Group 3 - Descendants of William Carpenter-98-
Father of William Carpenter-584 (b. abt 1605)

Notes


30717. Jerome William Carpenter

NAME: Jerome William /Carpenter/ SOUR @S09620@ Book 2, page 20.
Jerome William /Carpenter/ SOUR DATA TEXT Warren Agustus Carpenter born 1/18/1871 to Jerome W. Carpenter of Thompson CT and Mary Dunkersley of Dudley MA.  Both age 29 and residing in Putnam. Warren's father is a Teamster. Warren is the 2nd child.  Certified by H. W. Hough.  Warren never married.
NAME: Jerome William /Carpenter/ SOUR @S09643@ Page 302, Vol. 3.
Jerome William /Carpenter/ SOUR DATA TEXT Jerome William Carpenter of 116 Jenckes St, died Feb. 10, 1909.
1850 Census: Jerome age 8 lives with his grandparents Ezra and Polly Wakefield in Thompson, CT.
1864 ...Thompson Town hall vol.3 page 44A: Jerome W. Carpenter, of Thompson CT, age 23, married Mary Donkersly, of Dudley MA, age 23, Sept. 22, 1864.  By Clergy A. Dunning.  Both residing in Putnam, CT.
1866...Putnam CT birth records: George Ernest born 1/13/1866 to Jerome and Mary Carpenter.
1870 Census: Jerome Carpenter a woodworker age 28 lives in CT with wife Mary age 28, born in MA and son George age 4, born in CT.
1871...Putnam CT birth records book 2 page 20.
1871...Thompson CT birth records book 2 page 44.: Warren Agustus born
1/18/1871 to Jerome and Mary Carpenter.
1873 Putnam CT birth records book 2 page 44.: Newton S. born in Thompson CT to Jerome and Mary Carpenter.
1878...Thompson land records book 25 page 165.  Jerome W. Carpenter, Augustus Wakefield and George Wakefield sold 2 parcels of land to Joseph Snow for $900.  One parcel was 10.5 acres the other is 2.75 acres.
1882...Webster MA birth book page c171.: Adaline born 1/6/1882 in Webster MA to Jerome and Frances Carpenter.
1882...Webster MA death book page f30.: Adaline died 1882 in Webster MA (first born of Jerome and Prances)
1900 Census: Jerome age 59 lives at 257 Pleasant St, Woonsocket RI with Francis age 58, born 1842 in RI, Warren A. age 29 born 1871 in CT and Edna age 12 born Jul. 11, 1888 in CT.
1905 Census: Myron Vernon and Warren Agustus also living with Jerome in Woonsocket.
1909 Woonsocket City Hall death book 3 page 302. Jerome William Carpenter age 67 years, 5 months, and 29 days, a driver, residing at 116 Jenkes St. died on February 10, 1909 in Woonsocket of Bronchial Pneumonia.  He
leaves a wife, Frances.  Parents are William and Adaline Carpenter.
Precious Blood Cemetery also called Old Slatersville Cemetery...information from Woonsocket City hall records. Jerome's grave site may have been washed out in a hurricane.
When in the army Jerome also answered to the name of James Carpenter. Jerome's occupation is listed as a "teamster".
Record of Connecticut Men, War of Rebellion, 1861-1865:
Carpenter, Jerome W., Putnam, Enlistment: Aug. 21, 1861, Date of muster in this organization: Sep. 3, 1861; Remarks: Must. Priv. Pro. May 1, 1863, Disc. Sep. 11, 1864
In 1860 the town of Putnam was small and everybody knew everybody else.  Jerome was living in a tenement across the river on a street that had no name.  Later it would be called Bullock Street.  There were five families
living in the same house, there were five tenements, and a Mrs. Donkersley kept a boarding house in the same building.  Jerome was boarding with Mrs. Donkersley and after returning from the war, married her daughter Mary.
On August 21, 1861 at age 20, Jerome enlisted in the Civil War, with 6 friends, 5 from the same tenement house where he lived.  He went to Killingly, CT and signed up for a 3 year hitch in the army.  His physical description is 5 foot 5 inches tall, light complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, and occupation is farmer.  Jerome was assigned to Company A, 6th regiment, Conn. Vol. Infantry.  He appears on the muster in rolls of New Haven CT on September 3, 1861 as a private.  In May of 1863 Jerome went on leave to Hilton Head South Carolina.  In December of 1863 Jerome was promoted to Corporal and went on detached service as a recruiter in Jolly
Isle South Carolina.  Jerome was relieved of recruiting service and reported to duty on March 8, 1864.  he was mustered out on September 11, 1864 near Petersburg, Virginia, with an honorable discharge.  Jerome collected an undrawn clothing allowance of $16.21 and a bounty of $100. He last appears on muster out rolls of New Haven, CT on August 8, 1865.
Jerome mustered out with David H. Chaffee, one of the friends he enlisted with.  They both headed back to Putnam and on September 22, 1864, and just 10 days after mustering out, Jerome married his sweetheart Mary
Donkersley.  The service was officiated by the Reverend A. Dunning.  They were both 23 years old.
Jerome W. and Mary set up housekeeping at Mary's mother's boarding house on Bullock St. in Putnam, CT. and on January 13, 1866 George earnest was born, followed by Warren Agustus on January 18, 1871, and Newton Leroy on July 15, 1873.  Mary's sister had married a Thomas Paine and they lived across the street from them.  During this time, Jerome is working as a wood cutter, most likely clearing farm land and selling the wood.  On September 15, 1874, Jerome's wife Mary dies at the age of 33.  Jerome and Mary were good friends with the Ferdinand L. Winslow family, who also lived across the street.  They visited each other frequently and Mrs. Winslow was very helpful to the family in their time of crises.
On November 15, 1874 in Putnam, CT, Jerome is married to Frances Melissa Briggs by the Reverend Elder Boss.  This is the same Frances M. Briggs that was listed as a housekeeper for Ezra Wakefield in the 1870 federal
Census.  It is very likely that Jerome knew Frances while living at Grandfather Ezra's farm, and that they were well acquainted with each other.  With a one year old child at home it didn't seem prudent to wait too long before finding another wife.  Jerome brought his new wife home to Bullock St. but he didn't stay there very long.  Within a month, they moved to a tenement at Pierce's house next door to 80 Walnut St. in Putnam.  Some time in late 1885 or early 1886 Jerome moved again, this time over to School St. where Jerome rented a tenement from Mr. Charles Bradway who was a merchant in Putnam.  Jerome helped dig the foundation to the house and store of Mr. Bradway at 197 School St., right next door to where he was living.
It's evident that Jerome kept close ties with his uncles, having at least in one incident, pooled their money and bought some land.  Thompson land records indicate that in 1878, Jerome Carpenter, and Augustus and George
Wakefield sold 2 parcels of land to Joseph Snow for $900.  One parcel being 10 1/2 acres the other 2 3/4 acres.  Shortly after the sale, in 1878 or early 1879, Jerome W. and Francis M. moved from Putnam and took up housekeeping on 5th Ave in Webster, MA at a tenement owned by George Rein.
Jerome worked for Slater's Woolen Mill in East Webster as a teamster now.  His wife Francis is described at this time as a sickly woman and Jerome was having problems finding and keeping work, so about 1880 or '81 they moved to another location, leaving the landlord an unpaid sum of rent.  Their first daughter, Adaline Francis Carpenter is born on January 6, 1882 and she dies 3 months later on April 1, 1882, in Webster, of the Croup.  She is buried in Dudley MA.  Myron Vernon, is born 2 years later in Webster on march 11, 1884.
When Myron V. was about 3 years old, Jerome decided to move his family to Woonsocket, RI.  The 1887 Woonsocket street directory lists Jerome W. Carpenter as a Teamster, boarding at a house on 4 Center St. with his son George E. age 21, an operative.  One July 11, 1888, Jerome and Francis had a daughter Edna Maria Carpenter.
From 1889 to 1909, Jerome W. moved a number of times, in 1889 he's at 110 S. Main St. listed as a rubber worker. In 1891 his son Warren A. Carpenter, age 20, is employed as a spinner.
In 1892, Newton L. age 19, secures a job as a rubber worker.
In 1893 the whole family moves to 13 Clark's Court.
On April 19, 1899, Newton dies at age 25 years and 8 months, of a heart problem, and in 1900, Jerome and his remaining family move once again, this time to 257 Pleasant St. Woonsocket.
In 1902, they move to 124 Willow St.   Myron V. now age 17, takes a job as a clerk, Warren A. is still a spinner.  In 1903, they move to 68 High St. then in 1904, Jerome secures a new job as a driver, and moves to 72 High St.  In 1906, the family moves to 119 Arnold St.  His son Myron is now a driver and Warren is an operative.
On June 18, 1907, Jerome applied for his army pension, invalid class, and started collecting $12 a month.  In 1908, Jerome makes his last move, to 116 Jenkes St.  Myron V. is still a driver and Warren A. is now a clerk.
On February 10, 1909, at the age of 67, Jerome W. Carpenter dies of Bronchial Pneumonia, at 116 Jenkes St.  One year later on August 5, 1910, his wife Francis Melissa Briggs dies at 116 Jenkes St. of Oedema of the
lungs and Acute Dilation of the heart.
This marks a milestone in the Carpenter history.  Warren age 39, and Myron, age 25, both disappear from Woonsocket at this time.  I believe they both went back to Putnam where relatives were still living.  Most
probably rooming together and getting on with their lives.  It is here that Myron V. meets and marries Florence Mae (Cotton) Racine in 1912.
Shortly after Myron's marriage in 1912, Warren, alone, returns to 48 Thomas St. in Woonsocket.  He stays there until 1916 when he moves to Vose St.
In 1919 Warren A. is a clerk at Market Sq.   Warren moves to 29 Arnold St. in 1921 and becomes a waiter at Market Sq.  In 1922 Warren becomes a clerk at Young Sq. restaurant.  At this point, Warren A. age 51, disappears from Woonsocket and there is no further trace of him.
The early and middle life of Jerome appeared to be normal for that time and economic climate, work was generally scarce but he made out. However, his later life in Woonsocket with the may moves and job changes he made seemed to indicate he had a hard time holding a job and making ends meet.  He appears to have been poor and in ill health.
JWC Obituary - Woonsocket Call 2/11/1909:
Jerome W. Carpenter, a veteran of the Civil War, answered to the last trumpet yesterday afternoon and passed to his reward.  He had been a sufferer from rheumatism for a long time.  He died at XXXX o'clock yesterday at his home at 116 Jenckes St.   Deceased was born in Putnam CT, Aug. 13, 1841.  On Sept. 3, 1861, he
enlisted in Company A, Sixth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers.  He served as Corporal before the conclusion of the war. Twenty four years ago, he came to this city and made his home and since that time he has been a resident of Woonsocket.  He leaves a wife, Frances (Briggs) Carpenter; three sons, a daughter and three grandchildren.  The daughter is Mrs. Augustus Keach of this city and the  sons are George of Quinnebaug, Ct. and Myron and Warren Carpenter of this city. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at the late home, 116 Jenckes Street, at 2 o'clock, Rev. George F. Beecher, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will officiate.  Interment will be in Union Cemetery.
This descendancy line was submitted by Ken Roy on 1 August 1999 via E-MAIL.  "safesci" .
THE CIVIL WAR STORY OF JEROME W. Carpenter
From a composite of many articles
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The muster rolls on which the name and oath were written
were pledges of honor, redeemable at the gates of death.
And they who went up to the gates knowing this, are on the lists of heroes.
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In April of 1861, President Lincoln issued a call to arms, from the loyal States and territories, to suppress the rebellion in the Southern States. They met this call through activating the militia, voluntary enlistments, and the draft. The existing volunteer militias responded en masse, and new units were formed overnight.
For the most part the Civil War was not fought by professional soldiers, there was only 16,000 of them available in 1861, but by men recruited in their hometowns into regiments or smaller local units. These volunteers were the bedrock of the Civil War armies. They offered their  services not to the central governments but to their states, which had always been the focus of their patriotism. The enlistment period was as little as three months and up to 3 years. The volunteers were organized into regiments consisting of 10 companies of about 100 men each, usually grouped according to region. The regiment was then transferred to the central government.
In Connecticut, as in other parts of the country, local recruitment of complete military units had an overwhelming impact on the farm communities, towns, and cities from which the men came. Locally formed units contained relatives, friends and neighbors depleting an area of working men. Besides providing guns and other military equipment, banks lent money, women made uniforms at home or at volunteer sewing bees, and businesses donated everything from camp beds to underwear for the local regiment. Thus all citizens, even those who did not go to war, were assisting in the effort.
Many of the volunteers harbored the idea that the principal occupation of a soldier should be actual conflict with the enemy. They had been charged by emotional oratory to expect a rush to battle, a few days of hard fighting and a triumphant return home. Instead, the war dragged on for years, and for every day they spent in battle, the soldiers spent weeks, even months, fighting such enemies as heat, cold, mud, dust, loneliness and tedium.
The recruits of 1861 who answered the romantic call of flag and country were no better prepared for these everyday realities of war than they were for the shock of combat. Few of them had ever before gathered by the thousands in camps, slept under canvas or the stars for months at a time, marched in step, followed obscure orders or lived constrained by rigid discipline. They knew nothing of the mysteries of army food, the realities of the medical treatment awaiting the sick and wounded and the grim prisons that would hold the captured.
Men by the hundreds walked soberly and deliberately to the enlistment halls and signed the enlistment rolls. Most of them saw themselves simply as civilians temporarily in service to their country. With deeply ingrained traits of independence, loyalty, humor and fear of God. Their main concern being to reach the battlefield before the fighting ended. Jerome W. Carpenter, like many other young men of his time had read the papers, and attended the flag-raisings, and heard orators exclaim of Sundying devotion to the Union.T The promised chances for Stravel and promotionT seemed good, and maybe war wasn't so serious, after all.
We can only guess at the feelings Jerome had as he came out of the enlistment hall. Flooded with conflicting emotions, as one of the orators stood at the door, glowing with enthusiasm and patriotism, and shaking hands vigorously with those who enlisted. Perhaps he was feeling as though he had to go finally or forfeit his birthright as an American citizen, or was it the lack of a skill or a job in his hometown that prompted him on.
Jerome was young, but not unobserving, and did not believe, from the first, in a short war; nor did he consider twelve dollars a month, and the promised glory, large pay for the services of an able-bodied young man. Enlistment scenes are usually pictured as entirely heroic, but truth compels me to acknowledge that my feelings are mixed as I write this. For you see I was at an enlistment hall one point in my life and I cannot repress a smile of amusement and pity for that young recruit, my great grandfather.
Did Jerome and his friends have a sleepless night before they resolved to enlist, or was it in the heroic pathos of a group that pushed them on. I can picture Jerome standing before the door of the recruiting-office with his friends, each one egging the other on, reading  and then re-reading the advertisement for recruits posted by the door. Perhaps he was in no hurry to open the door. Though determined to enlist, he may have been half inclined to put it off awhile. His desires fluctuating. Finally with the courage of their convictions Jerome and his friends signed the rolls, a surgeon came to strip, and examine them. And so it was, Jerome, at the tender age of  twenty years became a member of our armed services.
The Sixth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers was organized August, 1861, under the leadership of Colonel John L. Chatfield, and was the third regiment furnished by the State of Connecticut under the first call of the President for volunteers for three years. Company A, to which Jerome belonged was organized in Putnam. They encamped at Oyster Point, New Haven, and were mustered into the State service September 3, 1861, and into the United States service September 12th.
There was great excitement on the 16th of September at the report that they were going to be sent to the front. Most of the men obtained a limited pass and went to see their friends and relatives for the last time. Jerome paid one last visit to Ezra and Polly Wakefield, the grandparents who raised and cared for him, George and Augustus Wakefield, the uncles that were like brothers to him, his dad, William, and a pretty young lady by the name of Mary Donkersley. They said their good-byes with heavy hearts and Jerome returned to his camp the same night. It was no light thing for a boy of twenty to start out for three years into the unknown dangers of a civil war.
On September 17, 1861, the regiment, numbering one thousand and eight officers and men, left New Haven for the seat of war. Were there tearsR?  There must have been. Jeromeus dress consisted of pants that were slightly long, a blouse too loose, and a soldiers cap on his head. The Union jacket was a better fit as it had a belt about the body, which held a cartridge-box and bayonet, a cross-belt, also a haversack and tin drinking-cup, a canteen, and, last but not least, a knapsack strapped to the back. Their buttons were polished, and their muskets were as bright as emery-paper could make them. How those buttons and muskets did shine! The boys were brilliant there, if nowhere else. The straps ran over, around, and about one, in confusion most perplexing to their tender shoulders; the knapsack giving one constantly the feeling that he was being pulled over backward. They marched along the streets, their canteens banging against their bayonets, both the tin cup and bayonet badly interfering with the butt of their muskets, while their cartridge-box and haversack were constantly flopping up and down-the whole jangling like loose harness and chains on a runaway horse. They all laughed, and they cried. Everybody had said his last words to those that came to see them off, handkerchiefs were waved from all the houses they passed, and the boys cheered till they were hoarse, and then they were gone.
The regiment arrived two days later, on September 19th  at Washington, D.C., where it encamped on Meridian Hill, and was brigaded with the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers and Third and Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, under command of Brigadier-General H. G. Wright. On their arrival in Washington, the boys were marched to barracks, dignified by the name of SSoldiersu Retreat.T For breakfast they were issued a half loaf of Ssoft-tack,T as they had already begun to call wheat bread, together with a piece of Ssalt junk,T about as big and tough as the heel of a government shoe, and a quart of coffee. Their first day in Washington was spent in shaving, washing, polishing their brasses and buttons, and cleaning-up for inspection.
Washington was much like an overgrown country village of that period. There were wide streets stretching out from a common center like a spiderus web. The Capitol, with its unfinished dome; the Patent Office, the Treasury, and the other public buildings, were in marked and classic contrast with the dilapidated, tumble-down, shabby look of the average homes, stores, groceries, and groggeries, which increased in shabbiness and dirty dilapidation as they receded from the center. Around the muddy streets wandered the long-faced, solemn-visaged hog, uttering sage grunts.
The climate of  Washington was genial, but the mud was fearful. In the lower quarter of the city there was not a piece of sidewalk. Even Pennsylvania Avenue, with its sidewalks, was extremely dirty; the cavalcade of teams, artillery caissons, and baggage-wagons, with their heavy wheels stirred the mud into a stiff batter. Officers were so thick on Pennsylvania Avenue that it was a severe trial for a private to walk there. Occasionally a regiment passed through the streets, on the way to camp; all surged up and down the wide Pennsylvania Avenue.
The twenty days of camp life here was a period of unceasing drill and discipline, only broken by a visit to the camp of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, upon a tour of inspection. Here Jerome was taught his facings, shouldering, ordering, and presenting arms. The musket, after an hourus drill, seemed heavier and less ornamental than it had looked to be. Drilling looks easy to a spectator, but it isnut. Old soldiers who read this will remember their green recruithood and smile assent. After a time the uniform was fixed to fit better and Jerome had conquered the drill sufficiently. Then the word came: "We're moving on to Annapolis!
On October 8, 1861, the regiment left Washington for Annapolis, Maryland., where it joined an expedition then being organized under Gen. W. T. Sherman of the army, and Admiral Dupont of the navy, for an attack on Port Royal, South Carolina. At the beginning of the war only Hampton Roads VA and Key West FL were still in Federal hands and On October 29, 1861 the expedition left Hampton Rhodes Virginia. This fleet of 77 vessels carried one of the largest forces yet assembled by the U.S., consisting of about 12,000 men. The ships soon encountered storms off Cape Hatteras North Carolina. It seemed for a time that the expedition might be heading straight into disaster. The easterly wind swung around to the southeast and blew up into a furious gale, and, on the afternoon of November 1, Dupont signaled that each ship should look after itself; if the convoy was scattered captains could open their sealed orders and find out where they should reassemble. The next morning Dupont, in his flagship, could see only one vessel besides his own,
The gale at last subsided and on November 4, 1861 most of the fleet got together off the sand bar at the entrance to Port Royal Sound. The storms caused the lost of a transport full of army stores, a transport carrying 600 marines which escaped loosing only 7 lives, and 1 warship had to dump her broadside guns to stay afloat. The damage was surprisingly minor considering.
The fleet was about 10 miles offshore as they collected together and as they entered Port Royal sound on November 5, 1861, they had a few minor skirmishes with confederate warships. They buoyed the channel and waited for orders to fight.
The confederates had two good forts, protecting Port Royal Sound, Fort Beauregard, on Bay Point at the northern side of the entrance, and Fort Walker, on Hilton Head Island on the southern side. They were solidly built, armed with heavy guns and plenty of them. A two-mile channel completely open to cannon fire lay between the forts.
The battle between the Union and Confederated naval forces, being the first naval engagement of the war, took place in full view of Jerome and the 6th Connecticut as they were in the advance group, preparing to land as soon as the forts had surrendered.
On November 7th Dupont sailed straight down the middle, sprinkling each fort with long range fire. Then, just past the entrance, he led his ships in a swing to the south and came back close inshore, six hundred yards from Fort Walker, steaming slowly, throwing heavy duty shells as fast as his gun crews could service their pieces.
Fort Walker replied stoutly. Many ships were hit, rigging was cut and spars came down. Men were killed, and splinters flew from the wooden sides of ships; but Fort Walker was plastered with a barrage heavier than the Confederate gunners had dreamed of, with the swift unhurried precision of professionals at target practice. Explosive bursts of sand shot up in the air as the big shells exploded in the sand revetments; guns were dismounted, the flagstaff was knocked down and men were dismembered. The jarring detonations of the big guns coming, as a Federal officer wrote, Sas fast as a horseus feet beat the ground in a full gallop.T The noise was terrific, while the bursting of the shells was as terrible as it was destructive. At times no less than forty shells would explode at one time, and that into the battery and the woods nearby. The noise was in fact so loud that it was heard in Fernandina, Florida, seventy miles to the south.
The Federal fleet swung past Fort Walker three times, pounding hard. By noon only three guns at Fort Walker were still operable and ammunition was running short. Fort Walkerus fire slackened and by 2 PM the battle was over, the firing stopped. From the ships, men could see soldiers running out of the works and heading for safety in the rear. Du Pont pulled up and sent a boatus crew ashore; the officer in charge found the fort empty, everything smashed, nobody on hand to offer surrender. Disabled guns, the dead, the wounded, and the dying lay everywhere. He hoisted the U.S. flag on what remained of the flagstaff. The warships anchored and sounded off with their whistles, the crews cheered, and on the transports the bands broke out their instruments and played SThe Star Spangled Banner.T
The engagement lasted about five hours, and at its close, More than 500 surfboats were lowered and 12,653 soldiers in blue were rowed ashore. Jerome, with the Connecticut 6th and the Connecticut 7th  Volunteers, took possession of fort Walker. Immediately they pushed forward after the fleeing enemy, and drove them from the island, capturing a number of prisoners and securing hundreds of muskets and bayonets, fifteen wagons of commissary, and all the fort guns either captured or out of commission. Hundreds of canteens, haversacks, knapsacks and cartridge boxes had been abandoned in the Confederates haste to get off the island. As Shermanus troops did their work ashore the Navyus gunboats went ranging far into the sound to see how the victory might be exploited. The Union  forces suffered negligible damage: 8 men killed and 23 wounded. Fort Beauregard, whose people had been front row spectators of the whole affair, was abandoned when Fort Walker fell and early next morning a landing party took possession. It found everything in good order, tents full of soldiersu gear and personal effects. A flock of turkeys strutting around in a pen were summarily eaten.
On November 8, 1861, Jerome and his companions of the Connecticut 6th volunteer infantry did Reconnaissance on Hilton Head Island, setting up camp at Fort Walker. On November 10th and 11th they made an expedition to Braddock's Point. For some time after they were occupied in building fortifications, and in making raids upon the surrounding country, in which a large quantity of supplies were captured. The growing Union garrison at Hilton Head posed such a threat to the confederates at Rockville that the southerners left the vicinity sometime in December.
Hilton Head Island became the base of our eastern coast operations. Here they had a fine General Hospital where the wounded men got excellent attention. The weather was balmy even in November. The Island supported a lush growth of orange and fig trees, palmettos and live oaks draped with Spanish moss. The troops feasted on peanuts and yams and helped themselves to the chickens, geese, pigs and cattle they found wandering on the island's abandoned plantations. Soldiers slept on beds of soft, raw cotton. Jerome would spend much time between battles here. No mistake, there was much work to be done. This was the main Naval Base for the Union. The men built fortifications and a wharf. Mountains of supplies had to be unloaded and their rest was broken by new orders to do battle before returning for rest and recuperation.
On January 20, 1862, the regiment took part in an expedition to capture Savannah, Ga. by the way of Warsaw Sound. The attempt was a failure, and in consequence of the regiment being kept on a small, over crowded vessel sixteen days with out cooked food, with no vegetables, with hard tack full of vermin, and water that was stored in kerosene-oil barrels, and without sufficient room on the vessel for all of the men to lie down at once, spotted fever broke out in the regiment, and many lives were unnecessarily lost. They returned to duty at Hilton Head on February 27th where they had guard and picket duty till March 20, 1862.
On March 20, Jerome and the regiment was a part of the force engaged in the siege and capture of Fort Pulaski, on Savannah River, Ga. Its more particular operations in the siege being the construction and maintenance of a battery upon Jones Island, which was between the fort and the city of Savannah, for the double purpose of preventing reinforcements reaching the fort, and to prevent the rebel iron-clad "Atlanta" from passing down the river. As the island was covered with water at high tide, the duty was laborious as well as dangerous, and many of the men suffered from disease and hardship. The bombardment of Fort Pulaski began on April 10th  the fort surrendering on April 11th.
Jerome and his regiment then returned to pleasanter quarters on Dawfuski Island. In the spring of 1862, Charleston Harbor was in the grips of the Union Navy's blockade, they were trying to find a way to land troops to assault Charleston by land. A slave, Robert Smalls, who was a pilot aboard an inland steamer, the PLANTER, stole the ship on May 12th and ran it past the Union forts out to the Union fleet blockading Charleston harbor. With the ship, he also brought news that the Confederates had abandoned Cole's and Battery Islands. This opened the way for Union troops to be landed on the southeastern end of James Island, and the path to attempt an assault on Charleston.
In June Jerome, in Wrights Brigade and with the Connecticut 6th  became part of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the South, under Major General David Hunter. Hunter had planned to advance toward Charleston along the Stono River. Placed in charge of the Union forces was Brig. Gen. Henry W. Benham; his left flank division commander was Brig. Gen. Wright, commanding three brigades (3100 men); His main assault force was commanded by Brig. Gen. Stevens having two brigades totaling 3200 men.
On June 2, 1862, supported by federal gunboats, Maj. Gen. David Hunter transported some of  Horatio G. Wright's and Isaac I. Stevens's Union divisions, to James Island where they entrenched at Grimball's Landing on the southeastern end of the island, near the southern flank of the Confederate defenses. Jerome and the 6th regiment left Dawfuski Island and marched over Jones Island, and suffered many hardships, being three days without food, as the wagon trains were cut off. Finally arriving at James Island they immediately were involved in a skirmish at Grimball's Plantation on June 10, 1862.
His armies meeting light resistance through several skirmishes between June 2 and June 12, Hunter was convinced that he was outnumbered and needed more men before making any further assaults. Benham was left with the instruction from Hunter, "You will make no attempt to advance on Charleston or to attack Fort Johnson until you are largely reinforced or until you receive specific instructions from these headquarters."
Meanwhile, the commander of the Confederate forces defending Charleston, seeing that the Federal preparations for advancement onto James Island was underway, redeployed three batteries to the island and ordered the additional building of earthworks to defend the approaches to the island. One of the new earthwork defenses ordered to be built was a fort at Secessionville. The fort was built in a rough shape of an "M", bordered on each side by marsh. The nine cannon defending the fort consisted of: an 8-inch Columbiad in the center, flanked on either side with a 24-pounder rifled gun; a 24-pound smoothbore; and an 18-pounder. The fort was manned with 750 men.
At another battery to his northern flank, Lamar had an additional two 24-pounders; these two guns had not received their gun crews. Within a two-hour march, Gen. Evans had placed in reserve three regiments of infantry (2000 men), to be used if necessary to support any action on the island.
On the 15th of June Gen. Benham laid plans for the Union forces to make an early morning surprise attack on the Secessionville fort, a "reconnaissance in force" as he so called it. He would use approximately 3500 of his troops to make a frontal assault before daybreak, attacking in two structured waves. By 4:00 am, the Union forces were on the move, supposedly at the double-quick, advancing on the fort. I don't know exactly where Jerome was at this time but he was here with his fellow infantrymen, joining in the Secessionville battle.
Advancing through the darkness, the troops had to negotiate through two hedgerows and open cotton fields now knee-deep in weeds. This resulted in breaking up the initial Union lines and slowing the advance. As the field narrowed approaching the fort the left side of the union front was pushed into the marsh and got bogged down in the mud. It also compressed the Union center, slowing the advance such that the second wave ran into the first complicating the advance even more.
Confederate Col. Lamar's advanced pickets were overrun about 5:00 am, this activity alerted the defenders. The confederates mounted the parapet to observe the Union front about 700 yards out and closing. Lamar immediately dispatched couriers to Gen. Evans, who was five miles away at Fort Johnson with the reserves. As the defenders rushed to their stations, Col. Lamar took personal command of the 8 inch-Columbiad. The Union lines were within two hundred yards of the fort, Lamar order the Columbiad to fire; grapeshot, nails, iron chain and glass blasted from the cannon directly at the Union center, tearing a great hole through the Federal lines. The Battle of Secessionville had commenced. Col. Lamar sharply ordered all gun commanders into action and moved the infantry into place firing volleys as they came onto the line. Union troops on the right were now clambering up the face of the fort.
The Confederate defense was on the verge of collapse due to casualties on the critical gun crews. However the arrival of Confederate reinforcements drove the Union assault force back from the parapet. The Union forces came under severe fire from three sides as they advanced up the fort walls, only to be ordered to fall back to regroup after suffering heavy casualties. Meanwhile the 79th NY on the Union left actually mounted the fort's parapet and were engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Rebs, when the Union artillery, located at the River's house, opened fire on that fort breaking up there own attack and forcing the 79th to withdraw. As the first Union assault wave collapsed and retreated they hampered the second wave from attacking.
The Union forces fell back to the protection of the hedgerows and reformed their lines. They were to make two more unsuccessful assaults before a general withdrawal was ordered. While the main assault was taking place another regiment was attempting a flanking maneuver from the Union left. Their assault brought them to within several yards of the flank of the fort, but they could not make a full assault due to the water and pluff mud that proved to be impassable. They proceeded to assault the fort from across the marsh driving the confederates from the parapets.
By 9:00am on June 16th the Battle was over. The Union forces had sustained 689 casualties, of which 107 dead. Whereas the Confederates realized 207 casualties with 52 killed. Because Benham had ignored Hunter's orders to wait for reinforcements, and his ultimate poor planning and the timely arrival of reinforcements, the Union forces handed a victory to the outnumbered Confederates. General Hunter relieved him of command.
After the battle of Secessionville Jerome was involved with the evacuation of James Island and the movement of troops to Beaufort from June 28 to July 7. He was then stationed there doing picket and guard duty until October 21, 1862. Jerome's outfit then became part of the expedition to Pocotaligo, South Carolina. October 21-23, 1862 where he saw action on October 22, 1862, at Framptonus Plantation. The Pocotaligo area was a wide open marshy plain crisscrossed with brooks and springs. The going was particularly tough for foot soldiers, the mosquitoes being especially bad. At Pocotaligo, the regiment suffered its first large loss in battle, the casualties being thirty-eight killed and wounded. Among the severely wounded were Colonel Chatfield, who was then commanding the brigade, and Lieutenant-Colonel John Speidel commanding the regiment.
The Connecticut 6th returned to Beaufort after this engagement, remaining there till March 18, 1863. It was here that Jerome was hospitalized with Chronic Diarrhea and Malarial Fever.  In March they were transferred to Jacksonville, Florida. Here they fortified the town, and defended it against the attacks of the enemy, performing duties that were dangerous and harassing in the extreme.
About April 1 1863, the regiment left Jacksonville, and after a short tour of duty at Hilton Head, Beaufort, and some scouting upon the islands along the coast, Jerome went on leave to Hilton Head S. Carolina in May of 1863. On December 4, 1863 he was promoted Corporal and went on detached service as a recruiter in Jolly Isle S. Carolina. Jerome was relieved of recruiting service and reported to duty on March 8, 1864. Jerome spent the remainder of his term serving his country at Hilton Head, where he was hospitalized twice. Once on July 10th and 11th and then again on August 13th and 14th for Malarial Fever.
Jerome was mustered out on September 11, 1864 in the vicinity of   Petersburg Virginia, by reason of expiration of term of service.. He collected a recruiting bounty of $100 and a clothing allowance of $16.21. He last appears on muster out roll of New Haven August 8, 1865.
Jerome apparently had only one idea in mind as he headed home. He went straight back to Putnam CT. and the waiting arms of Miss Mary Donkersly. One week after discharge, Jerome and Mary were married. They set up housekeeping in Mary's mothers rooming house.

GRAVE:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56991223
Corp Jerome William Carpenter
Birth:  Aug. 12, 1841
Putnam
Windham County
Connecticut, USA
Death:  Feb. 10, 1909
Woonsocket
Providence County
Rhode Island, USA
Parents: William Carpenter, Adeline Wakefield
Married Frances Melissa Briggs on 22 Sept, 1864 in Thompson, CN.
Jerome W. Carpenter
Jerome W. Carpenter, a veteran of the Civil War, answered to the last call and passed to his reward. He had been a sufferer from rheumatism for the past few years and at 5 o'clock yesterday died at his home at 116 Jenckes street.
Deceased was born in Putnam, Conn., August 12, 1841. On Sept 3, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Sith Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. He served as a corporal before the conclusion of the war.
Twenty- four years ago he came to this city and made his home and since that time he has been a resident of Woonsocket. He leaves a wife, Francis (Briggs) Carpenter; three sons, a daughter and three grandchildren. The daughter is Mrs. Keach of this city and the sons are George of Quinnebaug, Me., and Byron and Warren Carpenter of this city.
The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at the late home, 116 Jenckes street at 2 o'clock. Rev. George F. Beecher, as pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be in Union cemetery.
Woonsocket Call
Woonsocket, RI
Feb 11, 1909  
Burial:
Union Cemetery Annex
North Smithfield
Providence County
Rhode Island, USA
 
Maintained by: StorybehindtheStones
Originally Created by: Bearded Graver
Record added: Aug 12, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 56991223


38484. Warren Augustes Carpenter

NAME: Warren Augustes /Carpenter/ SOUR @S09643@ Page 456, Vol. 7.
DEATH: Warren Carpenter died January 02, 1937 in State Hospital, Howard, RI. Died of: Glioma of the brain.
OCCUPATION: Undertaker.
EVEN PLAC??? Curtis Holts.
BURIAL: Old Aldrich Burial Grounds, N. Smithfield, RI (NS031).
Warren never married. He ran for governor of RI twice, on the Socialist ticket and left no progeny.
On January 18, 1871, Jerome W. and Mary Donkersley had their second child, Warren Augustes Carpenter, in Putnam CT.  The next few years were probably trying on young Warren as his brother Newton was born, then
loosing his mother a year later, and acquiring a new mother, then moving to Webster where his new sister dies of the Croup at age 3 months.  In Webster MA, in 1884, Warren gets another brother Myron Vernon, and then
the family moves to Woonsocket RI.  Not much is know of Warren during these traumatic times.
From 1889 to 1909, Warren's father moved his family a number of times.
In 1891, Warren A. is employed as a Spinner and living with his parents at 110 S. Main St. in Woonsocket.  In 1893, the family moves to 13 Clark's Court.
On April 19, 1899, Warren's brother Newton dies at age 25 years and 8 months, of a heart problem.  A year later, in 1900, the family moves to 257 Pleasant St. in Woonsocket.
In 1902, he moves to 124 Willow St. Warren is apparently a good worker as he is still employed as a spinner.
In 1903 Warren moves with his family to 68 High St. and again in 1904 to 72 High St.
Warren moves constantly staying with his family, and in 1906 he changes jobs and becomes an operative.  In 1908, Warren changes jobs again and becomes a clerk.  The following year, on February 10, 1909, while living
at 116 Jenkes St. Warren loses his father to death, but he continues living on with his stepmother and brother Myron.  The following year, on August 5, 1910, his stepmother Frances Melissa dies.
From 1910 to 1912, both Warren age 40 and brother Myron age 26 cannot be found anywhere.  They might have gone to Putnam CT where relatives were still living.  Most probably rooming together and getting on with their
lives.  Myron shows up in 1912 getting married to Florence Cotton, and in the same year, Warren now age 42 reappears in Woonsocket.  Warren lives at 48 Thomas St. until 1916 when he moves to Vose St.  In 1919, Warren
moves to 29 Arnold St. and is working as a clerk at Market Sq.
In 1921, Warren becomes a waiter at Market Sq..  The following year in 1922, Warren takes a job as clerk at Young Sq. Restaurant.  At this point, Warren A. age 51 disappears with no further trace.
Warren died at State Hospital in Howard, RI.  His residence was 71 Cross St., Woonsocket, RI.


THE WARREN AUGUSTES CARPENTER STORY
On January 18, 1871, Jerome W. Carpenter and Mary Donkersley had their second child, Warren Augustus Carpenter, in Putnam Connecticut. The next few years were probably trying on young Warren as his brother Newton was born, then loosing his mother a year later, and acquiring a new mother, then moving to Webster where his new sister dies of the Croup at age 3 months. In Webster Massachusetts, in 1884, Warren gets another brother, Myron Vernon, and then the family moves to Woonsocket R.I. Not much is known of Warren during these traumatic times. I suppose he grew up and did what most youngster of his time did when they grew up living in tenements.

From 1889 to 1909 Warren's father moved his family a number of times. In 1891 we find Warren Augustus, a young man aged 20 years,  employed as a Spinner  and living with his parents at 110 S. Main St. in Woonsocket. In 1893 the family moves to 13 Clark's Court.

On April 19, 1899 Warrens brother Newton dies at age 25 years and 8 months, of a heart problem. A year later, in 1900 the family moves to 257 Pleasant St. in Woonsocket. In 1902 he moves to 124 Willow St. Warren is apparently a good worker as he is still employed as a spinner. In 1903 Warren moves with his family to 68 High St. and again in 1904 to 72 High St.

Warren moves constantly staying with his family, and in 1906 he changes jobs and becomes an operative. In 1908 Warren changes jobs again and becomes a clerk. (It's quite possible times were rough and jobs hard to come by) The following year, on February 10, 1909, while living at 116 Jenkes St. Warren loses his father to death, but he continues living on with  his stepmother and brother Myron. The following year, on August 5, 1910,  his stepmother, Frances Melissa, dies.

From 1910 to 1912 both Warren age 40 and brother Myron age 26, cannot be found anywhere. I would speculate at this point and say they most probably left together and went to Putnam CT. where relatives were still living. Most probably rooming together and getting on with their lives. My reasoning on this is that Putnam is where Myron shows up next, in 1912, getting married to Florence Cotton, and in the same year, 1912 Warren now age 42, reappears in Woonsocket. Warren lives at 48 Thomas Street until 1916 when he moves to Vose Street. In 1919 Warren moves to 29 Arnold Street and is working as a clerk at Market Sq. In 1921 Warren becomes a waiter at Market Sq. The following year, 1922 Warren takes a job as clerk at Young Sq. Restaurant. At this point, Warren A. age 51 disappears and I haven't found any further trace of him. Warren died at State Hospital in Howard, RI.  His residence was 71 Cross St., Woonsocket, RI. I understand from family conversations that Warren used to visit Myron's family in Wauregan. He would always walk. Myron's children remember seeing him.

"Warren, also would walk from Woonsocket to our house in Wauregan to see Dad and he would walk to Mass. to see George. Uncle Warren was tall but very thin, and he always had Dark cloths on. Dad would take Warren in the Dinning Room and they would talk for a short time. Uncle Warren used to talk to us and call us by our name. My Dad called Warren, Ice Water, because that's all he would drink. I never knew him to drink anything else, not at our house anyway. Every time he came to our house, Mom would fix him a dinner, and also a bag for the road, and make ice water for him. Uncle Warren ran for Governor of Rhode Island twice on the Socialist ticket, although he never won the Governors job. "


38485. Newton Leroy Carpenter

BIRTH: SOUR @S09620@ Book 2, page 44.
Newton Carpenter born 7/15/1873 to Jerome and Mary Carpenter.  Mary age 32. Jerome age 32. All living in Putnam. Father is a Teamster.
DEATH: SOUR @S08811@ Book 3, page 38.
Newton S. Carpenter, age 25 years and 8 months, living at 13 Clarks Court, died on April 19, 1899 of Phthisis Pulmonalis.  He was the son of Jerome W. and Mary Carpenter.  (Died of a heart problem)
Newton Leroy carpenter is the third child of Jerome W. Carpenter and Mary Donkersley, and was born July 15, 1873 in Putnam, CT.  At the age of 1 year and 2 months, Newton loses his mother Mary.  two months later his
father marries Frances Melissa Briggs.  It's quite possible Frances was already looking after Jerome's youngsters on the Wakefield farm, as they already know each other.  Existence for young Newton must have been fairly traumatic as between 1889 and 1909 his father moved the family from place to place.  Newton was only 9 years old when his sister Adaline died of the croup in Webster MA and he probably wondered if his new brother Myron born 2 years later would die also. Nothing further is known of Newton until 1892 when at age 19 he takes on a job as a rubber worker while living with his parents in Woonsocket RI.
In 1893, Newton moves with his parents to 13 Clark's Court in Woonsocket. Time is short lived for Newton.  He dies on April 19, 1899, age 25 years and 8 months, of a heart problem, while living at 13 Clark's Court in
Woonsocket RI.  Newton was never married and leaves no progeny.


Frances Melissa Briggs

NAME Frances Melissa /Briggs/ SOUR @S09643@ Page 348, Vol. 3,
Frances Melissa Briggs died  Aug 05, 1910.
Death caused by: Oedema of Lungs, Acute vilation of the heart.
1870 Census records of Thompson CT page 47: Frances M. Briggs age 24
residing at Ezra Wakefield farm as a housekeeper, born in RI.
1909 Military Records at National Archives in Waltham MA.: On February
24, 1909 Frances M. Briggs applied for a military pension of Jerome W.
Carpenter.
1910 Woonsocket City Hall death book 3 page 348.: Frances Melissa
Carpenter, widowed housewife, residing at 116 Jenkes St. died on August
5, 1910 in Woonsocket of Edema of Lungs and Acute Dialation of Heart.
She was born in E. Greenwich.  Parents were Briggs.
Funeral of Mrs. Carpenter - Woonsocket Call August 8, 1910
Rev. Nathan Bailey of Providence Conducts the Service
The funeral of Frances M., widow of Jerome W. carpenter, took place at
the late home, 116 Jenckes Street, yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Rev. Nathan Bailey, pastor of the Jefferson Street Baptist Church,
Providence, who occupied the pulpit at the First baptist Church in this
city yesterday, conducted the services.   Members of the family
officiated as bearers.  A number of floral tributes told of the esteem in
which the deceased was held.  Burial was at Union Cemetery.

DEPOSITION OF FRANCES MELISSA CARPENTER April 5, 1910
to obtain her husband Jerome's army pension.
I am 68 years of age; my post office address is 116 Jenckes St. Woonsocket, R.I. I am living with my son, Myron Carpenter, and my married daughter and her husband, Augustus Keach, at the number above mentioned. I have no home of my own. I have had two shocks of paralysis, one in Jan. last and another about six weeks later, involving my right side which affects my walking and my speech, but my mind is all right.

Question...You are the applicant in this case for pension as the widow of the late Jerome W. Carpenter, are you?
Answer...I am.

Question...When did he die?
Answer...On the 10 Nov. last.

Question...The record shows, and your daughter and step son here present say that he died on the 10 day of Feb. 1909, a year ago last Feb. are they correct and you mistaken.
Answer...I think they are mistaken.

.Question.. Do you know in what Co. and regiment your late husband served and in what war?
Answer...No, I don't know nothing about that.

Question...Was he a pensioner when he died?
Answer...He was.

Question...What does the W in his name stand for?
Answer...William. His full name was Jerome William Carpenter.

Question...Has he any relatives living?
Answer...He has no brother or sister living that I know of; he did have a sister, Adeline, who married a man of the name of Jack Knight, and lived at East Greenwich R.I., but I think they are both dead.

Question...What was your name before you were married?
Answer...Frances Melissa Briggs.

Question...Where were you born?
Answer...At East Greenwich, R.I.

Question...How often were you married?
Answer...Only once.

Question...Have you any sisters or brothers living?
Answer...I don't know that I have.

Question...Did you ever have any?
Answer...I suppose I did, but I don't know; I was left an orphan when 6 years old, and was bound out and never saw or heard of any of my family afterward.

Question...Do you know who your parents were?
Answer...Yes, my father was David and my mother Elmira Briggs; I do not remember them or anything about them. I was bound out to Edward Wakefield at North Grosvenordale, Conn. and lived with him and his family for 18 years, but was living with his brother, Ezra Wakefield, at same place when I married soldier.

Question...Is any member of the families of Edward and Ezra Wakefield now living who were living when you lived with them?
Answer...No, sir.

Question...When and where were you married to soldier?
Answer...I married him at the home of Ezra Wakefield at North Grosvenordale, Conn. I do not remember the date.

Question...On what day of the week was it?
Answer...It was on Wednesday.

Question...In what month?
Answer...I don't remember.

Question...How long ago was it?
Answer...I don't remember.

question...How many children did you have by him?
Answer...Three.

Question...Are they all living?
Answer...No, one is dead.

Question...How old is the oldest?
Answer...My first born was a girl and died when only a few months old,

Question...Where did she die?
Answer...At Webster, Mass. and buried there. She was also born in Webster./

Question...Do you now the date of her death?
Answer...I don't remember, but she was only three months old.

Question...When and where was your next child born?
Answer...In Webster, Mass.; that child was a boy and is my son, Myron, with whom I am living. He is now 26 years old and his birth day is March 11. My next child was my daughter, Edna M. Keach, with whom I am also living and who is now present. She was born here in Woonsocket on March 11, and is 22 or 23 years old.

Question...What was your first child's name?
Answer...Adeline Frances, named Adeline for soldier's mother.

Question...How soon after your marriage to soldier was she born?
Answer...Some five or six years.

Question... And you mean to say that you had no child, gave birth to no child at any time before the child Adeline was born?
Answer...Yes, sir.

Question...Were you married to soldier by a minister of the gospel or a justice of the peace?
Answer...the Methodist church.

Question...Was he the minister of the church at North Grosvenordale at that time?
Answer...No, he was the minister at Putnam.

Question...Did he come to Grovesnordale to marry you?
Answer...No. We went to Putnam.

Question...You have just said that you were married at the home of Ezra Wakefield at North Grosvenordale, which is correct?
Answer...You misunderstood me. I said I was living there at the time, and went from there to Putnam to be married.

Question...Who were present at the marriage?
Answer...The minister's wife and two daughters.

Question...Don't you remember the name of the minister?
Answer...I do not.

Question...Or of his wife and daughters?
Answer...No, sir.

Question...Is either now living?
Answer...I don't know anything about, I have never seen either of them since.

Question...Didn't the minister give you a certificate of the marriage?
Answer...I don't remember anything about it.

Question...Where were you married at Putnam?
Answer...On the piazza of the minister's home, but I don't remember where he lived.

Question...Why were you married out on the piazza and not in the house?
Answer...I don't know.

Question....Would you remember the minister's name if you should her it?
Answer...I don't think I could hear it, for I think he is dead.

Question...What makes you think he is dead?
Answer...I have heard so once or twice

Question...When did you last hear it?
Answer...I don't know, couldn't tell you.

Question...When you heard he was dead did you hear his name?
Answer...I heard his name, but don't remember it.

Question...If I should call his name would you remember it?
Answer...I don't know whether I would or not.

Question ...was his name Smith, Brown Wilson, Corbet, Cobb, Hobbs, Thompson or Barnes?
Answer...Well, you haven't called the name yet and I can't call it.

Question...You are sure it wasn't either name I have called?
Answer...I am.

Question...Had your husband been married before he married you?
Answer...He had.

Question...How often?
Answer...only once.

Question...What was that wife's name?
Answer...Mary Donkersley.

Question...What became of her?
Answer...She died.

Question...Where?
Answer...At Putnam, Conn.

Question...When?
Answer...I do not remember the date.

Question...Did she die before or after soldier married you?
Answer...Before.

Question...How long before?
Answer...Nine months and six days.

Question...How do you get at that?
Answer...Well, I just remember it.

Question...Then she had not been dead only one month when he married you?
Answer...No, for she had been dead nine months and six days.

Question...Had you lived with soldier as his wife before you married him?
Answer...I had not.

Question...And his former wife had not been dead as much s a year when he married you?
Answer...No, sir, just nine months and six days.

Question...Mrs. Carpenter you must have some recollection of some fact, which you have not disclosed to me, which enables you, in view of your otherwise faulty memory, to remember that she had been dead just nine months and six days when he married you, now, what is it that enables you to remember that so particularly and definitely?

Answer...Well, soldier's last child, a boy named Newton, who died some ten years ago here in Woonsocket, was scarcely two years old when I came into soldier's family and I took care of the child.

Question...Well, how old was that child when his mother died?
Answer...About six months.

Question...He had another young child, Warren, hadn't he when his first wife died?
Answer...Yes, but I don not remember how old Warren was when his mother died, nor the difference between his age and Newton's. Now that I reflect, I think Warren was about four years old.

Question...Have you any record of the birth of any of soldier's children?
Answer...We have a record here which was copied from soldier's father's bible, which is now in possession of.....I do not remember, but the copies were sent to me by my late husband's oldest son, George Carpenter who lives at Quinebaug, Conn. about four miles from Webster, Mass. According to the copy I have the child Newton Leroy Carpenter, the youngest child of soldier when I came into his family, was born July 15, 1873.

Question...According to the statement of your late husband (B.J.4) his first wife died September. 15, 1874, and he married you just two months later, Nov. 15, 1874; what do you say to that?
Answer...Well, I guess he is right.

Question...Soldier was living at Putnam when his first wife died, was he?
Answer...Yes, sir.

Question...From the date of said marriage where did you and soldier live?
Answer...We lived at Putnam for a short time and then went to North Grosvenordale, Conn. and lived a year, and from there we went to Webster, Mass. and lived there till we came here. I do not remember how long we lived at Webster, but my son Myron was born there and he was less than two years old when we moved here, and my last child, Edna, was born after we came her, but I was not carrying her when we came here.

Question...Have you and soldier, up to the time of his death lived here in Woonsocket ever since?
Answer...Yes, sir.

Question...In your declaration for pension you state that you were married to Jerome w. Carpenter in November, 1875; whereas soldier stated that you and he were married Nov. 15, 1874; a year before you claim you were married; which is correct, You or he?
Answer...He is correct, my head was not right when I made that statement.

Question...Can you tell me of anyone who knew you while you lived in Putnam with soldier?
Answer...Thomas L. Paine, (B.J.6) Mrs. Lizzie Shea wife of Tom Shea; I can't recall any others.
Question...From whom did soldier rent the house you lived in?
Answer...I don't remember.

Question...Where did you live in Putnam?
Answer...I can't tell you.

Question...With whom did you deal in provisions or groceries?
Answer...I can't remember, for we dealt with first one and then another.

Question...Who was your doctor?
Answer...We didn't have any.

Question...How as your husband employed there?
Answer...He was in the wood business.

Question...For whom did he work, by whom was he employed?
Answer...A man of the name of sales, who carried on a wood yard.

Question...Since your marriage to soldier have you and he lived anywhere else than at Putnam, Conn., North Grosvenordale, Conn., Webster, Mass. and Woonsocket, R.I.?
Answer...No, sir, nowhere else.

Question...While you and soldier were living at Putnam were you and he known by your neighbors as husband and wife?
Answer...We were, and I was known by his name and he would tell and introduce me to others as his wife, and so also in North Grosvenordale, Webster and Woonsocket.

Question...Who knew you at North Grosvenordale while you and he lived there?
Answer...Everybody.

Question...What was his employment?
Answer...Same business. I can't recall the name of the man he worked for. Everybody knew us there. We lived in three places there, but I can't describe them; we rented from the widow Rehan. I do not recall the name of the doctor we employed. We dealt at Slater's store in the north village.

The deposition is signed by Myron Carpenter and Edna M. Keach, in their own hand. Frances Carpenter, being illiterate signed with an X.


38486. Adaline Carpenter

BIRTH: (and DEATH:) SOUR @S08802@ page C171. baby born on 1/6/1882 to
Jerome and Francis Carpenter...no name.
DEATH: page F30 Adaline daughter of Jerome Carpenter of CT and Francis Carpenter of RI, died on 4/1/1882, age 3 months, in Webster, MA of the croup.  She is burried in Dudley MA.
The Webster MA birth records list Adaline Carpenter, born January 6, 1882 to Jerome W. Carpenter and Frances Melissa Briggs.  Adaline dies about 3 months later on April 1, 1882, in Webster and is buried in Dudley MA.


30731. Charles S. Carpenter

BIRTH:
Name: Charles Carpenter
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 13 Dec 1874
Event Place: Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio
Registration Date:
Registration Place:
Gender: Male
Race: White
Father's Name: W. I. Carpenter
Father's Titles and Terms:
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Susan Hall
Mother's Titles and Terms:
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Additional Relatives:
Reference ID: v 1 p 188
GS Film number: 890258
Digital Folder Number: 004978835
Image Number: 00214
Citing this Record:
"Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VR9Q-CXM : accessed 04 Aug 2013), W. I. Carpenter in entry for Charles Carpenter, 1874.
SEE ALSO:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C51333-5
System Origin: Ohio-ODM
GS Film number: 890258
Reference ID:
Citing this Record:
"Ohio, Births and Christenings, 1821-1962," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XX87-17H : accessed 04 Aug 2013), W. I. Carpenter in entry for Charles Carpenter, 13 Dec 1874.
SEE ALSO:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C51333-5
System Origin: Ohio-ODM
GS Film number: 890258
Reference ID:
Citing this Record:
"Ohio, Births and Christenings, 1821-1962," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XX87-17H : accessed 04 Aug 2013), W. I. Carpenter in entry for Charles Carpenter, 13 Dec 1874.

CENSUS: 1880 US Census - with mother
CENSUS: 1890 US Census - burned
CENSUS: 1900 US Census - with mother, but recently married

CENSUS: 1910 US Census
Name: Charles Carpenter
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1910
Event Place: Ashtabula Ward 4, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States
District: 10
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1875
Birthplace: Ohio
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Ohio
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Sheet Number and Letter: 6B
Household ID: 159
Line Number:
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M1283
GS Film number: 1375165
Digital Folder Number: 004449375
Image Number: 00363
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Charles Carpenter M 35 Ohio
Wife Anna Carpenter F 30 New York
Son Charles H Carpenter M 8 Ohio
Son David Carpenter M 4 Ohio
Daughter Charlotte Carpenter F 1 Ohio
Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/ML8V-L9Y : accessed 04 Aug 2013), Charles Carpenter, 1910.

CENSUS: 1920 US Census
Name: Charles Carpenter
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1920
Event Place: Buffalo Ward 20, Erie, New York, United States
District: 170
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Can Read:
Can Write:
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Own or Rent:
Birth Year (Estimated): 1877
Birthplace: Ohio
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Michigan
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Sheet Number and Letter: 8B
Household ID: 199
Line Number: 67
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T625
GS Film number: 1821104
Digital Folder Number: 004313436
Image Number: 00895
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Charles Carpenter M 43 Ohio
Wife Annabelle Carpenter F 38 New York
Son Charles H Carpenter M 18 Ohio
Son David Carpenter M 14 Ohio
Daughter Charlotte Carpenter F 11 Ohio
Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MJ2R-JCK : accessed 04 Aug 2013), Charles Carpenter, 1920.

CENSUS: 1930 US Census

CENSUS: 1940 US Census - living with son Charles.

DEATH: Same person?
Name: Charles S. Carpenter
Gender:
Burial Date: 1954
Burial Place:
Death Date:
Death Place:
Age:
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Occupation:
Race:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name:
Mother's Birthplace:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I00001-3
System Origin: Ohio-EASy
GS Film number: 182715
Reference ID:
Citing this Record:
"Ohio, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F68Q-NYM : accessed 04 Aug 2013), Charles S. Carpenter, .


30733. Samuel Bryce Carpenter

CENSUS: 1900 US Census - Living with wife Mary and mother Mary Ann in Plainville, Hartford, CT.

CENSUS: 1880 US Census
Household:
Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Samuel CARPENTER   Self  M  Male  W  34  CT  Cigar Manufacturer  CT  CT
Harriett CARPENTER   Wife  M  Female  W   34   CT   Housewife   CT   CT
Orlando B. CARPENTER   Son   S   Male   W   6   MA      CT   CT
Albion B. CARPENTER   Son   S   Male   W   4   MA      CT   CT
Charles W. PAUL   Other   S   Male   W   49   RI   Cigar Maker   RI   NJ
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Source Information:
 Census Place Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
 Family History Library Film   1254535
 NA Film Number   T9-0535
 Page Number   7A


Harriett McCollum

Harriet McCollum    Compact Disc #94     Pin #209207


38493. Albion B. Carpenter

Albion B. Carpenter    Compact Disc #94     Pin #209208
See also:                     Compact Disc #126   Pin #1134894


U.S. Social Security Death Index
    Albion CARPENTER
   Birth Date: 7 Apr 1878
   Death Date: Feb 1963
   Social Security Number:  265-07-6585
   State or Territory Where Number Was Issued:  Florida
   Actual Death Residence:  Florida


30768. Edwin Clinton Carpenter

BIRTH: Born in Canada then adopted as a Carpenter.  Unknown birth parents.

CENSUS: 1900 US Census with mother. See mother's notes.
Name: Edwin C Carpenter
Titles:
Residence: Willington township, Tolland, Connecticut
Birth Date: Aug 1881
Birthplace: Canada
Relationship to Head-of-Household: Adopted Son
Spouse Name:
Spouse Titles:
Spouse Birth Place:
Father Name:
Father Titles:
Father Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother Name:
Mother Titles:
Mother Birthplace: Connecticut
Race or Color (expanded): White
Head-of-household Name: Emily S Carpenter
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Years Married:
Estimated Marriage Year:
Mother How Many Children:
Number Living Children:
Immigration Year: 1887
Enumeration District: 0503
Sheet Number and Letter: 2A
Household ID: 13
Reference Number: 16
GSU Film Number: 1240151
Image Number: 00085
Collection: United States Census, 1900


30778. Francis Gillett "Frank" Carpenter

OBIT: Obit notice was in the "Hartford Courant" on 30 April 1949. It states that when hs wife Emma died in 1935, they had been married 35 years. Most likely longer than just 35 years, but that is the current estimate.  Need census info to determine birth years of his children.
DONE: 1900 US Census indicates marriage of 19 years. Thus married about 1881.

This descendant line updated by: William E. Goss of Markham, Ontario, Canada via letter on 4 Oct 2010.   < thelma.goss000@sympatico.ca >

CENSUS: 1860 US Census - Living with parents - See father's notes.
Name: Francis  Carpenter
Residence: , Tolland, Connecticut
Ward: Mansfield
Age: 5 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1855
Birthplace: Connecticut
Gender: Male
Page: 45
Family Number: 380
Film Number: 803080
DGS Number: 4211339
Image Number: 00427
NARA Number: M653
Collection: United States Census, 1860

NOTE: He is not the following person.
Name: Fransis  Carpenter
Residence: , Windham, Connecticut
Ward: Killingly
Age: 3 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1857
Birthplace: Conn
Gender: Male
Page: 92
Family Number: 746
Film Number: 803092
DGS Number: 4211351
Image Number: 00585
NARA Number: M653
Collection: United States Census, 1860

CENSUS: 1870 US Census - See image: RIN 133925 Francis G Carpenter 1870.jpg
Living with grandfather and grandmother.
Name: Francis G Carpenter
Estimated Birth Year: 1856
Gender: Male
Age in 1870: 14y
Color (white, black, mulatto, chinese, Indian): White
Birthplace: Connecticut
Home in 1870: Connecticut, United States
Collection: United States Census, 1870

CENSUS: 1880 US Census
Household:
Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
 Corbin COOPER   Self   M   Male   W   56   R. I.   Boarding House Keeper   R. I.   R. I.  
 Phoebe A. COOPER   Wife   M   Female   W   52   MASS   Keeping House   MASS   MASS  
 Emma M. COOPER   Dau   S   Female   W   20   R. I.      R. I.   R. I.  
 Joseph G. BENONY   Other   S   Male   W   31   MASS   Fireman Rr   CAN   N. H.  
 Fred U. BATES   Other   S   Male   W   27   CONN   Brakeman Rr   MASS   CONN  
 Charles F. GOULD   Other   S   Male   B   24   VT   Clothing Mfr   VT   VT  
 Jeremiah LAUL   Other   M   Male   W   57   ME   Clothing Mfr   ME   ME  
 Charles CRAWFORD   Other   M   Male   W   27   CONN   Shoe Shop   CONN   CONN  
 Katie MOULTON   Other   S   Female   W   22   MASS   Shoe Shop   MASS   MASS  
 Edward RIVERS   Other   S   Male   W   27   VA   Brakeman Rr   FRANCE   FRANCE  
 Joseph HAUGHTON   Other   S   Male   W   24   CONN   Brakeman Rr   CONN   CONN  
 Frank CARPENTER   Other   M   Male   W   22   CONN   Brakeman Rr   CONN   CONN  *******  
 William HILL   Other   S   Male   W   26   CONN   Brakeman Rr   CONN   CONN  
 Henry FRINK   Other   S   Male   W   28   CONN   Foundry   MASS   CONN  
 Eugene MALONEY   Other   S   Male   W   33   MASS   Woolen Mills   IRE   MASS  
 Joshua SYKES   Other   S   Male   W   34   ENG   Wool Sorter   ENG   ENG  
 William WEST   Other   S   Male   W   19   CONN   Painter   R. I.   CONN  
 James A. BABCOCK   Other   M   Male   W   31   NOVA SCOTIA   Locamotive Fireman   MASS   N. Y.  
 Frank DEVINE   Other   M   Male   W   40   R. I.   Engineer Rr   ENG   ENG  
 William KELLEY   Other   S   Male   W   33   ME   Section Hand Rr   NOVA SCOTIA   MASS  
(Continued)  
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Source Information:
 Census Place Putnam, Windham, Connecticut
  Family History Library Film   1254110
  NA Film Number   T9-0110
  Page Number   587B

CENSUS: 1890 US Census - burned

CENSUS: 1900 US Census - See image: RIN 133925 Francis G Carpenter 1900.jpg
Name: Francis G Carpenter
Titles:
Residence: Wethersfield town, Hartford, Connecticut
Birth Date: Sep 1855
Birthplace: Connecticut
Relationship to Head-of-Household: Self
Spouse Name: Emma Carpenter
Spouse Titles:
Spouse Birth Place: Connecticut
Father Name:
Father Titles:
Father Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother Name:
Mother Titles:
Mother Birthplace: Connecticut
Race or Color (expanded): White
Head-of-household Name:
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 19
Estimated Marriage Year: 1881
Mother How Many Children:
Number Living Children:
Immigration Year:
Enumeration District: 0225
Sheet Number and Letter: 2B
Household ID: 48
Reference Number: 83
GSU Film Number: 1240139
Image Number: 00724
Collection: United States Census, 1900

CENSUS: 1910 US Census - need image
Wife and sons Merrick and Frederick are present.
Name: Frank G Carpenter
Birthplace: Connecticut
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Residence: Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Family Number: 297
Page Number: 14
Collection: United States Census, 1910

CENSUS: 1920 US Census - need image
Name: Francis G Carpenter
Residence: , Hartford, Connecticut
Estimated Birth Year: 1856
Age: 64
Birthplace: Connecticut
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Birthplace:
Film Number: 1820180
Digital Folder Number: 4294450
Image Number: 00345
Sheet Number: 18
Collection: United States Census, 1920


Emma Byles

CHILDREN: In the 1900 US Census she is noted as having 5 children with number of children living as 2.  BUT 3 children are listed in that same census. The ages of the children preclude being born in prior to 1881. Either we have an adoption of one of the 3 male children listed ...  or 2 children died prior and not 3.


38514. Harry B. Carpenter


CENSUS: 1890 US Census - burned
CENSUS: 1900 US Census - Living with parents - See father's notes regarding image
Name: Harrie Carpenter
Titles:
Residence: Wethersfield town, Hartford, Connecticut
Birth Date: Oct 1884
Birthplace: Connecticut
Relationship to Head-of-Household: Son
Spouse Name:
Spouse Titles:
Spouse Birth Place:
Father Name: Francis G Carpenter
Father Titles:
Father Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother Name: Emma Carpenter
Mother Titles:
Mother Birthplace: Connecticut
Race or Color (expanded): White
Head-of-household Name: Francis G Carpenter
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Years Married:
Estimated Marriage Year:
Mother How Many Children:
Number Living Children:
Immigration Year:
Enumeration District: 0225
Sheet Number and Letter: 2B
Household ID: 48
Reference Number: 85
GSU Film Number: 1240139
Image Number: 00724
Collection: United States Census, 1900

CENSUS: 1910 US Census - need image - can not find in ancestry!
Name: Harry B Carpenter
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Residence: Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: United States
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Family Number: 348
Page Number: 1
Collection: United States Census, 1910

CENSUS: 1920 US Census - need image
Name: Harry B Carpenter
Residence: , Bergen, New Jersey
Estimated Birth Year: 1885
Age: 35
Birthplace: Connecticut
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Birthplace:
Film Number: 1821019
Digital Folder Number: 4313312
Image Number: 01017
Sheet Number: 6
Collection: United States Census, 1920


38517. Fredrick S. Carpenter

CENSUS: 1900 US Census - Living with parents.
CENSUS: 1910 US Census - Living with parents.


38518. Merrick B. Carpenter

CENSUS: 1900 US Census - Living with parents.
CENSUS: 1910 US Census - Living with parents.

SSDI: Same person?
Merrick CARPENTER
Birth Date: 23 Nov 1892
Death Date: Sep 1976
Social Security Number: 042-01-4419
State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: Connecticut
Death Residence Localities ZIP Code: 06109
Localities: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Hfd, Hartford, Connecticut Htfd, Hartford, Connecticut Weth, Hartford, Connecticut Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Wethersfld, Hartford, Connecticut