Descendants of William Carpenter of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, now part of Bristol County, MA
Notes
28033.
Andrew Jackson Carpenter
This line updated by Leon Carpenter in June 2012.
barbara-leon@sbcglobal.net
Mary Ann Wolfe
Remarried Isiah M. Darwin and had Mary Ethel Darwin
28034.
Joseph Hill Carpenter
This line updated by Leon Carpenter in June 2012.
barbara-leon@sbcglobal.net
32777.
Infant Carpenter
NAME: Infant on burial info, but location not given.
32778.
Infant Son Carpenter
NAME: Infant Son on burial info, but location not given.
28035.
James Henry "Bud" Carpenter
E-MAIL: See image: RIN 132758 James Henry Carpenter comparison pic.jpg
From: Donna Cuzze dcuzze@earthlink.net
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 8:06 PM
To: Terry Carpenter
Cc: John R Carpenter 2
Subject: PHOTO: Carpenters
Hi Terry,
Couldn't remember if I sent this to you already.
Wayne Carpenter (who matches my dad's dna) sent me a photo of his great grandpa JAMES HENRY CARPENTER b.1862 and family [who Wayne says is a son of Ezra Carpenter]. The larger photo is one taken in Clay County AL of Sally (Harlen) and James Warren Carpenter relatives.
If I were just looking at these photos and nothing else, I would swear it is the same family. Amazing isn't it!
BTW: I finally am getting my gen files back online at www.tourlv.net/genealogy.html
Donna Cuzze
BIRTH: May have been born in TN?
MARRIAGE: Both 3 Jan 1884 & 5 Jan 1884 given as marriage dates.
Mary Lenora Jones
NAME: Middle name either Lenora or Lee Nora.
Minnie Pearl Roberson
NAME: Unknown if Roberson or Petty is maiden name or previous married name.
28037.
Rueben M. Carpenter
Rueben M. but previous submission indicated he went by M. J.
Walter L. Cook
AFN GSSH-X7 and AFN CCNC-CL appear to be the same person.
28042.
Mary Rebecca Elizabeth "Mollie" Carpenter
NAME: She went by "Mollie Rebecca."
Marriage is listed in publication "Camp County Texas Marriages, 1874 - 1978",
page 129.
SEE: Daughter's notes.
E-MAIL: UPDATE
From: laura.pilgrim@att.net
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 8:00 AM
To: jrcrin001@cox.net
Subject: Carpenter
Hey John,
It has been years since we "talked" and you probably don't remember me. I'm Billy King Pilgrim and live in Houston.
You answered a query back in 1999 (if I remember correctly) about my great great grandmother, Mary Rebecca Elizabeth "Mollie" Carpenter. As I said back then, family legend has it that Mollie was a Native American of Cherokee ancestry. Mollie was the daughter of John Augusta Carpenter and Sarah Cope. She married Eugene Napoleon Mosely/Lewis who, even today, is a total mystery to me. What little I have been able to uncover about him is limited to a letter from the husband (deceased) of one of my maternal aunts (deceased) back in 1979. Official records are silent with regard to Eugene. According to the letter, Eugene murdered his brother-in-law in Floyd County, Georgia for raping and impregnating Eugene's baby sister. He went to the sheriff and told him what he had done. The sheriff gave him a horse and told him to leave Georgia and never come back so he, the sheriff wouldn't have to arrest him and bring him to trial. The story goes on to say that he rode to Alabama and caught a boat which brought him to Texas where he met and married Mollie.
The family legend said that Mollie was born in a Cherokee Indian village near the town of Gilmer in Upshur County, Texas. After years of research, I think I have been able to prove that Mollie was indeed not of Native American ancestry. She was born in 1866 on a farm 14 miles north of Gilmer on land that her father, John Augusta Carpenter, had purchased from Samuel T. Cope, Mollie's grandfather. I have a copy of the Deed of Sale for that purchase.
I have visited with the President of the Upshur County Genealogical/Historical Society and also the curator of the Upshur County Historical Museum and both have stated that there never was an Indian village in Upshur County. Although there is a cemetery near Gilmer named Cherokee Cemetery. I have walked that cemetery twice. It contains few graves and none of the markers have names that one would association with Native Americans.
Another fact that was related to me was that there were no Cherokees in Texas following the Battle of the Neches in 1838. They were defeated and forced to quit Texas to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Mollie was born in Upshur County 28 years after that battle.
Federal Census records have never shown Mollie and her parents as other than white. It is my belief that the family legend began out of context due to Mollie's mother having been born in Indian Creek, Alabama. Nor were she and her parents ever enumerated in any Native American tribal censuses.
I have a picture of Eugene and Mollie that was taken before their deaths in the 1930s in Camp County, Texas. My uncle said that Mollie just looked like an Indian, that she had black hair and dark skin. I think the family legend had a lot to do with that.
I found the Carpenter website yesterday and am looking forward to studying more about my Carpenter ancestry.
Billy
Eugene Napolean Lewis
There is an interesting story behind Eugene Napoleon Lewis which I will
bore you with. It is contained in a letter that I received in 1978 from
my father's oldest sister's husband. Many of the facts in that letter
came from one of my g-aunts who lived in Pittsburg in 1978 but is now
deceased.
Eugene was born in Rome, Georgia. At that time his surname was Moseley.
He was living with his older sister, who was pregnant, and her husband.
They requested that Eugene's younger sister come and stay with them
until after the baby was born. The husband raped the younger sister and
impregnated her. Eugene went after his brother-in-law with a gun but
the brother-in-law ran when he learned he was being sought by Eugene.
Eugene sent him a note stating that if he ever came back, he (Eugene)
would kill him.
Sure enough, some time later, the brother-in-law slipped back home and
Eugene shot and killed him. Eugene then went to the Sheriff and
confessed what he had done. The Sheriff gave him a horse to ride and
told him to leave the state so that he wouldn't have to arrest him and
bring him to trial. It's said that the horses' shoes were put on
backward to make it look like its tracks were coming into town rather
than going out of town.
Eugene rode to Alabama, caught a boat on a river, and eventually landed
in Texas. As far as anyone knows, Eugene never returned to Georgia, and
after landing in Texas, he changed his name from Moseley to Lewis.
Eugene was a strong willed man who was liked by everyone who knew him.
In the late 1920's or early 1930's Eugene was approached by the Sheriff
of Camp County (TX) who had a wanted poster on Eugene. He confronted
Eugene and asked him if he was the man on the poster. Eugene replied
yes and asked what he, the Sheriff, was going to do about it. The
Sheriff replied that he was not going to do anything because Eugene had
lived a clean life and was a family man. The Sheriff said he was going
to tear up the poster and it would never be mentioned again, which it
apparently wasn't.
Several of my relatives have been to Georgia to research the Moseley
connection but have hit brick walls. They think they have located the
descendants of the Moseley family but the descendants will not volunteer
any information.
I don't know how much of this is fact or fiction but it makes for an
interesting story. This is the kind of stuff that makes genealogy so
much fun.
Billy King Lewis submitted the data on this descendancy line on 7
July 1999. Billy & Laura Pilgrim .
28045.
John Reuben Carpenter
1860 - Beat 3, Erath, Texas, United States
1870 - Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, United States
1880 - Precinct 4, Hill, Texas, United States
1890 -
1900 - Justice Precinct 2, Fisher, Texas
28048.
Martha Adaline Carpenter
Adaline (Carpenter) Richardson 4
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=66e0d4a0-a0aa-4a09-a23e-06d460ccfcd5&tid=28695173&pid=216
img00075
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=4c3c18ea-4740-41ed-9760-4c719351028a&tid=28695173&pid=216
Adaline (Carpenter) Richardson 6
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img00076
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=170a9b1b-d850-4c66-8922-a87c3c3db5f7&tid=28695173&pid=216
George Hale Richardson
img00071
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6cd151a2-a5aa-475a-82e6-209e25edca9a&tid=28695173&pid=396
32819.
Sarah Isbel Richardson
Frank & Sarah Wedding
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=1d06dada-1d5c-457c-aa1a-9be90a92549d&tid=28695173&pid=709
32821.
Bertie Richardson
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http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=67cc7260-6ebc-4e0a-9fda-d5691ba165c3&tid=28695173&pid=708
32823.
Florence Richardson
1930 - Residence - Loraine, Mitchell, Texas
28049.
James S. Carpenter
1900 - Residence - Justice Precinct 4 (East Half), Erath, Texas
James Samuel Carpenter
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=45bec20c-9851-456a-9d4a-0a3c447402e8&tid=28695173&pid=215
James Samuel Carpenter tombstone
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=d061b903-4eb7-413d-a75e-0cba15f89247&tid=28695173&pid=215
Rebecca Susanna McKnight
Rebecca McKnight Carpenter
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=367d2bb2-abed-4841-84fe-a2e79a5a31b4&tid=28695173&pid=510
Joseph Madison Suggs
Rock Island Railroad--Arkansas
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=e6423ba6-d26f-4cf1-ac73-344c8a586f20&tid=28695173&pid=599
Suggs Brothers
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=82b0008a-7688-44fa-86ef-737080a80ed0&tid=28695173&pid=599
Joseph Madison Suggs
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=dbe2823f-cffb-405b-b5f9-a17f6e307fc2&tid=28695173&pid=599
32839.
Thelbert Kalvin "TK" Suggs
Sons of Mary Alethea SmithSuggs
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=99a91f5d-b163-48f0-9099-e5ed6ce8bd3c&tid=28695173&pid=690
Thelbert K. Suggs
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=ef4f3f62-c6d1-4d32-b3b0-01f0b5b41899&tid=28695173&pid=690
32840.
William Taylor Suggs
Sons of Mary Alethea SmithSuggs
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=712aa77d-4119-434b-a147-e8087f39455d&tid=28695173&pid=689