1900 United States Federal Census
about Helen G Carpentier
Name: Helen G Carpentier
[Helen G Carpenter]
Home in 1900: Omaha Ward 6, Douglas, Nebraska
Age: 7
Estimated birth year: abt 1893
Birthplace: Nebraska
Relationship to head-of-house: Daughter
Parent's Name: James A
Race: White
Occupation: View image
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Household Members: Name Age
James A Carpentier 36
Helen G Carpentier 7
Charley Carpentier 5
Rose E Pierce 281910 United States Federal Census
about Helen G Carpenter
Name: Helen G Carpenter
[Helen G Carpinter]
[Helen G See User Comment]
Age in 1910: 17
Estimated birth year: abt 1893
Birthplace: Nebraska
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's name: James A
Father's Birth Place: Illinois
Mother's name: Lila
Mother's Birth Place: Illinois
Home in 1910: Kansas Ward 4, Jackson, Missouri
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Female
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Household Members: Name Age
James A Carpenter 46
Lila Carpenter 38
Helen G Carpenter 17
Charles H Carpenter 15
Mary L Carpenter 7
Marie Maltby 31
1910 United States Federal Census
about Helen G Carpenter
Name: Helen G Carpenter
[Helen G Carpinter]
[Helen G See User Comment]
Age in 1910: 17
Estimated birth year: abt 1893
Birthplace: Nebraska
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's name: James A
Father's Birth Place: Illinois
Mother's name: Lila
Mother's Birth Place: Illinois
Home in 1910: Kansas Ward 4, Jackson, Missouri
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Female
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Household Members: Name Age
James A Carpenter 46
Lila Carpenter 38
Helen G Carpenter 17
Charles H Carpenter 15
Mary L Carpenter 7
Marie Maltby 311920 United States Federal Census
about Helen Craig
Name: Helen Craig
Home in 1920: Gardner, Johnson, Kansas
Age: 27 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1893
Birthplace: Nebraska
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouse's name: Lloyd
Father's Birth Place: Illinois
Mother's Birth Place: Illinois
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Female
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 587
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Household Members: Name Age
Lloyd Craig 29
Helen Craig 27
Shirley Marie Craig 5California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1957
about Helen Craig
Name: Helen Craig
Arrival Date: 12 Nov 1955
Age: 63
Birth Date: abt 1892
Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Gender: FemaleShip Name: Lurline
Port of Arrival: San Francisco, California
Port of Departure: Honolulu, Hawaii
Lloyd was a salesman at a lumber yard in 1920.
California Death Index, 1940-1997
about Shirley Marie Sharratt
Name: Shirley Marie Sharratt
[Shirley Marie Craig]
Social Security #: 487126881
Sex: FEMALE
Birth Date: 5 Aug 1914
Birthplace: Missouri
Death Date: 19 Apr 1992
Death Place: San Diego
Mother's Maiden Name: Carpenter
Father's Surname: Craig
George Stanley Harper Sharratt
Social Security Death Index
about George Sharratt
Name: George Sharratt
SSN: 486-01-5019
Last Residence: 82201 Wheatland, Platte, Wyoming, United States ofAmerica
Born: 16 Sep 1914
Died: Jul 1983
State (Year) SSN issued: Missouri (Before 1951 )
26019. Frances Elizabeth Carpenter
Letter to Momma
Added by knitmom on 30 Oct 2007"Idaho
June 1st, 1902
Dear Momma You couldn't guess what it is doing. We are in Kemmerer andit is snowing. They said that we were coming to a blizzard. But don'tbe scared because there is no danger. We arrived at Denver at eighto'clock. And went up to Uncle Archie's office and he telephoned up tothe house. And Aunt Murtle was out with Dorthy. You would give anythingif you could see Dorthy. She is so sweet. We saw the mountains. We arejust now passing some mountains with clouds and snow on. We are 5500feet above the level of the sea. We are surrounded with mountains. Weare just having a picnic. And more. We are right in the blizzaed.Excuse my writing on account of the train. Now I must close with love toall.
Social Security Death Index
about Frances Charleville
Name: Frances Charleville
SSN: 507-60-9016
Last Residence: 68112 Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States of America
Born: 23 Apr 1893
Died: Feb 1983
State (Year) SSN issued: Nebraska (1963 )Lovingly, your daughter Frances"
1910 United States Federal Census
about Alphonse E Charleville
Name: Alphonse E Charleville
Age in 1910: 22
Estimated birth year: abt 1888
Birthplace: Missouri
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Birth Place: Missouri
Mother's name: Elizabeth
Mother's Birth Place: Missouri
Home in 1910: St Louis Ward 24, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Male
Elizabeth Charleville 55
Joseph L Charleville 25
Alphonse E Charleville 22
Mary E Charleville 38
Kathner Charleville 28
Ethel Charleville 25From his W. W. I. draft registration we know he was living at 2005 LocustStreet, Omaha, was age 30, and was born in St. Louis. He was a salesmanfor Carpenter Paper Company and had a wife and two children.
Ralph Swisher Russell, physician and surgeon, was born at Metlaltoyuca,Old Mexico, March 22, 1900, son of Calvin Parker and Orissa Anna(Swisher) Russell.
The father, born at Glenns Falls, New York, April 18, 1857, is of Englishdescent, a son of the American Revolution through Captain Parker of thebattle of Bunker Hill. He is secretary and treasurer of the LincolnTelephone and Telegraph Company; vice president of the NebraskaAnti-Saloon League; and treasurer of the building fund of the FirstPlymouth Church at Lincoln. His wife, Orissa, was born at Dayton, Ohio,August 31, 1864, and is very active in Woman's Club work. She is of SwissGerman descent, representing the fourth generation in America.
Dr. Russell graduated from Cherry Street School in Lincoln in 1913 andfrom the Lincoln High School in 1917. He entered the University ofNebraska receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921, his Bachelor ofScience degree in 1922, and his medical degree in 1925. He has been inactive practice since that date. At the present time Dr. Russell ismanager and owner of the Russell Hospital at Sutherland. He served hisinterneship at the University Hospital in 1925, and took a post-graduatecourse in surgery in 1926.
His marriage to Ruth Elizabeth Carpenter, daughter of A. W. Carpenter andMyrtle Tasker, was solemnized at Lincoln, July 20, 1926. Mrs. Russell wasborn at Denver, June 16, 1903, of Scotch-Irish descent, descended fromGeneral Bliss. They have one son, Ralph born July 23, 1928.
Dr. Russell is a Republican. He served at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, in thefield artillery, during the World War and for the past ten years has beena leader of the Boy Scouts. He was commander of Post No. 208 of theAmerican Legion in 1931, is a member of the Sons of the AmericanRevolution, the First Methodist Church of Sutherland, the Lincoln County,Nebraska State, and American Medical Associations. He is also a member ofthe Red Cross, the Sutherland Commercial Club, the Masons, and the OddFellows. His favorite sports are hunting and fishing. Residence:Sutherland.
Lee Rankin, as he was known, was an illustrious "shirt-sleeve" relative.He was a U.S. lawyer who successfully argued before the U.S. SupremeCourt in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) overturning the"separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation in public schools.He also served as U. S. Solicitor General (1956-1961) and was appointedchief counsel to the Warren Commission investigating the assassination ofPresident John F. Kennedy.
Lee received his A.B. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1928 andhis LL.B. in 1930 from the University of Nebraska Law School. He wasadmitted to the Nebraska bar in 1930 and practiced law in Lincoln,Nebraska until January 1953 when he was appointed by President Eisenhowerto be the assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of LegalCounsel in the Department of Justice. In August of 1956, PresidentEisenhower appointed Mr. Ranking to be Solicitor General of the UnitedStates. From January 1961, he was in private practice in New York City.He accepted the appointment as General Counsel for the President'sCommission on the Assassination of President Kennedy on December 8, 1963.
What follows is a recently declassified HSCA document sent to us byresearcher Peter Vea. It is a report by staffer Michael Ewing of a phoneconversation with Rankin in preparation for his public appearance andexecutive session interview. Rankin was living in New York at the time.It seems that in the intervening years he came to harbor some deepsuspicions about the efficacy of the Commission. In fact, as far as weknow, these are the strongest criticisms of the Commission that we knowof by anyone actually on the legal staff, as opposed to the members ofthe Commission themselves.
"Though I stated that I didn’t want to go into his past work over thephone at this time, he went on to make several points. First, he statedthat he believed that “hindsight makes it clear that both Hoover and theCIA were covering up a variety of items” from the Commission and hepersonally. He said that the had been continually saddened over the yearsby “all the disclosures about Hoover��s performance in our area and anumber of others.” I commented that he (Rankin) was apparently not one ofHoover’s favorite people and he laughed and said “That is now abundantlyclear, though I’ve never read my dossier.” He said that he finds the FBIperformance “quite disturbing in hindsight. We would have found theirconduct nearly unbelievable if we had known about it at the time.” Hecommented that the destruction of the Hosty note was “a crime—a crimecommitted by the FBI, and one which directly related to the assassin’smost important actions and motivations during the final days” before themurder. He again said that he finds the Hosty note destruction “almostbeyond belief, just unconscionable.” I commented that we have heardtestimony to the effect that if the staff had known about it at the time,that the decision to use the FBI for investigative work might havechanged. He agreed, saying, “We couldn’t have used the people involvedin any further way, that’s clear. The FBI would have to have beenregarded as a suspect in that instance and that in turn would haveaffected everything.” He indicated that he would have gotten his owninvestigators at that point. He further stated that “Hoover dideverything he could” to get the Commission to adopt the earliest FBIreport on the shooting, which Rankin said “we of course finallyrejected.” He then made a point of inquiring about our work relating tothe CIA-Mafia plots against Castro. He said: “One thing which I think isvery important, and I don’t know if you are getting into this—and Idon’t know if it is proven or not—is whether the CIA used the Mafiaagainst Castro.” He said that there were reports in recent years thatthis was true and that it involved an assassination conspiracy againstCastro. He said, “Do you know if this has been proven?” I said yesit had, and briefly explained the history of the plots and theirconcealment from anyone higher than Helms at the time. Rankin thenresponded, “Ah yes. I’ve been very afraid that it was all true. But Ihaven’t followed all the books and reports in recent years.” He wenton to say, “I would find the plots with the Mafia—the Mafia being mixedup with the CIA and these Cubans—frightening. You’ve got to go afterthat.” He went on to say “That again is something that would have beenbeyond belief at the time.” He said Helms’ role in the plots and hisconcealment of them from the Commission “would have been justunconscionable.” He expressed great anguish over hearing that the plotswere in fact confirmed. It seemed strange that he has not followed publicdevelopments on the plots more carefully, but he indicated that hesimply does not follow these areas and has not read “any of the ChurchCommittee reports.” When I said that we were devoting considerable timeto investigating the CIA/Mafia plots he said, “Good, good. That iscrucial.” He went on to say “that would have changed so much back then”if he had known of the plots. He said that he found the plots all themore disturbing in light of the fact that Robert Kennedy was pushing hisinvestigations of the Mafia so heavily during that same period. Herepeatedly expressed the view that both the FBI and CIA had concealedimportant material from the Commission, and that the CIA/Mafia plotswould have had a “very direct bearing on the areas of conspiracy which wetried to pursue.” He also asked, “Are you looking into the plots on thebasis of whether they were covered up by the CIA because some of the verypeople involved in them could have been involved in the President’sassassination?” I said that yes that was an area of our investigation,and he replied strongly, “Good. Good. You have to look at it that way.” Ialso said that we were looking into charges that Castro might haveretaliated for the plots by killing Kennedy, and he replied, “Where isany evidence of that? I think the other approach would be much morelogical.” This was apparently in reference to probing those involved inthe plots themselves. I told him that we would of course make extensivematerial available to him in reference to our questioning of him, notingthat we want him to refresh his memory as to his old memos, etc. aswell as other documents that we will give him in advance. He was veryappreciative of this and said he would like to know more about theCIA/Mafia plots and our work on them."
Eisenhower Solicitor General James Lee Rankin Chief Council for theWarren Commission
born on 7-8-1907 in Nebraska
expired 6-26-1996 in Santa Cruz, Caifornia age 88 cause:complications from strokes1920 United States Federal Census
about James Lee Rankin
Name: James Lee Rankin
Home in 1920: Lincoln Ward 5, Lancaster, Nebraska
Age: 12 years
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1908
Birthplace: Nebraska
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Herman P
Father's Birth Place: Illinois
Mother's Name: Lois C
Mother's Birth Place: Iowa
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Sex: Male
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 770
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Household Members: Name Age
Herman P Rankin 42
Lois C Rankin 39
Marta M Rankin 15
Lois C Rankin 14
James Lee Rankin 12
Mary J Rankin 10
David H Rankin 5
The ancestor of Sam Rees purchased the plant of the printing office andbookbindery of the Omaha Book Company. Sam Junior was an accountant andpraised as having the highest score on the CPA exam to the date he satfor it. The Rees family had a cottage on Omaha Beach.930 United States Federal Census
about Samuel Rees
Name: Samuel Rees
Home in 1930: Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska
Age: 14
Estimated birth year: abt 1916
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's name: Samuel
Mother's name: RuthSamuel REES III
Birth Date: 31 Jul 1915
Death Date: 4 Aug 2001
Social Security Number: 505-03-0888
State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: NebraskaDeath Residence Localities
ZIP Code: 98406
Localities: Tacoma, Pierce, Washington
26038. Benjamin Charles Carpenter
Descendants provided by James R. Carpenter in December 2010 via package. < jcarpenter@gmail.com >
In 2001, Deborah (Gedney) Carpenter, of Burnsville, MN, supplied this ancestry line in 2001 via letter to
James R. Carpenter in San Diego, CA. < debcarpenter@qwest.net >
26040. Theodore Ralph Carpenter
Descendants provided by James R. Carpenter in December 2010 via package. < jcarpenter@gmail.com >
26041. William George Carpenter
Descendants provided by James R. Carpenter in December 2010 via package. < jcarpenter@gmail.com >