) also Thomas Carpenter's sister Nancy Ann (Carpenter) Powell also living in same town

Census 1: 31 Jul 1850, Family living at Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana (living next to son William Carpenter's farm)

Comment: Thomas & Meacy had 6 children

Comment 1: 1827, He was in Bellefontaine, Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio

Occupation: bee keeper/ hunter

Occupation 1: 31 Jul 1850, Famer

More About Meacy Jane Clevenger:

Burial: Gilead cemetery, Miami County, Indiana

More About Thomas Carpenter and Meacy Clevenger:

Marriage: 26 Apr 1814, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio

More About Nancy Thompson:

Burial: Gilead cemetery, Miami County, Indiana

More About Thomas Carpenter and Nancy Thompson:

Marriage: 22 Jun 1848, Fulton County, Indiana

More About *THOMAS CARPENTER:
Burial: Gilead, Miami County,  Indiana
Comment 1: bee keeper/ hunter

Notes for *MEACY CLEVENGER:
3rd Great Grandmother of Douglas York

WFT -- Vol 5, tree 580
AFN: 8HBP-NN    and Pike family records from Helen Utter Pike / Quaker records. --has name as Meacy

Wanda Mitchell --familyhistory.com /Carpenter board --message #43 --has name as "Betsey"
Meacy is what has been handed down in the family
IGI index has Mercy Clevenger married Thomas carpenter

************************ON GOING RESEARCH NOTES AS TO PARENTS ************************************
It is most likely that Mercy's parents were Job and Barabara (Gump) Clevenger.  Job is the only Clevenger that I know of who was in Champaign Co.  I would suspect if this was the case then Mercy would have been born in NJ.  Job was the son of Zachariah Clevenger who was a Capt in the NJ militia in the Rev War. Zach and Job were in Warren Co, OH in 1800, Job was in Urbana Twp, Champaign Co in 1807 according to "History of Champaign and Logan Counties" and by 1820 he was in Wayne Co, IN. It is hard to know where he was in 1810 since the Ohio census for that year does not exist.. It is thought that Job was born ca 1776 and was married ca 1796, but 1794 would be OK.. Job died in 1852, but he didn't get counted in 1850, so we don't have a good notion of when he was born.

from Sarah Clevenger   8-9-2002
NOTE; everything above seems to fit for Meacy --- none of the postings found to date show any daughters at all for Job ---
Job and Barbara were married 1798 --Meacy jane was born 1794
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1850 census: Fulton county, Indiana  (henry Township)
nearby to Thomas Carpenter widow of Meacy  is
Clevenger   Bazel S.     30    Brethren Minister    b. Ohio  (=b. 1820
                  Lisa             35
                  Sarah           9
                  Caroline       4
                  William N    3/12
  (Image 11 at Ancestry)
This person would be same age as Meacy's children ---- if related he could be a nephew or cousin !)

other Clevengers in Fulton county 1860 --
David b Ohio 1830 m: Mary / Thomas Clevenger 35 (b. 1825 Oh  father Fielden is in household age 65 b. pa./  Andrew Clevenger 33 b. Oh  b. 1827 )
note:  Fielden would be same age as Meacy was --- possible brother or cousin!

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter,  of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
gives her date of birth as 5-10-1795

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]Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file
places her birth as in Virginia
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CARPENTER, Thomas, d. Feb 25, 1869, ae---
(broken, and age not found)

CARPENTER, Meacey, wife of Thos., d. Feb 27, 1846, ae 51y-11m-17d
Gilead Cemetery
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Title: World Family Tree
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Electronic
Page: Volume 46, Tree 459

places her birth in Virginia

More About *MEACY CLEVENGER:
Burial: Gilead, Miami County, Indiana

More About *THOMAS CARPENTER and *MEACY CLEVENGER:
Marriage: Apr 26, 1814, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio

Notes for NANCY THOMPSON:
10/12/1849 Nancy Carpenter Simon Harsh and Others
   Petition for Dower.

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

Thomas Carpenter later marries a Nancy Harsh in Fulton, IN, June 22, 1848. Nancy 47 OH has three children listed in the 1850 census of Fulton County: Simon 19 OH, Malinda 17 OH, and William 12 OH, all with the last name of Harsh. Notice that John Burris Clemens marries a Hester Ann Harsh. Hester A 35 PA is listed in the1850 census of Fulton, IN, with children Lucretia 10 OH, Benj. F. 9 OH, Anicer T. (male) 4 IN, Sarah J. 4, David J. 1 IN, Sarah A. 4 IN, and William 11/12, all with the last name of Harsh. It looks like Nancy and Hester A. were sister-in-laws by marriage.
Thomas Carpenter is listed in the 1820 census of Lake Township, Logan County, OH. Listed are:
Boys--3 less than 10, 1 26-45; Girls--1 less than 10, 1 26-45 and 1 person in agriculture. He is also listed in the 1830 census of Logan County, OH. Listed are: Boys--1 less than 5, 2 10-15, 1 15-20, 1 40-50; Girls--2 5-10, 1 30-40.

The marriage of Elizabeth "Betsy" Clemens and Thomas Carpenter is told in Laura E. Clemens Beeber's paper, "The Clemens Family After Coming to America". Betsy was supposedly a sister of Isaac Clemens that was born in 1779 in NJ. Laura was born in about 1868 and she wrote the paper on July 18, 1939 in West Los Angeles, CA. An article by Walter F Carpenter says that Thomas married Meacey(Mersey or Mercy) Clevenger. He has a marriage certificate as well as grave marker. Walter was born in 1895.

Thomas Carpenter later marries a Nancy Harsh in Fulton, IN, June 22, 1848. Nancy 47 OH has three children listed in the 1850 census of Fulton County: Simon 19 OH, Malinda 17 OH, and William 12 OH, all with the last name of Harsh. Notice that John Burris Clemens marries a Hester Ann Harsh. Hester A 35 PA is listed in the1850 census of Fulton, IN, with children Lucretia 10 OH, Benj. F. 9 OH, Anicer T. (male) 4 IN, Sarah J. 4, David J. 1 IN, Sarah A. 4 IN, and William 11/12, all with the last name of Harsh. It looks like Nancy and Hester A. were sister-in-laws by marriage.

Meacey and Thomas are buried in Gilead Cemetery in Fulton County, IN.

Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file

HARSH, Nancy, wife of Christian, d. Jan 13, 1867, ae 65y-8m-15d
(on the ground)
(----) (broken, on the ground, not readable)
Gilead Cemetery

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Glen Edmison ancestry file

More About NANCY THOMPSON:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Gilead, Miami County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for *THOMAS CARPENTER and NANCY THOMPSON:
Fulton County Marriages  Book 1--page 222
Thomas Carpenter --Nancy Harsh

More About *THOMAS CARPENTER and NANCY THOMPSON:
Marriage: Jun 22, 1848, Fulton County, Indiana

Children of *THOMAS CARPENTER and *MEACY CLEVENGER are:
42. i. WILLIAM10 CARPENTER, b. Mar 15, 1815, Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio; d. May 29, 1886, Fulton County, Indiana.
43. ii. JOSEPH W. CARPENTER, b. 1819, Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aft. 1860, Osage Mission, Neosho County, Kansas.
44. iii. *LUCINDA ANN CARPENTER, b. Feb 11, 1822, Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aug 02, 1893, Wabash County, Indiana.
45. iv. EMILY CATHERINE CARPENTER, b. 1825, Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aft. 1880.
46. v. BENJAMIN CARPENTER, b. Aug 13, 1830, Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aug 25, 1909, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
47. vi. MALINDA CARPENTER, b. 1833, Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aft. 1880, Fulton County, Indiana.

11.  NANCY ANN9 CARPENTER (*NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Mar 15, 1792 in Fredericks County, Maryland, and died Apr 09, 1877 in Miami County, Indiana.  She married THOMAS WARBINGTON POWELL 1811 in Logan County, Ohio, son of THOMAS POWELL and NAOMI AYRES.  He was born Jul 25, 1791 in Fredericks County, Maryland, and died Apr 12, 1877 in Miami  County, Indiana.

Notes for NANCY ANN CARPENTER:
At a County Court held for the County of Harrison on the 20th. day of November, 1820, the following order was entered: "It being this day proved to the satisfaction of the Court by the oath of David Carpenter, that Nicholas Carpenter was killed by Indians on the 4th day of October in the year 1791, and that Nancy Carpenter, daughter of said Nicholas Carpenter, was born on the 15th. Day of March 1792, and ordered that the same be certified."

Ann7 Carpenter. She married Mr. Powell.

More About Ann Carpenter:

Comment: 1827, Her and her family were living in Bellfonte Logan County, Ohio

Nancy Ann Carpenter, born 15 Mar 1792; died 09 Apr 1877 in Miami County, Indiana She married Thomas Warbington Powell 1811 in Logan County, Ohio; born 25 Jul 1791 in Fredericks County, Maryland; died 12 Apr 1877 in Miami County, Indiana

Notes for Nancy Ann Carpenter:

At a County Court held for the County of Harrison on the 20th. day of November, 1820, the following order was entered:

"It being this day proved to the satisfaction of the Court by the oath of David Carpenter, that Nicholas Carpenter was killed by Indians on the 4th day of October in the year 1791, and that Nancy Carpenter, daughter of said Nicholas Carpenter, was born on the 15th. Day of March 1792, and ordered that the same be certified."

Sources:

History of Harrison County

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1820 Census Ohio Series: M33 Roll: 90 Page: 79 (Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio)

More About Nancy Ann Carpenter:

Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Miami County, Indiana

Census: 1800, Nancy, her husband and family living in Lake, Logan County, Ohio. Living in same town was her brother Thomas Carpenter.

More About Thomas Warbington Powell:

Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Miami County, Indiana

More About Thomas Powell and Nancy Carpenter:

Marriage: 1811, Logan County, Ohio

More About NANCY ANN CARPENTER:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Miami  County, Indiana

Notes for THOMAS WARBINGTON POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --
POWELL
(1) Thomas, d. Apr 12, 1877, ae 84y-8m-17d
(2) Nancy, d. Apr 9, 1877, ae 85y-4d
row 3

More About THOMAS WARBINGTON POWELL:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery,  Miami  County, Indiana
Resided: Miami  County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for NANCY CARPENTER and THOMAS POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --

More About THOMAS POWELL and NANCY CARPENTER:
Marriage: 1811, Logan County, Ohio

Children of NANCY CARPENTER and THOMAS POWELL are:
i. DANIEL E.10 POWELL, b. 1824, Logan County, Ohio.

Notes for DANIEL E. POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --

ii. SARAH JANE POWELL, b. Sep 02, 1826, Ohio; d. Jul 19, 1901, Macy, Miami  County, Indiana; m. GEORGE WILKINSON, Nov 04, 1852, Miami  County, Indiana; b. Feb 16, 1817, Ross County, Ohio; d. Feb 19, 1897.

Notes for SARAH JANE POWELL:
Source: Vangogh --ancestry file --    only child listed
Sarah is not listed by Jack --

Notes for GEORGE WILKINSON:

Source: Vangogh --ancestry file --  

1880
George WILKINSON   Self   M   Male   W   63   OH   Farmer   NC   NC
Sarah J. WILKINSON   Wife   M   Female   W   54   OH   Keeps House   OH   VA

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Source Information:
 Census Place Macy, Miami, Indiana
 Family History Library Film   1254298
 NA Film Number   T9-0298
 Page Number   404B

George WILKINSON
[NI1816]
16 Feb 1817 - 17 Feb 1897
BIRTH: 16 Feb 1817, Ross Co., Ohio [2038]
DEATH: 17 Feb 1897, Macy, Indiana [2039]
CENSUS: 1850, Union Twp. (now Allen twp) Macy, IN [2040] [2041]
CENSUS: 1870, Allen Twp., Miami Co., IN [2042] [2043]
REFERENCE: 1397
Father: John WILKINSON
Mother: Delilah ONSTOTT

Family 1 : Sarah Jane POWELL
MARRIAGE: 4 Nov 1852, Miami Co., Indiana [9535]

Marriage Notes for SARAH POWELL and GEORGE WILKINSON:
Source: Vangogh --ancestry file --  

More About GEORGE WILKINSON and SARAH POWELL:
Marriage: Nov 04, 1852, Miami  County, Indiana

48. iii. ISAIAH POWELL, b. 1829, Logan County, Ohio; d. Feb 27, 1911, Allen Township, Miami  County, Indiana.
iv. LUCINDA POWELL, b. 1830.

Notes for LUCINDA POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --

v. JONATHAN POWELL, b. 1832, Indiana.

Notes for JONATHAN POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --

vi. JOHN POWELL, b. 1835, Indiana.

Notes for JOHN POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --

vii. WILLIAM POWELL, b. 1837, Indiana.

Notes for WILLIAM POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --

viii. JAMES POWELL, b. 1840, Miami  County, Indiana.

Notes for JAMES POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --

ix. DAVID POWELL, b. 1846, Miami  County, Indiana.

Notes for DAVID POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --

x. RICHARD POWELL, b. 1849, Miami  County, Indiana.

Notes for RICHARD POWELL:
Source:  Rootsweb file --  Jack --

Generation No. 3

12.  MARY10 SLEETH (CATHERINE9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Apr 11, 1782 in Harrison County, (W) Virginia, and died Oct 09, 1864 in Lewis County, West Virginia.  She married HENRY WALDECK6 Apr 27, 1800 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia.  He was born Jan 17, 1758 in Immenhausen,, Germany.

Notes for MARY SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file --- has her birth as 1780

Was living with her daughter Sarah Woofter in the 1850 Lewis Co Virginia census -

More About MARY SLEETH:
Burial: Waldeck Cem, Lewis Co, West Virginia

Notes for HENRY WALDECK:
Hans He(i)nrich "Henry" WALDECK

Marriage Notes for MARY SLEETH and HENRY WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About HENRY WALDECK and MARY SLEETH:
Marriage: Apr 27, 1800, Harrison County, (West) Virginia

Children of MARY SLEETH and HENRY WALDECK are:
i. DAVID WALLACE11 WALDECK, b. Jun 18, 1801, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; d. Dec 29, 1885, Lewis County, West Virginia; m. MARGARET FISHER7, Dec 24, 1826, Lewis County, West Virginia; b. Abt. 1804.

Notes for DAVID WALLACE WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

1850 census record from Harison county, Virgin
ia which shows his occupation as a farmer and his birthplace as Virginia:
David age 47
Margaret age 47
Alatha age 20
Marcellus age 18
Cerina age 16
Armedia age 13
Marion age 11
Clarissa
Melissa
Marshall L.

More About DAVID WALLACE WALDECK:
Burial: Waldeck Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia

More About DAVID WALDECK and MARGARET FISHER:
Marriage: Dec 24, 1826, Lewis County, West Virginia

ii. FREDERICK WALDECK7, b. Jul 16, 1803, Harrison County, (W) Virginia; d. Feb 17, 1888, Lewis County, West Virginia; m. ELIZABETH HAWKINS7, Mar 27, 1831, Lewis County, West Virginia; b. Jul 06, 1808, Harrison County, (W) Virginia; d. Feb 07, 1889, Lewis County, West Virginia.

Notes for FREDERICK WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Household Record 1880 United States Census
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Elizabeth WALDECK Wife M Female W 72 WVA Keeping House Virginia Virginia

Source Information:
Census Place Freemans Creek, Lewis, West Virginia
Family History Library Film 1255406
NA Film Number T9-1406
Page Number 110A
Individual Record 1880 United States Census

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Other Information:
Birth Year <1803>
Birthplace WVA
Age 77
Occupation Retired Farmer
Marital Status M
Race W
Head of Household Fredric WALDECK
Relation Self
Father's Birthplace GER
Mother's Birthplace WVA

More About FREDERICK WALDECK:
Burial: Waldeck Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia

Notes for ELIZABETH HAWKINS:
Husband's Name
Walter A. HAWKINS (AFN:SDPT-8M) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1774 Place: , Fauquier, Virginia
Died: Aft 24 1841 Aug Place:
Married: 22 Jul 1803 Place: , Harrison, Virginia
Father: William HAWKINS (AFN:12PF-3Q6) Family
Mother: Elizabeth (AFN:12PF-31T)
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Wife's Name
Mary YATES (AFN:SDPT-9S) Pedigree
Born: 1779/1780 Place: , Fauquier, Virginia
Died: 10 May 1853 Place: , Taylor, Virginia
Married: 22 Jul 1803 Place: , Harrison, Virginia
Father: William YATES (AFN:SDP3-GM) Family
Mother: Ann (Nancy) GIBSON (AFN:SDP2-XW)
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Children
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1. Sex Name
F Elizabeth HAWKINS (AFN:12PF-2JR) Pedigree
Born: Abt. 1806 Place: <, Harrison, Virginia>
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or

Father: Jesse HAWKINS b: 1773 in Virginia - Fauquier County?
Mother: Cary "Carrie" A. H. JONES b: Bet 1777 and 1787 in Virginia - Fauquier County?

More About ELIZABETH HAWKINS:
Burial: Waldeck Cem, Lewis Co, West Virginia

More About FREDERICK WALDECK and ELIZABETH HAWKINS:
Marriage: Mar 27, 1831, Lewis County, West Virginia

iii. REBECCA WALDECK, b. Nov 25, 1806, Harrison County, (W) Virginia.

Notes for REBECCA WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

iv. JOHN WALDECK, b. Aug 18, 1808, Harrison County, (W) Virginia.

Notes for JOHN WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

v. CATHERINE WALDECK, b. Mar 31, 1810, Harrison County, (W) Virginia.

Notes for CATHERINE WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

vi. NICHOLAS CARPENTER WALDECK, b. Mar 23, 1812, Harrison County, (W) Virginia; d. May 25, 1898, Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky; m. (1) PERMELIA W. WEST, Jul 30, 1836; m. (2) MARIA DUNLAP, Dec 30, 1841, Paintsville, Kentucky; b. 1813.

Notes for NICHOLAS CARPENTER WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

ID: I13502
Name: Nicholas Carpenter WALDECK
Given Name: Nicholas Carpenter
Surname: Waldeck
Sex: M
Birth: 22 Mar 1812
Death: 25 May 1898 in Louisa, Kentucky.
Change Date: 4 Sep 2001 at 10:53
Father: Hans Henrich WALDECK b: 17 Jan 1758
Mother: Mary SLEETH b: 1780
Marriage 1 Permelia W. WEST
Married: 30 Jul 1836
Change Date: 21 Aug 2001
Children
Mary Katherine WALDECK b: 27 Jul 1837 in Kentucky
Marriage 2 Maria DUNLAP b: 1813
Married: 30 Dec 1841 in Paintsville, Kentucky.
Change Date: 21 Aug 2001
Children
Elizabeth Ann WALDECK b: 12 Jan 1845 in Floyd County, Kentucky.

More About NICHOLAS WALDECK and PERMELIA WEST:
Marriage: Jul 30, 1836

More About NICHOLAS WALDECK and MARIA DUNLAP:
Marriage: Dec 30, 1841, Paintsville, Kentucky

vii. ALEXANDER WALDECK, b. Nov 08, 1813, Harrison County, (W) Virginia.

Notes for ALEXANDER WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

viii. MARGARET WALDECK, b. Apr 20, 1815, Harrison County, (W) Virginia; d. Aug 05, 1896, Greeley, Weld County, Colorado; m. ANDREW LAW, Mar 09, 1837, Lewis County, West Virginia; b. Abt. 1810, Virginia.

Notes for MARGARET WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About MARGARET WALDECK:
Burial: Lynn Grove, , Weld, CO

More About ANDREW LAW and MARGARET WALDECK:
Marriage: Mar 09, 1837, Lewis County, West Virginia

ix. HENRY SLEETH WALDECK, b. Oct 17, 1819, Harrison County, (W) Virginia; d. Oct 14, 1905, Harrison County, (W) Virginia; m. HARRIET.

Notes for HENRY SLEETH WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Children
Ebenezer WALDECK b: 1845
Virginia WALDECK b: 1848
George WALDECK b: 1849

More About HENRY SLEETH WALDECK:
Burial: Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia, Loof Cemetery
Occupation: Cabinet-maker

x. SARAH ELIZABETH WALDECK, b. Jul 31, 1823, Harrison County, (W) Virginia.

Notes for SARAH ELIZABETH WALDECK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

13.  MARGARET10 SLEETH (CATHERINE9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Abt. 1785 in Harrison County, Virginia (West Virginia), and died Aft. 1860 in Gilmer County, West Virginia.  She married CORNELIUS CAIN Jul 08, 1808 in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia).  He was born Abt. 1773 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia, and died Aft. 1850 in Gilmer County, West Virginia.

Notes for MARGARET SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file
has her death as 1850 Gilmer County, West Virginia

Notes for CORNELIUS CAIN:
researcher this line:  Brandy Sleeth -- Family history.com -- Carpenter board #58

More About CORNELIUS CAIN and MARGARET SLEETH:
Marriage: Jul 08, 1808, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

Children of MARGARET SLEETH and CORNELIUS CAIN are:
i. ALEXANDER11 CAIN.
ii. ELIZABETH CAIN.

Notes for ELIZABETH CAIN:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file
has her as Mary "Polly"

iii. SARAH CAIN, b. May 08, 1816, Gilmer County, West Virginia; d. 1892, Gandeeville, Roane County, West Virginia; m. MORGAN MARKS, Aug 22, 1840, Lewis County, West Virginia; b. Aug 11, 1814, Harrison County, Virginia (West Virginia); d. May 29, 1892.

Notes for SARAH CAIN:
Source: Ancestry file f1812   

More About MORGAN MARKS and SARAH CAIN:
Marriage: Aug 22, 1840, Lewis County, West Virginia

14.  NICHOLAS C.10 SLEETH (CATHERINE9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Dec 15, 1795 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia, and died 1850 in Near Burnt House, Ritchie county, Virginia.  He married CATHERINE COLLINS Mar 15, 1815.  She was born 1800 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for NICHOLAS C. SLEETH:
Source:
Diane E. Younker  

dates: date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Note: Nicholas C. Sleeth and Catherine Collins Sleeth were living in Ritchie County, West Virginia in 1838. In the 1840 Census, Nicholas was shown as the head of the household and had a family of nine, including himself, his wife and seven children.

Notes for CATHERINE COLLINS:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Marriage Notes for NICHOLAS SLEETH and CATHERINE COLLINS:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About NICHOLAS SLEETH and CATHERINE COLLINS:
Marriage: Mar 15, 1815

Children of NICHOLAS SLEETH and CATHERINE COLLINS are:
i. MALAN11 SLEETH.
ii. RANFREW SLEETH.
iii. NANCY SLEETH.

15.  DAVID WALLIS10 SLEETH (CATHERINE9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Dec 25, 1796 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia, and died Jul 05, 1851 in Smithville, Ritchie County, Virginia.  He married (1) NANCY LYBROOK May 1834 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia.  She was born in Giles County, Virginia, and died Sep 17, 1842 in Lewis County, (West) Virginia.  He married (2) ELIZABETH PRINCE 1845 in Smithville, Ritchie County, Virginia.  She was born 1812, and died Dec 31, 1855 in Smithville, Ritchie County, Virginia.

Notes for DAVID WALLIS SLEETH:
Wallis / Wallace = middle name

date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Source:
Diane E. Younker  

date: -source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
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Event: His Occupation Sheriff of Lewis County, WV in 1842
Event: Her Occupation Owned and Operated a store in Smithville, Virginia
Event: Burial Location Smithville Cemetery, Smithville, Virginia
Event: Fact (5) No children of his marriage to Elizabeth Prince
Reference Number: 21358
Note: David Wallace Sleeth, Jr. resided in Harrison, Pocahontas, Lewis and Gilmer Counties, Virginia before moving to Ritchie County in 1844. He was the founder of the village of Smithville where he erected a building and began operation of a hotel and store. A little later he started a tannery there. He was one of the Magisterial members of the Dodderidge County Court at the time of his death. The Court adopted a memorial of respect.
  Contact: "PJ    ancestry file

More About DAVID WALLIS SLEETH:
Burial: Smithville, Ritchie County, Virginia

Notes for NANCY LYBROOK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About NANCY LYBROOK:
Burial: Old Stoney Churchyard, Jane Lew, Lewis County, West Virginia

Marriage Notes for DAVID SLEETH and NANCY LYBROOK:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About DAVID SLEETH and NANCY LYBROOK:
Marriage: May 1834, Harrison County, (West) Virginia

Notes for ELIZABETH PRINCE:
  Contact: "PJ    ancestry file

More About ELIZABETH PRINCE:
Burial: Smithville, Ritchie County, Virginia

Marriage Notes for DAVID SLEETH and ELIZABETH PRINCE:
  Contact: "PJ    ancestry file

More About DAVID SLEETH and ELIZABETH PRINCE:
Marriage: 1845, Smithville, Ritchie County, Virginia

Children of DAVID SLEETH and NANCY LYBROOK are:
i. MARY JANE11 SLEETH, b. 1836.
ii. CHAPMAN SLEETH, b. 1838.
iii. FLOYD SLEETH, b. 1841.
iv. ANN ELIZABETH SLEETH, b. 1855.

Notes for ANN ELIZABETH SLEETH:
note: this birth is after the death of Nancy Lybrook --
a second marriage ?????
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

16.  ALEXANDER K.10 SLEETH (CATHERINE9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Feb 28, 1797 in West Virginia, and died Jun 27, 1841 in Burnt House, Ritche County, Virginia.  He married KATHERINE WOLFE Jul 03, 1817 in Harrison County, West Virginia.  She was born Jul 07, 1797 in Harrison County, West Virginia, and died 1846.

Notes for ALEXANDER K. SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

His Occupation Possibly an Attorney per Dee Puffer at dpuffer@ddminc.net
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

Notes for KATHERINE WOLFE:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Father: John WOLFE
Mother: Annie HOFFMAN

or of Joseph Wolf and Mary Renfrau

More About ALEXANDER SLEETH and KATHERINE WOLFE:
Marriage: Jul 03, 1817, Harrison County, West Virginia

Children of ALEXANDER SLEETH and KATHERINE WOLFE are:
i. MARIA LOUISE11 SLEETH, b. May 09, 1818, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; m. GEORGE HILL MCQUIAN, Jul 10, 1841, Lewis County, West Virginia; b. 1819.

Notes for MARIA LOUISE SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file   (5-13-2003) address no longer valid

More About MARIA LOUISE SLEETH:
Burial: Cove Creek, Gilmer County, West Virginia

Notes for GEORGE HILL MCQUIAN:
Father: Alexander MCQUIAN
Mother: Elizabeth SCOTT

: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

More About GEORGE HILL MCQUIAN:
Burial: Cove Creek, Gilmer County, West Virginia

More About GEORGE MCQUIAN and MARIA SLEETH:
Marriage: Jul 10, 1841, Lewis County, West Virginia

ii. GRANVILLE WALLACE SLEETH, b. 1820; m. (1) NANCY LOUGH, Abt. 1848; d. Bef. 1856; m. (2) SUSAN E. DEPUE, 1856.

Notes for GRANVILLE WALLACE SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Notes for NANCY LOUGH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

More About GRANVILLE SLEETH and NANCY LOUGH:
Marriage: Abt. 1848

Notes for SUSAN E. DEPUE:
source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

More About GRANVILLE SLEETH and SUSAN DEPUE:
Marriage: 1856

iii. MARY SLEETH, b. Nov 27, 1822; m. SUTTON COX.

Notes for MARY SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Notes for SUTTON COX:
source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

iv. EMILY JANE SLEETH, b. Aug 03, 1825, West Virginia; d. Jun 03, 1906, New Boston, Texas; m. EDMUND WEST, Oct 27, 1847, Lewis County, West Virginia; b. Nov 09, 1820; d. Dec 08, 1871, Troy, Gilmer County, West Virginia.

Notes for EMILY JANE SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Notes for EDMUND WEST:
source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
Iris Lewars  irisl@bellsouth.net   ancestry file   11-16-2004

More About EDMUND WEST:
Ancestral File Number: 1ND7-KTP
Burial: OId West Farm, Fink's Creek near Troy, Gilmer County, West Virginia

More About EDMUND WEST and EMILY SLEETH:
Marriage: Oct 27, 1847, Lewis County, West Virginia

v. PENELOPE C. SLEETH, b. Sep 10, 1827; d. Apr 14, 1915, Gilmer County, West Virginia; m. WILLIAM HARRISON SNIDER, May 09, 1844; b. Jan 24, 1816, Pendleton County, West Virginia.

Notes for PENELOPE C. SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About PENELOPE C. SLEETH:
Burial: Stewart's Creek Cemetery, Gilmer County, West Virginia

Notes for WILLIAM HARRISON SNIDER:
source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

More About WILLIAM SNIDER and PENELOPE SLEETH:
Marriage: May 09, 1844

vi. JULIA SLEETH, b. Jan 15, 1830; d. Mar 11, 1915; m. CHARLES STALNAKER, Oct 14, 1854, Gilmer County, West Virginia; b. Aug 05, 1830; d. Oct 18, 1901.

Notes for JULIA SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Notes for CHARLES STALNAKER:
source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

More About CHARLES STALNAKER and JULIA SLEETH:
Marriage: Oct 14, 1854, Gilmer County, West Virginia

vii. ELIZABETH SLEETH, b. May 03, 1832; m. WILLIAM L. STEVENSON, Feb 26, 1856, Gilmer County, West Virginia; b. Abt. 1830.

Notes for ELIZABETH SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Notes for WILLIAM L. STEVENSON:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

More About WILLIAM STEVENSON and ELIZABETH SLEETH:
Marriage: Feb 26, 1856, Gilmer County, West Virginia

viii. PERRY JENNIFER SLEETH, b. Bet. 1832 - 1836; d. Nov 03, 1873, Gilmer County, West Virginia; m. SARAH E. WIANT, Sep 06, 1854, Gilmer County, West Virginia; b. Apr 18, 1844; d. Apr 12, 1931, Gilmer County, West Virginia.

Notes for PERRY JENNIFER SLEETH:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

More About PERRY JENNIFER SLEETH:
Burial: Hiney Hill Cemetery, Gilmer County, West Virginia

Notes for SARAH E. WIANT:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

More About SARAH E. WIANT:
Burial: Honey Hill Cemetery, Gilmer County, West Virginia

Marriage Notes for PERRY SLEETH and SARAH WIANT:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>

More About PERRY SLEETH and SARAH WIANT:
Marriage: Sep 06, 1854, Gilmer County, West Virginia

ix. JOHN MARSHALL SLEETH, b. Jun 01, 1836; m. ARNETTA MCVANEY, Feb 18, 1864, Gilmer County, West Virginia.

Notes for JOHN MARSHALL SLEETH:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Notes for ARNETTA MCVANEY:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Marriage Notes for JOHN SLEETH and ARNETTA MCVANEY:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About JOHN SLEETH and ARNETTA MCVANEY:
Marriage: Feb 18, 1864, Gilmer County, West Virginia

x. NARCISSA ANN SLEETH, b. Nov 07, 1838; m. JOHN BUSH, Jul 05, 1855, Gilmer County, West Virginia.

Notes for NARCISSA ANN SLEETH:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Notes for JOHN BUSH:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Marriage Notes for NARCISSA SLEETH and JOHN BUSH:
Source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About JOHN BUSH and NARCISSA SLEETH:
Marriage: Jul 05, 1855, Gilmer County, West Virginia

xi. CATHERINE SLEETH, m. WILLIAM COOKMAN.

Notes for CATHERINE SLEETH:
no children

17.  HENRY WALDECK10 SLEETH (CATHERINE9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Oct 11, 1800 in Fredericks County, Virginia, and died Jan 07, 1874 in Lewis County, Virginia.  He married MARY WYANT Nov 18, 1821 in Jackson's Mill, Lewis County, Virginia.  She was born May 24, 1802 in Pennsylvania, and died Mar 25, 1887 in Gilmer County, West Virginia.

Notes for HENRY WALDECK SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

1840-1842 to Indiana
His Occupation Farmer and local Methodist Minister
Event: Burial Location Minter-Bailey Farm by Rock Grove Baptist Church near Lynn, WV

More About HENRY WALDECK SLEETH:
Burial: Rock Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Linn, Gilmer County, West Virginia

Notes for MARY WYANT:
Wyant / Wiant
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About MARY WYANT:
Burial: Rock Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Linn, Gilmer County, West Virginia

More About HENRY SLEETH and MARY WYANT:
Marriage: Nov 18, 1821, Jackson's Mill, Lewis County, Virginia

Children of HENRY SLEETH and MARY WYANT are:
i. MAHALA11 SLEETH, b. Jan 03, 1824, Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia.

Notes for MAHALA SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

ii. RACHEL SLEETH, b. Aug 16, 1825.
iii. ELIZABETH JANE SLEETH, b. Dec 30, 1826.
iv. HENRY E. SLEETH, b. Nov 26, 1828.
v. DAVID ASA SLEETH, b. Jul 21, 1830; d. Apr 11, 1907; m. LUCINDA RADCLIFF, 1851, Virginia; b. Dec 1827; d. Mar 02, 1908.

More About DAVID SLEETH and LUCINDA RADCLIFF:
Marriage: 1851, Virginia

vi. SARA ANN SLEETH, b. Apr 28, 1832.
vii. LOUISA SLEETH, b. Jul 28, 1834.
viii. MARY ELLEN SLEETH, b. Jan 21, 1836.
ix. ADAM CLARK SLEETH, b. Oct 31, 1837, Lewis County, Virginia.

Notes for ADAM CLARK SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

x. JOHN MARION SLEETH, b. Jul 17, 1840, Roane County, West Virginia.

Notes for JOHN MARION SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

xi. NANCY SLEETH, b. Jun 12, 1842, Indiana.

Notes for NANCY SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

xii. MARGARET ISOBELL SLEETH, b. Feb 03, 1845.

18.  THOMAS JACKSON10 SLEETH (CATHERINE9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Jan 12, 1807, and died May 03, 1855 in Virginia.  He married (1) SUSAN BRINDLEY May 23, 1831.  She was born Nov 05, 1806.  He married (2) MARY WHITING Jul 15, 1851.  She was born May 22, 1818 in Sussex, England.

Notes for THOMAS JACKSON SLEETH:
Source:
Diane E. Younker  

More About THOMAS JACKSON SLEETH:
Burial: Rinehart Cemetery, Leading Creek, Virginia

Notes for SUSAN BRINDLEY:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About THOMAS SLEETH and SUSAN BRINDLEY:
Marriage: May 23, 1831

Notes for MARY WHITING:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About THOMAS SLEETH and MARY WHITING:
Marriage: Jul 15, 1851

Children of THOMAS SLEETH and SUSAN BRINDLEY are:
i. BRIZILLA LANIS11 SLEETH, b. Oct 01, 1846.
ii. LOUISA A. SLEETH, b. Sep 16, 1833.

Children of THOMAS SLEETH and MARY WHITING are:
iii. HENRIETTA JANE11 SLEETH, b. Jun 07, 1857.
iv. THOMAS PIERCE SLEETH, b. Mar 12, 1855.

19.  NANCY10 SLEETH (CATHERINE9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1813, and died Dec 06, 1870 in Lewis County, Virginia.  She married ALLEN SIMPSON Nov 03, 1831 in Lewis County, Virginia.  He was born Jun 30, 1805 in Lewis County, Virginia, and died Sep 12, 1891 in Lewis County, Virginia.

Notes for NANCY SLEETH:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

Notes for ALLEN SIMPSON:
date: source: Mary Ackerman-Lang < inmacres@todays-tech.com>
ancestry file

More About ALLEN SIMPSON and NANCY SLEETH:
Marriage: Nov 03, 1831, Lewis County, Virginia

Children of NANCY SLEETH and ALLEN SIMPSON are:
i. MARTHA ANN11 SIMPSON, b. Mar 11, 1833; d. May 29, 1838.
ii. LOUISA A. SIMPSON, b. Oct 21, 1834; d. Apr 27, 1926.
iii. FLORILLA SIMPSON, b. Nov 30, 1843; d. Oh..

20.  THOMAS10 BROWN (MARGARET9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Abt. 1791 in Harrison County, West Virginia, and died Bet. 1840 - 1850.  He married MARTHA STALNAKER 1813 in Harrison County, West Virginia.  She was born 1799 in Lewis County, West Virginia, and died May 1861.

Notes for THOMAS BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook
Ancestral File Number: 19P3-PJ5
Children
Lemuel E BROWN b: 1820 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA
William Harrison BROWN b: Abt 1830 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA
Elizabeth BROWN b: Abt 1831 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA
Sarah BROWN b: Abt 1831 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA
Alexander BROWN b: Abt 1833 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA
Bassel BROWN b: 10 Mar 1835 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA
James BROWN b: Abt 1837 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA
Nancy BROWN b: Abt 1839 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA
Lucy BROWN b: Abt 1839 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA
Amanda BROWN b: Abt 1840 in Lewis County,West Virginia, USA

Notes for MARTHA STALNAKER:
Father: Samuel Stalnaker b: 1764 in Hampshire or Randolph Co., VA ( now WV )
Mother: Susannah Radcliff b: 1768 in Hampshire or Randolph Co., VA (now WV)

More About THOMAS BROWN and MARTHA STALNAKER:
Marriage: 1813, Harrison County, West Virginia

Children of THOMAS BROWN and MARTHA STALNAKER are:
i. LEMUEL E.11 BROWN, b. Abt. 1820, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for LEMUEL E. BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

ii. WILLIAM HARRISON BROWN, b. Abt. 1826.

Notes for WILLIAM HARRISON BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

iii. ELIZABETH BROWN, b. Abt. 1828, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for ELIZABETH BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

iv. SARAH BROWN, b. Abt. 1831, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for SARAH BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

v. ALEXANDER BROWN, b. Abt. 1833, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for ALEXANDER BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

vi. BASSEL BROWN, b. Mar 10, 1835, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for BASSEL BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

vii. JAMES BROWN, b. Abt. 1837, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for JAMES BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

viii. NANCY BROWN, b. Abt. 1839, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for NANCY BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

ix. LUCY BROWN, b. Abt. 1841, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for LUCY BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

x. AMANDA BROWN, b. Abt. 1843, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.

Notes for AMANDA BROWN:

Jackie McInnis   ancestry file
Source: Kurt Cook

21.  JOHN G.10 BROWN (MARGARET9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Sep 15, 1815 in Lewis County, West Virginia, and died Sep 16, 1906 in Allerton, Wayne County, Iowa.  He married (1) REBECCA NUTT Jan 01, 1838 in Lewis County, West Virginia.  She was born Nov 15, 1815 in Madison County, Ohio, and died 1864 in Hancock County, Illinois.  He married (2) SUSAN SEYBOLD8 1867.  She died 1901 in Kansas City, Jackson County,  Missouri.

Notes for JOHN G. BROWN:
Don McMurray    ancestry file
Mark Brown ancestry file

Living in Livingston Co., MO in 1880.

From the U.S. Census of 1840 for Lewis County, Virginia:

Males Females
<5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90 <5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90
Family left Lewis Co. WV between 1850-1860; based on census'; believed 1851.
A daughter married George M. Browning in Harmony Two., Hancock Co., IL.
(2) children died before 1880.
In1905, (10) children alive.

More About JOHN G. BROWN:
Burial: Big Springs, Wayne Co., IA

Notes for REBECCA NUTT:
name from Mark G. Brown
Don McMurray    ancestry file

dau of Abraham
Surname: Nutt\Hitt

John R. Carpenter has her birth as Lewis Co., WVa

More About JOHN BROWN and REBECCA NUTT:
Marriage: Jan 01, 1838, Lewis County, West Virginia

Notes for SUSAN SEYBOLD:
name from Mark G. Brown
Mark Brown
Overland Park, KS
mbrown19@kc.rr.com

More About JOHN BROWN and SUSAN SEYBOLD:
Marriage: 1867

Children of JOHN BROWN and REBECCA NUTT are:
i. MELISSA11 BROWN, b. Jan 15, 1847.

Notes for MELISSA BROWN:
Don McMurray    ancestry file

ii. MARCELLUS BROWN, b. Dec 05, 1838, Lewis, West Virginia; d. Jul 14, 1905, Jefferson Township, Wayne County, Iowa; m. REBECCA JANE LILLY, Mar 30, 1862, Wythe, Hancock County, Illinois; b. Jul 03, 1840, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio; d. Nov 14, 1928, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa.

Notes for MARCELLUS BROWN:
Don McMurray    ancestry file

To Denver, Hancock Co., IL in 1850.
To Wayne Co., IA in 1866.
A devote Methodist.
A township Trustee for 7 yrs. and a road supervisor.

MARCELLUS Brown. an enterprising farmer and stock-raiser,
-· residing on section 17, Jefferson Township, Wayne County., was born in Lewis County West Virginia
December 5, 1838, a son of John and Rebecca (Nutt) Brown, the father a native of the same ; 1 County as
our subject and now a resident of Livingston County Missouri, and the mother now deceased, she dying
in Hancock County Illinois, in 1864.
They were the parents of nine children of whom seven still survive our subject being the eldest : child.
He came with hisparents to Hancock County, Illinois in 1850 where he lived till October, 1866 when he came to
Wayne County and settled on his present : farm. Very little improvements had been made on his land at the
time of his settlment, but fifty acres being fenced and a : small log house built. He now has 200
acres under fine cultivation, with good residence,s and farm buldings. He has followed farming and stock-raising
with success since coming to this countV, and is at present devoting much attention to the raising of Holstein and
Hereford cattle.

March 30 1862, he was married to Rebecca. Lilly, daughter of Elijah and Nancy Cullumber Lilly the father
born in Fluvanna Virginia October 30, 1808 and the mother, a native of Madison County Ohio, born November 15,1815
Mrs. Brown`s father ,went with his parents to Ross County Ohio in 1817 making part of the distance in a cart drawn by two
horses, tandem sty le, completing the journey by boat. The Lilly family lived in Ross County twenty years then moved to
all Madison County, Ohio

Mrs. Brown was born July 3, 1840 she came with her parents to, Lagrange County, In. 1844 and to Hancock, County, Illinois,
when thirteen years of age, where she lived untill her marriage Her mother died in Hancock County, December8, 1864 and
her father is now making his home with our subject. Mrs. Brown is the only one living of a family of seven children she being
the only daughter Two of her brothers, Allen and Wesley, died in the Union army
while serving the there Country in the late war To Mr.and Mrs. Brown have been born
eight children, (,oI whom seven are still living William C., Perry A., Wesley O., Ira and P. Hattie E, Della M.
and Dora O. A daughter Mary, died at the age of four years,
Mr. Brown has served his township as trustee for many years, and also as road supervisor, besides holding other offices of
trust in his townsbip. Both he and his wife and Mr. Lilly are members of the United Brethren church.

1870 BROWN MARCELLUS Wayne County IA 320 Jefferson Township Federal Population Schedule IA 1870 Federal Census Index IA01844866

More About MARCELLUS BROWN:
Burial: Big Springs Cemetery, Wayne County, Iowa
Occupation: A township Trustee for 7 yrs. and a road supervisor
Religion: United Brethren Church

Notes for REBECCA JANE LILLY:
Don McMurray    ancestry file

To LaGrange, IN in 1844.
To Hancock Co., IL in 1853.
To Jefferson Twp., Wayne Co., IA in 1863.
To Allerton, Wayne Co., IA in 1893.

Father: Elijah LILLY b: 31 OCT 1808 in Fluvanna Co., VA
Mother: Nancy M. CULLUMBER b: 15 NOV 1815 in Madison Co., OH

More About REBECCA JANE LILLY:
Burial: Big Springs Cemetery, Wayne County, Iowa

More About MARCELLUS BROWN and REBECCA LILLY:
Marriage: Mar 30, 1862, Wythe, Hancock County, Illinois

iii. WASHINGTON PERRY BROWN, b. Dec 24, 1840, Lewis County, (West) Virginia; d. Aug 27, 1909, Allerton, Wayne County, Iowa; m. (1) FRANCIS HERRING, Mar 08, 1867, Illinois; m. (2) MARY P. RENO, Jul 28, 1901; b. Apr 19, 1841.

Notes for WASHINGTON PERRY BROWN:
Mark Brown ancestry file

More About WASHINGTON BROWN and FRANCIS HERRING:
Marriage: Mar 08, 1867, Illinois

Notes for MARY P. RENO:
Mark Brown ancestry file

Living in Allerton in 1905.
Albert Herring (ward) in 1900 census.

More About WASHINGTON BROWN and MARY RENO:
Marriage: Jul 28, 1901

iv. CAROLINE BROWN, b. 1843.
v. MATILDA M. BROWN, b. 1845.
vi. CALVIN BROWN, b. 1848, Lewis County, West Virginia.

Notes for CALVIN BROWN:
name and birthyear/place from Mark G. Brown

vii. DRUSILLA BROWN, b. 1851.
viii. ROSSITA BROWN, b. 1851, Wythe, Hancock County, Illinois.
ix. WILLIAM W. BROWN, b. 1854, Wythe County, Hancock, Illinois.

Notes for WILLIAM W. BROWN:
name and birthyear /place from Mark G. Brown

x. MARTHA J. BROWN, b. 1856, Wythe, Hancock County, Illinois; m. GEORGE M. BROWNING, Jan 07, 1874, Harmony Township, Hancock County, Illinois.

Notes for MARTHA J. BROWN:
name and birthyear/place from Mark G. Brown

More About GEORGE BROWNING and MARTHA BROWN:
Marriage: Jan 07, 1874, Harmony Township, Hancock County, Illinois

xi. MARY A. BROWN, b. 1859.
xii. PERCY W. BROWN, b. 1842.

Child of JOHN BROWN and SUSAN SEYBOLD is:
xiii. MANLEY11 BROWN9, b. 1872.

22.  DAVID E.10 BROWN (MARGARET9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Sep 09, 1801 in Virginia, and died Apr 05, 1889 in Ritchie County, West Virginia.  He married DEBORAH STALNAKER Feb 15, 1827.  She was born Nov 23, 1806 in Virginia.

Notes for DAVID E. BROWN:

name and birth/death dates places  from Mark G. Brown

July 1850:  Lewis Co., W. Va. census :  farmer

John M. Brown brought and rebuilt a mill near Hannadale, which he operated
from 1882-1912. Edward M. Brown rebuilt the old flour mill at Berea in
1890 and operated it for several years. The Browns came to Ritchie County
in 1854 from Lewis County, where the father, David E. Brown, had been a
millright and had helped to rebuild Jackson's Mill.
                  THE RITCHIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
SEPT/OCT 1974 NEWSLETTER VOL. II NO. IV

EARLY MILLS IN RITCHIE COUNTY

The following article is courtesy of:
THE RITCHIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
SEPT/OCT 1974 NEWSLETTER VOL. II NO. IV

EARLY MILLS IN RITCHIE COUNTY

Thomas Maley, son of Lawrence Maley, is recognized as teh pioneer miller of
Ritchie County. He erected the first mill about 1812, two miles north of
Harrisville on the North Fork of the Hughes river. Later Enoch Leggett
owned a mill on this same site, which was burned in 1871.

William Wells was the builder and owner of the second mill in this section,
which stood near the mouth of Bunnells Run. this mill was owned by three
generations of the Wells family.

Sugar Grove Mill, a flouring milll, was built in 1842 by Isaiah Wells, som
of William Wells. This mill stood less than a mile north of Harrisville
and was one of the most noted mills in West Virginia. A saw-mill and a
carding machine, the first in this section were operated in connection with
the grist mill.

The well known Webb Mill (Smithville) was one of the oldest landmarks in
the county, having been in operation as a grist mill - cabin fashion in 1812.

Tharp's Mill, which Timothy Tharpe erected as the first mill in Auburn was
a corn cracker with a saw mill added in 1849.

John Sinnett settled at the foot of the King Knob hill in 1824. Here he
erected the first and only powder mill that was ever in Ritchie County.
The mill was washed away after a few years.

Holbrook Mill was built in 1857 by Christopher Nutter and was destroyed
during the early days of the Civil War. The Holbrook Mill was then rebuilt
by the Brown family in the late 1860's by David E. Brown and his sons, John
M. Brown and Edward M. Brown.

John M. Brown brought and rebuilt a mill near Hannadale, which he operated
from 1882-1912. Edward M. Brown rebuilt the old flour mill at Berea in
1890 and operated it for several years. The Browns came to Ritchie County
in 1854 from Lewis County, where the father, David E. Brown, had been a
millright and had helped to rebuild Jackson's Mill.

The first grist mill at Burnt House was erected in 1882 by the Stalnaker
brothers, John R., Draper C., and Sanford.

William Pyles operated a water mill on Bonds Creek in 1850.

The first tannery in Ritchie County was erected in 1827 by Thomas
Chancellor. In 1839, it was bought by Zackquill Pierpoint, who operated it
until his death in 1882. The tannery was on the site of the Frank Patton
home (now owned by Mr. & Mrs. Ben Sweet.)

John Rawson was one of the earliest millers on Husher's Run. He first
owned a horse powered mill nd then later secured steam power and ran a
grist mill and saw mill combined. This mill was establised about 1830.

The first mill at Goffs was a water mill built by Perry Gainer and E. C. Goff.

Harmon Sinnett erected the first grist mill on Chevauxdefrise, about 1850.
This mill stood a little abouve the mouth of Chevauxdefrise on Indian
Creek. The mill was washed away twice by floods.

Hiram Sharpnack settled near the old CALIFORNIA HOUSE in 1848, where he
built and operated a flour mill. He was a skillful worker both in wood and
iron and a cabinet maker.

William McKinney was the owner of the first grist mill in what is now
Grant district (1823).

Jefferson Broadwater is credited with the first mill in Clay district about
1855 near Tollgare. He owned and operated this mill for 20 years and was
also the owner of the Valley Flouring Mill near Pennsboro.

Title: 1850 US Census - Lewis County, VA

Notes for DEBORAH STALNAKER:
name and birthdate from Mark G. Brown

Marriage Notes for DAVID BROWN and DEBORAH STALNAKER:
marriage date from Mark G. Brown
list of children from Mark G. Brown

More About DAVID BROWN and DEBORAH STALNAKER:
Marriage: Feb 15, 1827

Children of DAVID BROWN and DEBORAH STALNAKER are:
i. WILLIAM11 BROWN, b. Abt. 1829.
ii. MARY BROWN, b. 1832.
iii. EDWARD M. BROWN, b. 1834.
iv. SAMUEL BROWN, b. 1836.
v. GEORGE BROWN, b. 1838.
vi. CAROLINE BROWN, b. 1840.
vii. JOHN M. BROWN, b. 1842.
viii. ANDREW BROWN, b. 1844.

23.  MARY10 MCCALLY (SARAH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1779 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died Jul 07, 1856 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  She married JOHN BUYERS, son of ROBERT BUYERS and JEAN ARMOR.  He was born Nov 17, 1774 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died Jun 17, 1830 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for MARY MCCALLY:
gail burton ancestry file

Our John Wolf and wife, Mary McCally left WV about 1805 and went to Bath Twp. Greene Co. OH. There was quite a group that went that may have been following Rev. Cozad.
Anyway, this Nicholas McCally (below) from Ohio could be Mary's brother that also went to Ohio with this group. You need to send for his military record. And, look for him in 1812 pension records - by all spellings.

Nan Wolf
71532.734@compuserve.com

More About MARY MCCALLY:
Burial: Pequea Presbyterian Churchyard, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Notes for JOHN BUYERS:
gail burton ancestry file

Occupation: Served three terms in Pennsylvania legislature

Father: Robert BUYERS b: ABT 24 APR 1746 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Mother: Jean ARMOR b: ABT 28 JAN 1751/52 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

More About JOHN BUYERS:
Burial: Pequea Presbyterian Churchyard, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Children of MARY MCCALLY and JOHN BUYERS are:
i. ROBERT P.11 BUYERS, b. Abt. 1799.
ii. SARAH E. BUYERS, b. Apr 12, 1801.
iii. JOHN BUYERS, b. Oct 24, 1803.

24.  ELIZABETH10 MCCALLY (SARAH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Feb 12, 1781 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died May 18, 1818 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  She married ROBERT ARMOR BUYERS Dec 30, 1802, son of ROBERT BUYERS and JEAN ARMOR.  He was born Feb 22, 1778 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died Aug 19, 1816 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for ELIZABETH MCCALLY:
Kelly Shaw   ancestry file

On the Death of My Robert
Unhappy days with wat a dismal light Host thou appear to my afflicted
sight; In vain the cheerful spring returns with thee, There is no
future cheerful spring for one, while my Alexes withers in the tomb,
Untimely cropt, nor sees a second bloom, The fairest season of the
chainging year, A wild and wintry aspect sees to wean, The flowers no
more their former beauth boast, Their painted hue, and fragrant scents
are lost, The joyous birds their hramony prolong, But Ol'g find no
musick in their song ye mosty caves, ye groves and silver streames, Ye
verdant fields, no more no more your lands rapes please Nor give my soul
one interval of ease. Tranquility and pleasure fly you shades, and
restless care your solitude invades, Nor the still evening, nor the rosy
dawn, Nor moon light glimmering o'er the dewey lawn, Nor stars, nor sun,
my gloomy fancy cheer, but heaven and earth a dismal prospect wear; That
housr that snatched Elaxes from my arms, Rent from the face of anture all
its charmes. Unhappy days be sacred still to grief, A grief too
obstinate for all relief. On thee my face shall never wear a smile, No
joy on thess shall ever my heart geguile, Why does the light again my
eyes molest; Why am I not with thee dear youth at rest; When shall I
stretch upon my desty bed, Forget the toiles of life and mingl with the
Dead.

More About ELIZABETH MCCALLY:
Burial: Pequea Presbyterian Churchyard, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Notes for ROBERT ARMOR BUYERS:
Father: Robert BUYERS b: 25 Apr 1746 in Lancaster, Salisbury twp, PA
Mother: Jean ARMOR b: 28 Jan 1751/52 in Lancaster, Salisbury twp, PA

Kelly Shaw   ancestry file

More About ROBERT BUYERS and ELIZABETH MCCALLY:
Marriage: Dec 30, 1802

Children of ELIZABETH MCCALLY and ROBERT BUYERS are:
i. JEAN11 BUYERS, b. Nov 22, 1803.
ii. SARAH MARIA BUYERS, b. Aug 14, 1805, Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for SARAH MARIA BUYERS:
Kelly Shaw   ancestry file

iii. JOHN MCCALLY BUYERS, b. Nov 07, 1807.
iv. JAMES ARMOR BUYERS, b. Dec 12, 1809, Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for JAMES ARMOR BUYERS:
Kelly Shaw   ancestry file

25.  ELIZABETH10 CARPENTER (DAVID9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Bet. 1790 - 1795 in Harrison County, West Virginia.  She married JOHN N. LOUDIN Feb 20, 1814 in Harrison County, West Virginia.  He was born 1793 in Hastings Run, Harrison County, West Virginia, and died 1852 in Harrison County, West Virginia.

Notes for ELIZABETH CARPENTER:
Ruth L Steach -email rlsteach@bossig.com

Notes for JOHN N. LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file
Father: John LOWDEN b: Bet 1747 and 1757 in Ulster , Ireland
Mother: Sarah LINDSEY b: Bef 1765 in England or New Jersey

Marriage Notes for ELIZABETH CARPENTER and JOHN LOUDIN:
Source:  marriage date/place and list of children
Cathy Brooks --gencircles " Cutright Ancestry"  

source: Dick Carpenter 8-20-2002
has marriage as 2-14-1814

More About JOHN LOUDIN and ELIZABETH CARPENTER:
Marriage: Feb 20, 1814, Harrison County, West Virginia

Children of ELIZABETH CARPENTER and JOHN LOUDIN are:
i. EMILENE11 LOUDIN, b. Bet. 1814 - 1815, Harrison County, West Virginia.

Notes for EMILENE LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

ii. DAVID C. LOUDIN, b. Mar 07, 1815, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. Oct 28, 1883, Palace Valley, Randolph County, West Virginia; m. MARY E. GREENE, Dec 22, 1835, Harrison County, West Virginia; b. 1819, Virginia; d. Bet. Sep 191 - 1888, Palace Valley, Randolph County, West Virginia.

Notes for DAVID C. LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

More About DAVID C. LOUDIN:
Burial: Sugar Grove, Czar, West Virginia

Notes for MARY E. GREENE:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

More About MARY E. GREENE:
Burial: Sugar Grove, Czar, West Virginia

Marriage Notes for DAVID LOUDIN and MARY GREENE:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

More About DAVID LOUDIN and MARY GREENE:
Marriage: Dec 22, 1835, Harrison County, West Virginia

iii. SARAH LOUDIN, b. 1816, Harrison County, West Virginia; d. 1884; m. DAVIS HARRISON RIDER, 1836.

Notes for SARAH LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

More About DAVIS RIDER and SARAH LOUDIN:
Marriage: 1836

iv. MARY POLLY LOUDIN, b. Bet. 1820 - 1825, Harrison County, West Virginia.

Notes for MARY POLLY LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

v. CATHERINE LOUDIN, b. 1824.

Notes for CATHERINE LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

vi. NICHOLAS CARPENTER LOUDIN, b. May 01, 1825.

Notes for NICHOLAS CARPENTER LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

vii. WESLEY LOUDIN, b. Bet. 1825 - 1830.

Notes for WESLEY LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

viii. RACHEL ANN LOUDIN, b. 1830.

Notes for RACHEL ANN LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

ix. SAMUEL H. LOUDIN, b. 1838, Harrison County, West Virginia.

Notes for SAMUEL H. LOUDIN:
Source: Cathy Brooks  ancestry file

26.  CATHERINE10 CARPENTER (JOHN9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1794 in Harrison County, West Virginia, and died Apr 20, 1862 in Fulton County, Ohio.  She married CHRISTIAN SIPE Oct 16, 1817 in Greene County, Ohio, son of PETER SIPE and BARBARA TROYER.  He was born 1784, and died 1844 in Holmes County, Ohio.

Notes for CATHERINE CARPENTER:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

More About CATHERINE CARPENTER:
Burial: Dutch Ridge Cemetery, Fulton County, Ohio

Notes for CHRISTIAN SIPE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

More About CHRISTIAN SIPE and CATHERINE CARPENTER:
Marriage: Oct 16, 1817, Greene County, Ohio

Children of CATHERINE CARPENTER and CHRISTIAN SIPE are:
i. LYDIA11 SIPE, b. Apr 03, 1821.

Notes for LYDIA SIPE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

ii. SAMUEL SIPE, b. 1825, Holmes County, Ohio; d. Bef. 1917; m. LYDIA KREIGER10, Sep 29, 1850, Holmes County, Ohio; b. Bet. 1826 - 1832, Ohio; d. Bef. 1925.

Notes for SAMUEL SIPE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

Leona BROWN
1181 E 1200 N Shelley, Idaho 83274

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Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Samuel SYPE   Self   M   Male   W   56   OH   Farmer   PA   PA
Leya SYPE   Wife   M   Female   W   48   OH   Keeps House   PA   PA
Susan SYPE   Dau   S   Female   W   19   OH   Works   OH   OH
Manasas SYPE   Dau   S   Female   W   16   OH      OH   OH
Samuel SYPE   Son   S   Male   W   14   OH   Laborer   OH   OH
John SYPE   Son   S   Male   W   12   OH   Laborer   OH   OH
Andrew SYPE   Son   S   Male   W   9   OH      OH   OH
Laah CREEGER   SisterL   S   Female   W   54   OH   Helps In Family   PA   PA

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Source Information:
 Census Place Fulton, Fulton, Ohio
 Family History Library Film   1255017
 NA Film Number   T9-1017
 Page Number   104A

More About SAMUEL SIPE and LYDIA KREIGER:
Marriage: Sep 29, 1850, Holmes County, Ohio

iii. BARBARA SIPE, b. Sep 09, 1828.

Notes for BARBARA SIPE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

iv. ELIZABETH SIPE, b. 1832.

Notes for ELIZABETH SIPE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

v. SUSANNAH SIPE, b. Mar 12, 1835.

Notes for SUSANNAH SIPE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

vi. MARY MAGDALENA SIPE, b. 1838.

Notes for MARY MAGDALENA SIPE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

vii. LANER SIPE, b. 1839.

Notes for LANER SIPE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

27.  DAVID B.10 CARPENTER (JOHN9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1794 in Harrison County, West Virginia, and died 1886 in Virgil City, Missouri.  He married ELIZABETH TONGUE Jun 27, 1827 in Logan County, Ohio, daughter of JOHN TONGUE.  She was born 1796 in Miami County, Ohio, and died 1871 in Missouri.

Notes for DAVID B. CARPENTER:
farmer --resided in Missouri
list of children / dates -.
from Don Ryan- ancestry file

Glen Edmison  ancestry file
places his birth in Ohio

Info from Jennifer Kellog posted on Ancestry.com Aug. 16 2003. See Jaackson Carpenter, in Portrait & Biographical Albun of Morgan and Scott Counties, Illinois, Chicago: Chapman Bros, Publishers, 1889. A miller by trade.

More About DAVID B. CARPENTER:
Migration: Bef. 1820, To Missouri
Occupation: Farmer

Notes for ELIZABETH TONGUE:

Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net > places her birth in Ohio
from Don Ryan- ancestry file

Glen Edmison  ancestry file
has her surname as Tongue --dau of John Tongue
b. abt 1795 Miami co., Ohio and died abt 1871 in Missouri

Marriage Notes for DAVID CARPENTER and ELIZABETH TONGUE:
Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net >
places the marriage in 1827

More About DAVID CARPENTER and ELIZABETH TONGUE:
Marriage: Jun 27, 1827, Logan County, Ohio

Children of DAVID CARPENTER and ELIZABETH TONGUE are:
i. JOHN A.11 CARPENTER, b. 1820, Missouri.
ii. JACKSON CARPENTER, b. Mar 07, 1831, Christianna Creek, Cass County, Michigan; m. FRANCES M. SHERWOOD, Nov 11, 1858, Oxville, Illinois; b. Feb 24, 1841, Clark County, Indiana.

Notes for JACKSON CARPENTER:
name from Don Ryan- ancestry file

Note: JACKSON CARPENTER, a retired miller and prominent resident of Oxville, has been largely identified with educational matters in Scott County, and served for some five years as County Superintendent of Schools. He is now a Justice of the Peace, which office he has held for a long period. He is a man of excellent education, strong constitution, and one of those substantial members of the community which form the bone and sinew of the social fabric. He has been accompanied for a long distance on the journey of life by a most estimable lady, refined and intelligent, and one who has uniformly been the supporter and encourager of her husband in all his worthy efforts.

Mr. Carpenter has met with his reverses like most men, and at one time lost a large amount of property, but is mostly recovered from the disaster, and now occupies a pleasant and comfortable home in the east part of town, with everything around him to make life desirable. A native of Cass County, Mich., he was born on Christian Creek, March 7, 1831, and is the son of David B. Carpenter, who was born in Virginia in 1794. His paternal grandfather, the Rev. John Carpenter, of Virginia removed to Indiana during its pioneer days, and settling in Elkhart County, engaged in farming and milling. Finally he removed to Goshen, and during his later years officiated as a local preacher.

The paternal great_grandfather of our subject was Nicholas Carpenter, a native of Germany (this is Wrong), who emigrated to America during the Colonial days, settled in Virginia, and was murdered by the Indian Chief Tecumseh, while driving cattle across the mountains. He had accumulated a good property. His father was a native of Germany, but removed to England, where he died. The father of our subject was born in Ohio, and like his honored sire, was a miller by trade. He left the Buckeye State at an early day, and journeyed overland to Cass County, Mich., where he took up Government land, built a mill, and operated this latter until his removal to Elkhart County, Ind. There also he carried on farming and milling, and became well_to_do. In 1856 he sold out and came to Scott County, this State, locating in Oxville Precinct, where he purchased 240 acres of land, upon which he operated until 1869. Then, pushing still further westward, he took up his abode near Virgil City, Mo., where he farmed for a time, but finally retired from active labor. He lived to a ripe old age, and was gathered to his fathers in 1886. He was a man of iron constitution and unbounded energy, possessing decided views both upon social and political questions. In politics, he was a conscientious Democrat, and in religious matters, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother was a Miss S. Wolfe, and her mother, a Miss Austin, a relative of Moses Austin, of Texas.

Mrs. Elizabeth (Tongue) Carpenter, mother of our subject, was born in Miami County, Ohio, and was the daughter of John Tongue, who removed to St. Joseph County, Ind., and from there later to a point near Oscaloosa. He was a farmer by occupation, and of Scotch descent. Mrs. Carpenter died in Missouri at the age of seventy_six years. The parental family included four children, all of whom are , viz: John A., of Crawfordville, Ind.; Jackson, our subject; Sarah, of Niles, Mich.; and Elizabeth, of Missouri.

Mr. Carpenter spent his boyhood and youth at his father's farm in Indiana, being two years old when taken there by his parents. He pursued his first studies in the district school, then attended the High school at South Bend three years, and was graduated. Then, returning to the farm, he occupied himself in agriculture and milling, with which latter business he has been especially familiar from a boy up. In 1856 he came to Illinois overland with a team, and established himself in the dry_goods business of Oxville. After three years he sold out, and erecting a large steam mill, purchased grain, which he ground and shipped in large quantities to St. Louis and Chicago. He also shipped grain from Naples, and was exceedingly prosperous until the financial crash of 1868, which proved very disastrous to him, as well as to hundreds of others. Mr. Carpenter now resumed farming in Oxville Precinct, and became quite prominent in local affairs, serving in many positions of trust and responsibility besides those already mentioned. On the 11th of November, 1858, he was married to Miss Frances M. Sherwood, a native of Indiana, the daughter of Samuel Sherwood, of Maryland. Mr. Sherwood was a farmer and carpenter, and removed from Indiana to Kentucky, where he operated a large tract of land until 1843. That year he came to Illinois and located in the vicinity of Oxville, where his death took place Jan. 8, 1845. He was the son of John Sherwood, likewise a native of Maryland, from which he removed to Fleming County, Ky., where he had a large estate and was a slave_holder. Mrs. Carpenter was one of three children born to her parents, all daughters, the eldest of whom, Rebecca J., died when eighteen years old; the younger daughter, Susan B., in a resident of Oxville, and now Mrs. John K. White.

The wife of our subject was born in Clark County, Ind., Feb. 24, 1841, and was a two years of age when her parents came to Illinois. She studied her first lessons in the primitive log school_house, and completed her education in Oxville, remaining with her parents until her marriage. Of her union with our subject there have been born two sons only: John A., who formerly taught school, and is now a merchant of Oxville, and Eugene S. Our subject is a Democrat, politically, and has held the offices of Township Trustee and County Superintendent, and also served on the Grand and Petit Juries. He is one of those solid men who have borne no unimportant part in the building up of their community, and has given his moral and substantial support to all measures calculated to elevate society and benefit the people.

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See Jaackson Carpenter, in Portrait & Biographical Albun of Morgan and Scott Counties, Illinois, Chicago: Chapman Bros, Publishers, 1889. A miller by occupatiion, Served as Superintendent of Schools for 5 years, and was a Justice of the Peace. Listed as a democrat, Township Trustee and County Superintendent of Schools, as well as serving on both Grand and Petit Juries. "He is one of those solid men who have borne no unimportant part in the building up of their community, and has given his moral and substantial support to all measures calculated to elevate society and benefit the people

Notes for FRANCES M. SHERWOOD:
name from Don Ryan- ancestry file

Marriage Notes for JACKSON CARPENTER and FRANCES SHERWOOD:
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More About JACKSON CARPENTER and FRANCES SHERWOOD:
Marriage: Nov 11, 1858, Oxville, Illinois

iii. SARAH CARPENTER, b. 1826, Missouri.

Notes for SARAH CARPENTER:
See Jaackson Carpenter, in Portrait & Biographical Albun of Morgan and Scott Counties, Illinois, Chicago: Chapman Bros, Publishers, 1889. Sarah lived in Niles MI at time of this writing.
Glenn Edmison  gedmison@aol.com / ancestry file
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2854315&id=I566595838

iv. ELIZABETH CARPENTER, b. 1829, Missouri.

28.  ELIAS10 CARPENTER (JOHN9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Dec 07, 1797 in Harrison County, West Virginia, and died Jun 20, 1860 in Syracuse, Kosciusko County, Indiana.  He married ELIZABETH HAGLE Jun 27, 1827 in Greene County, Ohio, daughter of ISAAC HAGLE and PRUDENCE POWERS.  She was born Mar 01, 1806 in Harrison County, West Virginia, and died Feb 21, 1880 in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for ELIAS CARPENTER:
Source:  Rootsweb file of Sandra --
Source: Terry Lee Carpenter  posting to Rootsweb

1850 census: he is county treasurer Elkhart co., Ind
1830-1840-1850 in Elkhart County, Indiana

source: Gary Silverstein
ancestry file
has his death as 6-26-1860 Syracuse, Ind

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More About ELIAS CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana
Office held: 1850, Elkhart County Treasurer

Notes for ELIZABETH HAGLE:
Source:  Rootsweb file of Sandra --

date/ place of death: Gary Silverstein   

Source: Linda Fager < teflin@juno.com> 8-9-2004
Sandra:    ancestry file
has her birth as 1795

More About ELIZABETH HAGLE:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for ELIAS CARPENTER and ELIZABETH HAGLE:

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Married: 1 MAR 1815 in LOGAN COUNTY OHIIO

More About ELIAS CARPENTER and ELIZABETH HAGLE:
Marriage: Jun 27, 1827, Greene County, Ohio

Children of ELIAS CARPENTER and ELIZABETH HAGLE are:
i. SARAH11 CARPENTER, m. TWILLINGER.

Notes for SARAH CARPENTER:

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Notes for TWILLINGER:

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ii. JOHN B. CARPENTER, b. Mar 15, 1830, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio; d. Jun 29, 1918, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; m. MARY JANE CARNS, Oct 27, 1854, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Aug 17, 1897, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for JOHN B. CARPENTER:
Source:  Rootsweb file of Sandra --
she has his birth as 1827 Marietta, Oh and married 5-17-1832  (possibly her birthdate ?)

: Edna
places his birth in Meigs county, Ohio

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More About JOHN B. CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Notes for MARY JANE CARNS:
Source: Linda Fager < teflin@juno.com> 8-9-2004
Sandra:    ancestry file

More About MARY JANE CARNS:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for JOHN CARPENTER and MARY CARNS:
source:  Terry L. Carpenter

Gary Silverstein
has marriage date as 5-16-1832

MARRIAGE:World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1, World Family
Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Brøderbund Software, INC., Release
date: August 22, 1996

More About JOHN CARPENTER and MARY CARNS:
Marriage: Oct 27, 1854, Elkhart County, Indiana

iii. GEORGE W. CARPENTER, b. Aft. 1830, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Mar 24, 1906, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; m. (1) SARAH BURNS, 1851, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Oct 22, 1855, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; m. (2) NANCY VAN HORN, 1858, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Jan 28, 1896, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for GEORGE W. CARPENTER:
Source: Terry Lee Carpenter  posting to Rootsweb
: Gary Silverstein    has his birth as 1850

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More About GEORGE W. CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Notes for SARAH BURNS:

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More About SARAH BURNS:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

More About GEORGE CARPENTER and SARAH BURNS:
Marriage: 1851, Elkhart County, Indiana

Notes for NANCY VAN HORN:
source:  Terry L. Carpenter

More About NANCY VAN HORN:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

More About GEORGE CARPENTER and NANCY VAN HORN:
Marriage: 1858, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

iv. ISAAC CARPENTER, b. 1834, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Sep 05, 1910, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; m. MARTHA MAYBEL; b. Sep 05, 1835; d. Feb 02, 1917, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for ISAAC CARPENTER:
1900 census:  Goshen, Elkhart Ind
Carpenter  Isaac   Oct 1833 Ind
        Martha J.     Sept 1835  Pa

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More About ISAAC CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Notes for MARTHA MAYBEL:
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More About MARTHA MAYBEL:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

v. CATHERINE CARPENTER, b. Mar 02, 1836, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Feb 05, 1921, Ripley Township, Holmes County, Ohio; m. GEORGE W. WACHTEL, Oct 01, 1855, Elkhart County, Indiana; b. 1827, Holmes County, Ohio; d. Jan 29, 1891, Washington Township, Holmes County, Ohio.

Notes for CATHERINE CARPENTER:

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Notes for GEORGE W. WACHTEL:
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Marriage Notes for CATHERINE CARPENTER and GEORGE WACHTEL:
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More About GEORGE WACHTEL and CATHERINE CARPENTER:
Marriage: Oct 01, 1855, Elkhart County, Indiana

vi. ELBRIDGE R. CARPENTER, b. 1840, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Jan 11, 1883, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for ELBRIDGE R. CARPENTER:

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More About ELBRIDGE R. CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

vii. LETITIA CARPENTER, b. 1843, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; m. CAPTAIN CHASE.

Notes for LETITIA CARPENTER:

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Notes for CAPTAIN CHASE:

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viii. DAVID ELIAS CARPENTER, b. Jan 10, 1847, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Aug 18, 1908; m. SARAH ANN HOUTZ, Dec 10, 1874, Elkhart County, Indiana; b. May 09, 1858, Pennsylvania; d. Jul 22, 1932, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Notes for DAVID ELIAS CARPENTER:
Gary Silverstein   
Jennifer Kellogg   ancestry file

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More About DAVID ELIAS CARPENTER:
Burial: Grace Lawn Cemetery, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana

Notes for SARAH ANN HOUTZ:
: Gary Silverstein   
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More About SARAH ANN HOUTZ:
Burial: Grace Lawn Cemetery, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana

More About DAVID CARPENTER and SARAH HOUTZ:
Marriage: Dec 10, 1874, Elkhart County, Indiana

29.  NICHOLAS LEE10 CARPENTER (JOHN9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Dec 09, 1803 in Weston, Harrison County, (West) Virginia, and died Feb 05, 1872 in Green Township, Marshall County, Virginia.  He married MARTHA TONGUE Jul 31, 1828 in Logan County, Ohio.

Notes for NICHOLAS LEE CARPENTER:
Sherri Phipps -- rootsweb file --- has birth as 9-12-1803
Source;  John R. Carpenter < jrcrin001@cox.net > ---has his birth as 1799

source: Gary Silverstein
ancestry file

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has his birth as about 1807 Ohio

Notes for MARTHA TONGUE:

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More About NICHOLAS CARPENTER and MARTHA TONGUE:
Marriage: Jul 31, 1828, Logan County, Ohio

Children of NICHOLAS CARPENTER and MARTHA TONGUE are:
i. JOHN S.11 CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1831.
ii. NICHOLAS A. CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1833.
iii. JOSEPH CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1836.
iv. SAMPSON M. CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1840.
v. WARREN J. CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1842.
vi. ANNY S. CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1847.

30.  MARY10 CARPENTER (JOHN9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1807 in Monongalia County, West Virginia, and died Oct 18, 1891 in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.  She married (1) MOSES MERCER.    She married (2) HAGLE.

Notes for MARY CARPENTER:
Jennifer Kellogg   ancestry file

Alias: /Polly/
World Family Tree Volume 4, Tree 3273 lists mother as Nancy Miller.

More About MARY CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Notes for MOSES MERCER:

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Notes for HAGLE:

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Children of MARY CARPENTER and MOSES MERCER are:
i. MILTON11 MERCER, d. Dec 17, 1896, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; m. OLIVE E. FRANEISEO, Jun 12, 1850, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Nov 26, 1914, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for MILTON MERCER:

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More About MILTON MERCER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Notes for OLIVE E. FRANEISEO:
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More About OLIVE E. FRANEISEO:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for MILTON MERCER and OLIVE FRANEISEO:
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More About MILTON MERCER and OLIVE FRANEISEO:
Marriage: Jun 12, 1850, Elkhart County, Indiana

ii. DAVID MERCER.

31.  ELIZABETH10 CARPENTER (JOHN9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1804 in Virginia, and died Mar 28, 1891 in Kosciusko County, Indiana.  She married ABRAHAM GALLENTINE Abt. 1830 in Indiana.  He was born May 03, 1804 in Ohio, and died Feb 12, 1855 in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for ELIZABETH CARPENTER:

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More About ELIZABETH CARPENTER:
Burial: Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana

Notes for ABRAHAM GALLENTINE:
Glen Edmison  ancestry file

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

Hi Linda, My name is George Gallentine. I recently visited the rootsweb site
where I found your information on the Gallentines. Just wanted to know if you
would be interested in exchanging information. You can reach me at
coanke@att.net. Thanks George
1-19-2005

More About ABRAHAM GALLENTINE:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

More About ABRAHAM GALLENTINE and ELIZABETH CARPENTER:
Marriage: Abt. 1830, Indiana

Children of ELIZABETH CARPENTER and ABRAHAM GALLENTINE are:
i. NICHOLAS11 GALLENTINE, b. 1832, Indiana; m. EMMA.

Notes for NICHOLAS GALLENTINE:
Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Nicholas GALENTINE   Self   M   Male   W   48   IN   Farmer   ---   ---
Emma GALENTINE   Wife   M   Female   W   33   IN   Keeps House   ---   ---
Norris D. GALENTINE   Son      Male   W   20   IN   Works On Farm   ---   ---
Allen GALENTINE   Son      Male   W   17   IN   At Home   ---   ---
Frank GALENTINE   Son      Male   W   14   IN   Home   ---   ---

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Source Information:
 Census Place District 103, Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
 Family History Library Film   1254297
 NA Film Number   T9-0297
 Page Number   84B

More About NICHOLAS GALLENTINE:
Census: 1880, Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
Occupation: 1880, Farmer

Notes for EMMA:
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ii. ELDRETH GALLENTINE, b. 1834, Indiana; m. LOTTA BLAIR, Apr 25, 1866, Elkhart County, Indiana; b. 1844, Indiana.

Notes for ELDRETH GALLENTINE:

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Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Eldred H. GALENTINE   Self   M   Male   W   46   IN   Clerk In Store   KY   VA
Lotta GALENTINE   Wife   M   Female   W   36   IN   Keeps House   PA   MI

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Source Information:
 Census Place Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
 Family History Library Film   1254297
 NA Film Number   T9-0297
 Page Number   77A

More About ELDRETH GALLENTINE:
Census: 1880, Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
Occupation: 1880, Clerk in a retail store

Notes for LOTTA BLAIR:

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More About ELDRETH GALLENTINE and LOTTA BLAIR:
Marriage: Apr 25, 1866, Elkhart County, Indiana

iii. ELIAS C. GALLENTINE, b. 1838, Indiana; d. Jan 08, 1912, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; m. (1) ELVIRA WELCH, Sep 1860, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Sep 01, 1877; m. (2) HARRIET B. CAREY, Jun 09, 1878, Marshall County, Indiana; b. 1847, Indiana.

Notes for ELIAS C. GALLENTINE:

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Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Elias GALENTINE   Self   M   Male   W   42   IN   Carpenter   KY   VA
Hattie B. GALENTINE   Wife   M   Female   W   33   IN   Keeps House   PA   NY
Phillippe GALENTINE   Son   S   Male   W   16   IN   Laborer   IN   IN
Charles GALENTINE   Son   S   Male   W   13   IN   At Home   IN   IN
Willie A. GALENTINE   Son   S   Male   W   4   IN      IN   IN
Clara CAREY   SDau   S   Female   W   12   IN   At Home   OH   IN

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Source Information:
 Census Place Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
 Family History Library Film   1254297
 NA Film Number   T9-0297
 Page Number   75B

More About ELIAS C. GALLENTINE:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana
Census: 1880, Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
Occupation: 1880, Carpenter

Notes for ELVIRA WELCH:
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More About ELVIRA WELCH:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for ELIAS GALLENTINE and ELVIRA WELCH:
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More About ELIAS GALLENTINE and ELVIRA WELCH:
Marriage: Sep 1860, Elkhart County, Indiana

Notes for HARRIET B. CAREY:
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Marriage Notes for ELIAS GALLENTINE and HARRIET CAREY:
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More About ELIAS GALLENTINE and HARRIET CAREY:
Marriage: Jun 09, 1878, Marshall County, Indiana

iv. MILTON MELTON GALLENTINE, b. 1841, Indiana; d. Elkhart County, Indiana; m. MARY J. RODEBAUGH, Nov 15, 1864, Elkhart County, Indiana; b. 1848, Indiana; d. Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for MILTON MELTON GALLENTINE:

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Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Milten M. GALLENTINE   Self   M   Male   W   39   IN   Farmer   OH   OH
Mary J. GALLENTINE   Wife   M   Female   W   32   IN   Keeping Hous   OH   OH
Lotte E. GALLENTINE   Dau   S   Female   W   12   IN   At Home   IN   IN
Anna G. GALLENTINE   Dau   S   Female   W   9   IN   At Home   IN   IN

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Source Information:
 Census Place Jackson, Elkhart, Indiana
 Family History Library Film   1254275
 NA Film Number   T9-0275
 Page Number   363D

More About MILTON MELTON GALLENTINE:
Burial: Baintertown Cemetery, Elkhart County, Indiana
Census: 1880, Jackson, Elkhart, Indiana
Occupation: 1880, Farmer

Notes for MARY J. RODEBAUGH:
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More About MARY J. RODEBAUGH:
Burial: Baintertown Cemetery, Elkhart County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for MILTON GALLENTINE and MARY RODEBAUGH:
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More About MILTON GALLENTINE and MARY RODEBAUGH:
Marriage: Nov 15, 1864, Elkhart County, Indiana

v. ALLEN GALLENTINE, b. 1845, Indiana.

Notes for ALLEN GALLENTINE:
Other Information:
   Birth Year <1845>
   Birthplace IN
   Age 35
   Occupation Jeweler
   Marital Status S
   Race W
   Head of Household James GALENTINE
   Relation Brother
   Father's Birthplace KY
   Mother's Birthplace VA

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 Source Information:
   Census Place Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
   Family History Library Film 1254297
   NA Film Number T9-0297
   Page Number 76C

More About ALLEN GALLENTINE:
Census: 1880, Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
Occupation: 1880, JEWELER

vi. SARAH GALLENTINE, b. 1845, Indiana; m. GEORGE BAYLOR.

Notes for SARAH GALLENTINE:

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Notes for GEORGE BAYLOR:

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vii. JAMES GALLENTINE, b. 1847, Indiana; m. CLARA; b. 1859, Pennsylvania.

Notes for JAMES GALLENTINE:
Other Information:
   Birth Year <1845>
   Birthplace IN
   Age 35
   Occupation Jeweler
   Marital Status S
   Race W
   Head of Household James GALENTINE
   Relation Brother
   Father's Birthplace KY
   Mother's Birthplace VA

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 Source Information:
   Census Place Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
   Family History Library Film 1254297
   NA Film Number T9-0297
   Page Number 76C

More About JAMES GALLENTINE:
Census: 1880, Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana
Occupation: 1880, works in a Flour Mill

32.  JOHN10 CARPENTER (JOHN9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Jul 20, 1812 in Ohio, and died Aug 12, 1854 in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.  He married SARAH REPLOGLE May 17, 1832 in Elkhart County, Indiana.  She was born 1813 in Ohio, and died in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for JOHN CARPENTER:
Source:
Rootsweb file of --Sandra --
Glen Edmison  ancestry file  (has his death as abt 1837)

No this JOhn Jr married to Sarah Replogle died, 8-12-1854 He was 42y 23 d, He is buried in Oak Ridge Cem. along with his daugther Eliza J. 2-18-1851 8y.
They are buried in Section 18 Row 36 Spaces 1 &2.

More About JOHN CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Elkhart, Indiana

Notes for SARAH REPLOGLE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

More About JOHN CARPENTER and SARAH REPLOGLE:
Marriage: May 17, 1832, Elkhart County, Indiana

Children of JOHN CARPENTER and SARAH REPLOGLE are:
i. ELIZA J.11 CARPENTER, b. 1844, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana; d. Feb 18, 1851, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

Notes for ELIZA J. CARPENTER:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

More About ELIZA J. CARPENTER:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Elkhart, Indiana

ii. DAVID CARPENTER, b. 1833.
iii. AMY CARPENTER, b. 1835.
iv. ALONZO CARPENTER, b. 1836; d. Abt. 1861; m. SARAH REPLOGLE.

Notes for ALONZO CARPENTER:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

Notes for SARAH REPLOGLE:

Linda Fager    8-22-2004

v. ELIZABETH CARPENTER, b. 1839.
vi. MARTIN CARPENTER, b. 1842.
vii. LEWIS CARPENTER, b. 1847.
viii. JACOB CARPENTER, b. 1849.

33.  JOHN BURRIS10 CLEMANS (ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1801 in Harrison County, W. Virginia, and died Feb 28, 1855 in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.  He married (1) HESTER ANN HARSH.    He married (2) ALMIRA PERRY Nov 24, 1831 in Logan County, Ohio.  She was born Nov 16, 1821, and died Aug 11, 1848 in Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for JOHN BURRIS CLEMANS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

Roberta Wunder
Bought 160 acres of land in Logan County, Ohio document Nr 3686, 2-15-1836
Bought land in Fulton Co., Ind document Nrs 10441 and 10445 both 8-20-1838
Occupation: farmer

Notes for HESTER ANN HARSH:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

Notes for ALMIRA PERRY:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

dates: Roberta Wunder
age at death 26 years 8 months 27 days

More About ALMIRA PERRY:
Burial: Hoover cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for JOHN CLEMANS and ALMIRA PERRY:
Roberta Wunder

More About JOHN CLEMANS and ALMIRA PERRY:
Marriage: Nov 24, 1831, Logan County, Ohio

Children of JOHN CLEMANS and ALMIRA PERRY are:
i. ELIZABETH11 CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1833, Logan County, Ohio; d. Abt. 1858.

Notes for ELIZABETH CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-2-2003

ii. JACKSON CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1834, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aft. 1894, Missouri.

Notes for JACKSON CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-2-2003

Do you know anything about John Burris' son, Jackson, killing his uncle Arnold Perry? Do you know anything about the Perry family? John Burris Clemans was married to Almira Perry.

Source: Roberta Wunder 1-2-2003

Fulton County Indiana
Feb term AD 1858
State cases #1
The State of Indiana vs JAckson Cemmons; indictment for murder; warrants issued 5-28-1853
9-26-1853, 3-20-1854; 9-15-1854; 3-8-1855
in every instance returned "not found"

iii. WILLIAM HARRISON CLEMANS, b. May 18, 1836, Logan County, Ohio; d. Mar 02, 1922, Bloomington, Franklin County, Nebraska; m. MARTHA HUTCHINSON, Nov 06, 1864, Peru, Nemaha County, Nebraska.

Notes for WILLIAM HARRISON CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-2-2003

Notes for MARTHA HUTCHINSON:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-2-2003

Marriage Notes for WILLIAM CLEMANS and MARTHA HUTCHINSON:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-2-2003

More About WILLIAM CLEMANS and MARTHA HUTCHINSON:
Marriage: Nov 06, 1864, Peru, Nemaha County, Nebraska

iv. JOHN CLEMANS, b. Nov 20, 1837, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Feb 28, 1900, Peru, Nemaha County, Nebraska.

Notes for JOHN CLEMANS:
source: : Roberta Wunder

v. JANE CLEMANS, b. Aft. 1839, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Aft. 1858.

Notes for JANE CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder

vi. MARION CLEMANS, b. Sep 18, 1842, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Aft. 1894.

Notes for MARION CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder

vii. HARVEY CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1845, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Nov 26, 1866, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for HARVEY CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder

Military:  Co D 87th Indiana Infantry

More About HARVEY CLEMANS:
Burial: Hoover cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

34.  MARY POLLY10 CLEMANS (ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Abt. May 01, 1805 in Harrison County, West Virginia, and died May 29, 1871 in Fulton County, Indiana.  She married GEORGE MOORE May 02, 1827 in Miami Township, Logan County, Ohio, son of GEORGE MOORE and NANCY BALL.  He was born Jul 20, 1789, and died Jun 07, 1855 in Athens, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for MARY POLLY CLEMANS:
known as "Polly"
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

place of burial / date of death
Roberta Wunder
died at age of 66 years, 28 days

More About MARY POLLY CLEMANS:
Burial: Hoover cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for GEORGE MOORE:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  
Dates Source: Roberta Wunder

census records  LDS film #444697   Logan County, Ohio
harrison Twp., Dist 87  Enumeration date 7-12-1850  page 161
dwelling 68, family 68
George Moore, age 61  male, farmer ,  real estate $1500  b. Va.
    mary ate 45,  female b. Va./
Daniel  age 22, male, farmer , b. Va
mary   age 20, female b, Va
Elizabeth age 18, female b, Oh
Thomas  age 16 male, farmer, b. Oh  attended school
Sarah age 14, female b. Oh  attended school
Isaac  age 11, male b. Oh  attended school
Angaletta  age 9, female b., Oh  attended school
David   age 8, male b. Oh  attended school

Fulton Co., Ind cemetery inscriptions  page 512
Hoover's cemetery --row 15, East Section,  Mary Moore (2nd) wife of G. Moore died 5-29-1871 at age of 66y 28 dy (note: marker by Furlong and Son, Warsaw Ind) Moore George, 7-20-1789 to 6-7-1855 at age 65 y 10 mo 18 da  (note top part is missing.  marker by E.S. Morris) ( note George Moore and Daniel B. Moore confirmed administrators of the estate of George Moore, and an order was made to seel at private sale.  &-12-1855 ref: Fulton Co., Ind Docket A  1838-1856 (Fulton Co courts pp 448-449)

Guardianship of minor heirs of George Moore, Final report, filed 3-8-1864
Robert Athen  clerk
The state of Indiana, Fulton County} in the Fulton Court of Common Pleas  April term 1864
In the Matter of the guardianship of the minor heirs of George Moore deceased} Final report

The undersigned David Clemmens guardian fo the persons and property of Isaac Moore, Angeletta Moore, and David Moore minor heirs of George Moore late of Fulton County in the state of Indiana
deceased  would respectfully submit the following final report for confirmation and allowance. I am chargable with cash belongings to the minors that have come into my hand $26.oo. I claim credit for cash paid out on behalf of said minors per receipt filed herewith $21.76./ Balance in my hands of $4.24
Said minors are the owners of the undivided 3/8 of 120 acres of ? corner being a portion of the North half of section 15 in township 30 North, RAnge 4 East, lying in Fulton County? and most of the money which I have paid out as such guardian has been for taxes on said land, said corner is wholly unimproved and unproducing of rents, said minors are each now of the full age of 21 years, the above statement of $4.24 is all the property of any kind belonging to said minors remaining in my hands. I have never uncurred any allowance for my services as such guardian and I ask the court to allow me to retain their balance as a part compensation for my services. I ask the court to accept his paper as a final settlement of account in this matter and to discharge me from all further duty or responsibility as such guardian,  David Clemmans --his mark.

More About GEORGE MOORE:
Burial: Hoover cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for MARY CLEMANS and GEORGE MOORE:
Source: Roberta Wunder

license inssued to George Moore and Polly Celmans 4-27-1827.  The state of Ohio, Logan County.
I certify that on this 2nd day of May 1827 I joined together in the holy state of Matrimony George Moore and Polly Clemans. Given under my hand this 4th day of June 1827.  Wm Douglas J>P>

More About GEORGE MOORE and MARY CLEMANS:
Marriage: May 02, 1827, Miami Township, Logan County, Ohio

Children of MARY CLEMANS and GEORGE MOORE are:
i. DANIEL11 MOORE, b. Abt. May 07, 1828, Virginia; d. Sep 20, 1859, Fulton County, Indiana; m. MARY ADELINE BURNS, Feb 01, 1857, Fulton County, Indiana; b. Dec 02, 1837, Wayne County, Indiana; d. Jul 21, 1911.

Notes for DANIEL MOORE:
Source: Roberta Wunder

excerpts from Fulton County Folks, Vol 2 page 531, DAniel Secor family by Dawn Secor Sheets
On 2-1-1857 Mary Adeline Burns married Daniel Moore and they had a son, John, and a daughter, Elizabeth. Daniel Moore died 9-20-1859 at age 31 and is buried in the Hoover cemetery at Athens

Fulton co Ind cemetery inscriptions --page 512 --Hoover cemetery, Henry Twp., Row 15 East section
More, Daniel B. died 9-20-1859 age 31 yr, 4m., 13 day

More About DANIEL MOORE:
Burial: Hoover cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for MARY ADELINE BURNS:
Source: Roberta Wunder

Marriage Notes for DANIEL MOORE and MARY BURNS:
Source: Roberta Wunder

More About DANIEL MOORE and MARY BURNS:
Marriage: Feb 01, 1857, Fulton County, Indiana

ii. MARY MOORE, b. Abt. 1830.
iii. ELIZABETH MOORE, b. Abt. 1832; m. J. BURNS.

Notes for ELIZABETH MOORE:
Source: Roberta Wunder

iv. THOMAS MOORE, b. Abt. 1834; m. EMELINE WAGONER, Oct 04, 1857, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for THOMAS MOORE:
Source: Roberta Wunder

Notes for EMELINE WAGONER:
Source: Roberta Wunder

Marriage Notes for THOMAS MOORE and EMELINE WAGONER:
Source: Roberta Wunder

More About THOMAS MOORE and EMELINE WAGONER:
Marriage: Oct 04, 1857, Fulton County, Indiana

v. SARAH JANE MOORE, b. Abt. 1836; m. LUTHER STRADLEY, Oct 19, 1856, Fulton County, Indiana; b. 1837; d. Mar 08, 1891.

Notes for SARAH JANE MOORE:
Source: Roberta Wunder

The Pezzi family 8-24-2002
I thought my Sara Jane Moore born 1834 in Ohio was daughter of your George. Family oral history had her as native american. Now I do believe that I am wrong after finding your website

1880 census (where the Stadleys moved from Indiana) to Illinois
she listed her parent from Ky and Va.

We have a family photo of her and that coupled with oral history clearly identifies her as Native American.  We have not been able to trace that anywhere or to anything recorded.  Do you have any such information?  Also she was born in Logan County Ohio.

Thanks for your help,
Gini Jones  (Virginia) javjones@pacbell.net      6-9-2003

Notes for LUTHER STRADLEY:
Source: Roberta Wunder

Stradley Luther, GAR post no 318, d. 3-8-1891 ae 53y, 6m, 5 dy
b. Indiana to Caleb Stradley -- was the first white child born in Henry Township fulton Co., Ind
he ahd a sister Margaret who married Philip Rader Jr. of Henry Twp FultonCo

Retail dealer of Fancy dry goods, groceries hardware, hats, caps ready-made clothing etc
store in building known as the Buckey Store in Rochester, Ind

CAleb STradley --Omega cemetery Henry Twp.
d. 12-17-1857  age 72 ye 17 day
m twice 1) Susan b. Delaware d. 1822  and 2) Sarah 1801-1849
Caleb Stradley of Elkart Co., In purchased 160 acres in Twpo 30N \r4e/ 12-10-1835 and on 1-20-1837 of Miami Co., Ind he purchased 40 acres in twp 30-N r4e all in Fulton Co., Ind
Source: Fulton Co Ind early tract book)
Caleb STradley and family were one of the first to locate in Henry Twp. in Feb 1836. His son, Luther, was the first white child born in that township
1850:
lists several of his children
Caleb Jr (idiotic) 26 b. Delaware d. 1851
Susanna E.  19 b. Oh  d. 1851
Peter  15 b. Ohio  d. 1851
Luther  12 b. Ind
2 more in household -- relationship not given (grandchildren??)
RAhcael  b. Ill  age 6
Sarah C.  b. Ind 1
CAlbe Sr had other children who were already married before the 1850 census
John Stradley b. ab 1809Md.
James H, Stradley b., 1821 Delaware

CAleb and Susan
Charles J. "Squire" Stradley  b. 10-14-1814 Kent Co., Delaware d. 3-11-1887 Rochester age 73
m. 1839 Helen Bennett d. 1848
m2: 1852 harriett Smith b. 1833 Oh
Ruhama "REw" 8-6-1846
Lyda  8-29-1853
Cynthia E  abt 1854
Minnie Laura B.  abt 1856
Charles J. 3-29-1863
Eddie 3-21-1865  --Historical Atlas Fulton Co by Kingman Bros 1883 page 26
1850-1860-1880 Fulton Co

Margaret STradley dau of Caleb
6-21-1827 Delaware m 12-18-1846 Philip Rader Jr
Charles Holiday 1847
Jacob Harrison 1849
CAleb Stradley 1850
Wm Nelson  1852 m. 1873 Nancy Jane Hine
SArah Elizabeth 1854 m, 1873  Joselph H, Nelson
Schuyler Colfax 1856 m 1875 mary Alice Teeter m 1914 Emma Ferree
Albert Wilbur  1858  m 1880 Jennie Brown
Clara Luella 1864  m 1882 Wm Morrett
Sarah J. Stradley wife of C d. 6-27-1839 age 37y 8 m

Luther marreid SArah Jane Moore
Luther was a Cpl in Co D 87 reg. --historical atlas Fulton Co.,Ind  by Kingman Bros  1883, page 15

More About LUTHER STRADLEY:
Burial: Hoover cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for SARAH MOORE and LUTHER STRADLEY:
Book A page 490
Fulton Co., Ind

More About LUTHER STRADLEY and SARAH MOORE:
Marriage: Oct 19, 1856, Fulton County, Indiana

vi. ISAAC MOORE, b. Mar 10, 1839, Ohio; d. Dec 27, 1907, Fulton County, Indiana; m. (1) SARAH JANE BROWN, Apr 29, 1860, Fulton County, Indiana; b. Apr 22, 1839; d. Jun 23, 1871, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana; m. (2) SARAH ELIZABETH SNYDER, Jan 01, 1873, Fulton County, Indiana; b. May 25, 1846, Ohio; d. Apr 01, 1927, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for ISAAC MOORE:
Source: Roberta Wunder   robertawunder@earthlink.net  12-27-2002 e-mail contact

Birth dates of children obtained from Isaac's Bible and Fulton County birth records, Fulton County cemetery records

isaac served in the Civil War as a substitute for Welcome Nixon -- Henry Twp, Fulton Co., Ind
11-29-1864 at Michigan City, ind. His enlistment record describes Isaac as 25 years old. Blue eyes, light hair, 5ft 9 1/2 in tall.  He served as a private in Co B 9th Regiment Indiana Volunteers. He received an honorable discharge Sept 28, 1865 at Camp Stanley, Texas. He received a pension of $12. a month until his death. Certificate #479.418.  his widow Sarah E. Moore received a widow's pension certificate # 663825 can #54184 bundle #3

Enrollment of soldiers, widows and orphans in Fulton County 1894
Henry Township, page 6
Moore, Isaac --private --co B reg 9  Indiana volunteered P.O. Grant, Ind.
5 dependents -- contracted chronic diarrhea-- piles-- affection of the eye.

Fulton co Indiana school enumeration -- children of Isaac Moore
(provided by Robin Carr Morcombe --sister to Roberta Wunder)
1898 -- page 37 --- David  --age 16, male,  Clarence age 13 male, Retta 11 female, Chas age 8 male

1899  page 40  David age 15, male birthdate 2-7-84 birthplace Fultonco
                        Clarence age 14 male  birthdate 4-13-85  Fulton Co., Ind
                        Retha B.   age 12  female birthdate 1-17-86
                        William  age 18  male birthdate  3-5-80  Fulton Co

1900 page 44  district 5    William --male  birthdate 2-25-82 "out"
                                         David  male birthdate 2-7-83
                                         Clarence  male birthdate  4-13-187
                                          Chas male birthdate 3-7-90
                                         Retha B.  female  birthdate 4-13-87
1902  page 39  William age 18  birthdate 6-83  birthplace Henry Twp
                        Devoe  age 16  birthdate 7-85  birthplace Henry Twp
                        Clarence   age 15  birth 7-87  Henry Twp
                        Bertha  age 14  birthdate 2-88   Henry Twp
                        Chas   age 11 birth 8-90  Henry Twp
1903   page 39  Henry Twp    William  age 19  birthdate 6-83  Henry Twp
                         Dan   age 17 birth 7-85  Henry Twp
                         Clarence  age 16  birthdate  1-87  Henry Twp
                         Bertha  age 15  birth Henry twp
                         Chas  age 12   born 8-90  Henry Twp

NOTE:  birthdate are not consistent from year to year
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Transcript of Warranty Deed -- Isaac B. Russel and isaac Moore  Book P page 71

Isaac B. Russell}  Reed May 28th 1864, at 11 hr. am
to                           Warranty deed
Isaac Moore}
This indenture said deed withnesseth that Isaac B. Russell and Mary Russell his wife of Fulton County in the state of Indiana convey and warrant to Isaac Moore in Fulton County in the State of Indiana for the sum of $600 the following real estate in Fulton County in the state of Indiana : to wit: All his right title and interest in the south half of the east half of the south west quarter of section #8 in Township #301 North of Ranger #4 East.  Containing 40 acres more or less. In witness whereof the said Isaac B. Russell and Mary Russell his wife have hereunto set their hands and seals this 25th day of mar 1864.
Isaac B. Russell --seal
Mary Russell her mark/ her seal

The state of Indiana Fulton County
Before me George H. Bright, a Justice of the peace in and for said county this 25th day of mar 1864
CAme Isaac B. Russell and mary Russel his wife and acknowledged the execution of the annexed deed.
Witnesseth my hand and official seal   George H. Bright --justice of the peace
Duly entered for taxation 5-28-1864  A. J. Hoinies A.,Y.C  I testify that the deed of which the above is a true copy was duly stamped as handed by act and recorded 5-28-1864
Milo R. Smith  RYC
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#1483  Estate of isaac Moore - deceased-- petition, affidavits, inventory and apraisements for settlement without administration. Box 89B Filed in Open court 6-1-1909  Edward E. Murphy

STate of Indiana, Fulton County, sct: the undersigned, appointed to appraise the estate of Isaac Moore
deceased, late of said county and state, swear that the foregoing contains a true and complete inventory of all the personal and real estate of said decedant subject to administration, which has been exhibited to us or has come to our knowledge, and a true valuation and appraisal thereof.
David B. Clevenger
Joseph McIntire
subscribed and sworn to before me this 3rd day of June 1909
Edward E. Murphy, Clerk
Circuit Court Fulton County

STate of Indiana  Fulton County  sct:
The undersigned widow of Isaac Moore deceased, late of said county and state, on oath says that to the best of her knowledge and belief, the foregoing inventory and appraisement contains a true and complete statement of all the estate, both real and personal owned by said decedent at the time of his death, other than the articles by law exempt from administration
Attens JH Bibler    Sarah E (her mark) Moore
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3rd day of June 1909
Edward E. Murphy , clerk

Inventory of Estate worth $500, or less
State of Indiana, Fulton
The undersigned shows that she is the widow of isaac Moore, deceased , late of said county and state that the estate of said decedent, subject to administration, both real and personal, is not, as she believed and avers,worth over the sum of $500, exclusive of legal encumbrances theron, wherefore, she asks that the same may be appraised and vested in her as such widow.
Dated this 3rd day June 1909
attest JH Bibler,   Sarah E. Moore (her mark)
The above petition filed by me this 3rd day June 1909
Edward E. Murphy , clerk

STate of Indiana  Fulton County
to DAvid Clevenger and Joseph McIntire of said county, greeting:
Wheras Sarah Moore, widow of Isaac Moore deceased, late of said county and state, has filed a petition, as shown above, setting forth that the estate of said decedent, subject to administration, both personal and real, is not worth more tha $500 exclusive of the legal encumbrances and asking an appraisement thereof.
Therefore I have appointed David Clevenger to act in concert with Joseph mcIntire selected by said widow (both dis-interested freeholders fo said county), as appraisers of the estate.
You will therefore proceed to inventory and appraise each solvent demand due the deceased, and each and every article of personal estate, other than those excempt by law from administration) and each tract of real estate, which inventory and appraisement, when completed, you will return, together withthis precept to this office.,
Witndess the clerk and seal of said court
6-3-1909  Edward e. Murphy  clerk

Appraisal was set at $400   and signed by DAvid B. Clevenger and Joseph McIntire

Death Certif --Fulton County Dept of Health --Rochester Ind
This is to certify that our records show Isaac Moore died 12-27-1907, Fulton County aged 68 sex male
color -White --married  primary cause of death given as Fatty degeneration of the heart
signed by J. Richards, Coroner Fulton Co., Ind
place fo burial Mt. Hope cem --burial 12-19-07  funeral director; Hoover,
recorded locally in book C-17  page 12-07  on the back of death certificate is  born 3-10-1839 in Ohio
father George Moore  mother mary Clemans

obituary--- Fri Dec 27, 1907 --- Rochester News Sentinel
A message from Athens says, Isaac Moore, the well known farmer, living east of there, was found dead in bed early this morning. Heart trouble is supposed to have been the cause of his demise -----Ike Moore
has been before the public several times in late years. He gained much notoriety throughout the county by being white capped twice several years ago, once having been tied up by his thums and whipped by 6 masked men until he was unconscious. The cause of all of this was his mistreatment of his wife. He drove her out of the house, one cold winter morning, with nothing on her feet. He lay in the jail here at one time, for many months on a surety of the peace conviction at the instance of his much abused wife
Moore was an eccentric old character and an honorably discharged soldier of the Civil wAr. He was always a terror in his family and would go for months, one for a year, without speaking to his wife or any of his children. Some people thought that he was mentally deficient but in a general way he was bright enough and was once a candidate for the republican nomination for sheriff. ---- He was about 70 years old and leaves a wife and 9 children.  The funeral will be Sunday at 1:00 at Athens

From Fulton County, Handbook Vol. M --Jean and Wendall Tombaugh
Moore, Ike (Athens, Ind)  Masked Men whip Ike Moore
12 Men, armed with guns, revolvers, rope and hickory switches adn teh features of their faces completely hidden behind pillow slip masks, broke open the bed room door fo Isaac Moore's home, 1 mile East of Athens, at midnight, Mon night, pulled the old man out of bed and after tying his hands securely dragged him to his buggy shed 100 feed away and lashed him until his back, breast, arms, and legs were one mass of bleeding wounds.
5 men entered the house by forcing the door and dragged him out of bed, 2 of the men held him by his arms and another tied them together with hemp rope. While this was being done, others choked, pinched, kicked and otherwise tormented him until he was bery furious with rage. When he was securely bound he was carried and dragged to the barn lot, where a rope attached to his arms was thrown over a crosspiece and he was pulled up until his toes just reached the ground.
The whipping was then started and teh men took turn about in beating the old man. One would do the laying on of the whips until tired out and then another would begin. This kind of treatment was kept up for about 10 minutes. Almost the entire back and sleeves of the old man's shirt was torn out or into shreds. The white-caps adjourned to the yard and tehre, after shooting several times, and sounding a yell equal to a band of Indians, they dispersed.
Moore was unable to sleep on account of the pain and when called upon by a Sentinel man, this morning, said they had almost killed him. He wears a heavy beard of gray reddish colora nd it was a perfect mass of clotted blood, while in many places were scratches and bruises. He complained of severe pains in his left side and said "one of the men jumped on me when they were tying my hands and it made me deathly sick. I began to vomit blood and the carpet all over the bedroom is badly stained, My head aches and I can only be on my feet a few minutes at a time, and then I become dizzy.
My back and arms cause me much agony and wherever my clothes touch it is just like sitting on fire."
Mr Moore then hobbled out to the barn lot and explained how and where they had committed the assult, and pointed out a large number of hickoty switches, broken to pieces and strewn about on the ground. When asked if he recognized any of his assialants , he said he did, but refused to give their names as he intends to prosecute them. "I told them," he said, " as they whipped me, that I would get every devil of them and they would pay dearly for their treatment."
In reply to the question."Why did they commit the assault" he explained that he and his wife had been having a little trouble, but his story and that of his wife do not tally in detail. Mrs. Moore was questioned and said, "My husband has been treating me most shamefully for the past 2 weeks, and not only that, but has broken up a large part of the dishes and whipped me and the children, he has also acted shamefully immoral with me in presence of the children."
A number of the neighbors were calledon and each told a story of brutality. Moore is said to be a good neighbor and bright and honest in his business relations with them. His faults, however, are of a domestic nature and it is said he has treated his family like beasts, at different times for the past 15-20 years. For several months he will be as good a father and husband as could be desired, then he will get angry at some trivial offense and for the next several days or weeks he will be most cruel and brutal toward his family. Several years ago he whipped and beat his wife and she started prosecution, which would have dealt with him quite severely, had the children not persuaded her to withdraw the suit, which she did. His last cruel spell began about a week ago, the neighbors say, and has been worse than any previous one. His wife had told the neighbors shocking things of him and the little children dreaded to see night come. There are many ugly rumors afloat in the neighborhood concerning Moore. Among them is one that he has made attempts to debauch a 14 year old daughter, but he denies this.
Moore accuses his wife and 21 year old son fo knowing that the whipping was planned and being in league with the white cappers in concocting the assault. He bases his accusation on the fact that they remained in bed and made no attempt to assist him to repel the mob. Mrs. Moore, however, says she knew nothing of it, but had suspected as much and said that the neighbors told her if he (Moore) did not behave himself, they would take matters into their own hands.
Last Sat., it is said, he drove his wife from their home because she would not tell him where she had hid the family supply of lard, which he wished to sell. he would not allow her to re-enter for several hours, adn she was forced to stay out in the rain, with no clothing, except a light calico dress to protect her from the bad weather.
Moore has lived on his little 7 acre place, east of Athens, for the last 40 years. He was a member of Co B 9th Ind. regiment and served 1 year during the Civil War for which service he now receives a pension of $10 per month.
The present Mrs. Moore is his second wife, and they were married about 30 years, ago. It was impossible to learn how many children they had, except that there were 4 at home and several married.
Note:  White-cappers refer to the Klu Klux Klan

More About ISAAC MOORE:
Burial: Mt. Hope Cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for SARAH JANE BROWN:
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More About ISAAC MOORE and SARAH BROWN:
Marriage: Apr 29, 1860, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for SARAH ELIZABETH SNYDER:
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Partition of Lands of Sarah J. Moore deceased
Be it remembered that heretofore on the 14th day of Feb 1884 Isaac Moore filed in the office of the Clerk of the Fulton Circuit court his petition for partition in the following described cause which petition is in the words to wit:
The State of Indiana county of Fulton} In the Fulton Circuit court Feb term 1884
Isaac Moore Vs  Eldridge Moore, Jefferson Kitt, Alice Secore, Noaman Moore, Minnie Dawson and john Moore}
Isaac Moore compains of defendants and shows to the court that Sarah J. Moore died intestate on the --day of June 1872. That she left surviving her the plaintiff and defendants as her only heirs, the defendant Jefferson Kitt after the death of said Sarah J. intermarried with her daughter delilah Moore who died and left as her only heir said defendant Kitt her husband, and the plaintiff says that he is and was the husband of said decenant Sarah J. Moore that she died the owner in fee of the following described property real in Fulton county, Ind to wit: The south half of the EAst half of the SW quarter of section 8 township 30 North of Range 4 east Thense running south 76 and a half degrees east 3 chaims and 20 links thense south 79 1/2 degrees one chain adn 46 links.  Thense 85 degrees East 7 chains and 78 links to section line, and all the alnd lying north of the Chippewanock Creek in the west half of the NW quarter of section 17 all in township 30N range 4 E except waht is overflowed by water and  commencing 80 rods east of the corner of section 8 and running 90 rods north with a spring on the east of said line with the appurtenances therto, 39 3/4 acres containing i all 79 3/4 acres more or less, respectfully report as follows to wit: we met ont eh 17th day of April 1884 and after having taken an oath to faithfully perform the duties of oru trust went upon the lands described herin and after a careful view of the same, we proceed to make partition, thereof in accordance with the order of the court.
Division 1 to Isaac Moor plaintiff -- his share being 1/3 in value of said real estae
Division 2 the remaining lands to be divided equally amonst the heirs as their share being 2/3

Obituary
Akron,Indiana   Newspaper
Mrs. Elizabeth Moore ---- another of Fulton county's pioneers was called by death Fri afternoon at 1:oo
in teh person of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, who resided on a farm west of Akron. Death resulted from complications inherent with advanced years.  Mrs. Moore was 81 years of age had been in ill health for the past 3 weeks ------- the deceased has resided in Henry township, practically all of her life, her husband Isaac Moore having preceed her in death several years ago. Mrs. Moore is survived by the following children William, Charles, Clarence, of Henry Twp., and Mis Retha Moore of New Castle In
The funeral was held at the Athen U.B Church Mon morning Burial at the AThens cemetery.

religion: Dunkard / U.B. Church of Athens, Ind

More About SARAH ELIZABETH SNYDER:
Burial: Mt. Hope Cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for ISAAC MOORE and SARAH SNYDER:
Divorce filed 9-9 1903 Fulton County, Indiana

More About ISAAC MOORE and SARAH SNYDER:
Marriage: Jan 01, 1873, Fulton County, Indiana

vii. ANGALETTA MOORE, b. Abt. 1841; m. JAMES H. ROGERS.

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viii. DAVID MOORE, b. Aug 13, 1842; d. Feb 03, 1916; m. LOUISA WAGONER, Jun 01, 1866; b. Aug 14, 1842; d. Nov 22, 1915.

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Notes for LOUISA WAGONER:
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Marriage: Jun 01, 1866

ix. JANE MOORE.
x. LETTA MOORE.

35.  JESSE LAFAYETTE10 CLEMANS (ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1808 in Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio, and died Aft. 1870.  He married (1) REBECCA FOXALL.    He married (2) ABIGAIL BENNETT Jan 15, 1832 in Logan County, Ohio.  She was born Abt. 1816 in Virginia, and died Aft. 1860.

Notes for JESSE LAFAYETTE CLEMANS:
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Occupation: carpenter

NOTE:  there is a large gap between the 2nd and 3rd child. possibly several more children who most likely died in childhood,.
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Notes for REBECCA FOXALL:
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Notes for ABIGAIL BENNETT:
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Marriage Notes for JESSE CLEMANS and ABIGAIL BENNETT:
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More About JESSE CLEMANS and ABIGAIL BENNETT:
Marriage: Jan 15, 1832, Logan County, Ohio

Children of JESSE CLEMANS and ABIGAIL BENNETT are:
i. SERENA11 CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1833, Logan County, Ohio; m. SAMUEL SHIELDS, Mar 09, 1851, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for SERENA CLEMANS:
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Notes for SAMUEL SHIELDS:
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More About SAMUEL SHIELDS and SERENA CLEMANS:
Marriage: Mar 09, 1851, Fulton County, Indiana

ii. RUPHUS CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1836, Logan County, Ohio; d. Aft. Jun 1880; m. NANCY ROBBINS, Oct 05, 1854, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Aft. Jun 1880.

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Fulton County, Indiana
Feb Term AD 1858
state cases
#46 The state of Indiana VS Rufus Clemons: indictment for Grand Larceny:
Bill found Feb term 1857,.
Warrant issued 3-2-1857 --- returned " not found"

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More About RUPHUS CLEMANS and NANCY ROBBINS:
Marriage: Oct 05, 1854, Fulton County, Indiana

iii. ELIZABETH CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1837, Logan County, Ohio.

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iv. ANTHONY CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1840, Logan County, Ohio.

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v. WARREN CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1842, Logan County, Ohio.

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vi. FREELAND CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1845, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana.

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vii. NANCY B. CLEMANS, b. Mar 06, 1849, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana; d. Jan 20, 1919, Council Bluffs, Iowa; m. BILL BAUGHN.

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viii. LYMAN BEECHER CLEMANS, b. Sep 21, 1851, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana; d. Abt. 1880; m. AMANDA ALICE RAINES.

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36.  THOMAS10 CLEMANS (ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Nov 10, 1811 in Champaign County, Ohio, and died Nov 20, 1901 in Macy, Miami  County, Indiana.  He married DELILAH WILDMAN Jan 18, 1836 in Fulton County, Indiana.  She was born Jun 24, 1820 in Jefferson County, Indiana, and died May 07, 1903 in Peru, Miami County, Indiana.

Notes for THOMAS CLEMANS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Bought 40 acres of land in Logan County, Ohio document #3667, 2-15-1836
Bought land in Fulton Co., Ind document #13128  4-1-1843

In a book about the History of Miami County, Indiana, Thomas Clemens is included
"Thomas Clemans, a venerable and aged citizen of Allen Township and pioneer of the county, was born in Champaign County, Ohio, 11-10-1811. He was the fifth in a family of 11 children born to Isaac and Elizabeth Carpenter Clemans, who were natives of new Jersey and Virginia respectively, He chose for hislife work the occupation of farmer. As early as 1835, he came to this county and settled in the woods of Allen Townshipo, ehere the deer, wild turkeys and indians were plenty. He immediately set about clearing a farm and to do this, naturally developed upon him a great deal of hard work. His strong constitution and iron will, however, proved equal to the emergency, and these coupled with an indetgatigable pluck and energy, enabled him to convert his wilderness home into beautiful and well-tilled fields. Unlike most of the early settlers he did not stop at one conquest over the forrest, nor two, but for a 3rd time he settled down in the woods and experienced the hardships of the sturdy pioneers. 3 of the best farms in Allen township were placed in a state of cultivation through labor performed by his own hands. He was not only couragous bur fearless as well.  Nothing will serve better to illustrate his bravery than the following incident which occured one day while he was riding on horseback in the vicinity of his habitation, with some loose horses that belonged to him in his advance. his attention was suddenly attracted by the yell of an Indian, whereupon he faced about the 2 Indians armed with guns and tomahawks were seen approaching him some 2-300 yards distant. They ordered him to wait which he did until they came up. One of them approached a loose hoarse, adjusted a rope around its neck in a manner indicating that he intended to take possession . An exclamation of :Let loose that horse" fromMr. Clemans failed to cause the Indian to desist, whereupon, the former bounded to the ground , gathered a well seasoned club and, drawing it over the Red Skin's head, repeated the command, The Indian, not yet ready for a journey to the happy hunting groungs, immediately obeyed and , joining his companiosn, walked peacefully away.  On the 18th of Jan 1836 Mr. Clemans was united in marriage to Delilah Wildman. She was born in Jefferson County, this state 6-24-1820, being the daughter of joseph and Mary (Underwood) Wildman, who were respectively natives of Virginia and Kentucky. For more than a half century, Mr. and Mrs. Clemans have stood side by side, administering to each other's wants and sharing, alike, earhc other's sorrows and pleasures. They are the parents of 12 children -- 7 sons and 5 daughters ----- Their names are james, mary, Joseph, David, Samuel, John, Elizabeth, Eliza J. and Thomas A., Catherine, Silas and Maggie, of whom James , Joseph, Samuel and Eliza J are deceased. Our subject and his wife are member of the ME church. In politics the former is a republican. They have a comfortable home where they are spending the decline of life in a quiet, happy way. They are among the worthy and honored citizens of the township."

Logan County Ohio was originally Champaign Co., Ohio.  He is buried in Plainville Cemetery, Allen Twp.
He had 3 sons in teh Civil War --one was killed.

Notes for DELILAH WILDMAN:
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More About THOMAS CLEMANS and DELILAH WILDMAN:
Marriage: Jan 18, 1836, Fulton County, Indiana

Children of THOMAS CLEMANS and DELILAH WILDMAN are:
i. JAMES11 CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1838, Miami County, Indiana.

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ii. MARY CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1840, Miami County, Indiana.

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iii. JOSEPH CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1842, Miami County, Indiana.

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iv. DAVID CLEMANS, b. Aug 04, 1844, Miami County, Indiana; d. Jun 22, 1917; m. MARIA AMANDA NICHOLS, Dec 22, 1867.

Notes for DAVID CLEMANS:
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More About DAVID CLEMANS and MARIA NICHOLS:
Marriage: Dec 22, 1867

v. SAMUEL CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1845, Miami County, Indiana.

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vi. JOHN CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1847, Miami County, Indiana; m. DEIDAMA CLEMANS.

Notes for JOHN CLEMANS:
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Notes for DEIDAMA CLEMANS:
maiden name unknown
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vii. ELIZABETH CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1850, Miami County, Indiana.

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viii. ELIZA J. CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1852, Miami County, Indiana; d. Bef. 1860, Miami County, Indiana.

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ix. THOMAS A. CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1854, Miami County, Indiana; m. SAMANTHA CLEMANS.

Notes for THOMAS A. CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Notes for SAMANTHA CLEMANS:
maiden name unknown
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x. CATHERINE CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1856, Miami County, Indiana.

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xi. SILAS CLEMANS, b. Feb 18, 1856, Miami County, Indiana; d. Dec 16, 1918, Miami County, Indiana; m. (1) EVA HARDING, Mar 17, 1881, Miami County, Indiana; m. (2) MARY MILLER, Sep 21, 1905, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for SILAS CLEMANS:
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Notes for EVA HARDING:
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More About SILAS CLEMANS and EVA HARDING:
Marriage: Mar 17, 1881, Miami County, Indiana

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More About SILAS CLEMANS and MARY MILLER:
Marriage: Sep 21, 1905, Fulton County, Indiana

xii. MAGGIE CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1861, Miami County, Indiana; m. MARTIN J. WHITMORE, Aug 07, 1881, Miami County, Indiana.

Notes for MAGGIE CLEMANS:
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Marriage Notes for MAGGIE CLEMANS and MARTIN WHITMORE:
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More About MARTIN WHITMORE and MAGGIE CLEMANS:
Marriage: Aug 07, 1881, Miami County, Indiana

37.  SAMUEL J.10 CLEMANS (ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1815 in Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio, and died Oct 02, 1890 in Fairbault, Rice County, Minnesota.  He married DRUCILLA TRACY Feb 17, 1846 in Miami County, Indiana.  She was born Abt. 1815, and died Aft. 1862.

Notes for SAMUEL J. CLEMANS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

Roberta Wunder
has his place of death as Waseca, Rice County, Minn.

occupation:  farmer / carpenter

1850 census record
Fulton County Indiana --Henry Twp., 7-24-1850
dwelling 115, family 115
Clemmons, Samuel   age 35   male, farmer  b. Ohio
Drucilla   age 35  female  b. Ky
Robert E.   age 6 male   born in Ind
Leroy  age 3 male  born in Ind
Emeline   age 2  female born in Ind.

1870 census
shows wife Drucilla born in Switzerland

Samuel moved to Fairbault, Minn  in 1856

Faibault Democrat  10-10-1890
Samuel J. Clemans, an old resident of this city, died at the residence of his son  REv. E.C. Clemans, Waseca, Thursday of last week after a brief illiness of typhoid pneumonia.  The remains were brought to Fairbault Oct 4th and buried in the Oak Ridge cemetery.,

FAirbault Democrat  10-10-1890
Fortunate,  It is reported that Messrs, Frank J,. and Ezra C. Clemans formerly of this city, have been left a fortune through the death of relatives of their mother in Switzerland, the extent of which has not been learned.

More About SAMUEL J. CLEMANS:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Fairbault, Rice County, Minnesota

Notes for DRUCILLA TRACY:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
born in Kentucky or Switzerland

Marriage Notes for SAMUEL CLEMANS and DRUCILLA TRACY:
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More About SAMUEL CLEMANS and DRUCILLA TRACY:
Marriage: Feb 17, 1846, Miami County, Indiana

Children of SAMUEL CLEMANS and DRUCILLA TRACY are:
i. ROBERT E.11 CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1844, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana.

Notes for ROBERT E. CLEMANS:
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ii. LEROY CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1847, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana.

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iii. EMELINE CLEMANS, b. 1849, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana; d. Oct 23, 1917, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; m. ROBERT W. NEWELL, Sep 02, 1911, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for EMELINE CLEMANS:
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Notes for ROBERT W. NEWELL:
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Marriage Notes for EMELINE CLEMANS and ROBERT NEWELL:
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More About ROBERT NEWELL and EMELINE CLEMANS:
Marriage: Sep 02, 1911, Fulton County, Indiana

iv. HOWARD CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1851.
v. MARY E. CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1854.
vi. EZRA C. CLEMANS, b. Aug 19, 1860, Fairbault, Rice County, Minnesota; d. Sep 26, 1936, Fairbault, Rice County, Minnesota; m. CAROLINA BARNUM, Mar 1883, Fairbault, Rice County, Minnesota.

Notes for EZRA C. CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
minister

Notes for CAROLINA BARNUM:
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Marriage Notes for EZRA CLEMANS and CAROLINA BARNUM:
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More About EZRA CLEMANS and CAROLINA BARNUM:
Marriage: Mar 1883, Fairbault, Rice County, Minnesota

vii. FRANK JOSEPH CLEMANS, b. Abt. 1862, Fairbault, Rice County, Minnesota.

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38.  DAVID10 CLEMANS (ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Jan 11, 1816 in Bellfountain, Logan County, Ohio, and died May 01, 1881 in Athens, Fulton County, Indiana.  He married HANNAH BIGGS Apr 08, 1843 in Fulton County, Indiana.  She was born Aug 02, 1820 in Virginia, and died Aug 07, 1910 in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for DAVID CLEMANS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

1850 census --Fulton County, Indiana  Henry Township
7-24-1850   Family 11, Dwelling 11
Clemmons, David    age 25  male, farmer b. Oh
        Hannah       age 39 female b., Va.
         Harlin  age 3  b. Ind
         Zachariah  age 1 male b. Ind

1870 census Henry Township, Fulton Co., Ind at Akron
image 40 ----page 40
Clemans  David,    53  b. Oh
               hannah   49      Va.
               Manerva  19     Ind
               Floid         16    Ind
               Alonzo       13  Ind
               james        11   Ind
               David         9   Ind
      Note Harlin is right next door --- his own household

Buried Hoover cemetery, Henry Twp -- (Athens)
other records indicate Mt. hope cemetery near Athens, Fulton co., Ind

Bought land in Fulton Co., ind
documents nrs. 12950 and 17668  4-1-1843 and 4-10-1849
Captured (Civil War) Sept 1863 and sent to Camp Ford

David age 65years 3m and 20 dy and Hannah are buried in Mt. Hope cemetery near Athens, Ind
Ref. Helen K. Clemans, granddaughter of Thomas Alonzo Clemans. Ann Sheets granddaughter of James Clemans; cemetery records and marriage records of Fulton County

from Helen K. Clemans ----- letter---- "My great grandfather drove a log wagon from Michigan City, Ind to Rochester, Ind. when he arrived at Michigan City, he had a fox pelt which he sold for $8.00/. Someone stole all but 50 cents from him. Eventually he took a land grant for 160 acres near the village of Athens, Ind. the deed is written on sheepskin signed by Pres. Van Buren in 1837.  You asked about books, etc. I had a family history of 1926 which said our family came to Virginia shortly after the colony was founded. We had a grant of 2000 acres from the King of England and it had been leased to Bethleham Steel for 99 years.  When I went in Nurses training in fall of 1927, my mother cleaned everything out of my room, thus destroying this document.  This Elizabeth Carpenter --so this paper said had ----money in London which was never paid."

Sometime prior to 1881 when David died, Hannah , unbeknownest to him, made an appointment to have their pictures taken in Rochester.  DAvid never had wanted to have his picture taken and she insisted that they have it made. He always complained that she had tricked him into having a picture made in his oldest and worst clothes. The picture was placed in the casket with Hannah but was retrieved by a daughter in law --- Rose Funk Clemans.  latere Rose Carruthers, and is now owned by Blanche Morrissey, who loaned it for copying purposes in Dec 1967.

From the Rochester Union Spy,  Fre Nov 30, 1877:  On Sat Morning 11 -25, David Clemens hitched his team to a light 2 horse buggy with intention of visiting his brother, Mr. Thomas Clemens in Miami County, and when near the residence of William Powell, a serious accident overtook them. As near as we could learn from Mr. Clemens the accident occured as follows: A company of threshers commonly known as Shrivers, stopped in the public highway, with their threshing apparatus for the purpose of greasing the trucks under the engine, and while doing so Mr. Clemens was about to pass.  The team became frightened and as Mr. Clemens tried to check them up the bit on one of the horses broke and they were at liberty.  the buggy was run against the fence and threw Mr. Clemens out. Mr. Clemens told his wife to jump out of the vehicle but she did not hear him or was too badly scared to obey, and she rode near nighty rods in the buggy with the horses at top of their speed, when, just east of the residence of Mr. Joseph Hoover the buggy struck a large stump and pitched Mrs Clemens over the fence and into a field, a distance of near 15 feet.  Mr. Hoover was working in a field nearby and ran to the assistance of Mrs. Clemens, she from all appearance was dead, but signs of life was soon perceived and she was carried to the house of Mr. Hoover, where she lay in critical condition from 11 Am until 12 at night, when a change for the better was noticed. Dr. Sutton, of Lincoln, was immediately summoned and through his skill and treatment she is doing well. Her head received 2 very severe gashes, one 3 and the othere about 4 inches long. One rib was broken, left shoulder and hip severely jammed. Mr. Clemens is slightly hurt. The harness is badly torn and the buggy smashed to pieces. We have known Mrs. Clemens for the (last) 28 yearts and in all that time we have never known her to be seriously ill. She is about 58 years of age and has a very strong constitution which will be greatly in her favor in the present affliction. Much credit is due Mr. Hoover and his amiable wife for the treatment of Mr. and Mrs. Clemens.

ROCHESTER UNION SPY, Friday, November 30, 1877

On Saturday morning, Nov. 25, DAVID CLEMANS hitched his team to a light two-horse buggy with intention of visiting his brother, Mr. THOMAS CLEMANS in Miami county, and when near the residence of WM. POWELL, a serious accident overtook them. As near as we could learn from Mr. Clemans the accident occurred as follows: A company of threshers commonly known as Shrivers, stopped in the public highway with their threshing apparatus for the purpose of greasing the trucks under the engine, and while doing so Mr. Clemans was about to pass. The team became frightened and as Mr. Clemans tried to check them up the bit on one of the horses broke and they were at liberty. The buggy was run against the fence and threw Mr. Clemans out. Mr. Clemans told his wife to jump out of the vehicle but she did not hear him or was too badly scared to obey, and she rode near ninety rods in the buggy with the horses at the top of their speed, when, just east of the residence of Mr. JOSEPH HOOVER the buggy struck a large stump and pitched Mrs. Clemans over the fence into a field, a distance of near fifteen feet.
Mr. Hoover was working in the field close by and ran to the assistance of Mrs. Clemans, she from all appearance was dead, but signs of life was soon perceived and she was carried to the house of Mr. Hoover, where she lay in a very critical condition from 11 a.m. until 12 at night, when a change for the better was noticed. Dr. SUTTON, of Lincoln, was immediately summoned and through his skill and treatment she is doing well. Her head received two very severe gashes, one three and the other about four inches long. One rib was broken, left shoulder and hip severely jammed. Mr. Clemans is slightly hurt. The harness is badly torn and the buggy smashed to pieces.
We have known Mrs. Clemans for the (last) twenty-eight years and in all that time we have never known her to be seriously ill. She is about 58 years of age and has a very strong constitution which will be greatly in her favor in the present affliction.
Much credit is due Mr. Hoover and his amiable wife for the treatment of Mr. and Mrs. Clemans....

More About DAVID CLEMANS:
Burial: Mt. Hope cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for HANNAH BIGGS:
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More About HANNAH BIGGS:
Burial: Mt. Hope cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for DAVID CLEMANS and HANNAH BIGGS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
has a marriage date of 9-18-1845 in Miami County, Indiana

Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  
has date of April 08, 1843 in fulton county, Indiana

More About DAVID CLEMANS and HANNAH BIGGS:
Marriage: Apr 08, 1843, Fulton County, Indiana

Children of DAVID CLEMANS and HANNAH BIGGS are:
i. HARLAN J.11 CLEMANS, b. 1846, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Oct 11, 1929, Fulton County, Indiana; m. NANCY MARGARET BRYANT, Feb 04, 1869, Fulton County, Indiana; b. 1850, Indiana; d. Bef. 1929.

Notes for HARLAN J. CLEMANS:
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Obituary
Rochester Sentinel   Fri Oct 11, 1929

Harlan Clemans, aged 83, died at 8:15 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clarence Eshelman 1 1/2 miles NE of this city.  Death was due to complications incident to old age. Mr. Clemans for many years resided on a farm in Henry Township where he was a highly respected citizen of the community in which he lived. 3 years ago because of his age he decided to retire coming to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eshelman to live.  Surviving are 2 daughters, Mrs. Eshleman and Mrs. Thurman Smith of Henry Township, a son Tom Clemans also of Henry Twp., a sister Mrs. Minerva Kreig of Akron adn 3 brothers Alonzo of Miami Co., James of Henry Twp and Floyd of Rochester township,
Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

1870 census, Henry Township, Fulton Co at Akron
image 40 page 40
Clemans Harlan   25 b. Ind
              Nancy M.   20  Ind
              Flora        5/12

Notes for NANCY MARGARET BRYANT:
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Marriage Notes for HARLAN CLEMANS and NANCY BRYANT:
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Fulton Co Marriages bookB page 526

More About HARLAN CLEMANS and NANCY BRYANT:
Marriage: Feb 04, 1869, Fulton County, Indiana

ii. ZACHARIAH T. CLEMANS, b. Sep 09, 1848, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Mar 1855, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.

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iii. MINERVA JANE CLEMANS, b. Oct 22, 1850, Athens, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Jan 23, 1937, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; m. GEORGE G. CRAIG, Oct 31, 1875, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Feb 14, 1884.

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Saturday, January 23, 1937

Mrs. Minerva Jane [CLEMANS] CRAIG, aged 86, died at her home in North Mishawaka Avenue in Akron at 8:50 o'clock Saturday morning. Death was due to a stroke of paralysis which she suffered in June. She had been in ill health for several years.
The deceased was a life long resident of Henry township. She was born on the old CLEMANS farm near Athens on October 22, 1850 and was the daughter of David and Hanna CLEMANS.
She had lived in the Macy, Athens and Fulton communities all of her life until 1914 when she established a home at Akron. In a ceremony which was performed October 31, 1875 she was married to George CRAIG, a Civil War veteran. He died February 14, 1884.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. W. P. ZARTMAN of Akron and Mrs. Nevada HOOVER of this city and a grandson, Floyd HOOVER of Rochester. A daughter, Mrs. Ida McMILLEN preceded her mother in death.
The funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon from the home in Akron with Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating assisted by Rev. J. F. STEVENSON. Burial will be made in the Mt. Hope cemetery at Athens

More About MINERVA JANE CLEMANS:
Burial: Mt. Hope Cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for GEORGE G. CRAIG:
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Civil War Veteran

Marriage Notes for MINERVA CLEMANS and GEORGE CRAIG:
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More About GEORGE CRAIG and MINERVA CLEMANS:
Marriage: Oct 31, 1875, Fulton County, Indiana

iv. INFANT CLEMANS, b. Apr 27, 1852, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Apr 27, 1852, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.

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v. FLOYD CLEMANS, b. Jul 22, 1854, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Feb 17, 1933, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; m. NAOMI A. CLEVENGER, Mar 14, 1878, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for FLOYD CLEMANS:
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Marriage Notes for FLOYD CLEMANS and NAOMI CLEVENGER:
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Rochester News Sentinel

MARRIED. -At the residence of the officiating minister in Akron, Rev. J. WHITTENBERGER, March 14, 1878, Mr. Floid CLEMONS and Miss Naomi CLEVENGER.

More About FLOYD CLEMANS and NAOMI CLEVENGER:
Marriage: Mar 14, 1878, Fulton County, Indiana

vi. THOMAS ALONZO CLEMANS, b. Mar 03, 1857, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Sep 15, 1940, Denver, Miami County, Indiana; m. HARRIET CLELAND, Dec 01, 1881, Perry Township, Miami County, Indiana; d. Dec 01, 1933.

Notes for THOMAS ALONZO CLEMANS:
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has Denver in Fulton co --- but is is (now) in Miami County

Monday, September 16, 1940
Rochester News Sentinel
Thomas Alonzo CLEMANS, 83, passed away at 9:30 o'clock Sunday evening at his farm home, three and a half miles east of Macy. Death resulted from complications following an illness of over 14 years duration. The deceased had a wide acquaintance of friends throughout both Miami and Fulton counties.
Mr. Clemans was born in Fulton county on March 3rd, 1857. His parents were Daniel and Hannah (BIGGS) CLEMANS. He was united in marriage with Harriett CLELAND on December 1st, 1881, in a ceremony solemnized in Perry Township, Miami county. His wife preceded him in death seven years ago. The deceased followed the occupation of farming until ill health forced his retirement.
The survivors are two sons, Frank CLEMANS, of Logansport; Walter CLEMANS, of Macy; a daughter, Mrs. Blanche MORRISSEY, of Macy and several grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon two o'clock, at the Ebenezer church, with Rev. C. W. MONTGOMERY officiating. Burial will be made in the Gilead cemetery

More About THOMAS ALONZO CLEMANS:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Gilead, Miami County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for THOMAS CLEMANS and HARRIET CLELAND:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
December 01, 1933 (her death date)

date of  December 1st, 1881 from his obit

More About THOMAS CLEMANS and HARRIET CLELAND:
Marriage: Dec 01, 1881, Perry Township, Miami County, Indiana

vii. JAMES CLEMANS, b. 1859, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Apr 21, 1932, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; m. LYDIA L. CLEVENGER, May 22, 1892, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Aft. 1926.

Notes for JAMES CLEMANS:
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Tuesday, July 27, 1926
Rochester News Sentinel

Frank CLEVENGER, age 67, a life long resident of Fulton county died at his home six miles east of Rochester at one o'clock Tuesday morning. He had been ill for several months with complications of diseases. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. David CLEVENGER. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. lodge.
Surviving are the widow, who was formerly Lavina PUTMAN, and three sisters, Ellen NYE and Mrs. James CLEMANS of near Athens, and Mrs. Emma WOOLPERT, of Akron. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at the home and burial will be made in the Akron I.O.O.F. cemetery.

Marriage Notes for JAMES CLEMANS and LYDIA CLEVENGER:
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More About JAMES CLEMANS and LYDIA CLEVENGER:
Marriage: May 22, 1892, Fulton County, Indiana

viii. DAVID O. CLEMANS, b. Apr 01, 1861, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Feb 22, 1922, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; m. ROSELLA FUNK, Feb 28, 1898, Fulton County, Indiana.

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Tuesday, February 28, 1922

David O. CLEMANS, 61, died suddenly Tuesday morning at his home east of Athens, from an attack of apoplexy. Clemans, who had been in good health recently, except for dizzy spells during the past day or two, had arisen as usual Tuesday morning and went about his chores at the barn. When Mrs. Clemans had prepared breakfast and her husband failed to put in an appearance, a nephew, Frank FUNK, who is staying at the Clemans farm, went out into the barnlot and there found Mr. Clemans unconscious. He was taken into the house and medical aid summoned, but he died a few minutes later without having regained consciousness.
David O. Clemans was born in Fulton county April 1, 1861 and lived all of his life on the Clemans farm near Athens. He was married just 24 years on the day of his death, the widow, Mrs. Rosella FUNK CLEMANS and four brothers, Floyd [CLEMANS], Harland [CLEMANS] and James [CLEMANS], of Fulton county and Lon [CLEMANS], of Miami county and a sister, Mrs. Minerva CRAIG, of Akron surviving.
Funeral arrangements later.

Wednesday, March 1, 1922
Funeral services for David O. CLEMANS, of near Athens, Thursday afternoon from Mt. Hope church, Rev. F. O. FRALEY in charge. Burial at Mt. Hope cemetery.

More About DAVID O. CLEMANS:
Burial: Mar 01, 1922, Mt. Hope Cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for ROSELLA FUNK:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
"Rose"

Marriage Notes for DAVID CLEMANS and ROSELLA FUNK:
Fulton Co marriage book F-page 465

More About DAVID CLEMANS and ROSELLA FUNK:
Marriage: Feb 28, 1898, Fulton County, Indiana

39.  ISAAC10 CLEMANS (ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born May 15, 1819 in Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio, and died Aug 09, 1887 in Reamsville, Smith County, Kansas.  He married RACHEL TARBUTTON Jun 21, 1836 in Logan County, Ohio.  She was born Abt. 1816 in Ohio.

Notes for ISAAC CLEMANS:
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  

Roberta Wunder
has his death as 8-9-1887 Reamsville, Smith County, kansas

1850 census records   Fulton County, Indiana   Henry Township
7-24-1850   dwelling 113, family 113
Clemmons, issac    age 34 male  b. Oh  farmer
                RAchael   age 34  b. Oh
                hester A   age 13 female Oh
                Nicholas  age 10  male b. Ind
                Dewitt C   age 7  male b. Ind
                Robert M  age 5 male b. Ind
                Elizabeth  age 2  female b. Ind
                Jasper N.  age 2/12  male b. Ind

farmer
bought 80 acres in Logan County, Ohio document #3669  2-15-1836
Bought land in Fulton Co., Ind document #13129 and 13331, 4-1-1843 and 8-1-1844

Isaac Clemans, Jr.   age 42, enlisted 3-13-1862 at Rockport, Missouri
mustered out 6-11-1863
Military history as given in census:  honorably discharged; enlisted in missouri; Company C Reg 5 Calvary ( note: Calvary horses were housed in the basement of the Rockport courthouse)

his  sons Nicholas age 22 and Robert age 18 enlisted at the same time with him.. Robert was discharged for disability 4-10-1862 at St Joseph Missour.  Nicholas deserted 11 -24-1862 at kansas City, Missouri

kansas state census:  Topeka Kansas --Smith county, martin Township  -- mar 1885
Clemans, isaac  66 male, farmer b. Oh  came from missouri to Kansas
Clemans Rachel  68  female b. Md

Atchison County, Missouri 1860 census
Buchanan Twp., Post office El paso,  page 491-488
isaac 42  Oh
Ralehial  44 Oh
Dewit C  17  Ind
Elizabeth 12 Ind
Robert M  14
Newton F  9
mary 7

Isaac donated the land for Clemans Cemetery near Reamsville, Smith County, kansas

Fulton County Indiana
Feb term AD 1858   STate cases
#3
The state of Indiana VS Isaac Clemons; indictment for larceny;
writs inssued 7-2 and 8-13 1856
In both cases returned " not found"

More About ISAAC CLEMANS:
Burial: Clemans Cemetery, Reamsville, Smith County, Kansas

Notes for RACHEL TARBUTTON:
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Marriage Notes for ISAAC CLEMANS and RACHEL TARBUTTON:
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More About ISAAC CLEMANS and RACHEL TARBUTTON:
Marriage: Jun 21, 1836, Logan County, Ohio

Children of ISAAC CLEMANS and RACHEL TARBUTTON are:
i. HESTER ANN11 CLEMANS, b. Jul 26, 1837, Logan County, Ohio; d. Nov 01, 1899, Hood River, Oregon; m. GEORGE W. WILKERSON, Jul 30, 1854, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for HESTER ANN CLEMANS:
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More About GEORGE WILKERSON and HESTER CLEMANS:
Marriage: Jul 30, 1854, Fulton County, Indiana

ii. NICHOLAS CLEMANS, b. Oct 29, 1839, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana; d. Oct 07, 1887, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas; m. MARY ANN WILSON, Nov 21, 1868, Atchison County, Missouri.

Notes for NICHOLAS CLEMANS:
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Notes for MARY ANN WILSON:
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Marriage Notes for NICHOLAS CLEMANS and MARY WILSON:
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More About NICHOLAS CLEMANS and MARY WILSON:
Marriage: Nov 21, 1868, Atchison County, Missouri

iii. DEWITT C. CLEMANS, b. Jan 11, 1843, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana; d. Oct 09, 1861, Atchison County, Missouri.

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iv. ROBERT MENZER CLEMANS, b. Aug 06, 1846, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana; d. Oct 28, 1915, White Salmon, Klickitat, Washington; m. MARTHA JANE RATHBONE SMITH, Jan 06, 1870, Atchison County, Missouri; b. Nov 21, 1841; d. Jun 10, 1919, White Salmon, Klickitat, Washington.

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Notes for MARTHA JANE RATHBONE SMITH:
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Marriage Notes for ROBERT CLEMANS and MARTHA SMITH:
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More About ROBERT CLEMANS and MARTHA SMITH:
Marriage: Jan 06, 1870, Atchison County, Missouri

v. ELIZABETH CLEMANS, b. Apr 03, 1848, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana.

Notes for ELIZABETH CLEMANS:
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vi. JASPER N. CLEMANS, b. Mar 29, 1850, Rochester, Fulton County, Iindiana; d. 1921, Reamsville, Smith County, Kansas; m. HARRIET AMANDA PATTEN, Aug 09, 1867, Atchison County, Missouri.

Notes for JASPER N. CLEMANS:
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More About JASPER CLEMANS and HARRIET PATTEN:
Marriage: Aug 09, 1867, Atchison County, Missouri

vii. MARY CLEMANS, b. Sep 26, 1852, Indiana; d. Sep 15, 1908, Bellingham, Whtcom County, Washington; m. WYMAN FRAHSER PATTEN, Jul 01, 1866, Atchison County, Missouri.

Notes for MARY CLEMANS:
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Marriage Notes for MARY CLEMANS and WYMAN PATTEN:
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More About WYMAN PATTEN and MARY CLEMANS:
Marriage: Jul 01, 1866, Atchison County, Missouri

viii. CHARLEY CLEMANS, b. Sep 12, 1855.

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40.  MALINDA10 CLEMANS (ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Aug 11, 1823 in Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio, and died Aug 30, 1896 in Fulton County, Indiana.  She married JAMES WESLEY VANLUE Mar 28, 1847 in Fulton County, Indiana.  He was born Abt. 1829 in Ohio.

Notes for MALINDA CLEMANS:
Malinda or Melinda
Source: gedmison --rootsweb file --  
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

1850 census
Rochester Twp, fulton Co., Ind
james, 21, malinda 27  John W  age 1 year  were members of the Cornelius VanLue 68, b. NJ

1860 census
Rochester Twp, Fulton Co., Ind
James 32, malinda 37  both b., Oh  were householders,
John 12, Anngaretta 8, George 5, James 3 Silva 1 all b. Indiana

1870 census
Rochester Twp,. Fulton Co., Ind
John Wesley was still living with his father's family

1880- census
Rochester Twp Fulton Co., Ind

James VanLue age 57, Malinda age 56,  Jane 21, Frank 19 and Olicer 15

died at age 73 yem 3m , ll29 days

More About MALINDA CLEMANS:
Burial: Hoover cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for JAMES WESLEY VANLUE:
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Marriage Notes for MALINDA CLEMANS and JAMES VANLUE:
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More About JAMES VANLUE and MALINDA CLEMANS:
Marriage: Mar 28, 1847, Fulton County, Indiana

Children of MALINDA CLEMANS and JAMES VANLUE are:
i. JOHN WESLEY11 VANLUE, b. Aug 02, 1848, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Sep 29, 1874, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana; m. SARA J. HOOVER, Sep 12, 1868, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for JOHN WESLEY VANLUE:
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More About JOHN VANLUE and SARA HOOVER:
Marriage: Sep 12, 1868, Fulton County, Indiana

ii. ANZETTA VANLUE, b. Aug 15, 1852, Fulton County, Indiana; m. HENRY J. WAGNER.

Notes for ANZETTA VANLUE:
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iii. GEORGE VANLUE, b. Abt. 1855, Fulton County, Indiana; m. SELINA J. WOOD, Jan 13, 1877, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for GEORGE VANLUE:
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Marriage Notes for GEORGE VANLUE and SELINA WOOD:
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More About GEORGE VANLUE and SELINA WOOD:
Marriage: Jan 13, 1877, Fulton County, Indiana

iv. JAMES MILO VANLUE, b. Mar 03, 1857, Fulton County, Indiana; m. CLARA MARGARET WOOLEY, Jun 22, 1879, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for JAMES MILO VANLUE:
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Marriage Notes for JAMES VANLUE and CLARA WOOLEY:
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More About JAMES VANLUE and CLARA WOOLEY:
Marriage: Jun 22, 1879, Fulton County, Indiana

v. SILVA VANLUE, b. Abt. 1859, Fulton County, Indiana.

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vi. FRANCIS A. VANLUE, b. Abt. 1861, Fulton County, Indiana; d. May 26, 1938, Howard Township, Cass County, Michigan; m. (1) IDA THOMPSON, Feb 17, 1881, Fulton County, Indiana; m. (2) ELIZABETH PETTIT, Dec 16, 1883, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Dec 09, 1929, Niles, Berrien County, Michigan.

Notes for FRANCIS A. VANLUE:
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Francis's second wife was Elizabeth Pettit born 1863 in Fulton Co., In. They were married 16 Dec 1883 in Fulton Co., In. Children were Emrick, John, Estella, Ruby, Olive, William, Edith, Nona, Emma and Harry. Francis died 26 May 1938 in Howard Twp., Cass Co., Mi. Elizabeth died 9 Dec 1929 in Niles, Berrien Co., Mi.
Joan VanLue  
3-9-2003

Notes for IDA THOMPSON:
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Marriage Notes for FRANCIS VANLUE and IDA THOMPSON:
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More About FRANCIS VANLUE and IDA THOMPSON:
Marriage: Feb 17, 1881, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for ELIZABETH PETTIT:
source:  Joan VanLue  
3-9-2003

More About FRANCIS VANLUE and ELIZABETH PETTIT:
Marriage: Dec 16, 1883, Fulton County, Indiana

vii. OLIVER HOLLIS VANLUE, b. 1864, Fulton County, Indiana; d. 1948, Fulton County, Indiana.

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More About OLIVER HOLLIS VANLUE:
Burial: Hoover cemetery, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana

41.  NICHOLAS10 CLEMANS (ELIZABETH9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Feb 26, 1824 in Lake Township, Logan County, Ohio, and died Feb 08, 1893 in Grant Township, Fulton County, Indiana.  He married (1) MAGDALENA MORRIS Jan 03, 1848 in Fulton County, Indiana, daughter of PATTERSON MORRIS and CHRISTINA BORROR.  She was born Abt. 1826 in Ohio, and died 1864 in Fulton County, Indiana.  He married (2) ELIZABETH Aft. 1864.  She was born 1839 in Indiana.

Notes for NICHOLAS CLEMANS:
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1850 census  Fulton Co., Ind  Henry Two
7-24-1850
dwelling 12, family 12
Clemmons,  Nicholas    age 23 male   farmer b. Oh
                   magdelena  age 24 female b. Oh
                   Jas.  male age 1 b. Indinana
                   Jesse age 3/12 male  b. Ind

1870 census Fulton Co., Ind  Henry Twp at Akron
page 40 --image 40
Clemans  Nicholas  42  b. Oh   farmer
               Elizabeth  31  b. Ind
               Mary E.     15           all children b. Ind
               Eliza A.      11
               Laura E.      9
               Abraham      6
               US Grant      3
               Franklin      6/12
               Jesse        20
               Emeline     19
               Cary A         3 days

Notes for MAGDALENA MORRIS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
probably died in childbirth as Abraham is born 1864 and she died in 1864

Marriage Notes for NICHOLAS CLEMANS and MAGDALENA MORRIS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

More About NICHOLAS CLEMANS and MAGDALENA MORRIS:
Marriage: Jan 03, 1848, Fulton County, Indiana

More About NICHOLAS CLEMANS and ELIZABETH:
Marriage: Aft. 1864

Children of NICHOLAS CLEMANS and MAGDALENA MORRIS are:
i. JAMES MADISON11 CLEMANS, b. Dec 07, 1848, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; m. SARAH ANN FOSTER, Jun 05, 1869, Fulton County, Indiana; b. 1849, Ohio.

Notes for JAMES MADISON CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

1870 census: Akron, Henry Township, Fulton Co.Ind
image 40 ---page 40

Clemans  James M  21 b. Ind
               Sarah        22    Oh
               Lillie V.     2/12  Ind

Notes for SARAH ANN FOSTER:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Marriage Notes for JAMES CLEMANS and SARAH FOSTER:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

More About JAMES CLEMANS and SARAH FOSTER:
Marriage: Jun 05, 1869, Fulton County, Indiana

ii. JESSE L. CLEMANS, b. May 27, 1850, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. May 01, 1895, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; m. EMELINE EDWARDS, Dec 19, 1869, Fulton County, Indiana; b. 1851, Indiana; d. Oct 23, 1917, Athens, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for JESSE L. CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Notes for EMELINE EDWARDS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Marriage Notes for JESSE CLEMANS and EMELINE EDWARDS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

More About JESSE CLEMANS and EMELINE EDWARDS:
Marriage: Dec 19, 1869, Fulton County, Indiana

iii. MARY E. CLEMANS, b. Jun 16, 1854, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; m. MARION WOODS, Aug 26, 1876, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for MARY E. CLEMANS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Notes for MARION WOODS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Marriage Notes for MARY CLEMANS and MARION WOODS:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

More About MARION WOODS and MARY CLEMANS:
Marriage: Aug 26, 1876, Fulton County, Indiana

iv. ELIZA A. CLEMANS, b. 1859.
v. LAURA E. CLEMANS, b. 1861.
vi. ABRAHAM CLEMANS, b. 1864.

Children of NICHOLAS CLEMANS and ELIZABETH are:
vii. U.S. GRANT11 CLEMANS, b. 1867.
viii. FRANKLIN CLEMANS, b. 1869.

42.  WILLIAM10 CARPENTER (*THOMAS9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Mar 15, 1815 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio, and died May 29, 1886 in Fulton County, Indiana.  He married SARAH WILSON Apr 21, 1839 in Elkhart County,  Indiana, daughter of JOHN WILSON and ELIZABETH RAY.  She was born Abt. 1819 in Ohio, and died Feb 13, 1848 in Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for WILLIAM CARPENTER:
1850: Henry Township, Fulton County Indiana
page 409  /.  image 18
Carpenter, William       35 b. Ohio
                 Lucinda       9  b. Ind
                 Joseph        7  b. Ind
                 Clark            6  b. Ind
                 Jesse           4  b. Ind
 (next door to father Thomas)

1870 census:  Pleasant Twp., Wabash County,  In  Dis 241 ---- page 68  image 415
Carpenter     William         age 54    b. Oh        Gashuter (?)
                     Lucinda               29        Ind
                     Joseph                27        Blacksmith
                      Jesse                  24        Blacksmith
           Rhodes  Amanda           20     relationship not given

Title: Probate Record of John T. Wilson - 1879

Title: Indiana Marriage to 1850 - Indiana State Library Genalogy Division
Text: Bride: Wilson, Sarah
Groom: Carpenter, William
County: Elkhart
Date: April 21, 1839

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
William served in the Civil war in the Union Army
4 children: Lucinda, Joseph, Clark and Jesse
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John T. Wilson's Will
(1879)

That on the 11 day of July 1878 said John T. Wilson died intestate in said County of Jackson leaving no widow but left kindred entitled to his estate who names and places of residence are as follows and all in the order of the four families of said deceased and in the order of the ages of the children of said deceased.

1st - Cynthia Riley aged 59 years resided Circleville Jackson Co Kansas (Note: See family group sheet)
2 - Grandchildren
1st Joseph Carpenter aged 39 years resides Harrisburg Fulton Co Indiana
2 Lucinda Carpenter aged 37 years resides Harrisburg Fulton Co Indiana
3 Clark Carpenter aged 35 years resides Harrisburg Fulton Co Indiana
4 Jessie Carpenter aged 33 years resides Harrisburg Fulton Co Indiana
3 - Zilla Smith aged 54 years resides Walkerton St. Joe Co Indiana

****

Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file

William served in the Civil War in the Union Army. William, his wife, and three children are buried in Gilead Cemetery in Fulton County, IN.

???? on the connection of this William -- listed as a brother of Joseph and son of Wm (1815)
but the mother (wife of William) died in 1848 ---- did William remarry and become widowed a second time??

More About WILLIAM CARPENTER:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Miami County, indiana
Military/ Draft registrat: served in civil war-Union

Notes for SARAH WILSON:

A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED! John T. WILSON b. ca 1794-1796 in VA died in 1879 and left a will. In his will it states that he had four families. He left part of his estate to his grandchildren: Joseph CARPENTER age 39, Lucinda CARPENTER age 37, Clark CARPENTER age 35, and Jessie CARPENTER age 33. All of the CARPENTER's listed according to the will were residing in Harrisburg, Fulton Co., IN in 1879. The 1850 Census for Henry Twnshp., Fulton Co., IN shows a William CARPENTER age 38, Lucinda CARPENTER age 9, Joseph CARPENTER age 1, Clark CARPENTER age 6, Jesse CARPENTER age 4, Thos CARPENTER age 60 and Nancy CARPENTER age 47. What relation was William, Thos and Nancy to the children? Even more curious is that John T. WILSON married a Nancy CARPENTER on August 17, 1826 in Logan Co., Ohio. Is this the same Nancy CARPENTER that is listed on the 1850 census? Does that mean John T. Wilson and Nancy Carpenter divorced? Can anyone help me with this mystery?

John T. Wilson born ca 1794-1796 in VA died in 1879 leaving a will. His will stated he had four families. Zilla SMITH was listed in the will as one of his children. It shows that in 1879, Zilla SMITH was 54 years of age and residing in Walkerton, St. Joe Co., IN. The 1850 census for Jefferson Twnshp., Elkhart Co., IN shows a John SMITH, age 27, Zilla SMITH age 26, Elizabeth SMITH age 4, Nancy SMITH age 3, and Mary SMITH age 12 mos. They are 2 family numbers away from John T. Wilson in the 1850 census records. I believe this is John T. Wilson's daughter. What happened to Zilla and her family? Who was her mother?

Drucilla Wilson Smith aka Zilla Smith was born in Logan County, near Belfountain, Ohio on August 27, 1824 to John T. Wilson and ?. She died on April 1, 1904 near Walkerton, St. Joseph Co., IN. She came to IN in 1831 and married John W. Smith on April 12, 1842 or April 27, 1841. She was the mother of 8 children. What I find interesting about your great grandfather is his name - John Riley Smith. Drucilla's sister Cynthia married a John Riley.

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Roberta Wunder  < robertawunder@earthlink.net >
has her name as Bush instead of Wilson
she died at the age of 29 years

********

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
has her maiden name as Bush
**************

death date given as  February 13, 1848  age 29y 8m-7d
PS That date on Nancy Carpenter Wilson's death is incorrect.  I even have a rubbing from her tombstone.  Plus, she appears on the 1850 census for Elkhart,IN, that would be difficult to do if you were
dead.
*********
Source:  Jennifer Kellogg  ancestry file
has her maiden name as Bush

Title: 1850 U.S. Federal Census- Indiana, Fulton County, Henry Township
Title: 1880 Federal Census - Indiana, Fulton County, Henry Township
Title: Probate Record of John T. Wilson - 1879
Text: That on the 11 day of July 1879 said John T. Wilson died intestate in said County of Jackson leaving no widow but left kindred entitled to his estate who names and places of residence are as foolows and all in the order of the four families of said deceased and in the order of the ages of the children of said deceased.

1- Cynthia Riley
2 - Grandchildren
1st Joseph Carpenter aged 39 years resides Harrisburg, Fulton Co., Indiana
2 Lucinda Carpenter aged 37 years resides Harrisburg, Fulton Co., Indiana
3 Clark Carpenter aged 35 years resides Harrisburg, Fulton Co., Indiana
4 Jesie Carpenter aged 33 years resides Harrisburg, Fulton Co., Indiana
3 - Zilla Smith aged 54 years resides Walkerton St. Joe Co., Indiana

More About SARAH WILSON:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Miami  County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for WILLIAM CARPENTER and SARAH WILSON:
Title: Indiana Marriage to 1850 - Indiana State Library Genalogy Division
Text: Bride: Wilson, Sarah
Groom: Carpenter, William
County: Elkhart
Date: April 21, 1839

More About WILLIAM CARPENTER and SARAH WILSON:
Marriage: Apr 21, 1839, Elkhart County,  Indiana

Children of WILLIAM CARPENTER and SARAH WILSON are:
i. NANCY J.11 CARPENTER, b. 1840, Miami County, Indiana; d. Mar 02, 1846, Miami County, Indiana.

Notes for NANCY J. CARPENTER:
died age 6y -12 dy
row 2 ---Gilead cemetery

More About NANCY J. CARPENTER:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Gilead, Miami County, Indiana

ii. LUCINDA CARPENTER, b. May 10, 1841, Indiana; d. Jan 27, 1912, Parsons, Kansas; m. JOHN A. SOPHER, Dec 27, 1881, Fulton County, Indiana; b. Abt. 1855, Indiana.

Notes for LUCINDA CARPENTER:

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
had no children
Lucinda and her brother Joseph who never married went to parsons, Kansas about 1900

her stone is in row 2 at Gilead Cemetery

More About LUCINDA CARPENTER:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Gilead, Miami County, Indiana

Notes for JOHN A. SOPHER:

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
Title: World Family Tree   Page: Volume 46, Tree 459

Father: Stephen SOPHER b: ABT 1821 in ?
Mother: Mary Catherine HATTERY b: ABT 1826 in
source: Roberta Wunder    ancestry file / Fulton County history

Marriage Notes for LUCINDA CARPENTER and JOHN SOPHER:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
Fulton County marriage book D page 268

More About JOHN SOPHER and LUCINDA CARPENTER:
Marriage: Dec 27, 1881, Fulton County, Indiana

iii. JOSEPH CARPENTER, b. Sep 22, 1842, Indiana; d. May 13, 1911, Nevada, Missouri.

Notes for JOSEPH CARPENTER:
1870 census:  Wabash Co., Pleasant Twp.  Ind    Dist 241    page 68  image 415
listed as Blacksmith

1880 census: Henry Township, Fulton co., In
page 53
Carpenter   Joe      36 b. Ind   Blacksmith
                 William  65  b. Oh     father
                 Lucinda   38  b. Ind   sister
                 William    9   b. Ind   brother    (? the mother had died before 1871 ?)

to Missouri after 1880

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
went to Parsons, Kansas about 1900 with sister Lucinda
played the violin
his stone is in row 2 at Gilead Cemetery

More About JOSEPH CARPENTER:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Gilead, Miami County, Indiana
Occupation: violin player / blacksmith

iv. CLARK CARPENTER, b. Mar 08, 1844, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Sep 13, 1912, Niles, Berrien County, Michigan; m. CORA BELLE STARR, Nov 09, 1874, Wabash County, Indiana; b. Dec 15, 1853, Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana; d. Feb 22, 1935, Niles, Berrien County, Michigan.

Notes for CLARK CARPENTER:
1880 census:  Liberty Township, Wabash County, Indiana
page 168  /   image 3
Carpenter     Clark       35  b. Ind   Blacksmith
                    C.B          26  b. Ind.
                    Sarah       5
                    Frank       1

1900 census:  Henry Township, Fulton co., Ind
page 206
Carpenter   Clark     Mar 1844   stone mason
                  Cora b.   Dec 1853   46
                  Sarah L.   Sept 1875  24   seamstress
                  Franklin   June 1878  21  stone mason
                  maud       Dec 1880   19   (Sadie)
                  Earl         May 1884   16
                  Wilson    June 1888   12
                  Arta (f)     Aug 1889   10
                  Ray         Sept 1893  6
                  Wilbur     June 1898  2

Residence: 1905 Moved to Niles, Berrien Co., Michigan 5

am trying to prove or disprove a family connection to Clark Carpenter. Probate records for John T. Wilson in 1879 lists his grandchildren as Jospeh Carpenter, Lucinda Carpenter, Jessie Carpenter, and Clark Carpenter all residing in Harrisburg, Fulton Co., IN in 1879. The 1850 Census records for Fulton Co., IN shows a William Carpenter born ca 1812 in OH and lists his children as Joseph, Lucinda, Jessie and Clark. No wife is listed. I have a LDS record that shows a Clark Carpenter born March 8, 1844 in Fulton Co., IN married Miss Cora Belle Starr in Wabash Co., IN on November 9, 1874. They had 9 children, seven who were surviving at the time of Clark Carpenter's death. Clark Carpenter and his wife moved to Berrien, MI at some point. This is where both Clark (d. Sept. 13, 1912)and his wife died. Both of their bodies were taken back to Fulton Co., IN for burial. Children in the obituary were listed as Mrs Sadie Wideman (husband Noah), Earl (could be Carl)(living in South Bend, IN), Frank (living in Rochester, IN), Arthur (living in Peru, IN), Wilson, Howard, Ray, and Wilbur. Any information that can link this Clark Carpenter to the Clark Carpenter who was the grandson of John T. Wilson is greatly appreciated. If this is not the same Clark Carpenter, I would like to know

Media: Newspaper
Page: Page 1
Text: Clark Carpenter, 806 Howard street, died at 1 p.m. yesterday from paralysis and heart trouble, after an illness of three months. He has been ailing for seven years, during a part of which time he was employed as watchman at the Main street crossing of the Big Four. He was born in Fulton County, Ind., March 8, 1884 and moved to Niles in 1905. He was married to Miss Cora Starr, Nov. 12, 1874, to which union were born nine children, seven of whom survive. One daughter, Mrs. Sadie Wideman, resides in north Front street, as does a son, Earl. Frank lives at Rochester, Ind., and Arthur at Peru. Three boys, Wilson, Howard and Ray live at home. Funeral services and burial will take place at Bethel church, Silver Creek, Ind., funteral party leaving Niles on the Big Four at 8:20 Monday morning.
Title: Obituary of Clark Carpenter
Author: Niles Daily Star
Publication: September 14, 1912

Occupation: Watchman for Big Four
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THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
William Carpenter's son Clark was born in 1844 and married Belle Starr and resided near Disko, Ind. for all of their lives. All their children were born near Disko,  Clark was a skilled stone mason at which trade he worked most of his life. In later years they moved to Nile, Mi. where many of their descendants are still living. Clark died in 1912 and Belle who was born 1856 died in 1911. They were the parents of 8 children: Frank, Earl,  Wilson, Sadie, Wilbur, Arthur, maude and Alvin.

More About CLARK CARPENTER:
Burial: Silver Lake Cemetery, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana
Cause of Death: paralysis and heart trouble

Notes for CORA BELLE STARR:
Cemetery was called log Bethel Cemetery
The cemetery is now called Silver Lake Cemetery located North East of Akron (Henry Township)Fulton Co Indiana on 100South. I found Belle and Clark Carpenter buried in Row 12
Belle 1853-1935
Clark 1844-1912
Clark was in the 1850 Census with Wm and Lucinda Clark
There was a short obit in the Rochester Sentinel dated February 23, 1935 for Clara Belle.

Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
has her birth as 1856
and death as 1935

More About CORA BELLE STARR:
Burial: Silver Lake Cemetery, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana

More About CLARK CARPENTER and CORA STARR:
Marriage: Nov 09, 1874, Wabash County, Indiana

v. JESSE CARPENTER, b. 1846, Fulton County, Indiana; m. FLORENCE HARSH, Aft. 1870; b. 1859.

Notes for JESSE CARPENTER:
1870 census:  Wabash Co., Pleasant Twp.  Ind    Dist 241    page 68  image 415
listed as Blacksmith
Roberta Wunder  < robertawunder@earthlink.net >

Jesse and Florence were First cousins
Title: Fulton County Folks, volume 2
Media: Book
Text: Thomas Carpenter Family page 115

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
there were 3 children --name of the 3rd cannot be determined from this book --not legible
Jesse and his wife Florence Harsh were first cousins

Title: World Family Tree
Repository:
Page: Volume 46, Tree 459

Notes for FLORENCE HARSH:
Source: Roberta Wunder  < robertawunder@earthlink.net >
Florence and her husband Jesse Carpenter were first cousins

Marriage Notes for JESSE CARPENTER and FLORENCE HARSH:
They were first cousins

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130

More About JESSE CARPENTER and FLORENCE HARSH:
Marriage: Aft. 1870

vi. WILLIAM CARPENTER, b. 1871, Indiana.

Notes for WILLIAM CARPENTER:
Title: 1880 Federal Census - Indiana, Fulton County, Henry Township
Page: pg. 27
Text: Enumeration District #40
Dwelling #297, Family #297
Joe Carpenter, age 36, head, single, occupation: blacksmith, born IN, father born OH, mother born OH
William Carpenter, age 65, father, widowed/div., occupation: farmer, born OH, father born VA, mother born VA
Lucinda Carpenter, age 38, sister, single, born IN, father born OH, mother born OH
William Carpenter, age 9, brother, single, born IN, father born OH, mother born OH

???? on the connection of this William -- listed as a brother of Joseph and son of Wm (1815)
but the mother (wife of William) died in 1848 ---- did William remarry and become widowed a second time??

43.  JOSEPH W.10 CARPENTER (*THOMAS9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1819 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio, and died Aft. 1860 in Osage Mission, Neosho County, Kansas.  He married CAROLINE HUFFMAN Sep 10, 1846 in Fulton County, Indiana, daughter of JACOB HUFFMAN and MARY SWARTZ.  She was born Abt. 1829 in Hanover, Prussia, Germany.

Notes for JOSEPH W. CARPENTER:

********************************
Hi Cousin Linda

I found a message from you on a Carpenter message board.
I would very much like to share information on the family. I trace back to Joseph W. Carpenter (born Abt. 1819, Ohio), who married Caroline Huffman/Hoffman.
Sincerely

Thomas Gary Ebling
tgebling@msn.com      3-9-2004

Descendants of Joseph W. Carpenter
Generation No. 1

1. JOSEPH W.1 CARPENTER was born Abt. 1819 in Ohio. He married CAROLINE HUFFMAN September 10, 1846 in Fulton County, Indiana, daughter of JACOB HOFFMAN and MARY SWARTZ. She was born Abt. 1829 in Handover? Prussia.

Notes for JOSEPH W. CARPENTER:

1850 census

Henry, Fulton County, Indiana

                           Name                         age sex race Occupation value of prop. born

347 060 060 Carpenter J. W.                 31 M W       Carpenter             400           OH

348 061 061 Carpenter Caroline           20 F W                                                       DEU

349 061 061 Carpenter Orrin                 1 M W                                                         IN

350 061 061 Carpenter Jacob              6/12 M W                                                     IN

351 061 061 Hoffman Eve 12 F W (younger sister of Caroline)

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Henry, Fulton County, Indiana

                           Name                   age sex race Occupation value of prop. born

1505 1509 Adam Hoffman              23 M W            Farmer          100              OH

Hetty Hoffman                                 22 F W                                                       OH

1506 1510 Philip Hoffman              30? M W          Farmer 1000, 300          Germany

Mary M. Hoffman                           65 F W             Widow                          Germany

Eva Hoffman                                    22 F W                                                       OH

Peter Hoffman                                  20 M W           Student                           OH

1507 1511 Joseph W. Carpenter    39 M W           Farmer 1000, 200             OH

Caroline Carpenter                           30 F W                                                  Germany

Olando Carpenter                            12 M W                                                    IND

Jacob Carpenter                              10 M W                                                      IND

Louis Carpenter                                9 M W                                                      IND

Macy Carpenter                               7 F WIND

Lenor Carpenter                               5 M W                                                      IND

Charles Carpenter                            3 M W                                                       IND

Graham F. (Frank) Carpenter    9/12 M W                                                       IND

Note: Philip Hoffman's age should of been around 40, not 30 years old.

Mary Madeline (Swartz) Hoffman was living with her son Philip along with her two younger Children Eva & Peter.

Caroline (Huffman/Hoffman) Carpenter and her family were living next to her mother Mary Madeline (Swartz) Hoffman.

Adam Hoffman & his wife Hetty were also living by the rest of the family.

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FULTON COUNTY DELINQUENT LIST. A List of Lands and Town Lots returned "Delinquent" by the Treasurer of Fulton County, Indiana, on the Third Monday of March, A. D., 1859, for the non-payment of Taxes due on them, for the year 1858, and remaining unpaid on the 15th day of November, 1859:

Joseph W. CARPENTER & William CARPENTER is on the list for Henry Township.

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More About JOSEPH W. CARPENTER:

Census: July 18, 1870, Canville (post office Erie), Neosho County, Kansas

Census 1: Bet. June 23 - 24, 1880, Centerville, Neosho County, Kansas. Sons Lenor, Charles, Frank, William, Thomas and daughter Juliet are still living with parents

Census 2: August 23, 1860, Henry, Fulton County, Indiana (The Hoffman/Huffman family and Carpenter family lived next to each other)

Census 3: 1850, Henry, Fulton County, Indiana Living at the residents was J. C. Carpenter age 31 (head of household), Caroline age 20 (wife), Orrin age 1 (son), Jacob age 1/2 (son), Eve Hoffman age 12

Comment: 1868, Joseph W. Carpenter name is mentioned in the newspaper ROCHESTER STANDARD - Thursday, June 11, 1868, so he was still living in Fulton County, Indiana at this time

Comment 1: I believe Joseph's father was Thomas Carpenter born about 1790 in Virginia (he was found in 1850 census for Henry, Fulton County, Indiana)

Occupation: Farmer & (Carpenter 1850 census)

More About JOSEPH CARPENTER and CAROLINE HUFFMAN:

Comment: September 10, 1846, Marriage Book (1) page 144 Fulton County Marriage Books

Marriage: September 10, 1846, Fulton County, Indiana

Children of JOSEPH CARPENTER and CAROLINE HUFFMAN are:

i. OREN2 CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1849, Indiana

More About OREN CARPENTER:

Occupation: 1870, Farmer

ii. JACOB CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1850, Indiana; m. MARY A. SEARS, November 24, 1878, Neosho County, Kansas; b. Abt. 1859, Indiana

More About JACOB CARPENTER:

Occupation: 1870, Farmer

More About JACOB CARPENTER and MARY SEARS:

Marriage: November 24, 1878, Neosho County, Kansas

2. iii. LOUIS CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1852, Indiana

3. iv. MACY CARPENTER, b. July 11, 1853, Indiana; d. April 1, 1924, Parsons, Lebette County, Kansas.

v. LENOR CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1855, Indiana

More About LENOR CARPENTER:

Comment: 1895, I can find a L. Carpenter age39, living in Fairview Township, Labette County Kansas, born Indiana (1895 Census, Vol 186, page 17)

vi. CHARLES CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1857, Indiana; m. FLORENCE BARNES, August 31, 1882, Neosho County, Kansas.

More About CHARLES CARPENTER and FLORENCE BARNES:

Marriage: August 31, 1882, Neosho County, Kansas

4. vii. FRANK CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1859, Indiana

viii. MARY CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1861, Indiana

ix. WILLIAM CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1866, Indiana

x. JULIET CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1868, Indiana

xi. THOMAS CARPENTER, b. April 1870, Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas.

Generation No. 2

2. LOUIS2 CARPENTER (JOSEPH W.1) was born Abt. 1852 in Indiana He married MARY. She was born in Indiana

More About LOUIS CARPENTER:

Comment: 1895, I can find a L. Carpenter age 43, living in Parsons, Labette County Kansas, born Indiana (1895 Census, Vol 185, page 10)

Occupation: 1870, Farmer

More About MARY:

Comment: Her dad was born in Tenn.

Child of LOUIS CARPENTER and MARY is:

i. LENOR3, b. 1879, Kansas.

3. MACY2 CARPENTER (JOSEPH W.1) was born July 11, 1853 in Indiana, and died April 1, 1924 in Parsons, Lebette County, Kansas. She married HENRY CLAY HAIRGROVE March 28, 1869 in Neosho County, Kansas, son of WILLIAM HAIRGROVE and SARAH JOHNSON. He was born September 5, 1844 in Itawamba County, Mississippi, and died August 13, 1935 in Mena, Polk County, Arkansas.

Notes for MACY CARPENTER:

In the 1870 Census for Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas, page 134, house 108, it shows the Carpenter family as follows:

Joseph W. Carpenter, male, age 51, born abt. 1819, famer, born in Ohio

Caroline (wife), female, age 40, born abt. 1830, Keeping house, born Prusia

Oren, male, age 21, born abt. 1849, farmer, born Indiana

Jacob, male, age 20, born abt. 1850, farmer, born Indiana

Louis, male, age 18, born abt. 1852, farmer, born Indiana

Lenor, male, age 15, born abt. 1855, born Indiana

Charles, male, age 13, born abt. 1857, born Indiana

Frank, male, age 11,born abt. 1859, born Indiana

Mary, female, age 9, born abt. 1861, born Indiana

William, male, age 4, born abt. 1866, born Indiana

Juliet, female, age 2, born abt. 1868, born Indiana

Thomas, male, age 2 months (born April 1870), born Kansas

The family had a Jacob Fancher living with them,age 28, he was a famer, born in Ohio

If would appear that the above family is Macy Carpenter Family (Parents & Siblings), for when she died many of these same people were her Pall Bearers at her Funeral:

Frank Carpenter

C. W. Carpenter (this may be Charles)

W. H. Carpenter (this may be William)

Lewis Carpenter (Louis)

C. P. Carpenter (not sure who this is)

Lenor Carpenter

More About MACY CARPENTER:

Age at time of death: April 1, 1924, 70 years, 4 months, 20 days

Census: 1870, Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas, she is found with her husband, Keeping house, age 17, born Indiana

Notes for HENRY CLAY HAIRGROVE:

We believe that Henry's parents were William and Sarah (Johnston) Hairgrove, for we find them living only two doors down the street from Henry C. Hairgrove in the 1870 census (Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas).

William Hairgrove was born in Georgia in about 1800. William's wife Sarah was born in South Carolina in about 1802.

William was a Farmer by trade.

We also believe that one of Henry C. Hairgrove brother's was Francis M. Hairgrove, he lived right next door to Henry C. Hairgrove in the 1870 census (Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas). Francis M. Hairgrove was born in Mississippi in about 1842, he was also a Farmer by trade. Francis M. Hairgrove wife was Amanda J. ______, she was born in Illinois in about 1848. At the time of the 1870 census they had two boys, Frank L. Hairgrove, age 4 and Oliver A. Hairgrove age 1, both were born in Kansas.

We also believe another brother to Henry C. Hairgrove was a Amos (Asa) Hairgrove (born about 1828, Troup County, Georgia), for he is meansioned in the Marais des Cygnes massacre story as being captured with his father William Hairgrove by the Border-Ruffians. (Asa was the 1st State Auditor of KS Territory) He is also found in the 1860 Census, Paris Twp., Linn Co. KS, M653/351, v.3, p.137

The Hairgrove family are found in the Itawamba County, Mississippi 1840 & 1850 census. (gives full name William C. Hairgrove)

County, Mississippi - Names in Deed Books

William ,Hairgrove,,15 Nov 1849,7,396-397

Below is a story of the Murder on the MARAIS DES CYGNES (it shows William Hairgrove as one of the wounded)

The bloodiest single incident in the Kansas-Missouri border struggles, 1854-1861, occurred May 19, 1858, when about 30 Proslavery Missourians seized 11 Kansas Free-State men near Trading Post and marched them to a ravine 225 yards northwest of this marker. Lining up their prisoners, they callously shot them down, killing five and wounding five others. One escaped injury by feigning death. Northerners were horrified, and John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the fallen in a poem, "Le Marais du Cygne."

On May 19, 1858, in the little ravine below this marker, 11 Free-State settlers of Kansas were lined up to face the fury of a firing squad. Their captors and executioners were some 30 Proslavery men from Missouri led by Charles Hamelton.

John F. Campbell, William Colpetzer, Michael Robinson, Patrick Ross and William Stillwell were killed. William Hairgrove and his brother (was Actually his son) Asa (Amos), Amos Hall, the Rev. Benjamin Reed and Charles Snyder were wounded. Austin Hall, unhurt, dropped with the others as the bullets whipped by and was left for dead. Before they were shoot and in the presence of death only one prisoner spoke. William Hairgrove said, "Gentlemen, if you are going to shoot us, take good aim."

The action, known as the Marais des Cygnes Massacre, did more than anything else to focus the world's attention on "Bleeding" Kansas.

Here is some more info on this event:

The Marais des Cygnes massacre occurred on the 19th of May, 1858. It was the most brutal and inexcusable of all the outrages committed in Kansas by the Border-Ruffians. It was planned and carried out by one Charles A. Hamelton, who had lived, in 1857, in Linn County, three miles east of Trading Post. This point has already been noted in the early part of this work. A postoffice was established there in 1857, and called Blooming Grove. Hamelton was a well-to-do man, owned a number of slaves, was of an aristocratic and insolent bearing, and had come to Kansas to help make it a slave State. He was intolerant of the principles of his Free-State neighbors, and had little intercourse with them. On one occasion William Hairgrove, also from Georgia but a Free-State man, visited Hamelton, but was not received with that boasted Southern hospitality. Hamelton's nearest neighbor was "Broad Tom" Jackson, an aggressive, forceful, Pro-Slavery man. Hamelton had two brothers in Kansas at that time. One was a physician at Fort Scott, another, a young man, Algernon S. Hamelton, studied law with Judge Barlow at Paris, a town near the present Mound City.

William Hairgrove inlisted on July 24, 1861 in the Tenth Regiment Kansas Volunteers - Infantry, Company D. He was Muster on Feb. 11, 1862 (Discharged for dis. Aug. 12, 1862, Fort Scott, Kansas), as rank of private. He was from Blooming Grove, Linn County, Kansas.

More About HENRY CLAY HAIRGROVE:

Age at time of death: August 13, 1935, 90 yrs. 11 mo. 8 days

Burial: Oakwood cemetery, Parsons, Lebette County, Kansas

Census: 1870, CentervilleTownship, Neosho County, Kansas, page 138, house 168, age 26, Farmer, born in Mississippi

Census 1: January 23, 1920, North Township, outside of Parsons, Labette County, Kansas (says his father was born in North Carolina, mother born in South Carolina

Census 2: 1860, Valley Township, Linn County, Kansas

Census 3: April 5, 1930, He & his devorced son Fred L. Hairgrove lived in Potter Township, Polk County, Arkanas (6 miles west of town is the Oklahoma border, and 6 miles northeast of town was Mena, Polk County, Arkanas (where Henry died 5 years later)

Census 4: 1910, Parsons (2nd ward), Lebette County, Kansas. We find the father Henry & mother Macy, two sons Fred L. & Luke S. & widowed daughter Malin (Hairgrove) Shephard. Henry tells the census taker that his father was born in North Carolina & his mother South Carolin

Comment: August 26, 1893, He was found on a list for people that were elected on a board at the "People's Party County Convention" from Parsons Kansas

Comment 1: In 1919 he lived in Parsons, Kansas

Comment 2: The family lived in Missouri around 1876 to 1878 for the son Fred & daughter Malin were born there

Military service: Company M, 5th Kansas Calvary

Military service 1: Company B, 15th Kansas Calvary

Occupation: 1893, Coroner

Occupation 1: 1870, Farmer

Occupation 2: 1920, Carpenter

More About HENRY HAIRGROVE and MACY CARPENTER:

Marriage: March 28, 1869, Neosho County, Kansas

Children of MACY CARPENTER and HENRY HAIRGROVE are:

i. BURT3 HAIRGROVE.

More About BURT HAIRGROVE:

Fact: lived in Pitcher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma

ii. MOLLIE HAIRGROVE, d. March 4, 1968; m. MR. PUREL.

5. iii. EDITH SARAH HAIRGROVE, b. February 1, 1870, Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas; d. May 10, 1947, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.

iv. MALIN HAIRGROVE, b. Abt. 1876, Missouri; m. MR. SHEPHARD, Bef. 1910; d. Bef. 1910.

More About SHEPHARD and MALIN HAIRGROVE:

Marriage: Bef. 1910

v. FRED L. HAIRGROVE, b. April 1877, Missouri; m. MARGARET; b. March 1879, Illinois.

More About FRED L. HAIRGROVE:

Census: April 5, 1930, Fred L. Hairgrove was living with his father Henry in Potter Township, Polk County, Arkanas (6 miles west of town is the Oklahoma border, and 6 miles east of town was Mena, Polk County, Arkanas

Census 1: 1900, He lived Parsons (ward 1), Labette County, Kansas (Series: T623 Roll: 485 Page: 239

More About MARGARET:

Comment: Both her parents were born in Germany

More About FRED HAIRGROVE and MARGARET:

Divorce: Bef. 1930

vi. HENRY L. HAIRGROVE, b. Abt. 1883, Kansas.

vii. LUKE S. HAIRGROVE, b. Abt. 1889, Kansas.

More About LUKE S. HAIRGROVE:

Occupation: 1910, He was a Machinist for the Railroad

4. FRANK2 CARPENTER (JOSEPH W.1) was born Abt. 1859 in Indiana He married LUCY DONBER February 20, 1888 in Neosho County, Kansas. She was born Abt. 1868 in Arkansas.

More About FRANK CARPENTER:

Census: January 28, 1920, Family living in Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma

Occupation: 1920, Mule Dealer

More About FRANK CARPENTER and LUCY DONBER:

Marriage: February 20, 1888, Neosho County, Kansas

Child of FRANK CARPENTER and LUCY DONBER is:

i. ALBERT3 CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1902, Oklahoma.

More About ALBERT CARPENTER:

Occupation: 1920, Cream Agent

Generation No. 3

5. EDITH SARAH3 HAIRGROVE (MACY2 CARPENTER, JOSEPH W.1) was born February 1, 1870 in Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas, and died May 10, 1947 in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas. She married JOHN F. MORAN 1889 in Galesburg, Neosho County, Kansas, son of PATRICK MORAN and MARY CARRIGAN. He was born September 20, 1866 in Aurora, Dearborn County, Indiana, and died March 20, 1950 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois.

More About EDITH SARAH HAIRGROVE:

Census: 1870, She was found in the 1870 Cencus in Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas (it gave her name as Sarah E. Hairgrove, age 5 months, born Kansas)

Comment: Neosho County,Kansas was at one time (1860) called Dorn County, Kansas

More About JOHN F. MORAN:

Census: 1930, He & Edith lived at 2309 Washington Ave. Parsons City, Labette County, Kansas. He age given as 64 (occupation, Machinist, Railroad), Edith as 60.

Comment: Bet. 1889 - 1891, Missouri City Directories, Kansas City. I can find a John Moran, he worked for K. C. Bolt & Nut Co. as a machinist, he lived at Sheffield, Kansas City, Missouri

Occupation: He was a Machinist for the Missouri, Kansas, Texas Railroad (also known as the Katy Railroad)

Marriage Notes for EDITH HAIRGROVE and JOHN MORAN:

The town of Galesburgh is situated near the central part of Neosho County, on the Neosho Division of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, seven miles north and five miles west of the city of Parsons. The country surrounding it is a rolling prairie of great fertility, and is excellently adapted to agricultural pursuits.

More About JOHN MORAN and EDITH HAIRGROVE:

Marriage: 1889, Galesburg, Neosho County, Kansas

Children of EDITH HAIRGROVE and JOHN MORAN are:

6. i. JOHN P.4 MORAN, b. December 5, 1887, Kansas; d. November 1965.

ii. PEARL MORAN, b. March 6, 1888; d. Aft. August 13, 1935.

Notes for PEARL MORAN:

Marriage applications for a Pearl Moran & H. C. Johnston on 8-Aug-17

If there is no date in the date column there was no return made to Probate Court that the marriage was performed. From April 1, 1915 to May 28, 1917 no marriages were recorded in Sedgwick County, only that application was made for a license

7. iii. MACY ANN MORAN, b. November 23, 1893, Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kansas; d. February 4, 1940, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois.

iv. EDYTHE C. MORAN, b. February 24, 1895, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas; d. September 16, 1981, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas; m. WILLIAM EBLING, May 22, 1948, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois; b. February 16, 1889, Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kansas; d. March 23, 1967, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.

More About EDYTHE C. MORAN:

Fact: Buried in Calvary Cemetery, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.

Social Security Number: 511-56-9309, issued in Kanas

More About WILLIAM EBLING:

Census: April 7, 1930, The family have on 810 Delaware St. Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois

Census 1: April 28, 1910, Was living on South St. at a boarding House in Springfield (2nd ward) Greene County, Missouri. Gives his Occupation as a electrian for the phone company. He was single, was not married

Fact: Cable Splicer, for Bell telephone

Occupation: April 7, 1930, Cableman for Telephone Company

Social Security Number: 320-10-2994, issued in Illinois

More About WILLIAM EBLING and EDYTHE MORAN:

Marriage: May 22, 1948, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois

v. DAISY V. MORAN, b. July 10, 1899; d. March 5, 1989, Derby, Sedgwick County, Kansas; m. MR. B. J. WIGGINS; d. Aft. August 13, 1935.

More About DAISY V. MORAN:

Residence: 67037 Derby, Sedgwick County, Kansas

Social Security Number: 509-50-6393

vi. WILLIAM C. MORAN, b. May 6, 1900; d. January 1976; m. JANE; d. Aft. August 13, 1935.

More About WILLIAM C. MORAN:

Residence: 66441 Junction City, Geary County, Kansas

Social Security Number: 511-03-0186

Generation No. 4

6. JOHN P.4 MORAN (EDITH SARAH3 HAIRGROVE, MACY2 CARPENTER, JOSEPH W.1) was born December 5, 1887 in Kansas, and died November 1965. He married AGNES. She was born Abt. 1887.

More About JOHN P. MORAN:

Fact: worked for a motion picture company in the L.A. area in California

Occupation: 1916, He was a cashier at the State Bank of Nekoma, Rush County, Kansas

Occupation 1: 1920, He was a Machinist for a railroad shop in Parsons Kansas

Social Security Number: 509-20-1812

Child of JOHN MORAN and AGNES is:

i. EUGENE5 MORAN, b. Abt. 1911.

7. MACY ANN4 MORAN (EDITH SARAH3 HAIRGROVE, MACY2 CARPENTER, JOSEPH W.1) was born November 23, 1893 in Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kansas, and died February 4, 1940 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois. She married WILLIAM EBLING April 2, 1913, son of BENTON EBLING and CARRIE COVEY. He was born February 16, 1889 in Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kansas, and died March 23, 1967 in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.

Notes for MACY ANN MORAN:

Pittsburg--Crawford County

The coal metropolis of Kansas was founded as a mining camp during the 1870's. Name that came from the coal region of Pennsylvania to the coal region of Kansas. In 1878 Robert Layton took advantage of the available fuel here and established a zinc smelter. Pittsburg became the center of the leading zinc-smelting area in the United States. 1903 - Pittsburg State University at Pittsburg was established as the Auxiliary Manual Training Normal School.

More About MACY ANN MORAN:

Cause of Death: Strefcotus infection of the lung

More About WILLIAM EBLING:

Census: April 7, 1930, The family have on 810 Delaware St. Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois

Census 1: April 28, 1910, Was living on South St. at a boarding House in Springfield (2nd ward) Greene County, Missouri. Gives his Occupation as a electrian for the phone company. He was single, was not married

Fact: Cable Splicer, for Bell telephone

Occupation: April 7, 1930, Cableman for Telephone Company

Social Security Number: 320-10-2994, issued in Illinois

More About WILLIAM EBLING and MACY MORAN:

Marriage: April 2, 1913

Children of MACY MORAN and WILLIAM EBLING are:

8. i. WILLIAM5 EBLING, b. March 29, 1914, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas; d. July 27, 1989, Upland, California.

9. ii. ORVILLE FRANCES EBLING, b. October 4, 1915, Amarillo, Portter County, Texas; d. January 26, 2002.

10. iii. RUSSELL VICTOR EBLING, b. January 24, 1922, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois; d. July 27, 1993, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois.

Generation No. 5

8. WILLIAM5 EBLING (MACY ANN4 MORAN, EDITH SARAH3 HAIRGROVE, MACY2 CARPENTER, JOSEPH W.1) was born March 29, 1914 in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, and died July 27, 1989 in Upland, California. He married MILDRED LEOLA GARRISON December 5, 1935 in 907 Kansas Ave, Peoria,Illinois/Peoria, Peoria Co., IL, daughter of CHARLES GARRISON and FLOSSIE HUNTER. She was born April 23, 1915 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois (born at home 907 Kansas Ave.), and died July 26, 2001 in Glendora, California.

More About WILLIAM EBLING:

Burial: Glendora, California

Cause of Death: Heart Attack

More About MILDRED LEOLA GARRISON:

Burial: July 30, 2001, Glendora, California

More About WILLIAM EBLING and MILDRED GARRISON:

Marriage: December 5, 1935, 907 Kansas Ave, Peoria,Illinois/Peoria, Peoria Co., IL

Children of WILLIAM EBLING and MILDRED GARRISON are:

i. DONALD WILLIAM6 EBLING, b. August 11, 1941, Peoria, Illinois; m. JUDITH CAROL MYERS, February 5, 1966, First Baptist Church, Azusa, Los Angeles County, California; b. September 15, 1944.

More About DONALD EBLING and JUDITH MYERS:

Marriage: February 5, 1966, First Baptist Church, Azusa, Los Angeles County, California

11. ii. THOMAS GARY EBLING, b. February 7, 1944, Peoria, Illinois.

iii. KATHLEEN ANN EBLING, b. March 17, 1946; m. ARTHUR ALLAN KESLER, June 26, 1964, First Baptist Church, Azusa, Los Angeles County, California; b. July 11, 1944.

More About ARTHUR KESLER and KATHLEEN EBLING:

Marriage: June 26, 1964, First Baptist Church, Azusa, Los Angeles County, California

9. ORVILLE FRANCES5 EBLING (MACY ANN4 MORAN, EDITH SARAH3 HAIRGROVE, MACY2 CARPENTER, JOSEPH W.1) was born October 4, 1915 in Amarillo, Portter County, Texas, and died January 26, 2002. He married ALICE THELMA JENSON September 11, 1943 in Miami, Dade County, Florida.

More About ORVILLE EBLING and ALICE JENSON:

Marriage: September 11, 1943, Miami, Dade County, Florida

Children of ORVILLE EBLING and ALICE JENSON are:

i. ROBERT WAYNE6 EBLING.

ii. CHRISTOPHER LEE EBLING.

iii. LINDA MARIE EBLING.

10. RUSSELL VICTOR5 EBLING (MACY ANN4 MORAN, EDITH SARAH3 HAIRGROVE, MACY2 CARPENTER, JOSEPH W.1) was born January 24, 1922 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, and died July 27, 1993 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois. He married MARY ELIZABETH BROWN October 18, 1941 in Taylorville, Christian County, Illinois.

More About RUSSELL VICTOR EBLING:

Cause of Death: Lung Cancer

Fact: July 27, 1993, Died the same day and month as his older brother William, only 4 years later.

Social Security Number: 337-14-0985 issued in Illinois

More About RUSSELL EBLING and MARY BROWN:

Marriage: October 18, 1941, Taylorville, Christian County, Illinois

Children of RUSSELL EBLING and MARY BROWN are:

i. MARY ANN6 EBLING.

ii. JANET LEE EBLING.

Generation No. 6

11. THOMAS GARY6 EBLING (WILLIAM5, MACY ANN4 MORAN, EDITH SARAH3 HAIRGROVE, MACY2 CARPENTER, JOSEPH W.1) was born February 7, 1944 in Peoria, Illinois. He married ALMA JOHNSON March 14, 1964 in First Baptist Church, Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, daughter of HOWARD JOHNSON and AURORA MARES. She was born September 13, 1943 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.

More About THOMAS EBLING and ALMA JOHNSON:

Engagement: November 9, 1963

Fact 1: March 14, 1964, Married by the Rev. Sanderson, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Azusa

Marriage: March 14, 1964, First Baptist Church, Azusa, Los Angeles County, California

Children of THOMAS EBLING and ALMA JOHNSON are:

i. THOMAS JOB7 EBLING, b. July 8, 1965, Inter-Community Hospital, Covina, Los Angeles County, California; m. SHAWN FOLEY, February 6, 1988, Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington; b. May 29, 1967, Fairfax County, Virginia.

More About THOMAS JOB EBLING:

Baptism: September 26, 1971, Pastor that did Baptism was Chaplain Don F. Hobson, location was First Baptist Church of Azusa, California

More About THOMAS EBLING and SHAWN FOLEY:

Marriage: February 6, 1988, Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington

ii. DAVID JOHN EBLING, b. August 12, 1968, Inter-Community Hospital, Covina, Los Angeles County, California; m. NORA DEL CARMEN LAGUANA, August 18, 1990, El Monte, Los Angeles County, California; b. March 18, 1967, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

More About NORA DEL CARMEN LAGUANA:

Nationality: Mexican

More About DAVID EBLING and NORA LAGUANA:

Marriage: August 18, 1990, El Monte, Los Angeles County, California

More About JOSEPH W. CARPENTER:
Residence: Bef. 1870, Osage Mission, Ks.

Notes for CAROLINE HUFFMAN:
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Marriage Notes for JOSEPH CARPENTER and CAROLINE HUFFMAN:
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More About JOSEPH CARPENTER and CAROLINE HUFFMAN:
Marriage: Sep 10, 1846, Fulton County, Indiana

Children of JOSEPH CARPENTER and CAROLINE HUFFMAN are:
i. OREN11 CARPENTER, b. 1849, Indiana.

Notes for OREN CARPENTER:
1870: farmer
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More About OREN CARPENTER:
Occupation: 1870, Farmer

ii. JACOB CARPENTER, b. 1850, Indiana; m. MARY A. SEARS, Nov 24, 1878, Neosha County, Kansas; b. 1859, Indiana.

Notes for JACOB CARPENTER:
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1870: farmer

More About JACOB CARPENTER:
Occupation: 1870, Farmer

Notes for MARY A. SEARS:
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Marriage Notes for JACOB CARPENTER and MARY SEARS:
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More About JACOB CARPENTER and MARY SEARS:
Marriage: Nov 24, 1878, Neosha County, Kansas

iii. LOUIS CARPENTER, b. 1852, Indiana; m. MARY; b. Indiana.

Notes for LOUIS CARPENTER:
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iv. MACY CARPENTER, b. Jul 11, 1853; d. Apr 01, 1924, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas; m. HENRY CLAY HAIRGROVE, Mar 28, 1869, Neosho County, Kansas; b. Sep 05, 1844, Itawamba County, Mississippi; d. Aug 13, 1935, Mesa, Pike County, Arkansas.

Notes for MACY CARPENTER:
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More About MACY CARPENTER:

Age at time of death: April 1, 1924, 70 years, 4 months, 20 days

Census: 1870, Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas, she is found with her husband, Keeping house, age 17, born Indiana

Notes for MACY CARPENTER:

In the 1870 Census for Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas, page 134, house 108, it shows the Carpenter family as follows:

Joseph W. Carpenter, male, age 51, born abt. 1819, famer, born in Ohio

Caroline (wife), female, age 40, born abt. 1830, Keeping house, born Prusia

Oren, male, age 21, born abt. 1849, farmer, born Indiana

Jacob, male, age 20, born abt. 1850, farmer, born Indiana

Louis, male, age 18, born abt. 1852, farmer, born Indiana

Lenor, male, age 15, born abt. 1855, born Indiana

Charles, male, age 13, born abt. 1857, born Indiana

Frank, male, age 11,born abt. 1859, born Indiana

Mary, female, age 9, born abt. 1861, born Indiana

William, male, age 4, born abt. 1866, born Indiana

Juliet, female, age 2, born abt. 1868, born Indiana

Thomas, male, age 2 months (born April 1870), born Kansas

The family had a Jacob Fancher living with them,age 28, he was a famer, born in Ohio

If would appear that the above family is Macy Carpenter Family (Parents & Siblings), for when she died many of these same people were her Pall Bearers at her Funeral:

Frank Carpenter

C. W. Carpenter (this may be Charles)

W. H. Carpenter (this may be William)

Lewis Carpenter (Louis)

C. P. Carpenter (not sure who this is)

Lenor Carpenter

More About MACY CARPENTER:

Age at time of death: April 1, 1924, 70 years, 4 months, 20 days

Census: 1870, Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas, she is found with her husband, Keeping house, age 17, born Indiana

Notes for HENRY CLAY HAIRGROVE:
Notes for HENRY CLAY HAIRGROVE:

We believe that Henry's parents were William and Sarah (Johnston) Hairgrove, for we find them living only two doors down the street from Henry C. Hairgrove in the 1870 census (Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas).

William Hairgrove was born in Georgia in about 1800. William's wife Sarah was born in South Carolina in about 1802.

William was a Farmer by trade.

We also believe that one of Henry C. Hairgrove brother's was Francis M. Hairgrove, he lived right next door to Henry C. Hairgrove in the 1870 census (Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas). Francis M. Hairgrove was born in Mississippi in about 1842, he was also a Farmer by trade. Francis M. Hairgrove wife was Amanda J. ______, she was born in Illinois in about 1848. At the time of the 1870 census they had two boys, Frank L. Hairgrove, age 4 and Oliver A. Hairgrove age 1, both were born in Kansas.

We also believe another brother to Henry C. Hairgrove was a Amos (Asa) Hairgrove (born about 1828, Troup County, Georgia), for he is meansioned in the Marais des Cygnes massacre story as being captured with his father William Hairgrove by the Border-Ruffians. (Asa was the 1st State Auditor of KS Territory) He is also found in the 1860 Census, Paris Twp., Linn Co. KS, M653/351, v.3, p.137

The Hairgrove family are found in the Itawamba County, Mississippi 1840 & 1850 census. (gives full name William C. Hairgrove)

County, Mississippi - Names in Deed Books

William ,Hairgrove,,15 Nov 1849,7,396-397

Below is a story of the Murder on the MARAIS DES CYGNES (it shows William Hairgrove as one of the wounded)

The bloodiest single incident in the Kansas-Missouri border struggles, 1854-1861, occurred May 19, 1858, when about 30 Proslavery Missourians seized 11 Kansas Free-State men near Trading Post and marched them to a ravine 225 yards northwest of this marker. Lining up their prisoners, they callously shot them down, killing five and wounding five others. One escaped injury by feigning death. Northerners were horrified, and John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the fallen in a poem, "Le Marais du Cygne."

On May 19, 1858, in the little ravine below this marker, 11 Free-State settlers of Kansas were lined up to face the fury of a firing squad. Their captors and executioners were some 30 Proslavery men from Missouri led by Charles Hamelton.

John F. Campbell, William Colpetzer, Michael Robinson, Patrick Ross and William Stillwell were killed. William Hairgrove and his brother (was Actually his son) Asa (Amos), Amos Hall, the Rev. Benjamin Reed and Charles Snyder were wounded. Austin Hall, unhurt, dropped with the others as the bullets whipped by and was left for dead. Before they were shoot and in the presence of death only one prisoner spoke. William Hairgrove said, "Gentlemen, if you are going to shoot us, take good aim."

The action, known as the Marais des Cygnes Massacre, did more than anything else to focus the world's attention on "Bleeding" Kansas.

Here is some more info on this event:

The Marais des Cygnes massacre occurred on the 19th of May, 1858. It was the most brutal and inexcusable of all the outrages committed in Kansas by the Border-Ruffians. It was planned and carried out by one Charles A. Hamelton, who had lived, in 1857, in Linn County, three miles east of Trading Post. This point has already been noted in the early part of this work. A postoffice was established there in 1857, and called Blooming Grove. Hamelton was a well-to-do man, owned a number of slaves, was of an aristocratic and insolent bearing, and had come to Kansas to help make it a slave State. He was intolerant of the principles of his Free-State neighbors, and had little intercourse with them. On one occasion William Hairgrove, also from Georgia but a Free-State man, visited Hamelton, but was not received with that boasted Southern hospitality. Hamelton's nearest neighbor was "Broad Tom" Jackson, an aggressive, forceful, Pro-Slavery man. Hamelton had two brothers in Kansas at that time. One was a physician at Fort Scott, another, a young man, Algernon S. Hamelton, studied law with Judge Barlow at Paris, a town near the present Mound City.

William Hairgrove inlisted on July 24, 1861 in the Tenth Regiment Kansas Volunteers - Infantry, Company D. He was Muster on Feb. 11, 1862 (Discharged for dis. Aug. 12, 1862, Fort Scott, Kansas), as rank of private. He was from Blooming Grove, Linn County, Kansas.

More About HENRY CLAY HAIRGROVE:

Age at time of death: August 13, 1935, 90 yrs. 11 mo. 8 days

Burial: Oakwood cemetery, Parsons, Lebette County, Kansas

Census: 1870, CentervilleTownship, Neosho County, Kansas, page 138, house 168, age 26, Farmer, born in Mississippi

Census 1: January 23, 1920, North Township, outside of Parsons, Labette County, Kansas (says his father was born in North Carolina, mother born in South Carolina

Census 2: 1860, Valley Township, Linn County, Kansas

Census 3: April 5, 1930, He & his devorced son Fred L. Hairgrove lived in Potter Township, Polk County, Arkanas (6 miles west of town is the Oklahoma border, and 6 miles northeast of town was Mena, Polk County, Arkanas (where Henry died 5 years later)

Census 4: 1910, Parsons (2nd ward), Lebette County, Kansas. We find the father Henry & mother Macy, two sons Fred L. & Luke S. & widowed daughter Malin (Hairgrove) Shephard. Henry tells the census taker that his father was born in North Carolina & his mother South Carolin

Comment: August 26, 1893, He was found on a list for people that were elected on a board at the "People's Party County Convention" from Parsons Kansas

Comment 1: In 1919 he lived in Parsons, Kansas

Comment 2: The family lived in Missouri around 1876 to 1878 for the son Fred & daughter Malin were born there

Military service: Company M, 5th Kansas Calvary

Military service 1: Company B, 15th Kansas Calvary

Occupation: 1893, Coroner

Occupation 1: 1870, Farmer

Occupation 2: 1920, Carpenter

More About HENRY HAIRGROVE and MACY CARPENTER:

Marriage: March 28, 1869, Neosho County, Kansas

Thomas Gary Ebling
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More About HENRY CLAY HAIRGROVE:
Military service: 5th and 15th Kansas Calvary --Civil War
Occupation: 1870, Farmer

More About HENRY HAIRGROVE and MACY CARPENTER:
Marriage: Mar 28, 1869, Neosho County, Kansas

v. ELMORE (LEMUEL) CARPENTER, b. 1855, Indiana.

Notes for ELMORE (LEMUEL) CARPENTER:
Elmore / Lemore/ Lemur / Lenor

Thomas Gary Ebling
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Comment: 1895, I can find a L. Carpenter age39, living in Fairview Township, Labette County Kansas, born Indiana (1895 Census, Vol 186, page 17)

vi. CHARLES CARPENTER, b. 1857, Indiana; m. FLORENCE BARNES, Aug 31, 1882, Neosha County, Kansas.

Notes for CHARLES CARPENTER:
Thomas Gary Ebling
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Notes for FLORENCE BARNES:
Thomas Gary Ebling
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Marriage Notes for CHARLES CARPENTER and FLORENCE BARNES:
Thomas Gary Ebling
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More About CHARLES CARPENTER and FLORENCE BARNES:
Marriage: Aug 31, 1882, Neosha County, Kansas

vii. FRANK CARPENTER, b. 1859, Indiana; m. LUCY DONBAR, Feb 20, 1888, Neosho County, Kansas; b. 1868, Arkansas.

Notes for FRANK CARPENTER:
Thomas Gary Ebling
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More About FRANK CARPENTER:

Census: January 28, 1920, Family living in Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma

Occupation: 1920, Mule Dealer

More About FRANK CARPENTER and LUCY DONBER:

Marriage: February 20, 1888, Neosho County, Kansas

More About FRANK CARPENTER:
Occupation: 1920, Mule dealer

Notes for LUCY DONBAR:
Thomas Gary Ebling
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Marriage Notes for FRANK CARPENTER and LUCY DONBAR:
Thomas Gary Ebling
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More About FRANK CARPENTER and LUCY DONBAR:
Marriage: Feb 20, 1888, Neosho County, Kansas

viii. MARY CARPENTER, b. 1861.
ix. WILLIAM CARPENTER, b. 1866.
x. JULIET CARPENTER, b. 1868.
xi. THOMAS CARPENTER, b. Apr 1870, Centerville Township, Neosha County, Kansas.

Notes for THOMAS CARPENTER:
Thomas Gary Ebling
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44.  *LUCINDA ANN10 CARPENTER (*THOMAS9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Feb 11, 1822 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio, and died Aug 02, 1893 in Wabash County, Indiana.  She married *DAVID THOMPSON Jul 07, 1842 in Wabash County, Indiana, son of *JOHN THOMPSON and *NANCY STOUFFER.  He was born Dec 07, 1821 in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, and died Oct 29, 1895 in Wabash County, Indiana.

Notes for *LUCINDA ANN CARPENTER:
2nd Great Grandmother of Douglas York

Wabash Plain Dealer --- Tues Aug 1, 1873
death of Mrs. David T. Thompson
Mrs. Lucinda Thompson, wife of Rev. David Thompson, died at her home, corner of Canal and Cass streets at 9:00 Monday night of brain trouble. The funeral will be held at the residence at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon Rev. A. W. Lamport officiating. Burial will be in falls Cemetery.
a more extended obituary of the deceased will be published in the Plain Dealer hereafter.

Wed. Aug 2, 1873
The funeral of Mrs. Rev. David Thompson occurred from the family residence, on West Canal street. at 4:00 this afternoon, and was largely attended. The services were conducted by Rev. A. W. Lamport. the pall-bearers were composed of the sons, a son-in-law and grandsons of the deceased, as follows: Will G. and David C. Thompson, Will Bright, and Daniel Morgan, and Charles and Will Beck. Burial in falls Cemetery.
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Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

Falls Cemetery
1873 burials
Aug  2 Mrs. Lucinda THOMPSON city

More About *LUCINDA ANN CARPENTER:
Burial: Falls Cemetery, Wabash County, Indiana
Cause of Death: "brain trouble"

Notes for *DAVID THOMPSON:
RELATIONSHIP: 2ND GREAT GRANDFATHER OF DOUGLAS YORK

Source:  "Thompson Family Record" by Mrs. A.H. Burrell --authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson descendants.

obituary
AN OLD CITIZEN GONE --- Rev David Thompson an old and respected citizen quietly passed away this morning.
The announcement of the death of Rev. David Thompson, which occurred at 8:40 this morning, was quite a shock to his numerous friends, as but few outside of his family knew that he was dangerously ill.
Mr. Thompson was taken sick early in the spring, and for a long time his life was despaired of. but he received the best of attention and he recovered sufficiently to make a trip to Michigan where he rapidly gained strength, and when he returned to Wabash, a few weeks later he felt nearly as strong as he did before he had taken sick.
One evening last week he attended the revival meeting being held at the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he had been an active member since his childhood, and being attacked by a smothering spell was compelled to leave the meeting before it closed. Sine that time, he was unable to leave his room. Everything possible was done for him and during his sickness he had the most careful nursing and the very best of attention.
David T. Thompson was born near Canton, Ohio Dec 7, 1821, and lived in that vicinity until he was 21 years of age, when he came to Wabash county  and entered 60 acres of land in the northeastern corner of Pleasant Twp.  He immediately went to work clearing up the land, making a good farm of it, It is now known as the Fleck farm. July 7, 1812 Mr. Thompson was married to Miss Lucinda Carpenter near Akron.
In Miami co in 1858 he was elected treasurer and in 1860 was re-elected. While serving his last term Mr. Thompson embarked in the hardware business, forming a partnership with Mr. A. B. Shavelly, also deceased, In the room now occupied by Lyon and Leedy as a drugstore. While they occupied the room an addition was built, extending it to the alley, making it the largest room in the city at that time.
In the year 1866 Mr. Thompson sold his interest in the hardware store and moved his family to a farm near chili in Miami county. He moved back to Wabash in 1872, and engaged in the grocery business.
In about a year he sold the grocery and opened a general merchandise store. While thus engaged in this business he filed bankruptcy papers in order to prevent a Danville, Ill. hat firm from sacrificing his entire stock, to the detriment of other creditors for a small bill.
The stock of merchandise was turned over to Mr. James McCrea who settled with the foreign creditors,
for 65 cents on the dollar.  About this time, Mr. Thompson purchased the old "Look  Mills" which he continued to operate until the time of his death.
While the settlement of 65 cents on the dollar by Mr. Mccrea officially exonerated Mr. Thompson from all indebtedness, his sense of honor would not allow the matter to end there, and after taking possession of the mill he paid all of the debts, dollar for dollar with interest of 10 percent.
He joined the Methodist church at the age of 12 years and at the age of 19 commenced preaching and continued in the ministry as a local preacher till called home by the Master.
In all of his church work Mr. Thompson never received a penny for his services, and always provided his own means of conveyance to and from his appointments, and it is a fact that he never attended a religious meeting, at which, an opportunity was given, that his voice was not heard, in testimony or in prayer meeting.
Mr. Thompson's wife died Aug 30, 1893. they had lived happily together for 51 years. 10 children were born to them, 7 of whom are living, as follows: Mrs. Meacy Beck, Mrs. Nancy a. Stevens, Will G. Thompson, Mrs. Maggie Brett, David C. Thompson, Mrs. Kizzie Burrell and Mrs. Oma Morgan. all of his children, excepting David C. who is in Maine were at his bedside at the time of his death.
Nov 7, 1894, Mr. Thompson married a second time, to Mrs. Hannah  Rodgers, at Orion, Michigan. His wife was a great comfort to him in his last days, and won the highest esteem of his children.

Among the many business enterprises contributing to the credit of Wabash as a manufacturing and business center there is beyond question, no one single establishment of any kind that has contributed more by its capable management practical skill and business ability to bring about this result than the firm of Messrs. IL Thompson & Sons. The many improvements that have been made in the last few years in the manufacture of flour have nowhere been so pronounced as with this firm, and the fact has been fully established that they produce flour not only superior in quality but of such marked excellence and fineness as to make it stand second to none in the State of Indiana This mill is a large three s-story--structure, forty by fifty feet in dimensions, and in connection with the large ware house, occupies about half a square of ground. These mills are situated on West Canal street.
This mill was built forty-four years ago, and after passing through several hands came into possession of 0. Thompson & Sons, some six years ago, and they have continued as proprietors ever since. The present management have from time to time improved their mill. It now contains all the newest and most approved patent mill machinery, together with new burrs for converting the grain as it comes from the thresher into the whitest and purest of flour.
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They have all the necessary appliances for manufacturing the new process flour which Is so popular among our citizens. This makes the mill in question the most complete and thoroughly equipped of any flouring mill in this section of the country. They run three burrs and a middling mill or burr, and have a capacity of one hundred barrels per day. They are compelled to run night and day in order to meet the demands for their make of flours They buy all kinds of grain, such as wheat, corn and oats, and pay the highest market once for the same. This mill is run by water power. Their power Is the finest in the State. They have left nothing undone which would add to their facilities in this respect, and now have the satisfaction of knowing that they are supplied with the best and finest water power known - it is a never failing power.
This firm is composed of Mr. David Thompson and his two sons, Samuel L. Thompson and William G. Thompson. The sons are practical mill men, and they employ only the very best of help. Mr. David Thompson gives his undivided attention to the mill, and the long experience of these gentlemen in the business eminently qualifies them for the management of this popular and first class mill.
The trade of this mill is, to a great extent, local, and for this reason unusual care is taken in bringing the grindings to the highest state of perfection. Their flour has already established itself for excellence, and It requires the full capacity of the mill to met the demands which its superiority has created. The bakers of this city use the flour made by Messrs. Thompson and Sons and they pronounce it the best they ever used. They also ship large quantities of their flour to points north and south of Wabash, as far north as Warsaw, and south as far as Anderson. Their trade in surrounding cities and towns is very large, and their shipments every day embrace points in this and surrounding counties. Farmers bringing grain to these mills can exchange for flour and meal and do not have to wait for their stuff to be ground. This is a great convenience to the farming community, and they should bear these facts in mind, besides remembering that the flour made by
P.Thompson & Sons is of the purest and best quality to be had in the market, and they sell all goods in their line at the lowest possible prices.
Messrs. Thompson & Sons are to be congratulated on the fact that they have so managed the mill that its products are in as great if not greater demand than any other mill in this section of the country. These gentlemen make only the finest grades of family and new process flour. Their facilities are of the best possible character, extensive in detail and arrangements, and they are prepared to supply the trade promptly in whatever quantity desired. During the existence of this firm they have gained a success so signal and complete as to rank them with the best and most thorough manufacturing enterprises In this or any other city. As a firm they are too well, widely and favorably known to require commendation at our hands. Their work, enterprise and general usefulness speak for them in terms sufficiently expressive, entitling them to the esteem of the entire community, to whose prosperity their efforts have been so highly conducive.
from "Wabash One Hundred Years Ago" 1981 -- a publication of the Wabash Junior high History Club.
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Thompson, David
 State: Indiana Year: 1850
 County: Wabash Roll:  M432_178
 Township: Pleasant Twp Page:  397
 Image: 203

Thompson   David    28   b.Oh    farmer   $1200
                   Lucinda   28  b. Oh
                   Henry m    7  b. Ind
                   Macy Jane   6  b. Ind
                   Samuel        2   b. Ind
                   nancy Ann   7/12  b, Ind

1860 census  :  Wabash, Noble Twp., Wabash Co., In   page 18
David Thompson                age 38  b. Oh             County Treasure    $3,000 R.E.   $500 Personal
    Lucinda                                 38
           Henry M.                        16    b. Ind    at school
           Meacy J.                         15
           Samuel L.                       14
            Nancy A.                        10
            William G.                       8
            Margt   E.                         7
            David C.                           4
            Lucinda R.                        2
            unnamed                       6 days F.  (this was Mary Susan)
census taken on 6-6-1860  --Mary was born 5-29-1860
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1880 census: Wabash, Indiana  -- 3rd ward -- Canal Street
page 414
Thompson     David       58 b. Ohio   parents Pa, Oh
                   Lucinda      58  b. Oh    parents Va, Oh
                   Wm G.       28
                  Maggie E    26
                  L. Kizzie     22
                  Mary S        20
                  Oma            17

Both David and Lucinda were dead before the next available census (1900)
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Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.
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Title: Fulton County Folks, volume 2
Repository:
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Text: Thomas Carpenter Family page 115
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More About *DAVID THOMPSON:
Burial: Falls Cemetery, Wabash County, Indiana
Occupation: Rev.

Marriage Notes for *LUCINDA CARPENTER and *DAVID THOMPSON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About *DAVID THOMPSON and *LUCINDA CARPENTER:
Marriage: Jul 07, 1842, Wabash County, Indiana

Children of *LUCINDA CARPENTER and *DAVID THOMPSON are:
i. HENRY MILTON11 THOMPSON, b. Jun 26, 1843, Wabash County, Indiana; d. Sep 1861, Wabash County, Indiana.

Notes for HENRY MILTON THOMPSON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

ii. *MEACY JANE THOMPSON, b. Aug 28, 1844, Wabash County, Indiana; d. Jun 10, 1910, Wabash County, Indiana; m. *FRANCIS MARION BECK, Mar 03, 1864, Wabash County, Indiana; b. Jul 18, 1843, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana; d. Mar 10, 1926, Wabash County, Indiana.

Notes for *MEACY JANE THOMPSON:
Great Grandmother of Douglas York

from WABASH PLAIN DEALER -      DEATH FOLLOWS LONG ILLNESS
Mrs. Frank M. Beck passes away at her home on W. Sinclair Street today.  Was surrounded by family.
Born and reared in this county --- lived in present house 38 years --- funeral probably sometime Monday

Mrs Frank M. Beck died at her home on West Sinclair street about nine o'clock this Friday morning. Following a serious sickness dating back two weeks. Shad been in ill health, however, for the past four years, but it was only 2 weeks ago that she was confined to her bed. Pneumonia was the direct cause of death. By her calling, the community has been robbed of a valued citizen and one who will be greatly missed, by her large circle of neices and nephews and friends.
The deceased was born in the northwestern part of Wabash County, August 28, 1844 and had she lived to celebrate another birthday anniversary she would have been 66 years old. She was from her birth to womanhood reared on the farm of her birth. Being raised on a farm she was accustomed to hard work and ever since found her greatest pleasure at busy at some work.
Mrs. Beck whose maiden name was Meacy J. Thompson became the bride of Frank M. Beck, March 3, 1864, and after her marriage removed from the farm to this city (Wabash)where she has since resided.
For the past 38 years she lived in the home in which she died and while here she made many warm friends. Mrs. Beck always took great delight in her home duties and found much pleasure in her family of 6 children. One daughter, however, preceded her in death. The children living are, Will H., Charles T., James D., Harry L. and Mrs. Eva M. Pike. Besides this family she leaves a loving husband, 2 brothers and 4 sisters who deeply mourn her loss.
Mrs. Beck has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years and at the time of death held her membership with the First M.E. Church of this city. She has always been true and faithful to her religious beliefs and found much pleasure in advancing the cause of Christ."

name spelled as Macey / Macy
: source: Julia Pike Soule --  personal e-mail

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 State: Indiana Year: 1850
 County: Wabash Roll:  M432_178
 Township: Pleasant Twp Page:  397
 Image: 203

Thompson   David    28   b.Oh    farmer   $1200
                   Lucinda   28  b. Oh
                   Henry m    7  b. Ind
                   Macy Jane   6  b. Ind
                   Samuel        2   b. Ind
                   nancy Ann   7/12  b, Ind

1860 census  :  Wabash, Noble Twp., Wabash Co., In   page 18
David Thompson                age 38  b. Oh             County Treasuer    $3,000 R.E.   $500 Personal
    Lucinda                                 38
           Henry M.                        16    b. Ind    at school
           Meacy J.                         15
           Samuel L.                       14
            Nancy A.                        10
            William G.                       8
            Margt   E.                         7
            David C.                           4
            Lucinda R.                        2
            unnamed                       6 days F.  (this was Mary Susan)
census taken on 6-6-1860  --Mary was born 5-29-1860

1864  she gets married
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Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About *MEACY JANE THOMPSON:
Burial: Falls Cemetery, Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana
Cause of Death: pneumonia

Notes for *FRANCIS MARION BECK:
Great Grandfather of Douglas York

from : Wabash 100 years ago--- by Wabash Jr. High school history club -- published 1981
There are few branches of industry that are of more interest and importance to the general public than that of the harness and saddle maker. What business is carried on in this or any other city of importance that is not in the daily transactions of their operations, dependant on the harness maker, and entirely at his mercy, in that dependence, on his honesty, good judgement and skill? The merchant and manufacturer for their teams hauling merchandise, the physician for his placton, the livery man for his outfits, the farmer for his hauling and plowing-- all are dependent at last on the harness maker. The importance, therefore, to any community of an honest, reliable, and skillful establishment of this kind is of great importance. Such an establishment is that of F.M. Beck.
This gentleman has been engaged in business 36 years. All of which time he has carried on business in this city. He does a large and profitable business. He keeps quite a number of men constantly employed. and turns out a large number of works. His store is amply stocked, and his business is one of the best in this section of the state. He employs thorough, skillful workmen -- he will have no others--- and as a consequence, turns out nothing but the best of every kind of work. Mr Beck makes a specialty of fine buggy harness. As an evidence of the esteem in which himself and his work is held in this city, we can say that the finest work made in Wabash comes from his establishment. Most of the nobby turnouts in this city, carry evidences of his handiwork. He also makes all kinds of heavy harness, and, in the manufacture of all kinds of harness he uses only the best of materials, of which there is no better judge in this section of the country. Mr. Beck also carries a large assortment of all kinds of collars, whips, lap robes, nets, and all kinds of summer goods, and a full assortment of every description of horse goods.
Besides dealing ostensibly in harness, Mr. Beck is a large dealer in buggies, of which he has a fine assortment. He has all kinds, from the finest and most handsome made to the cheapest. His cheap buggies are of the Cinncinnati manufacture, while the finer buggies are made at Springfield and Columbus. The later manufacturer of buggies is especially fine. They are built of the very best of materials, and are sold with a guarantee that will satisfy anyone. Mr Beck is prepared to sell as good a buggy for less money than can be made in this or surrounding cities. He buys in large quantities, and takes the benefits Of any and all discounts fro cash, and is there by enabled to sell the same goods at a great deal less money than home manufacturers. He has all kinds, and sells them at prices that place them well within the reach of everybody.
This house is a desirable one with which to establish business relations. Mr. Beck can be relied on under all circumstances for square, honest dealings. Liberal, energetic, and straight-forward in his policy, he has been successful in legitimate business, always occupying a high [position for mercantile honor and integrity. As a business man and private citizen he is too well known to require commendation at our hands. His place of business is on the south side of Canal street.

from The WABASH PLAIN DEALER march 11, 1926; Thursday --page 8
F.M. BECK
"In active business in Wabash for more than half a century, Francis Marion Beck, 82, of the F.M. Beck and son Coal company, passed away in his home at 158 West sinclair street yesterday at 3 o'clock, following one year's illness which had its beginning in an attack of influenza.
Mr. Beck for years had been in the coal business, his office located on South Wabash street, and could be seen in the office day after day until his illness. In the summertime, the man who had been actively engaged in business affairs and interested in the town's activities, for years, could be seen tilted back in his chair which rested against a telephone pole, in the front of the Beck office, from where he greeted, one and all, the passerby.
The Beck family was established in Wabash in 1844, when Francis Beck was a baby 9 months old. They came from indianapolis in a covered wagon. En route here, the Beck wagon was overtaken by that of the family of which Dr. N. H. Thompson's mother was the baby, then 9 month old. the 2 families kept together on the remainder of the trip and made their eventual entrance into Wabash at the same time.
Francis Beck's first job in Wabash, when he grew up, was to act as janitor of the Miami School building. Later he was connected with his father in business in the saddle and harness trade, the shop being located where now stands the Beck grocery.
Francis Marion Beck was born July 13, 1843, in Indianapolis, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Beck, who had come originally from Pennsylvania. Coming here in 1844, Mr. Beck attended local schools during his boyhood. He was married to Meacy J. Thompson, 1864, and was the father of 6 children, of whom 4 survive.
they are Charles, Harry L., and James D. of Wabash, and Mrs. D.A. Pike of Lakeland, Florida. A son William died in 1918 and a daughter Cora died in 1892.
Beck leaves 2 sisters Mrs. Julia Lewis of Lakeland and Mrs. Alice Despennet of Wabash, and Dr. James Beck who cannot be located, and 5 grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mr. Beck will be conducted in the home Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with the Rev. W.E. Hogan officiating. Burial will be made in Falls Cemetery.

Francis Marion Beck bio
 Author: Linda  Date: 29 Jun 2002 7:54 PM GMT
 Surnames: Beck, Vandergrift, Thompson
 Classification: Biography

FRANCIS MARION BECK, oldest son of Tobias and Olive (Vandegrift) Beck, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 13, 1843. When one year old, he came with his parents to Wabash, Indiana Here he received a common school education in the public schools of the town, and at the age of sixteen began to learn the saddle and harness maker's trade in his father's shop. In 1867, he bought a half interest in his father's business, and seven years later the entire interest. In 1864, he married Miss Mary J. Thompson, oldest daughter of Rev. David Thompson of this city, and to them have been born six children. Mr. Beck is an energetic, reliable and successful business man.

Taken from the 1884 History of Wabash County, Indiana ..... page 244

Memory of Virginia Pike York ( as told to son Douglas on 8-10-2000)
Francis Marion Beck was her grandfather and they called him  "Grampy Beck" . He had a parrot that was kept on a floor stand -- she couldn't remember the parrot's name or coloring.  She remembered she didn't want "grampy" to touch or kiss her.

1880 census:  St Clair Street - Wabash, Wabash Co.,  In
Beck     Francis M           36          harness maker
            Meacy J              35
            Willie H.              14
             Charlie T.            13
             Cora L.                 11
             Jim D                   6
             Henry L.              2
             Eva                 3/12    b,Feb
       Dooley, Elizabeth  17  servant

1900 census:  Noble Twp., Wabash, Wabash Co.,  In
Sinclair Street
Beck    Frank M        July 1843     age 56    m36    Harness Maker
           Meacey J      Aug 1844     age 53        6 children/ 5 living
           Wm H           Sept 1865            34         Harness Maker
           Harry S         Feb 1878             22

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Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.
birth only

from Linda Robertson --Wabash Library director --- July 1980
The Beck house was torn down about 8 or 9 years ago ( abt 1970 ) to make additional playground and parking area for St. Bernard's Catholic Church and School. The exterior walls, I am told, were 3 feet thick, of brick.

More About *FRANCIS MARION BECK:
Burial: Falls Cemetery, Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana
Comment 1: 1880, a servant, Lizzie Dosley b. 1863/ census
Occupation: buggy/ harness business, Wabash, IN.
Residence: 1880, 111 St Clair St., Wabash, IN.

Marriage Notes for *MEACY THOMPSON and *FRANCIS BECK:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About *FRANCIS BECK and *MEACY THOMPSON:
Marriage: Mar 03, 1864, Wabash County, Indiana

iii. SAMUEL LIGHTHEISER THOMPSON, b. Oct 23, 1846, Wabash County, Indiana; d. Jun 20, 1883; m. NANCY ELIZABETH HUTTON, Apr 07, 1869, Miami County, Indiana; b. Aug 29, 1852; d. May 10, 1881.

Notes for SAMUEL LIGHTHEISER THOMPSON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Notes for NANCY ELIZABETH HUTTON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Marriage Notes for SAMUEL THOMPSON and NANCY HUTTON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Miami County, Indiana
Index to Marriage Record 1850-1920 Inclusive Volume I Letters A - L Inc.
 Original Record Located County Clerks Office, Peru, Indiana Compiled by Indiana Works Progress Administration 1938

County: Miami
Name: Nancy E Hutton
Spouse: S L Thompson
Birth Date/Age:
Marriage Date: 07 Apr 1869
Book: C 4
Original Source Page: 193

More About SAMUEL THOMPSON and NANCY HUTTON:
Marriage: Apr 07, 1869, Miami County, Indiana

iv. NANCY ANN THOMPSON, b. Feb 15, 1850, Wabash County, Indiana; m. DAVID VANCE STEPHENS, Dec 24, 1867, Paw Paw, Miami  County, Indiana; b. Sep 14, 1844, Eaton, Butler County, Ohio; d. Mar 1910.

Notes for NANCY ANN THOMPSON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Notes for DAVID VANCE STEPHENS:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

More About DAVID VANCE STEPHENS:
Census: 1850, Pleasant Twp., Wabash Co., In

Marriage Notes for NANCY THOMPSON and DAVID STEPHENS:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
has this marriage as 12-24-1867

Miami County, Indiana Marriages 1850 - 1920
Volume 2
M - Z
GROOM NAMES OF
BRIDE NAME OF SPOUSE
DATE OF
MARRIAGE BOOK PAGE

Stevens Vance Nancy A Thompson Dec 24 1867 C 1 454

More About DAVID STEPHENS and NANCY THOMPSON:
Marriage: Dec 24, 1867, Paw Paw, Miami  County, Indiana

v. WILLIAM GLEASON THOMPSON, b. Mar 04, 1852, Wabash County, Indiana; m. CARRIE CATHERINE BRUNER, Oct 28, 1880; b. Sep 24, 1862.

Notes for WILLIAM GLEASON THOMPSON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Roberta Wunder < robertawunder@earthlink.net >
has his birth as 10-1-1857

Notes for CARRIE CATHERINE BRUNER:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Marriage Notes for WILLIAM THOMPSON and CARRIE BRUNER:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

More About WILLIAM THOMPSON and CARRIE BRUNER:
Marriage: Oct 28, 1880

vi. MARGARET ELIZABETH THOMPSON, b. Sep 11, 1855, Wabash County, Indiana; d. Jan 08, 1913; m. CHARLES H. BRETT, May 13, 1886; b. Dec 09, 1854.

Notes for MARGARET ELIZABETH THOMPSON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
has her birth as 9-11-1859 and death 1-8-1913

Notes for CHARLES H. BRETT:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

More About CHARLES H. BRETT:
Comment: Known as "Will"

Marriage Notes for MARGARET THOMPSON and CHARLES BRETT:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

More About CHARLES BRETT and MARGARET THOMPSON:
Marriage: May 13, 1886

vii. DAVID CARPENTER THOMPSON, b. Oct 04, 1855, Wabash County, Indiana; d. Sep 18, 1925; m. HELEN SERENA LOWE, Feb 19, 1885; b. Mar 06, 1862.

Notes for DAVID CARPENTER THOMPSON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Roberta Wunder < robertawunder@earthlink.net >
has his birth as 3-6-1862
from
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130

Notes for HELEN SERENA LOWE:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Marriage Notes for DAVID THOMPSON and HELEN LOWE:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

More About DAVID THOMPSON and HELEN LOWE:
Marriage: Feb 19, 1885

viii. LUCINDA KEZIA THOMPSON, b. Jun 03, 1857, Wabash County, Indiana; d. Dec 28, 1933; m. ARTHUR HOWARD BURRELL, Apr 12, 1883; b. Jul 29, 1860; d. Jun 03, 1943.

Notes for LUCINDA KEZIA THOMPSON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917
This is Lucinda that wrote this little record

Roberta Kay CARR   (Roberta Wunder)
823 West Adams Street Plymouth, IN 46563

Notes for ARTHUR HOWARD BURRELL:
Name:  BURRELL, ARTHUR
Social Security Number:  435-10-3023
Date of Death:  Apr 1944
Date of Birth:  22 Mar 1906

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917
(the wife of Arthur)

from memory of John Walter York --- the Burrell's ran a furniture store in South Bend Indiana

Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
has his birth as 7-19-1860

Marriage Notes for LUCINDA THOMPSON and ARTHUR BURRELL:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

More About ARTHUR BURRELL and LUCINDA THOMPSON:
Marriage: Apr 12, 1883

ix. MARY SUSAN THOMPSON, b. May 29, 1860, Wabash County, Indiana; d. May 10, 1892; m. CHARLES NELSON MORSE, Mar 13, 1883; b. Abt. 1855.

Notes for MARY SUSAN THOMPSON:
Her Tomb Stone Has "Suie" Daughter of D&L Thompson Wife of CN Morse

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

More About MARY SUSAN THOMPSON:
Burial: Falls Cemetery, Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana

Notes for CHARLES NELSON MORSE:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Marriage Notes for MARY THOMPSON and CHARLES MORSE:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

More About CHARLES MORSE and MARY THOMPSON:
Marriage: Mar 13, 1883

x. ELIZA OMA THOMPSON, b. Apr 22, 1863, Wabash County, Indiana; d. Dec 13, 1928; m. DANIEL B. MORGAN, Nov 10, 1881, Wabash County, Indiana; b. Aug 01, 1859; d. Oct 16, 1934.

Notes for ELIZA OMA THOMPSON:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Roberta Wunder < robertawunder@earthlink.net >
has her as Eliza Anna Thompson
from
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130

Notes for DANIEL B. MORGAN:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

Daniel B Morgan
Age in 1910:    50
Estimated Birth Year:    1859
Birthplace:    Indiana
Home in 1910:    1-WD ELKHART, ELKHART, Indiana
Race:    White
Gender:    Male
Series:    T624
Roll:    347
Part:    2
Page:    99A
May not be the same Daniel ----- as Eliza was supposedly still living

Marriage Notes for ELIZA THOMPSON and DANIEL MORGAN:
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1912-1917

E. Oma Thompson Daniel B. Morgan  10 Nov 1881  Wabash  10  54

More About DANIEL MORGAN and ELIZA THOMPSON:
Marriage: Nov 10, 1881, Wabash County, Indiana

45.  EMILY CATHERINE10 CARPENTER (*THOMAS9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1825 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio, and died Aft. 1880.  She married SAMUEL HARSH Apr 16, 1846 in Fulton County, Indiana, son of CHRISTIAN HARSH and NANCY THOMPSON.  He was born 1824 in Ohio, and died Aft. 1880.

Notes for EMILY CATHERINE CARPENTER:
middle name of Catherine from marriage license

Notes for SAMUEL HARSH:
 State: Indiana Year: 1850
 County: Fulton Roll:  M432_146
 Township: Henry Twp Page:  409
 Image: 496

Harsh    Samuel    26  b. Ohio           farmer
             Emily       25  b. Ohio
      Carpenter Benjamin   20  b. Ohio    (her brother)   =b. 1830

   nearby is Thomas Carpenter -- Emily's father and in his household is a Simon Harsh married to daughter Malinda Carpenter (sister to Emily) and a William Harsh----are Simon and William Harsh younger brothers of Samuel Harsh ----Samuel 1824, Simon 1831, and William 1838

1860 census:  Pleasant Twp., Wabash County, In
page 44  (image 44)
Harsh,    Samuel      36   b. Oh    farmer
              Emily         35   b. Oh
              Emma F.     8    b., Ind
              Mary C        6    b. In
              Samuel E.   3    b. In
              Florence M  1    b. In

1870 census:  3rd Ward  Wabash, Wabash County,  In    page 7  Image 499    sub division 246
Harsh,     Samuel               46    b. Oh           laborer         $1900
               Emile                  45        Oh
               Emma                 18        Ind    seamstress
                May                   16
               Samuel               13
               Florence              11
               Macey                  9
               Rose                     3

1880 census:  Fall Street, Wabash, Wabash County,  In
HArsh,    Samuel        56        laborer
              Emily B.       55
              Mary             26
               Florence      21
               Macey         19
               Rosa E.       13

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 131
identifies Samuel as a brother of Simon Harsh

Title: World Family Tree
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Electronic
Page: Volume 46, Tree 459

Marriage Notes for EMILY CARPENTER and SAMUEL HARSH:
Date from page 115 THE THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter

Indiana
Fulton County

Carpenter Harsh, Emily Catharine Samuel
 Spouse: Carpenter, Emily Catharine
Harsh, Samuel Marriage Date: 16 Apr 1846

Indiana Marriages to 1850

More About SAMUEL HARSH and EMILY CARPENTER:
Marriage: Apr 16, 1846, Fulton County, Indiana

Children of EMILY CARPENTER and SAMUEL HARSH are:
i. MARTHA11 HARSH, b. Bet. 1846 - 1849; d. Jan 13, 1849.

Notes for MARTHA HARSH:

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130

More About MARTHA HARSH:
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Gilead, Miami County, Indiana

ii. EMMA HARSH, b. 1852, Indiana; m. JOHN H. WEBBER; b. Berne, Switzerland.

Notes for EMMA HARSH:
1870 census:  3rd Ward  Wabash, Wabash Co.,  In    page 7  Image 499    sub division 246
Harsh,     Samuel               46    b. Oh           laborer         $1900
               Emile                  45        Oh
               Emma                 18        Ind    seamstress

Notes for JOHN H. WEBBER:

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
served in Civil war 1863-1864 as a nurse

iii. MARY HARSH, b. 1854.
iv. SAMUEL ELDRIDGE HARSH, b. Feb 18, 1858, Indiana; m. ROSETTIE MARGARET HURST, Jun 29, 1876, Wabash County, Indiana; b. Jun 29, 1856, Indiana.

Notes for SAMUEL ELDRIDGE HARSH:

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130

1870 Noble Township, Wabash, Wabash County,Indiana
282-392   page 222 A
harsh Samuel     May 1857  43  b. Ind   manufacturer
         Rosa         Sept 1856  43 b. Ind

next door is son Blount

Source: George Hilficker    ancestry file

Notes for ROSETTIE MARGARET HURST:

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130

Source: George Hilficker    ancestry file
Father: Rhoten Hurst b: 18 AUG 1827 in VA
Mother: Mary Barnhart b: 5 JAN 1833 in Salem, Roanoke, Virginia

Marriage Notes for SAMUEL HARSH and ROSETTIE HURST:
Wabash County, Indiana
Marriage Records 1861 - 1882 Bk. C
 Compiled by Wabash County Historical Museum

County: Wabash
Name: Samuel Harsh, Jr
Spouse: Rosetta Hurst
Marriage Date: 29 Jun 1876
Performed By: M. G.
Name/b>: L. W. Monson
Book: 533
Original Source Page: 8

More About SAMUEL HARSH and ROSETTIE HURST:
Marriage: Jun 29, 1876, Wabash County, Indiana

v. FLORENCE HARSH, b. 1859; m. JESSE CARPENTER, Aft. 1870; b. 1846, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for FLORENCE HARSH:
Source: Roberta Wunder  < robertawunder@earthlink.net >
Florence and her husband Jesse Carpenter were first cousins

Notes for JESSE CARPENTER:
1870 census:  Wabash Co., Pleasant Twp.  Ind    Dist 241    page 68  image 415
listed as Blacksmith
Roberta Wunder  < robertawunder@earthlink.net >

Jesse and Florence were First cousins
Title: Fulton County Folks, volume 2
Media: Book
Text: Thomas Carpenter Family page 115

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130
there were 3 children --name of the 3rd cannot be determined from this book --not legible
Jesse and his wife Florence Harsh were first cousins

Title: World Family Tree
Repository:
Page: Volume 46, Tree 459

Marriage Notes for FLORENCE HARSH and JESSE CARPENTER:
They were first cousins

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130

More About JESSE CARPENTER and FLORENCE HARSH:
Marriage: Aft. 1870

vi. MACEY HARSH, b. 1861.
vii. ROSA E. HARSH, b. 1867.

46.  BENJAMIN10 CARPENTER (*THOMAS9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born Aug 13, 1830 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio, and died Aug 25, 1909 in Kosciusko County, Indiana.  He married ELIZA MARY POLLACK Jan 26, 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of JOHN POLLACK and ELIZABETH PRICE.  She was born Feb 06, 1835 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died Sep 13, 1903 in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for BENJAMIN CARPENTER:
1850 census:  Fulton county, Indiana
Carpenter, Benjamin
 State: Indiana Year: 1850
 County: Fulton Roll:  M432_146
 Township: Henry Twp Page:  409
 Image: 496

Harsh    Samuel    26  b. Ohio           farmer
             Emily       25  b. Ohio
      Carpenter Benjamin   20  b. Ohio    (her brother)   =b. 1830  $300

1860 census:  Akron, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiaan
page 214   /   image 221
Carpenter     Benjamin    30   b. Oh   farmer
                    Eliza           24   b. Oh
                    Nelson        5    b. Ind
                    Albert          1   b. Ind
        Pollack  Joseph      15  b. Oh

1870 census:  Akron, henry Township, Fulton County, Ind
page 19   / image 17
Carpenter   Benjamin   40 b. Oh  farmer
                 Eliza           35  b. Oh
                 Nelson        15     all children b. Ind
                 Albert          11
                 Alfred           9
                 Frances        8
                Florence        6
                Elbridge        4
                Elmore          4
                George          1

1880 census:  Akron, Henry Township., Fulton co., In
page 51
Carpenter   Benjamin J.   50  b. Oh  farmer
                  Mary E.         45   b. Oh
                  Nelson          22    b. Ind   stone mason
                  Albert             21
                  Alfred             18
                  Francis           17
                  Florence         15
                  Elbridge         13
                  Elmore           13
                  George           11
                   Viola              4

1900 census:  Henry Township, Fulton Co., In
page 196
Carpenter  Benjamin   Apr 1830  70  b. Oh
                 Eliza m      Feb 1835  65 Pa   mother of 8 --7 living

lived in what was know as The Highland district of Henry Township, Fulton County. This district was in the SE part and bordered Wabash and Miami Counties.
states Benjamin had 10 children --to adulthood
page 120: at the time of his death he was living with my aunt, Viola Harrold, on a farm east of Akron
page 155 The Thomas Carpenter Family by Walter F. Carpenter in Fulton County Folks Volumn 2

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 131
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Viola Harrold in Kosciusko co., Ind 8-25-1909

Occupation: farmer / carpenter
He owned a farm north of his father's and was quite well to do at the time, as records show that he owned other parcels of land and held mortgages on other land and property and lots in the town of New Ark, (Akron). In 1873, Benjamin sold his farm, and went to the Osage mission in Kansas. where his brother Joseph had gone a year or two before. Joseph stayed in Kansas and his descendents are still living in Kansas and Okla.
When Benjamin returned to Indiana, he bought the same farm back that he had sold when he left. This is in what is known as the Highland district , southeast of Akron, near the Miami County line. Benjamin and Eliza are buried in the Akron Cemetery and were the parents of 10 children

More About BENJAMIN CARPENTER:
Burial: Akron Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana
Comment 1: parent of 11 children
Occupation: Farmer/ carpenter

Notes for ELIZA MARY POLLACK:
1860 census she is 24  =1836

More About ELIZA MARY POLLACK:
Burial: Akron Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for BENJAMIN CARPENTER and ELIZA POLLACK:
Thomas Carpenter Family by Walter F. Carpenter
has the date of 1852

More About BENJAMIN CARPENTER and ELIZA POLLACK:
Marriage: Jan 26, 1856, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Children of BENJAMIN CARPENTER and ELIZA POLLACK are:
i. NELSON11 CARPENTER, b. Jul 27, 1856, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Bef. 1945; m. AMANDA MOSSLANDER, Nov 07, 1883; b. Sep 22, 1855; d. Jun 22, 1950.

Notes for NELSON CARPENTER:
owned a farm near Glendive, Montana
page 126 The Thomas Carpenter Family by Walter F. Carpenter in Fulton County Folks Volumn 2
page 131 --identifies him as a twin --the other child dying at birth
a large, strong man

More About NELSON CARPENTER:
Occupation: Stone Mason

Notes for AMANDA MOSSLANDER:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 131

Marriage Notes for NELSON CARPENTER and AMANDA MOSSLANDER:
separated and she re-married
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 131

More About NELSON CARPENTER and AMANDA MOSSLANDER:
Marriage: Nov 07, 1883

ii. CHILD CARPENTER, b. Jul 27, 1856; d. Jul 27, 1856.

Notes for CHILD CARPENTER:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 131

iii. ALBERT CARPENTER, b. Feb 17, 1859, Fulton County, Indiana; d. 1938; m. ALICE CUTSHALL, Mar 09, 1882; b. Jan 25, 1862; d. May 12, 1929.

Notes for ALBERT CARPENTER:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

their farm was in Lincoln Community, in Kosciusko Co about 6 miles E of Silver Lake
they moved to Akron Dec 19, 1919
Methodist Church

Saturday, January 22, 1938

Albert CARPENTER, aged 75, prominent resident of Akron, died in his apartment above the Winona Cafe at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. Death was due to a heart attack. Dr. Dean STINSON, county coroner, was called. Mr. Carpenter was a retired farmer, and life long resident of Henry township. His wife died several years ago and he is survived by several brothers. Data for an obituary could not be obtained before The News-Sentinel press time today.

Funeral rites for Albert CARPENTER, 79, former Henry township farmer who succumbed Saturday at his apartment over Winona Cafe in Akron, were held Monday afternoon at the Moyer funeral home in Akron. Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH of Akron officiated and the interment was made in the Akron cemetery.
Mr. Carpenter had been in ill health for the past several years. Early Saturday he suffered an acute heart attack from which he died a short time later.
Mr. Carpenter was born on a farm two and one-half miles northeast of Akron on February 17, 1859, the son of Benjamin and Eliza CARPENTER.
Fifty-five years ago he was married to Alice SECRIST, who preceded him in death. He retired in 1918 and moved to Akron where he has resided since. He was a member of the Lincoln Methodist Protestant church, northeast of Akron.
Surviving are a foster son, Homer CLARK, Silver Lake; and four brothers, Alfred [CARPENTER], Los Angeles, Cal.; Elbridge [CARPENTER], Elmer [CARPENTER] and George [CARPENTER], all of Akron.

More About ALBERT CARPENTER:
Burial: Akron Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana
Cause of Death: heart Attack

Notes for ALICE CUTSHALL:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132
an only child

husband's obit has her name as Alice Secrist

More About ALICE CUTSHALL:
Burial: Akron Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana

More About ALBERT CARPENTER and ALICE CUTSHALL:
Marriage: Mar 09, 1882

iv. ALFRED CARPENTER, b. Sep 20, 1860; d. Dec 04, 1942, Huntington Park, California; m. ROSALICE CHURCHILL, Bet. 1880 - 1881; b. Jul 20, 1861, Indiana; d. Apr 07, 1938, Huntington Park, California.

Notes for ALFRED CARPENTER:
owned a farm near Glendive, montana
page 126
The Thomas Carpenter Family by Walter F. Carpenter in Fulton County Folks Volumn 2
page 132
Alfred and Rosalice lived in Indiana until about 1901 when they went to Williston, ND They lived there for a few years and went to near Glendive, mont. They lived there until their declining years when their daughter, tressie took them to Los Angeles to live.
Alfred was a very strong man with very curly hair.  He was called "Curl" by everyone who knew him
they had 3 children

Notes for ROSALICE CHURCHILL:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

More About ALFRED CARPENTER and ROSALICE CHURCHILL:
Marriage: Bet. 1880 - 1881

v. FRANCIS CARPENTER, b. Mar 02, 1862; d. Aug 10, 1888; m. LIZZIE; b. Pennsylvania.

Notes for FRANCIS CARPENTER:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132
had one child who died in infancy

cause of his death was milk sickness, an ailment caused from drinking milk from a cow which had eaten a poisoned plant.

More About FRANCIS CARPENTER:
Cause of Death:  milk sickness

Notes for LIZZIE:
maiden name unknown
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

vi. FLORENCE CARPENTER, b. Mar 02, 1864; d. Nov 04, 1912, Glendive, Montana; m. SAMUEL COCHRAIN, Dec 17, 1889.

Notes for FLORENCE CARPENTER:
died at her brother's home
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

Notes for SAMUEL COCHRAIN:
Source: The Thomas Carpenter Family by Walter F. Carpenter in Fulton County Folks Volumn 2
page 119

resided in South Bend, Indiana

More About SAMUEL COCHRAIN and FLORENCE CARPENTER:
Marriage: Dec 17, 1889

vii. ELBRIDGE CARPENTER, b. May 03, 1866, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Mar 27, 1945, Akron, Henry Township, Henry County, Indiana; m. DELLA BEST, Mar 16, 1895, Fulton County, Indiana; b. Nov 13, 1876, Millark, Indiana; d. Aft. 1945.

Notes for ELBRIDGE CARPENTER:
twin to Elmore
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

Rochester Sentinel
Monday, May 28, 1945

Elbridge Carpenter
Elbridge CARPENTER, 80, a lifelong resident of the Akron community, died late Sunday
evening at his residence following an illnes of one year. Death was due to complications.
Born May 3, 1866, his parents were Benjamin and Elizabeth CARPENTER. He has been
engaged in farming throughout his active years.

He is survived by the widow, the former Stella BEST; a son, Seth CARPENTER of
Anderson; a daughter, Mrs. Faye PARKER of Niles, Mich.; and two brothers, Elmore
[CARPENTER], a twin, and George [CARPENTER], both of near Akron.
Funeral announcements will be made later
Eldridge Carpenter
Final rites for Eldridge CARPENTER of Akron, who passed away at his farm home Sunday evenineg, will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the Akron Church of God with the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be made in the IOOF cemetery at Akron.

More About ELBRIDGE CARPENTER:
Burial: Akron Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for DELLA BEST:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

Hi Linda,

       How are you?   I am Tom Lau of Findlay, Ohio and I just came
across your posting for Elbridge Carpenter and Della Best.

       Della should be a distant cousin of mine because her parents were
Joseph Best and Elizabeth Dutenhaven.   Joseph was an older brother to my
GGG Grandfather William W. Best of Nappanee, Indiana

       Joseph was born July 4, 1833 in Carroll County, Ohio and it is my
understanding he went to Fulton County, Indiana for a time but then moved
back to Putnam County, Ohio (just west of here) about 1892 according to a
book on that county that features numerous biographies of citizens of
that day.  I don't know when he died.    His wife Elizabeth passed away
in May 1883.  They had at least 10 children.  I think at least 2 of
Della's sisters also permanently settled in Fulton County.

As Stella in husband's obituary

       I'm trying to find some descendents of this section of the
family.   Best is my mother's maiden name.    This started in America
with a Hessian soldier named George Johann Best who is buried in
Littlestown, PA.     Are we distantly related?

       My William was also born in Carroll County and around 1850, he
and a few of his brothers and sister and their parents John and Mary
(Cooper) Best moved to Putnam County.   He married Nancy Wagner in 1855
and about 10 years later they moved to an area near Nappanee and by 1891
were living in the city.   I was there last summer and found William and
Nancy's gravesites along with my GG Grandfather John Milton who died in
1903.

       I haven't copied your info yet but it sure is a welcome find.
If there is anything further you'd like to know about the Bests please
let me know.

Thank you for the information and your time.

Tom  Thomas A Lau    3-15-2004

she is STELLA Best in Elbridge's obituary

More About ELBRIDGE CARPENTER and DELLA BEST:
Marriage: Mar 16, 1895, Fulton County, Indiana

viii. ELMORE CARPENTER, b. May 03, 1866, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Jan 1955; m. MARY HOLMES, Feb 11, 1898, Burkett, Indiana; b. Dec 27, 1871; d. Nov 12, 1953.

Notes for ELMORE CARPENTER:
twin to Elbridge
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

Notes for MARY HOLMES:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

More About ELMORE CARPENTER and MARY HOLMES:
Marriage: Feb 11, 1898, Burkett, Indiana

ix. GEORGE CARPENTER, b. Jun 13, 1869, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Jan 27, 1950; m. ROSINA CLYMER, 1899, Fulton County, Indiana; b. Feb 1869, Indiana; d. Oct 07, 1949, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for GEORGE CARPENTER:
1900 census:  Henry Township, Fulton Co., In
page 193
Carpenter   George      June 1869  30    sawmill worker
                  Rosina      Feb 1869    31
          (son) (Frank ?)  Sept 1895   4
                  Pearl         May 1898

More About GEORGE CARPENTER:
Burial: Akron Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for ROSINA CLYMER:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 133

was  a foster child
she went ot live with the Houseman's after the death of her father Dr. Henry Clymer
who died when she was 9 years old.

More About ROSINA CLYMER:
Burial: Akron Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for GEORGE CARPENTER and ROSINA CLYMER:
50th wedding anniv 1942

More About GEORGE CARPENTER and ROSINA CLYMER:
Marriage: 1899, Fulton County, Indiana

x. VIOLA CARPENTER, b. Apr 18, 1874; d. Feb 04, 1955; m. HARLAN HARROLD, Apr 25, 1895; b. Dec 01, 1874; d. Dec 31, 1951.

Notes for VIOLA CARPENTER:
page 120 The Thomas Carpenter Family by Walter F. Carpenter in Fulton County Folks Volumn 2
she is identified as "Aunt Viola Harrold"  --1906 lived on a farm east of Akron

? on year of death --not real clear --
page 132
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

she is not listed in bro Elbridge's obit in 1945

More About VIOLA CARPENTER:
Burial: Akron Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for HARLAN HARROLD:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 132

More About HARLAN HARROLD:
Burial: Akron Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana

More About HARLAN HARROLD and VIOLA CARPENTER:
Marriage: Apr 25, 1895

47.  MALINDA10 CARPENTER (*THOMAS9, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1833 in Bellfountaine, Logan County, Ohio, and died Aft. 1880 in Fulton County, Indiana.  She married (1) SIMEON HARSH Jul 28, 1850 in Fulton County, Indiana, son of CHRISTIAN HARSH and NANCY THOMPSON.  He was born Aug 31, 1830 in Ohio, and died Bef. 1864 in Fulton County, Indiana.  She married (2) ANDREW HANN May 21, 1864 in Fulton County,  Indiana, son of JOHN HAHN and MISS VEAL.  He was born Sep 25, 1810 in New Jersey, and died Aug 03, 1890 in Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for MALINDA CARPENTER:
malinda/ Melinda

Source: Sheri Krichbaum  

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

third wife of Andrew Hahn
Source: Roberta Wunder   robertawunder@earthlink.net  12-27-2002 e-mail contact

Notes: from Roberta Carr -Wunder  from Helen Hann Tooker -GGrand daughter of Andrew Hahn and Melinda Harsh --desc. James Alonzo Hann --(1996)

Melinda Carpenter harsh had children before she married Andrew.  One source names them as Nelson, Judson, Thomas 1852, and Henry 1861.
From a court record concerning land inherited by Melinda's children from her deceased father-in-law
grandfather of the children by her first husband---- these names are Levi N (1851) Thomas J (1854), Benjmain F (1857), and Henry (1861)  The 1870 Neosho County, Ks census the harsh children are Thomas J., Judson J., Benjamin F and Henry M

The land was sold 13 Jan 1868 by Andrew Hann, guardian of the children, 3 years after he married their mother
"sell land and invest proceeds"

I wonder was Andrew a controllilng, greedy person ???? Maybe not --- but wonder what was behind his desire to sell their inherited land ---- Another thought
Maybe the family was planning to leave for Kansas --to homestead (I am assuming) in neosho Co., Ks
My grandfather James ws born in Indiana a month after the sale of this property. They were in Kansas before th 1870 censuss and back in Fulton co In by 1875

A daughter, Mary, married in Kansas and stayed behind when the family moved back East. I also believe some of Melinda's relatives moved to Kansas at the same time. Don't know any more about them
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Notes for SIMEON HARSH:
Simeon / Simon
I chose to enter him as Simeon as that is how he is found in the Census records

Carpenter, Thomas
 State: Indiana Year: 1850
 County: Fulton Roll:  M432_146
 Township: Henry Twp Page:  409
 Image: 496

Carpenter  Thomas      60  b. Va
                 Nancy        49   b. Oh
                 Simeon Harsh  19  b. Oh
                 malinda            17   b. Oh
                 William             12   b. Oh

1860 census:  page 214  / image 221
Akron, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana
Harsh, simeon     30  b. Oh     farm laborer
           Malinda    28  b. Oh
           Levi M.     9    b. Ind
           thomas J  7    b. Ind
      ??  -nd B  (M)  6  b. Ind
           Benjamin F  4  b. Ind
           John W.       2  b. Ind
1860: Fulton County, In. census
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Harsh family/Indiana
 Author: Sheri Krichbaum  Date: 20 Feb 2002 7:20 PM GMT
 Surnames: Harsh/Starr/Myers
 Classification: Query

I am looking for information about the descendants of Simon and Malinda (Carpenter) Harsh, married 7/28/1850. They were both from Ohio.

Their children are listed in the Fulton County 1860 census as Levi M. born 1851, Thomas J. born 1853, Judson B. born 1854, Benjamin F. born 1856 and John W. born 1858, all born in Indiana After Simon's death Malinda married Andrew Hann 5/21/1864. They moved to Kansas, but moved back and died in Fulton County.

Judson B. married Ambrozine Starr 2/17/1877 and they had 4 children listed in the 1880 Wabash County Census, Laura age 3, Henry L. age 1, Estella age 10/30 and Luettie age 11. It is unlikely that Luettie is Judson's daughter as he and Ambrozine were only married 3 years at the time of the census and have 3 children, also Judson was only 26 but Ambrozine was 31 in 1880, Luettie could have been Ambrozine's daughter from another marriage or a family member. According to our family she was referred to as Lieuetta Harsh and she IS listed as daughter in that census, to this couple, but it doesn't add up.

It seems they were from the Wabash County area (New Harrisburg-Disko), but at that time Fulton, Koscisuko, and Wabash border inhabitants seem to show up in different counties for different things.

Luettie married my Great Grandfther John Elliver Myers of Wabash County, she died in 1891 at the age of 22, 18 months after giving birth to my grandmother Elvah Marie Myers. Lieuetta (her christian name) is buried with John Myers at the South Pleasant Cemetery in Wabash County. I have not been able to find any other information, nor can I find a marriage lic., or birth or death certificate.

I got this from Fulton County book of court proceedings

10/12/1849 Nancy Carpenter Simon Harsh and Others
   Petition for Dower.

10/29/1849 Simon Harsh Wm. Harsh
   Petition for partition.

9/29/1849
   Simon Harsh William Harsh et al; Petition for partition
(Editors note:  Entry was crossed out.)

#34
(K. & C. attys); Simon Harsh D. W. Jones, admr of Abeam Crist
estate; rejected a/c - Continued.

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researcher --LDS listing
Patricia Nelson LOFTUS
3974 S Bills Drive West VAlley City Utah 84128

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

Marriage Notes for MALINDA CARPENTER and SIMEON HARSH:
date source: Sheri Krichbaum  
recorded Book A, page 12

Indiana
Fulton County

Carpenter Harsh, Malinda Simon
 Spouse: Carpenter, Malinda
Harsh, Simon Marriage Date: 28 Jul 1850

More About SIMEON HARSH and MALINDA CARPENTER:
Marriage: Jul 28, 1850, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for ANDREW HANN:
source: Sheri Krichbaum  

After Simon died Malinda married Andrew Hann in Fulton County, 5/21/1864 (Book B, page 220).  They moved to Neosho County, Kansas (about 1870) but returned to Indiana  An article in the Rochester Union Spy, dated Friday 4/30/1875 notes his return--"Andrew Hann of Kansas has traded his western farm for the P. Oliver farm, east of Akron.  Andrew does not wan any Kansas in his..."  No record of death for Andrew and Malinda Hann has ever been found.

1880census: Henry Township, Fulton Co., Ind
page 53
Hann   Andrew    69  b. NJ   farmer
         Malinda     48 b. Oh
        Lauren       15   b. Ind
        James       12   b. Ind

Fulton County, Indiana  Newspaper excerpts  1875   volume 5
Rochester Union Spy,  Fri, 4-30-1875
Andrew Hann, of Kansas , has traded his western farm for the the P.Oliver farm, east of Akron,
Andrew don't want any Kansas in his,

Wayne County, indiana probate record
Book A  1818-1823

11-4-1822  Enos Veal appointed administrator, of the estate of John Hann, dec'd

no date --- Enos Veal appointed guardian of Andrew, Benjamin, Enos, and John --Hann orphan children of John Hann dec'd p. 66

Transcript of probate records noted above
Be it remembered that the 4th day of Nov 1822 Enos Veal was appointed administrator of the Estateof John Hann deceased and entered into bond in the sum of $100 with Willaim West and Isaac mendenhal for securities and there upon letters of administration issued to the said Enos Veal and who was duly sworn as the law directs.

Enos Veal is appointed guardian to Andrew, Benjamin, Enos and John Hann orphan children of John Hann deceased and entered into bond $100 with George cornelius for security which was by the court accepted.

Feb term 1824
In a settlement with Enos Veal administrator of the Estate of John Hann deceased. it appeared that he stood charged with the sum of 113 .78 .  Said administrator also exhibited and filed vouchers against said estate amounting to $166.62 3/4 from which deducts the money received leaves the sum of $52.64 3/4 against said estate --- Allowance for services included in above settlement.

Combined Atlas Map, Miami County, Indiana --kingman Bros.  pg 21
lists Andrew Hann as a prominent citizen of Richland Twp in 1839

Fulton County Indiana Newspaper excerpts  1876 vol 6  by Wendell C. tombaugh
Rochester Union Spy   Fri Apr 7, 1876
A. Hann's horse fell down dead while pulling a load of fodder up a hill.

Andrew was several times involved in the business of various estates --- was he motivated by his own childhood experiences with Enos Veal --- administrator of his father's estate and guardian of Andrew and his 3 borthers, John, Enos and Benjamin or did he benefit financially from these estates????

Nov 1849 --Estate of James Peacock ---Lydia's father

Feb 1865 Andrew and the relatives of John Reams deceased, petitioned th court for permission to sell
property. Andrews connection with these people is unknown (Helen Hann Tooker speculates with no proof that Catherine Alt, mother of john Reams may have been Andrew's sister)  I have found nothing indicating that Andrew ever had a sister!

1868 Guardian of Harsh children --- children of Melinda (Andrew's 3rd wife) and her first husband's children --- He sold the land left to the children by their grandfather Harsh, 1-13-1868  Deed Oct 1868

Marriage Notes for MALINDA CARPENTER and ANDREW HANN:
source: Sheri Krichbaum  
They moved to Kansas , but moved back to Indiana and died in Fulton county
marriage recorded Book B, page 220 Fulton County, Indiana

More About ANDREW HANN and MALINDA CARPENTER:
Marriage: May 21, 1864, Fulton County,  Indiana

Children of MALINDA CARPENTER and SIMEON HARSH are:
i. LEVI NELSON11 HARSH, b. Oct 03, 1851; d. Bef. 1937; m. (1) FRANCIS GODFREY; m. (2) MARY ANN COX.

Notes for LEVI NELSON HARSH:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

Notes for FRANCIS GODFREY:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

Notes for MARY ANN COX:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

ii. THOMAS J. HARSH, b. Dec 25, 1852; d. May 23, 1920, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana; m. (1) LYDIA ANN SOPHER, Aug 16, 1879, Fulton County, Indiana; b. Jul 01, 1858, Fulton county, Indiana; d. Sep 08, 1888, Fulton County, Indiana; m. (2) EMILY A. BRADBAY, Mar 17, 1889, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Jan 20, 1919, Fulton county, Indiana.

Notes for THOMAS J. HARSH:
source: Sheri Krichbaum  

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

date of death:
THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 130

Title: cemetery Records
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Text: Akon I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Henry Twp. Row 2. Fulton County, Indiana Cemeteries,
Henry Twp. 1991 edition, Tombaugh. page 230.

More About THOMAS J. HARSH:
Burial: IOOF cemetery, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for LYDIA ANN SOPHER:
she died at the age of 30 years, 2 months, and 7 days
probably died in childbirth

Sheri Krichbaum  

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About LYDIA ANN SOPHER:
Age at death (Facts Pg): AGE AT DEATH. 30 Years, 2 months, and 7 days
Burial: IOOF cemetery, Akron, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for THOMAS HARSH and LYDIA SOPHER:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About THOMAS HARSH and LYDIA SOPHER:
Marriage: Aug 16, 1879, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for EMILY A. BRADBAY:
Emily died at the age of 42 years
Sheri Krichbaum  

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

THOMAS CARPENTER FAMILY by Walter F. Carpenter (page 115) of Fulton County Folks Vol 2
page 131
identifies his wife as Lidia A. b. 9-8-1889 and died age 30 (1919)

Jan 20, 1919 given as date of death --- this is same as wife of Henry Harsh (Cora)

Marriage Notes for THOMAS HARSH and EMILY BRADBAY:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About THOMAS HARSH and EMILY BRADBAY:
Marriage: Mar 17, 1889, Fulton County, Indiana

iii. JUDSON BOARDMAN HARSH, b. Sep 21, 1854, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Dec 08, 1934, Huntington, Indiana; m. AMBROZINA CECILIA STARR, Feb 17, 1877, Fulton County, Indiana; b. Feb 13, 1849; d. Nov 05, 1923, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for JUDSON BOARDMAN HARSH:
Judson B. married Ambrozine Starr 2/17/1877 and they had 4 children listed in the 1880 Wabash County Census, Laura age 3, Henry L. age 1, Estella age 10/30 and Luettie age 11. It is unlikely that Luettie is Judson's daughter as he and Ambrozine were only married 3 years at the time of the census and have 3 children, also Judson was only 26 but Ambrozine was 31 in 1880, Luettie could have been Ambrozine's daughter from another marriage or a family member. According to our family she was referred to as Lieuetta Harsh and she IS listed as daughter in that census, to this couple, but it doesn't add up.

The 1880 Wabash County Census, Pleasant Township lists:
Name        Age            OCC        Township    B/P    Dad B/P    Mom B/P

Judson        26    M    Farmer     Pleasant        IN    OH            OH
Ambrozine  31    F    Hsekeepr                       IN    OH            OH
Laura            3    F    daughter                       IN    IN              IN
Henry L.        1   M    son                              IN    IN              IN
Estella    10/30   F    daughter                       IN    IN              IN
Luette          11   F    daughter                       IN    IN              IN

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About JUDSON BOARDMAN HARSH:
Burial: Silver Creek Cemetery, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for AMBROZINA CECILIA STARR:
Amberzine or Ambrozine

Researching Surnames, Harsh, Starr
 Author: Sheri (Christner) Krichbaum  Date: 25 Dec 2001 11:54 PM GMT
 Surnames: Harsh, Starr, Myers, Christner
 Classification: Query

My great grandmother(Mrs. John E. Myers)Lieuetta Harsh Myers 1869-1891 was the daughter of Amborzine C. Starr 1849-1923 and Judson B. Harsh 1854-1834. Amborzine's mother was a Sarah A. Crocket Starr 1830-1899 who was married to Levi P. Starr 1820-1907. Judson Harsh's parents were Simon 1830-? and Malinda Carpenter Harsh 1832-?. We had originally thought they were of French descent, now an aunt says maybe they might have been of Indian descent. They were from the Kos. County, Wabash County, Fulton County area. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Sheri
sher@maplenet.net

Ambrozine Harsh was born in 1849 and died November 5, 1923, at the age of 74 years, 8 months, and 22 days.  Judson B. Harsh , age 80, died on 12/8/1934 at 8:00, Saturday morning at the home of a daughter in law, Mrs. Esta Harsh, 533 Maye Street, Hunting ton, IN.  He had been ill for 3 years and seriously ill a week.  4 of his 6 children and his wife preceded him in death.  His surviving children are Mrs. Laura Vollmar, of Union Township and Mrs. Stella Olinger, North Manchester.  His brother Henry M. Harsh also survived him.  Judson was a member of the Disko Church of God.  He is burned with Ambrozine at Silver Creek Cemetery, (formerly Log Bethel), Old Section, Row 13, Lots 27 and 28, Fulton County.

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.
has Ambrozia C. Starr

Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
has her birth as 1854 d. 1923

More About AMBROZINA CECILIA STARR:
Burial: Silver Creek Cemetery, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for JUDSON HARSH and AMBROZINA STARR:
date source: Sheri Krichbaum  

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

More About JUDSON HARSH and AMBROZINA STARR:
Marriage: Feb 17, 1877, Fulton County, Indiana

iv. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HARSH, b. Bet. 1856 - 1857; d. Bef. 1937; m. IDA MILLER, Feb 04, 1877, Wabash county, Indiana.

Notes for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HARSH:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.
has him as Frank Harsh

"Franklin" on marriage record

Notes for IDA MILLER:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

Marriage Notes for BENJAMIN HARSH and IDA MILLER:
Wabash County, Indiana
Marriage Records 1861 - 1882 Bk. C
 Compiled by Wabash County Historical Museum

County: Wabash
Name: Franklin Harsh
Spouse: Ida Miller
Marriage Date: 04 Feb 1877
Performed By: Minister
Name/b>: A. C. Patte(?)
Book: 15
Original Source Page: 9

More About BENJAMIN HARSH and IDA MILLER:
Marriage: Feb 04, 1877, Wabash county, Indiana

v. JOHN W. HARSH, b. 1858; d. Bef. 1937.
vi. HENRY MILTON HARSH, b. Dec 31, 1861, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Jan 27, 1937, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana; m. (1) ETTA WILLIAMS, Dec 10, 1882; b. Apr 25, 1862; d. 1885; m. (2) FLORENCE ANDERSON, Feb 14, 1884, Roann, Miami County, Indiana; b. Jul 04, 1868, Roann, Miami County, Indiana; d. Sep 17, 1944, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana.

Notes for HENRY MILTON HARSH:
Source: Sheri Krichbaum  
he died at the age of 76
Occupation: harness maker and shoe cobbler
He was a prominent resident of Akron, and died in his home there, he had operated his shop there.  Henry and Florence (she passed on 9/17/1944 of a heart attack) are buried in the Akron IOOF Cemetery, North West section, Row 2, lot's number 69 and 70.  They share the same stone.

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

Wednesday, January 27, 1937
Rochester Sentinel

Henry HARSH, aged 71, prominent resident of Akron, and the father of Gail HARSH, County Welfare
Director, died at his home in Akron at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning.
Death was due to complications and followed an illness of several months. Mr. Harsh for many years
operated a harness and cobbler shop at Akron.
A complete obituary of Mr. Harsh could not be obtained today by The News-Sentinel. This will appear
in the newspaper Thursday.
Survivors are the widow and two sons, Gail HARSH and Darl HARSH of Fort Wayne.
__________

Thursday, January 28, 1937
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday from the Walnut Street Church of God in Akron for the
late Henry HARSH, aged 76, prominent business man of Akron who died at his home there Wednesday
morning after a four months illness due to complications.
The services will be in charge of Rev. Herman HEDGES of Auburn, Ind. Burial will be made in the
Odd Fellows Cemetery at Akron.
The deceased was a life long resident of Fulton county. He was born near Akron on January 31, 1860.
His parents were Simon and Malinda (CARPENTER) HARSH. He was married to Forence ANDERSON
at Roann on February 14, 1884.
Mr. Harsh operated a harness and cobbler shop at Akron for the past forty-five years. He was
prominent in civic and church activities at Akron and was a member of the Walnut Street Church of God.
Survivors are the widow and two sons, Gail HARSH, Fulton County Welfare Department Director,
and Darl HARSH of Fort Wayne. Five brothers and a sister preceded Mr. Harsh in death.
__________

Home in 1920:    Henry, Fulton, Indiana
Henry Harsh      58
    Florence        51
    Darl                13
 next door is son GAil and wife Mary

1930 Akron, Henry, Fulton Co., Ind
Harsh  Henry   69
          Florence  62

More About HENRY MILTON HARSH:
Burial: IOOF Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana

Notes for ETTA WILLIAMS:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

Marriage Notes for HENRY HARSH and ETTA WILLIAMS:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About HENRY HARSH and ETTA WILLIAMS:
Marriage: Dec 10, 1882

Notes for FLORENCE ANDERSON:
birth
Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About FLORENCE ANDERSON:
Burial: IOOF Cemetery, Akron, Fulton County, Indiana

Marriage Notes for HENRY HARSH and FLORENCE ANDERSON:

Source;  booklet "Thompson Family Record" authorized by John Lighthiser Thompson's descendants compiled by Mrs. A. H. Burrell. written about 1915.

More About HENRY HARSH and FLORENCE ANDERSON:
Marriage: Feb 14, 1884, Roann, Miami County, Indiana

vii. DAUGHTER HARSH, d. Bef. 1937.

Children of MALINDA CARPENTER and ANDREW HANN are:
viii. LAURA11 HAHN, b. 1865.

Notes for LAURA HAHN:
also found as Lauren

Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003
has Laura

????? --- possibly this Laura

Hann Laura T.   souse Hight, Emery F
marriage date 11-1-1888
Huntington County, Ind
source: county court records located at Huntington Ind

ix. JAMES ALONZO HAHN, b. Feb 11, 1865, Akron, Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana; d. Oct 09, 1914, Calumet, Canadian County, Oklahoma; m. JENNY BROWN, Oct 08, 1892, Greeley, Weld County, Colorado; b. Feb 14, 1872, Millersburg, Iowa County, Iowa; d. May 20, 1944, Eaton, Weld County, Colorado.

Notes for JAMES ALONZO HAHN:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Notes for JENNY BROWN:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

Marriage Notes for JAMES HAHN and JENNY BROWN:
Source: Roberta Wunder 1-4-2003

More About JAMES HAHN and JENNY BROWN:
Marriage: Oct 08, 1892, Greeley, Weld County, Colorado

48.  ISAIAH10 POWELL (NANCY ANN9 CARPENTER, *NICHOLAS8, *CHRISTIAN7, *HENRY HEINRICH6 ZIMMERMAN, *HEINRICH5, *HEINRICH4, *BENEDICT3, *FELIX2, *BENDIKT1) was born 1829 in Logan County, Ohio, and died Feb 27, 1911 in Allen Township, Miami  County, Indiana.  He married SUSANNAH SEIDNER Nov 16, 1860.  She was born May 20, 1841 in Shringfield Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, and died 1918.

Notes for ISAIAH POWELL:
Occupation: farmer

Link: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=york&id=I042857
Name: Dorothy (Wright) Gaff
Email: ldgaff@kconline.com
URL:
URL title:
Note:
Isaiah Powell m to Susannah Seidner was my grandfather. I have info on this family if you are interested.  Dorothy

*****************
Source; Susan McMahan
*****
1880
Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Isaiah POWELL   Self   M   Male   W   50   OH   Farmer   OH   GER
Susan POWELL   Wife   M   Female   W   39   OH   Keeps House   PA   PA
Erlando POWELL   Son   S   Male   W   18   IN   Works On Farm   OH   OH
Sarah A. POWELL   Dau      Female   W   16   IN      OH   OH
Ida C. POWELL   Dau      Female   W   14   IN      OH   OH
Charles O. POWELL   Son   S   Male   W   9   IN      OH   OH
Daisy POWELL   Dau   S   Female   W   6   IN      OH   OH

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source Information:
 Census Place District 112, Allen, Miami, Indiana
 Family History Library Film   1254298
 NA Film Number   T9-0298
 Page Number   409C

Notes for SUSANNAH SEIDNER:
Dorothy Gaff lgaff@netusa1.net 2002-04-21 17:51:04
Susannah Seidner (Seitner) was my grandmother. She had nine children and died in 1918.She is buried in Miami Co. In. Am interested in all information. Will be glad to trade information

Father: Jacob Seidner b: 30 SEP 1796
Mother: Elizabeth Rummel b: 07 JUL 1800 in Washington Twp, Franklin, PA
Source; Susan McMahan

More About SUSANNAH SEIDNER:
Burial: Miami County, Indiana

More About ISAIAH POWELL and SUSANNAH SEIDNER:
Marriage: Nov 16, 1860

Children of ISAIAH POWELL and SUSANNAH SEIDNER are:
i. EMMA ALVINA11 POWELL.
ii. FRANCIS ORLANDO POWELL, b. 1862.
iii. SARAH ANNETTA POWELL, b. 1864.
iv. IDA CAROLA POWELL, b. Jul 24, 1866, Macy, Indiana.

Notes for IDA CAROLA POWELL:
source: Robert Wilkinson

v. EDNA EULALA POWELL, b. 1868.
vi. CHARLES OTTO POWELL, b. 1871.
vii. DAISY ELNORA POWELL, b. 1874.
viii. FRANKIE CELESTIAL POWELL, b. 1877.
ix. CHLOIE EDITH POWELL, b. Oct 22, 1886, Miami County, Indiana.

Notes for CHLOIE EDITH POWELL:
Source; Susan McMahan

Endnotes

1.  James E. Pike, AFN: 8HBP-NN   William Allen, "Electronic."
2.  Patty LaPlante    patty.laplante@gmail.com    ancestry file.Title: The Cameron and Paige ReportAuthor: Patty LaPlante, patty.laplante@gmail.comPublication: Everett, WA: P.A. LaPlante, Compiler ©2001-2005; http://wc.rootsweb.com/~laplante
3.  John R. Carpenter    jrcrin001@cox.net.
4.  James E. Pike, AFN: 8HBP-NN   William Allen, "Electronic."
5.  F377.ftw, Date of Import: Nov 4, 1999.
6.  Paul Stapleton   plastapleton.
7.  Paul Stapleton   plastapleton@yahoo.com    ancestry file.
8.  Mark BrownOverland Park, KSmbrown19@kc.rr.com
9.  Mark Brown     mbrown19@kc.rr.com.
10.  Malcolm Haner    belywash@telcomplus.net  Ancestry file 2005

Mary Wolfe

Daughter of Joseph Wolfe.

PRF marriages:

Marriage(s)
 Spouse:  Johann Nicholas Carpenter     Disc #132     Pin #968476  
 Marriage:  abt 1763  
  MD or PA  
 
 Spouse:  Unknown FirstSpouse     Disc #132     Pin #968479  
 Marriage:  1764  
  VA  
 
 Spouse:  *Nicholas Carpenter Capt.     Disc #132     Pin #968810  
 Marriage:  1764  
  Virginia  
 
 Spouse:  Nicholas CARPENTER     Disc #132     Pin #965012  
 Marriage:  abt 1765  
  East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island  
 
 Spouse:  Enoch Betts     Disc #132     Pin #968803  
 Marriage:  26 Oct 1800  
    
 
 Spouse:  Thomas Cooley Rev.     Disc #132     Pin #969391  
 Marriage:  20 Nov 1792

3437. Calharue Carpenter

Number 1721 in the Carpenter Memorial.  However, some researchers believe that he should not be in this family.

John McCalley

E-MAIL: Lynda at  ToledoSN1@aol.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999
> John,
>     So I hear your the expert on Carpenter's.  Maybe you can be of some
> assistance.  I am looking for the children of Sarah Carpenter b. 1766 in
> Harrison Co., WV. and John McCally.  My gr-gr-gr-grandfather was Nicholas
> McCally born 1789, and I have reason to believe that they are his parents
> but
> unable to document.  Sarah's father was Nicholas Carpenter b. 1743 and d.
> 1791.  I am hoping against hope that you may have some information that
> can
> help.
>     I know you are busy with all your other request, so any help will be
> greatly appreciated.
> Lynda

3445. Mary Carpenter

Number 1723 on page 245.

1313. John Carpenter

Children of John and Sarah (_____) Carpenter, i–v born and baptized at Norwich, vi–vii at Windham:[]
v. John Carpenter, b. 30 April 1728 (not 4 Jan. 1728/9), bp. 2 June 1728; m. Stafford 5 June 1755 Mary Loomis.[]

Mary Loomis

She was of Lebanon, CT.  She was of Dr. Wheeler's Church.  The Ancestral File (AF) has Nathaniel Loomis as father. The Carpenter Memorial (CM) has Josiah Loomis as father.
NOTE: Mary Loomis may have married a John Carpenter but it is becoming apparent that it was not the one listed in Carpenter Memorial of 1898.  See below.

E-MAIL:      Mon, 15 Oct 2001  From:  Sharilyn Whitaker
To:   "Frank J. Doherty"  CC: JRC
Frank:
There is a correction in the works, which may continue to be in
the works for some time, but which God willing, I will
eventually send you, regarding John Carpenter who married Judith
Horton, Ruth Horton and third Ann mentioned in his will, but DID
NOT, and COULD NOT have married Mary Loomis, as you suggest
might have been worked in between his two Horton marriages,
based on birth of son John in 1756. Actually I had Mary Loomis
married to John Carpenter "after 1777" with only the last child
born to them in 1778, based on Kellogg.  We were BOTH wrong,
and, little comfort, we have lots of company.
Looks something like this:
Benjamin and Renew Weeks had Benjamin that married Mary Barney,
who had Uriah who married Sarah Hayward, who had Uriah b. 1741
that married Nancy LOOMIS, supposedly the sister of Mary LOOMIS
who married John Carpenter (#1) "of Norwich" who served in the
Revolution, and had *twelve* well documented children by him,
several ladies in this descendancy joining the DAR on this
lineage. (There is another controversy about the parents of Mary
Loomis, some saying her father was Nathaniel, and her son, Rev.
Josiah Carpenter saying she was the daughter of Josiah Loomis).
DAR information gives dates of John (#2), son of John of
Rehoboth for this John (#1), apparently the crux of the problem.
Benjamin and Renew Weeks also had John born 1692 that married
Sarah Thurston, and they had son John Carpenter (#2) born
1728/29 lived for a while in Dutchess County, NY,  died 1816 in
Tolland CT, who married (1)23 October 1749 Judith Horton,
marriage in Rehoboth Vital Records, had three children, Judith
died 1755 (2) md. 16 July 1757 Ruth Horton, ?Judith's sister, by
whom he had seven children...Ruth died in Tolland 1777, after
which John married Ann, named as his wife in will.
I suspect that there were TWO contemporary John Carpenters, and
they have been erroneously blended into one man through the DAR
lineage. The John we are MISSING is the "John of Norwich"
husband of Mary Loomis, who probably served as a private in the
Revolution, but who clearly could NOT have been John, son of
John of Rehoboth.
Proving this is going to be a trick, but it MUST be done,
because of this mish-mash of marriages and mis-information. This
is, unfortunately, my line, through Lucretia Avery, daughter of
Nehemiah, Jr., that married John born 6 January 1775, son of
John Carpenter and Ruth Horton.
Sharilyn
MORE:
John, (JRC)
Does "John Carpenter OF NORWICH" mean anything to you in the
frame of reference of Mary Loomis and the Nancy Loomis that
married Uriah Carpenter born 1741, son of Benjamin and Mary
Barney?
Isn't Norwich in NEW LONDON, CT?
Any Carpenters of New London CT in that time frame????
Sharilyn
MORE:
PS Saratoga County, NY records show that the will of John
Carpenter was dated 25 January 1804, in which he mentions wife
Ann.  No question it is the same John because the long list of
children's bequests matches his issue. (Rev. Pensions. R-1716)
AND NOTE THAT ALL the children match up with his HORTON issue by
the two sisters. NONE refers to any children of this LOOMIS
marriage, and the Loomis marriage is not mentioned in the
Carpenter Bible either. THIS John Carpenter DIDN'T marry Mary
Loomis! Plain as that!!!
MORE:
John,
I have learned enough now to be SURE that John Carpenter son of
John and Sarah Thurston did NOT marry Mary Loomis. Won't go into
detail, but there is no question at all.
I wrote to the D.A.R. this morning to access the lineages and
documentation used for the descendants of this couple that
joined the DAR.
If I can nail down who the other John Carpenter was, I'll
certainly let you know.  These errors are perpetuated ad nauseum
when they are in something like the Carpenter Memorial, and then
quoted as gospel from then on.
Sharilyn.                                   (I CONCUR. JRC)

3452. Oliver Carpenter

DEATH: Killed in Action in Roxbury,MA while in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War.

1315. Elizabeth Carpenter

Gene Zubrinsky corrected the parents of this individual. See father's notes.
The parents listed in the Carpenter Memorial are wrong.

Children of John and Sarah (_____) Carpenter, i–v born and baptized at Norwich, vi–vii at Windham:[]
vii. Elizabeth Carpenter, b. 16 May 1733, bp. 24 June 1733. She is said to have married [at Woodstock, Conn.] 26 April 1759 Hezekiah May, but this is almost certainly wrong.[]

Old Notes follow.

Number 650 in the Carpenter Memorial.  Page 125.
No family listed.  She may have married Hezekiah May.

MARRIAGE: Woodstock, CT Marriage Records To 1800
From Early Connecticut Marriages
Prior to 1800 By Frederick W. Bailey
The town of Woodstoek was incorporated in 1690 being then attached to Massachusetts, and so continuing for some years after. The first congregational Church of Woodstock dates from the settlement of the town and the marriage records of the church begin with its organization.
http://www.rays-place.com/marrage/woodstock-ct.htm
Elizabeth Carpenter & Hezekiah May ...... April 26, 1759 - by Abel Stiles

Hezekiah May

SEE: The following Web page has ancestors and descendants.
http://members.xoom.com/brloy/
Partial data below ...
Generation No. 5
5. HEZAKIAH5 MAY (ELIJAH4, ELISHA3, JOHN MAY2 II, JOHN1 MAY) was born March 10,
1734/35 in Barrington Rhode Island. He married ELIZABETH CARPENTER,
daughter of ELIPHALET II and MARY BACON.
Children of HEZAKIAH MAY and ELIZABETH CARPENTER are:
              6. i. HARVEY6 MAY, b. March 30, 1773, Lyme, New Hampshire.
              ii. ELISHA MAY.
                                             Generation No. 6
6. HARVEY6 MAY (HEZAKIAH5, ELIJAH4, ELISHA3, JOHN MAY2 II, JOHN1 MAY) was born
March 30, 1773 in Lyme, New Hampshire. He married JOANNA WEDGE
November 03, 1795 in Strafford, Vermont, daughter of JOHN WEDGE and ANNAH
BROWN.
Children of HARVEY MAY and JOANNA WEDGE are:
              7. i. JOAB7 MAY, b. March 04, 1800, Strafford, Vermont; d.
December 25, 1885, Bannister, Michigan.
              8. ii. ISAAC MAY, b. October 05, 1796, Strafford, Vermont; d.
December 08, 1874, Sandusky Co., Ohio.
              9. iii. HIRAM MAY, b. June 28, 1798, Strafford, Vermont; d. July
28, 1883, Sandusky Co., Ohio.
                                             Generation No. 7
7. JOAB7 MAY (HARVEY6, HEZAKIAH5, ELIJAH4, ELISHA3, JOHN MAY2 II, JOHN1 MAY)
was born March 04, 1800 in Strafford, Vermont, and died December 25, 1885
in Bannister, Michigan. He married MARY GROGGS 1827 in Conesus, New York.
Children of JOAB MAY and MARY GROGGS are:
              10. i. THEODORE HARRISON8 MAY, b. August 06, 1840, Springwater
NY; d. September 30, 1923, Ovid Michigan.
              11. ii. DECATUR D MAY, b. June 22, 1828, Conesus; d. 1855,
Sandusky Co., Ohio.
              12. iii. EMILY MAY, b. March 03, 1835, Springwater New York.
              13. iv. MARVIN L MAY, b. October 14, 1833, Conesus.
              14. v. HIRAM SYLVESTER MAY, b. December 22, 1846, Springwater,
New York; d. January 13, 1925, Owosso, Michigan.
              vi. HARRIET C MAY, b. February 22, 1846, Springwater, New York;
d. Bet. 1846 - 1946.
8. ISAAC7 MAY (HARVEY6, HEZAKIAH5, ELIJAH4, ELISHA3, JOHN MAY2 II, JOHN1 MAY)
was born October 05, 1796 in Strafford, Vermont, and died December 08,
1874 in Sandusky Co., Ohio. He married (1) RACHEAL MCMILLEN 1816 in Livingston
County, NY. He married (2) NANCY MCMILLEN January 13, 1830 in
Sandusky County Ohio.
Children of ISAAC MAY and RACHEAL MCMILLEN are:
              i. UNNAMED8 MAY.
              ii. EMILY MAY.
              15. iii. DIANTHA MAY, b. October 10, 1819, LIvingston; d. May
08, 1879, Sandusky Co., Ohio.
              16. iv. EMILY LOUSA MAY, b. March 29, 1822, Livingston; d. March
17, 1896, Sandusky Co., Ohio.
              17. v. JAMES H MAY, b. 1823; d. November 14, 1913, Lenawee
County, Michigan.
              18. vi. MARY ANN MAY, b. January 24, 1825, Sandusky Co., Ohio;
d. March 05, 1915, Morenci, Michigan.
              vii. WILLIAM MAY, b. March 01, 1829.
Children of ISAAC MAY and NANCY MCMILLEN are:
              viii. SAPHRONIA8 MAY, b. 1832, Sandusky Co., Ohio; d. 1849.
              19. ix. CYNTHIA MAY, b. September 01, 1833, Sandusky Co., Ohio;
d. September 29, 1859, Sandusky Co., Ohio.
              20. x. ROSETTA MAY, b. 1837, Sandusky Co., Ohio.
              xi. HIRAM MAY, b. February 1841; d. November 11, 1862, Civil
War, Lexington, Kentucky.
              xii. LAURA ANN MAY, b. Bet. 1842 - 1843; d. in early childhood.
              21. xiii. LAURA MARIA MAY, b. 1844, Sandusky Co., Ohio.
              xiv. MARILLA MAY, b. June 17, 1847, Sandusky Co., Ohio; d. March
1926; m. JOHN KIDMAN, 1893.
              22. xv. EMELINE MAY, b. July 16, 1849, Sandusky Co., Ohio; d.
June 25, 1931, Seneca, Kansas.
              xvi. THERON R MAY, b. 1851.
              23. xvii. IDA M MAY, b. October 01, 1853, Sandusky Co., Ohio; d.
May 28, 1925, Lenawee, Michigan.
9. HIRAM7 MAY (HARVEY6, HEZAKIAH5, ELIJAH4, ELISHA3, JOHN MAY2 II, JOHN1 MAY)
was born June 28, 1798 in Strafford, Vermont, and died July 28, 1883 in
Sandusky Co., Ohio. He married ELIZA MORRIS Abt. 1818 in Conesus, New York.
Children of HIRAM MAY and ELIZA MORRIS are:
              i. GEORGE8 MAY, b. July 06, 1820, Livingston County, New York;
d. March 26, 1821.
              ii. MARIA MAY, b. July 1824, Livingston County, New York; d.
October 10, 1847, Conesus New York.
              24. iii. DARIUS H MAY, b. 1826, Livingston County, New York; d.
May 22, 1890, Conesus New York.
              iv. DELIAH MAY, b. 1828, Livingston County, New York; d. Bet.
1828 - 1935.
              25. v. THOMAS JEFFERSON MAY, b. 1833, Livingston County, New
York; d. December 19, 1932, Topeka, Kansas.
              26. vi. ELIZABETH MAY, b. 1834, Livingston County, New York; d.
Bet. 1850 - 1935.
              vii. DENNIS MAY, b. September 23, 1835, Livingston County, New
York; d. June 01, 1836.
              viii. JAMES M MAY, b. February 1837, Livingston County, New
York; d. March 06, 1863, Civil War.
              27. ix. CHARLES MAY, b. June 13, 1840, Livingston County, New
York; d. February 21, 1936, Sandusky Co., Ohio.

1316. Thomas B. Carpenter

Number 703 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 131.
No family listed.
Descendants submitted by: Jack A. Schoedinger.
on Sun, 6 Aug 2000 From: Jack A Schoedinger

E-MAIL: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 From: "John F. Chandler"
To: John Carpenter
John,
Thanks for the response.  Yes, the 1738 Thomas is the one you
identified (your #20519).  (By the way, you show him as born in West
Greenwich, but that town wasn't set off from East Greenwich until 1741.
It's true that his birth record is found in the VR of W.G., but that
just shows how asynchronous the VR collection tended to be in RI!)
Now, I have a couple of challenges for you, if you care to accept them.
The first concerns the parents of this Thomas (Thomas & Elizabeth).
Observe that Beriah was a rare name, even in those days.  Do you have
an explanation of where Thomas and Elizabeth got that name for one of
their sons?  If not, then I submit the following: your Oliver #7828
had a brother Joseph who, according to Austin, had a son Thomas about
the same age as #7839; this Joseph married Mary Brown on 1702/3 Mar 18
in Warwick (per VR); and Mary was in fact the daughter of Beriah Brown
(per VR).  From this, I conclude that the father of Beriah #20523 was
quite possibly the son of Joseph, instead of the son of Oliver.  Can
you refute that?
The second comes from the GEDCOM file you attached.  I observe that it
contains two sets of siblings that appear to be duplicates:
(A) #7833 Abigail, #7834 Anne, and #7839 Thomas, and
(B) #12960 Abigail/Abia, #12961 Anna, and #12962 Thomas.
All four girls have the same birth date and same birth place.  As it
happens, there is an actual record of the birth of twins on that date,
but it was in Warwick, not Kingstown.  Even though your GEDCOM didn't
include the parents in either family, I can deduce them from the context
(such as the date of marriage in family B).  Family B is Joseph & Mary
of Warwick, who by the way had at least two other children not shown
in the file, and family A is evidently Oliver & Sarah.  Doesn't the
confusion over the twins suggest that the Thomases may also be confused?
As long as I'm at it, let me throw in a third.  Oliver #7828 is shown in
your file as having a son Oliver Jr #7846 (c1695-1727).  However, the
same page in the East Greenwich VR that gives us the birth of Sarah
#7848 in 1717 also shows the birth of Oliver Jr on 1716 Oct 24.  Also,
I note that Oliver Sr's will was written on 1727 Nov 20 (over a month
after he took administration of the estate of his son Oliver), and yet
the will refers to a *living* son Oliver as his *youngest* son.  To top
it off, there is a record in North Kingstown of the birth of a son Oliver
to Oliver and Sarah on 1727 Jul 24.  That all seems to me to add up to
a minor son Oliver who had some inherited property that needed proper
disposition in 1727 when he died (obviously intestate and without any
heirs other than his father), plus a second son Oliver named after
the first and therefore presumably born shortly after the first son
Oliver died.  How do you square this with the statement I see in the
file for #7846, that three children born 1714, 1717 and 1723 were his?
I have attached (apologises to those who hate attachments) a GEDCOM of
85 Carpenters in Washington County, RI (formerly NewPort) born between
1699 and 1750 (plus or minus a bit).
Is that why the file has so many families with no parents (even when the
marriage is specified)?  I.e., if the parents aren't listed as being
born in Washington or Newport county between 1690 and 1760, they weren't
included in the file?
In any case, the file has proven helpful, despite the various bits of
confusion.  However, in the final analysis, I'm still left with the same
question: is there any evidence to show that the Thomas Carpenter who
died in 1815 in Exeter, RI was the same as #20519 (or any evidence to
show he was not)?   John.

BURIAL: Perryville Church Cem., South Kingstown, Washington, RI.

MARRIAGE: From: Charlie Carpenter
To: John R Carpenter (JRC)
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:50 AM
Subject: Thomas Carpenter marriage
Hi John
Some time in the past I recall a discussion about the two Thomas Carpenters 1707-1778 and his son Thomas 1730-1815. The discussion was about the son being married to a Dorcas Grinnell being incorrect. I finally found the records of this marriage taking place in South Kingstown,R.I. and the marriage by Dr. Joseph Torrey on 10-25-1759. The original Church Records are at R.I. Historical Society.  (Source: Dr. Joseph Torrey and his Record Book of Marriages by William Davis Miller, Page 14)
Charlie CarpenterWashington County,R.I.

Dorcas Grinnel

Perryville Church Cem., South Kingstown, Washington, RI.

1317. Nicholas Carpenter

Number 708 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 131.
Family on page 247 (#261).  A farmer.

He moved to Somersworth, NH aft 1761 and died there in 1822.  He settled all
his sons there except Benjamin.  Per notes on page 837.
Nicholas appears to have enlisted on Nov. 5, 1775, in Moses ?'s Company,
on Pierce's Island; again as private.  July 3, 1780: was discharged Oct. 26,
1780 and was on the payroll for the defense of West Point in Captain Tim
Emerson's company.

1319. Joseph Carpenter

Number 706 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 131.
Family on page 246 (# 259).
He moved to Huntington, VT.  A farmer.

Joseph Carpenter, (wife Bethiah) was said to be a very fine man: he owned a
very large farm at Huntington Center: he gave the land for the cemetery where
he is now buried.  His grave is marked by a brown stone.  The house he built is
still standing (in 1885) at Huntington Center.

SEE: Family 259 in the CM.

He moved from West Greenwich, RI to Huntington, Vt.2  SOUR S203

Bethia Babcock

NAME:  Was her last name "Brown?"