33018.
John P. St. John Carpenter A Twin
33020.
Anna Beatrice Carpenter
33022.
Robert Bruce Carpenter
33033.
Myrtle Lillian Carpenter
28237.
Starling Monroe Carpenter
NAME: Starling or Sterling.
E-MAIL: Mon, 07 May 2001 From: Jan Lawson
To: Jan Robinson JRobison2@aol.com
Hi Jan,
I am a Powell researcher. Moses A. Powell (m. Elvira Elizabeth Carpenter) is in my family database.
The following is a Bio by Goodspeed on Sterling Monroe Carpenter in Conway Co., AR. Sterling was son of Robert A. Carpenter and Mary Ann Powell. It mentions that Sterling's paternal grandfather was Reuben Carpenter. Was Robert A. Carpenter's father named Robert Reuben Carpenter or is there a Reuben Carpenter in your database that would posibly match?
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"Western Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memories: Conway County",
Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1891, pg. 56 (Lawson). Sterling M.
CARPENTER, one of the enterprising and substantial farmers of Lick Mountain
Township, was born on the farm on which he now resides, two miles southeast
of Centre Ridge, in the year 1857. Here he spent his entire life, and is
the owner of a fine farm of 160 acres, which includes the original tract of
eighty acres settled by his father about thirty-five years ago. There are
about ninety acres under a fine state of cultivation, and the entire farm
presents an appearance of thrift and prosperity. Mr. CARPENTER was reared
when the schools of Conway County were in their infancy; hence his
education is comparatively limited. In December, 1876, he was married to
Miss Eveline WILLIAMS, a native of Forsyth County, Georgia, and a daughter
of Rev. Joseph and Louisa WILLIAMS, who were born in South Carolina and
Georgia, respectively; Mrs. WILLIAMS dying on Crowley's Ridge while the
family were removing to Arkansas, when Mrs. CARPENTER was about ten years
of age. Mr. WILLIAMS continued his journey westward, and located in Conway
County, where he departed this life in 1876. He was a Baptist minister. Mr.
CARPENTER is the father of three sons and two daughters; is a Republican in
polities and cast his first presidential vote for James A. GARFIELD in
1880. He and Mrs. CARPENTER are consistent members of the Christian Church.
Robert CARPENTER, deceased, the father of Sterling M., was probably a
native of South Carolina, and was born in 1825. He was married in
Mississippi in 1846 to Miss Mary A. POWELL, who was born in Mississippi in
1825. In about 1848 they removed to Texas, and lived there six years, when
they returned to Mississippi, and a short time after (about 1855),
emigrated to Conway County, Arkansas, and settled in the woods a
considerable distance from another settlement. Here they laid the
foundation for their future home, and bore their share of the privations
and hardships so common to pioneer life. On this farm Mr. CARPENTER spent
the rest of his life as a sturdy and honest farmer and an upright citizen.
Contrary to the majority of the people of his native as well as of his
adopted State, he was opposed to secession, and a staunch defender of the
Union, and in June, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, of the First Arkansas
Volunteer Infantry, of Gen. CURTIS' command, but was not destined to do
much service for the cause he so ardently advocated, as his death occurred
at St. Louis, October 29th, of the same year as his enlistment. He was a
consistent member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. CARPENTER is still
living on the old farm, and is a member of the Christian Church. She is the
mother of seven children, viz.; Letha (deceased), Martha, wife of Joseph
VAUGHAN, Elizabeth, now Mrs. R. M. SIMPSON, S. M.; Julia, Louisa and an
infant, deceased. Mrs. CARPENTER's father, William POWELL, was born and
married in South Carolina, and from there he removed to Monroe County,
Mississippi, where he died about 1827. Mrs. POWELL died there about 1852.
Both were Primitive Baptists. Charles POWELL, the father of William POWELL,
was also a South Carolinian. Reuben CARPENTER, the paternal grandfather of
S. M. CARPENTER, was a native of South Carolina, but afterward lived in
Mississippi, and from there he removed to Texas, where he died. His wife
died there also. Jan Lawson.