SUBMITTER: James M. Carpenter submitted his ancestral line in Dec 2019 via GEDCOM.
GROUP 38 - Genetically - Part of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project.
PARENTS:
MOTHER is listed as Mary Carpenter (b. Apr 1818/1820 - d. abt 1900/1910) daughter of Thomas Carpenter and Patience Waltman.
FATHER - unknown - Alfred consistently used his mother's maiden name Carpenter.
On Find A Grave - a father is listed as Richard Devall (1821-1908) buried in Devall Cemtery, EBR.
SEE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8387941/richard-devall
This Find A Grave entry cites a spouse for RD named Sarah F. Carpenter (1830-1896) - no parents listed.
There is also an anonymous flower message (dated 25 apr 2019) indicating:
1st wife Sarah Ann Allen (1826-1859) m. 1843 ..... 2nd wife Sarah Frances Carpenter (1830-1896) m. 1860
COMMENT:
Sarah Frances Carpenter is not listed as a sibling to Mary Carpenter.
SEE: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/109517613/person/190076062507/facts
This tree lists the father as A. E. Davis but no details other than the name. His spouse Mary Carpenter listed as b. Apr 1820 LA.
NOTE:
Y-DNA testing on two male Carpenter descendants seem to indicate that there is a genetic matching with the surname "Dalton." This likely means that the Y-DNA of this Carpenter surname line came from a Dalton. JRC - Jan 2020.CENSUS: 1850 US Census - with mother Mary, Uncle Philip, Grandmother Patience and others
Place: Ward 5, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Roll: M432_229; Page: 197A; Image: 398
SEE ALSO:
Name: Alfreds Carpenter
Age: 11
Birth Year: abt 1839
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1850: Ward 5, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Gender: Male
Family Number: 657
Household Members:
Name Age
Philip Carpenter 28 <------ uncle
Patience Carpenter 55 <------ grandmother
Mary Carpenter 30 <------------ Alfred's mother
Lydia Carpenter 22
Thomas Carpenter 21
Loriah Carpenter 18
Alfreds Carpenter 11 <---------------------------------
Rebecca Street 34 <-------- aunt
Arthur Barlow 20 -- unk
Isaac Browning 19 -- unk
James Street 18 <--- 1st cousins - sons of Rebecca
George Street 24
Source Citation
Year: 1850; Census Place: Ward 5, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Roll: M432_229; Page: 197A; Image: 398
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.CENSUS: 1860 US Census - with mother
Census Place: East Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Roll: M653_408; Page: 589; Image: 147; Family History Library Film: 803408
SEE ALSO:
Name: Alfred Carpenter
Age: 22
Birth Year: abt 1838
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Louisiana
Home in 1860: East Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Post Office: Baton Rouge
Dwelling Number: 1044
Family Number: 1044
Occupation: Farmer
Real Estate Value: 200
Personal Estate Value: 150
Household Members:
Name Age
Alfred Carpenter 22
Mary A Carpenter 41 <---- no relationships given in 1850
Samuel Burns 34
Mary Burns 24
Rebecca Burns 4
Robert Burns 3
Source Citation
Year: 1860; Census Place: East Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Roll: M653_408; Page: 589; Family History Library Film: 803408
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.MILITARY: CSA (CIVIL WAR)
Joined Confederate Army. 5 Sgt., Co. B, 9 Batt'n Louisiana INfantry
DATE 15 May 1862
PLACE camp moore, Louisiana, USA
MILITARY: CSA
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Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Louisiana
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Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Louisiana
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Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Louisiana
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Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Louisiana
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Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Louisiana
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=424fc40f-3ff0-4282-8992-5306a2e7c753&tid=82389342&pid=393MARRIAGE: 1867 - image
Name: Alfred D. Carpenter
Spouse: Henrietta E. Dwall
Marriage Date: 13 Apr 1867 <------- I was given 20 Apr 1867
Marriage Pace: East Baton Rouge
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Compiled Marriage Index, 1718-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: Hunting For Bears, comp.. Louisiana, Marriages, 1718-1925. Compiled from a variety of sources including original marriage records located in Family History Library microfilm, microfiche, or books. Original marriage records are available from the Clerk of the Court where the marriage license was issued.MARRIAGE: 1869 - image
Name: A. D. Carpenter
Spouse: Elizabeth Jane Devall
Marriage Date: 6 Dec 1869 <----- different date - I was given 21 Dec 1869
Marriage Pace: East Baton Rouge
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Compiled Marriage Index, 1718-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: Hunting For Bears, comp.. Louisiana, Marriages, 1718-1925. Compiled from a variety of sources including original marriage records located in Family History Library microfilm, microfiche, or books. Original marriage records are available from the Clerk of the Court where the marriage license was issued.CENSUS: 1870 US Census
Place: Baton Rouge Ward 12, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Roll: M593_512; Page: 219B; Image: 442; Family History Library Film: 552011
SEE ALSO:
Name: Alfred Carpenter
Age in 1870: 32
Birth Year: abt 1838
Birthplace: Louisiana
Dwelling Number: 502
Home in 1870: Baton Rouge Ward 12, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Baton Rouge
Occupation: Wheelwright
Cannot Read: Y
Male Citizen over 21: Y
Inferred Spouse: Elizabeth Carpenter
Household Members:
Name Age
Alfred Carpenter 32 <-- wheelwright
Elizabeth Carpenter 22 <---- no relationships given in this census
Mary Carpenter 50
Rebecca Strait 54
Source Citation
Year: 1870; Census Place: Baton Rouge Ward 12, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Roll: M593_512; Page: 219B; Family History Library Film: 552011
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data:
1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
NOTE:
Next door is a Littie Carpenter F 40 with a Benjamin Harver M 17 living with her.CENSUS: 1880 US Census
Place: 8th Ward, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: 447; Family History Film: 1254447; Page: 165A; Enumeration District: 096; Image: 0336
SEE ALSO:
Name: Alfred Carpenter
Age: 42
Birth Date: Abt 1838
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1880: 8th Ward, Ascension, Louisiana, USA
Dwelling Number: 534
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital status: Married
Spouse's name: Elizabeth Carpenter
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's name: Mary A Carpenter
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Occupation: Farmer
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Alfred Carpenter 42
Elizabeth Carpenter 33
Mary Carpenter 9
Sarah Carpenter 7
Alfred D Carpenter 6
Edward Carpenter 4
Richard Carpenter 2
Henry D Carpenter 4/12
Mary A Carpenter 64 <---- Listed as widowed mother to Alfred
Source Citation
Year: 1880; Census Place: 8th Ward, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: 447; Page: 165A; Enumeration District: 096
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.
Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.CENSUS: 1890 US Census - burned
PENSION: 1892
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Confederate PensionCENSUS: 1900 US Census
Census Place: Police Jury Ward 8, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: 557; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0011; FHL microfilm: 1240557
SEE ALSO:
Name: Alfred D Carpenter [Alfred Carpenter]
Age: 62
Birth Date: Apr 1838
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1900: Police Jury Ward 8, Ascension, Louisiana
Sheet Number: 8
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 108
Family Number: 111
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital status: Married
Spouse's name: Elizebeth J Carpenter
Marriage Year: 1871
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's name: Mary A Carpenter
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Occupation: Farmer 8 J P
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
House Owned or Rented: O
Home Free or Mortgaged: F
Farm or House: F
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Alfred D Carpenter 62
Elizebeth J Carpenter 54
Henry D Carpenter 20
N C Carpenter 18
Philip S Carpenter 14
Mary A Carpenter 82 <--------------
Thomas J Carpenter 74
Julia Carpenter 67
Ella Lee 20 <--- houskeeper and future wife of NC
Source Citation
Year: 1900; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 8, Ascension, Louisiana; Page: 8; Enumeration District: 0011; FHL microfilm: 1240557
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.CENSUS: 1910 US Census
Place: Police Jury Ward 8, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: T624_507; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0012; FHL microfilm: 1374520
SEE ALSO:
Name: Alfred Carfenter [Alfred Carpenter] [Alfred Jr Carpenter]
Age in 1910: 83
Birth Year: abt 1827 [abt 1877] [abt 1874] [1838]
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1910: Police Jury Ward 8, Ascension, Louisiana
Street: Mount Zion Road
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital status: Married
Spouse's name: Jane Carpenter
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Native Tongue: English
Occupation: Laborer
Industry: Own Farm
Employer, Employee or Other: Own Account
Home Owned or Rented: Own
Home Free or Mortgaged: Free
Farm or House: Farm
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Years Married: 48
Survivor of Union or Confederate Army or Navy: CA
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Alfred Carfenter 83
Jane Carpenter 64
Source Citation
Year: 1910; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 8, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: T624_507; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0012; FHL microfilm: 1374520
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.CENSUS: 1920 US Census
Place: Police Jury Ward 8, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: T625_604; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 15; Image: 393
SEE ALSO:
Name: Alfra D Carpenter Jr.
Age: 81
Birth Year: abt 1839
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1920: Police Jury Ward 8, Ascension, Louisiana
Residence Date: 1920
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Father
Marital status: Widow
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Able to Speak English: Yes
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
A O Carpenter 45
Emly Carpenter 50
Alfrd L Carpenter 21
Henry D Carpenter 19
Ever Carpenter 17
Josephine Carpenter 15
Berthen Carpenter 13
George Carpenter 11
Joseph Carpenter 10
Waller Carpenter 8
Alfra D Carpenter 81
Virginia Dugor 48
Source Citation
Year: 1920; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 8, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: T625_604; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 15
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.CENSUS: 1930 US Census
DEATH:
Name: Alfred D Carpenter
Age: 96
Birth Year: 1838
Death Date: 16 Dec 1934
Death Place: Ascension, Louisiana, USA
Volume: 37
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002.
Original data: State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Division of Archives, Records Management, and History. Vital Records Indices. Baton Rouge, LA, USA.BURIAL: image
Name: Alfred D Carpenter Sr
Death Date: 16 Dec 1934
Cemetery: Carpenter Chapel
Cemetery Location: Louisiana
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941. Microfilm publication M1916, 134 rolls. ARC ID: 596118. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92. National Archives at Washington, D.C.
Applications for Headstones, compiled 01/01/1925 - 06/30/1970, documenting the period ca. 1776 - 1970 ARC: 596118. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774–1985, Record Group 92. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
NOTE: Per image
Served as a Sergeant in b company, 9th Bn. LA INF CSA
Born: 4 Apr 1838
Died: 16 Dec 1934LAND:
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Land Sale
Petition for roadJURY DUTY:
Jury Duty
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Justice of the Peace ward 10 Ascension ParishOBIT:
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The_Donaldsonville_Chief_Sat__Oct_28__1922_GRAVE: images
Alfred D Carpenter
Birth: 4 Apr 1838
Death: 16 Dec 1934 (aged 96)
Burial: Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Memorial #: 8192401
Gravesite Details Co B 9 La Inf CSA
Family Members
Spouse
Elizabeth Jane Devall Carpenter 1846-1916
Children
Mary Angeline Carpenter Ficklin 1870-1938
Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter Dugas 1872-1963
Alfred Dalton Carpenter 1874-1948
Edward C. Carpenter 1876-1961
Richard Thomas Devall Carpenter 1878-1918
Henry David Carpenter 1880-1968
Nathaniel Cornelus Carpenter 1881-1953
Ada Julia Francis Carpenter Kelley 1883-1957
Philip Stephen Carpenter 1885-1966
Maintained by: Find A Grave (8)
Originally Created by: Herald (46532092)
Added: 18 Dec 2003
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8192401/alfred-d-carpenter
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 December 2019), memorial page for Alfred D Carpenter (4 Apr 1838–16 Dec 1934), Find A Grave Memorial no. 8192401, citing Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) .STORY: Supplied bu Matt Carpenter
The rays of the rising sun illuminate a windowsill of the old raised house out on Highway 42, on the banks of the Amite River. Finding there an empty CD case, they pause for a few moments before moving on with the day's work, to bathe a black-and-white photograph in a chill winter glow. Shining in the light is a white, wood-sided church from a time out of memory; seated on the steps is country singer Alan Jackson. In the kitchen, black coffee drips, three strips of bacon sizzle in a skillet and two eggs await their turn. A man hums along with an old-time gospel hymn as he waits for the toast. As the sun begins to melt the frost on the grass, he doesn't worry about his strawberry garden. The blossoms aren't out yet and the plants will be fine. After awhile he dresses, climbs down the steps to his Ford Focus, pulls out onto the already-busy highway and heads west to visit a friend. A left turn and then a right, and he's nearly there.But for just a split second before taking that right, the road before the man seems to fade to rutted dirt and the modern car becomes a horse-drawn buggy driven by his father. Down the road and around another turn stands a simple white chapel, and beside it a lane leads back to a cypress house where his bearded grandfather sits on the porch, smoking his pipe and reading a newspaper article about the war "over there." Some of the local Galvez boys have gone to the fight, and the old veteran keeps close track of Gen. Blackjack' Pershing and his doughboys'.
Then as suddenly as it had come, the vision is gone. The reins are once again a plastic steering wheel. An ever-growing Ascension Parish bustles with business and traffic and the sounds of life as the man pulls into the driveway. Pete Carpenter steps out into the brisk air and the pale sun climbs higher into a deep blue sky in the winter of his 95th year.
Back on Hwy. 42, at a gas station across from the LeBlanc's Pay-Less Food Store and not too far from the Hwy. 44 red light, the last of the morning commuters fill their tanks and grab a cup of coffee as they head into Baton Rouge. Alone and unnoticed the old oak still stands - to the left of the gas station, behind the wash-a-teria - a silent witness to another 95th year, belonging to another man, another time. In the pit of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt in office exactly one month, family have gathered by buggy and automobile to celebrate a birthday. The children chase each other and the adults share their news as a great pot of jambalaya steams. As the photographer struggles to corral all 72 subjects into formation, the old veteran, seated front and center, drifts back.
Back to the beginning - past it. Before he came to Galvez. Leaving Blackwater Bayou up near Baker bearing a rucksack and a rifle. The hard training at Camp Moore near Tangipahoa. Camping on the Comite River with the 9th Louisiana Infantry Battalion, Company B - the "East Baton Rouge Invincibles." The sharp, bloody, six-hour, running battle through the back yards of Baton Rouge, over fences, through hedges, and across open killing fields. The black smoke as one-third of Baton Rouge burned under naval bombardment. The retreat back up the Greenwell Springs road, and then later Port Hudson and the terrible six-week siege. The Union gunboats. The snipers. The shrapnel. The blood and the hunger and the valor. The bitter surrender, and going home in defeat. The few parts he has mentioned to his sons. The other parts that he increasingly keeps to himself as the years pass.
But here and now, Sgt. Alfred D. Carpenter, C.S.A., sits in a chair on his 95th birthday, surrounded by his family. He wishes his two preacher sons could be here, but Rich has been in the grave for 15 years, and Steve hasn't shown up - probably preaching out in Lottie again. But look at all the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and more to come! He thinks of his wife, Elizabeth, and how proud she would have been to see this. At his feet, the little ones squirm and chatter and shade their eyes. Behind him, his grandson Pete and his wife, Ina, married less than a year, look steadily into the lens. The shutter clicks. The year is 1933.
Fast-forward nearly four-score years. During the last 15 years of explosive growth, the only constant for the rural sections of Ascension Parish east of Gonzales - little communities like Galvez and St. Amant - has been change. Areas where, so recently, everyone knew nearly everyone else, have become home to thousands of new families. Yet, despite all the change, a not-so-distant past is still with us. Every day, each one of us passes - whether in the market, at church, on the highway - someone who remembers how far we have come, and how each generation has stood upon the shoulders of the last. History surrounds us and instructs us, when we take a moment to ask.
This is the story of a time and a place and a way of life, seen through the lives of a grandfather and grandson, Alfred and Pete Carpenter. Though they themselves are bits and pieces of the whole, their stories paint a picture of past struggles facing our forebears, worth considering as we forge ahead.
My first glimpse of Pete Carpenter was as a blur seen through the truck window of my dad's cousin, Dan L. Dixon, Jr., rest his soul, around 1999. As we drove down Hwy. 42 toward Port Vincent, I saw a white-haired man in a red flannel shirt working in his garden on a cold January day. "That's your cousin, Pete Carpenter. "said Dan. "He must be about 87 years old or so."
I had known that my great-great-grandfather Carpenter had fought in the Civil War, had something to do with founding schools and churches in Ascension Parish, and that my father had sat on his knee shortly before he died in 1934, at 96. But I had never heard of "Cousin Pete," this hardy winter farmer.
Learning that the old veteran had lived with Pete's family for years further piqued my interest. The very idea that Pete had grown up with a man born in 1838 was hard to grasp. But what I came to respect most was how the individual can and does make a difference in the life of a
community.When Alfred D. Carpenter, Sr., or "A.D.," came down out of the Blackwater country east of Baker to homestead near Bayou Manchac, north of what is now Hwy. 933 and near the intersections of Hwys. 42 and 44, the country was still mostly dense woods. Aside from some earlier settlers with names such as McCrory, Hodgeson, Parker, Thibeau, Delaune and Dixon, the old "Galveztown" area had lain mostly deserted for years.
Around 1778 the Spanish had established a small fort and town at the confluence of the Amite River and Bayou Manchac. In honor of Count Bernardo de Galvez, the Spanish governor of Louisiana and viceroy of New Spain (Mexico), it was named "Galveztown." Galvez had recruited several shiploads of Canary Island soldiers of Spanish and Moroccan descent to bring their families, man the fort, and protect Spain's holdings, A curious footnote is that the male Canarian recruits had to be at least five feet tall, and the recruiter earned a premium for every inch over this height. However, diseases, crop failures and floods had left the town a deserted ruin by 1810.
Being that there were no stores, schools or churches in the Galvez area, the new community truly had to be built from scratch. Whether it was his experience in commanding Confederate sharpshooters at Port Hudson, or simple necessity, or a combination of the two, what is known is that when A.D. Carpenter arrived from Blackwater Bayou in 1873, bringing his wife, Elizabeth Devall, and two infant daughters, he soon became a key founder of the modern Galvez area.
"It was a funny thing about Grandpa," Pete says. "He seemed to know everything. He had gotten some sort of an education somewhere... there were no councilmen, no elected officials, or anything - but if something needed doing, the people came to him."
By the time he retired to the front porch, his pipe and his newspaper, A.D. had been instrumental in founding the area's first school and two churches, had been a teacher, a farmer, a blacksmith - his occupation in the 1870 census is listed as "wheelwright" - and a Justice of the Peace, who acted as the de facto judge for nearly all disputes arising in the area.
As even the longest journey starts with one small step, so it was with the first church, Mt. Zion Baptist, literally. About 1874, the men of the community met at the site of the current "old" Mt. Zion cemetery, at the first big bend on Hwy. 933 south of the intersection with Hwy. 42, to build a little log church. A Mt. Zion history written in the 1920s states that, "The men drew a ring on the ground and each placed his ax in the ring. After prayer...the men grabbed their axes and raced for the forest. The first to return with a log and lay it across the ring would be the 'HonorMan.'... Deacon Hodgeson stumbled on a root and lost to Brother Carpenter.
"The benches were made of logs, and a stump served as the pulpit."
At the time, the only schools in the area being at Dutchtown, Prairieville, Gonzales and St. Amant, the need was apparent, due to difficulty traveling the muddy, rutted roads. So at about the same time, the men also built a school, either next to the Mt. Zion church or across the road, and A.D. taught classes the first year as a private school, before going public the next.
Pete remembers well his grandfather's teaching skills: "I was having trouble with my algebra - I just couldn't get it. Grandpa said, 'Boy, come over here and let me help you with that.' He must have been up in his '80s - and I learned it right away."
As the fledgling Galvez community, grew, so did A.D.'s family. 1874 brought his first son, A.D., Jr., and in swift succession came five more sons and a daughter, bringing the clan to eleven with the birth of Philip Stephen in 1885. Galvez took its place as a small Protestant settlement, largely isolated by roads and religion from the little French towns to the south and east and across the Amite. But before long would come an unexpected infusion of new blood.
June 1893 opened with the lower Mississippi above the danger line. The rain kept coming. One by one, the levees began to fail. The crevasses crept further and further south. Baton Rouge on the 13th. Napoleonville on the 16th. Then came the big blowout at Convent on the 18th, drowning Acy and much of St. Amant. The wave of refugees made for Galvez, the highest point of land in the parish, where the locals pitched in to help the stricken families, mostly French-speaking Catholics.
Some of the displaced, including Joe, Emma and Alice Dugas, never returned home. By 1896, Joe had married Sarah Carpenter, her brother A.D., Jr. had married Emma, and Rich Carpenter had married Alice. Galvez grew and the old soldier's children moved on, the youngest, Steve, marrying in 1907, leaving an empty nest. Rich left for Louisiana College at Pineville - the first Carpenter to go to college - then on to the seminary in Shreveport.
Exactly why, the answer is lost to history. But in the spring of 1911, old A.D., who had helped found Mt. Zion Baptist as a young man, allowed a young Methodist minister, Spencer McLean, to begin holding services in his house. In the fall of that year, it was 1874 all over again in Galvez. The whole family - Joe Dugas, A.D., Steve, A.D., Jr. (now known as "Bud") and many others broke out the saws and hammers, and soon a simple, white, wooden chapel arose on the south side of the old man's land, just east of today's intersection of Hwys. 933 and 44.
Bud's daughter, Josephine Carpenter Dixon, recalled that wooden chapel in 1986: "As a small child my grandmother [Elizabeth] Carpenter would sit in a chair... she would tell us Bible stories, as we could not read - she even taught us our alphabets. My father served as Sunday School Superintendent. We just had one small building with no lights, only coal-oil lamps to hang on the wall...we had no fan or heat or comfortable seats, but we enjoyed all of it."
Despite the old man's protests, the newborn building was officially registered as "Carpenter's Chapel United Methodist Church."
And in that same fall of 1911 Bud's wife gave birth to her last baby, a boy they named Walter.
"No one knows my real name," Pete says. "I've been Pete so long, that no one knows it's Walter!"
Bud Carpenter's neighbor was a rarity in those parts, an Italian farmer. As a young boy, having nothing else to do, Walter would wander across the fence line to watch the farmer plow the field. Before long, farmer Peter Liotta and young Walter Carpenter had become a team.
"I'd stand in the headland [the area where the plow would make its turn], and he'd line up on me to keep his rows straight. I was over there so much, my brothers started calling me 'Little Pete' - and now that's my name," Pete chuckles.
By then, little Pete' had a new housemate. His grandmother had passed on and now old A.D. came to live with son Bud and family. Some nights Grandpa would break out his fiddle on the front porch and the Carpenters would sing. Over a mile away, at their farmhouse at Hwy. 933 and Joe Sevario Rd., Steve and his wife, Annie Dixon, would sit and listen to the music, coming across the fields clear as a bell.
Pete remembers that "it was so quiet back then, the sound would carry forever. People don't realize how much noise is in the air now. The loudest thing around was a wagon wheel. When we wanted to go hunting, we didn't have any telephone. We'd just holler back and forth to see who was going, and we'd go."
He will never forget the day in 1918 that the sound of those wheels dragged a black, horse-drawn hearse down the lane. Terrified at the sight, young Pete learned the news - Uncle Rich was dead. Dead at 39.
A.D.'s son had become the Rev. R.T.D. Carpenter, crusader for temperance and morality. His 1914 book, "My Brother's Keeper," warned against the evil of Demon Rum. Uncle Rich, a giant of a man, had preached all over the state, from Carpenter's Chapel to Crowley. He had founded his own church, Emmanuel Baptist, in Baton Rouge. But his fiery sermons had attracted the attention of more than just the moonshiners; the death threats from the gambling underworld had forced the Reverend to tote a double-barrel shotgun as he spread the word of the growing Temperance movement by buggy, alone.
Yet his undoing came at the hand of nature, not of man. Uncle Rich had been preaching in a barroom one night in Baton Rouge. Pete still sees no fault with his uncle's unorthodox approach: "If you can still hold up a mug you can still hear the Word."
Uncle Rich caught the deadly influenza of 1918 that night, took pneumonia, and died. A few days after his 80th birthday, the old man buried his son behind Carpenter's Chapel.
Rich's youngest brother, Steve, took up the fallen mantle and went on to preach at Mt. Zion, and for many years in a church in Lottie. In later years, as he raised his grandchildren, every so often a knock would come on the door late at night; Steve's grandson recalls watching as his grandpa married many a young couple in front of the fireplace.
That grandson remembers many things his grandpa Steve said and did, and so merits an aside at this point. By quirk of fate, by being raised by A.D.'s son Steve, he learned and has handed down stories that have been lost through time. One Civil War story, in particular, I recall hearing in my youth, because Steve's little grandson - A.D.'s great-grandson - is my father, Herman Jerry Carpenter.
I speak of my father as a missing piece of Galvez history, because he was raised on a farm with the old folks, yet struck out for California in 1952 and never returned to live in Louisiana. It's worth noting my father's evolution from a 3-year-old child sitting on A.D. Carpenter's knee, to Galvez farm boy, to accomplished nuclear scientist, to ultimate retirement from the Air Force Reserve as a decorated two-star general.
But about that war story: It seems that at the Battle of Port Hudson, where 5,000 starving Confederate soldiers were besieged, a Union ironclad gunboat would come up the river each morning and shell the Confederate lines, where Sgt. Carpenter's 9th Battalion was stationed under Col. William Miles. The sergeant and his men would dive into the "rat holes" they had dug to escape the shelling, but they were really tired of the routine.
Close study with a spyglass finally revealed the gunboat's Achilles' heel: Just before the gunboat opened fire, an iron plate would pop open to uncover each cannon. The next day when the gunboat came to rain down destruction, Sgt. Carpenter ordered his sharpshooters to aim directly at the dark space exposed between the cannons and the hull, and the bombardment eased. In the informal discussions between Yankees and Rebels after the surrender, the gunboat's captain confirmed that nearly every one of his gunners had suffered broken legs.
Now, back to Ascension Parish:
By the mid-20s, the new sound of the automobile, although not common, became familiar. What with the terribly rutted and muddy roads, young Pete and his friends soon hit upon a way to make some quick cash. "We'd go down to the old "Y," where 42 and 44 met, and sit there for hours. Whenever a car got stuck in the mud, five or six of us would jump up and push it out and get a dollar apiece."
In those days, a dollar was a day's wage for many a man, but the drivers paid it anyway. "You see," Pete grins, "the only people who had cars back then were the rich people - so they could afford to pay it!"
That sort of team effort was to prove critical during the Great Flood of 1927.
"It was the scariest thing you ever saw," says Pete. "All the flow wells were shooting like fire hoses, and crawfish holes had fountains of water going up in the air, from the pressure underground." Sixteen years old, Pete, his friends and all the men of the area worked desperately to fill a low spot on the levee down at Convent, likely the same area that had failed in 1893.
"We were afraid to drive trucks up on the levee, so we just kept filling those 50-lb. sandbags and carrying them up the levee. We must have put half a million sandbags on that levee, and the river kept rising. It started climbing the sandbags and we kept piling them higher... that water was boiling and the waves hitting those bags... it was a real close thing. Those sandbags saved the whole parish from being flooded."
Disaster of a manmade variety soon followed, as the Depression hit and work became impossible to find around Galvez. While most folks had enough vegetables, many had to make do with squirrel meat. And few had flour, or the money for it. Bud had a truck, and he and his sons took turns driving into Gonzales every week for Red Cross flour.
"Twenty-four pound sacks - we'd pile them on the porch and the men would come get their share for their families. A lot of people had a hard time back then. Some families made their shirts out of the sacks, so they had lettering all over them!"
Yet, life went on in Galvez. Pete went to a dance at the Lyons house down the road one night and met a fair-skinned girl from French Settlement named Ina Lambert. Little did he know that that evening would lead to 50 years of marriage, parted only by her passing in 1982.
That next year, Grandpa Alfred's 95th birthday party under the big oak at Johnny Heintz's house reunited a lot of the ever-growing family for what would prove to be their last group photo. In December 1934, the old soldier, still alert, active and reading his newspaper at 96, took sick for a week during a cold spell, and then quietly slipped away to join his wife, at rest behind the little wood chapel.
Around him, Ascension was struggling back to work. Pete joined the Works Progress Administration for $3 a day, supervising men who earned $2 a day clearing out the parish canals and bayous and improving drainage.
In 1935, R. N. Banker began stringing telephone cable in Gonzales; his wife worked the switchboard in their kitchen. Though the seed of Eatel had germinated, the branches had yet to reach far. Electricity came late, too, not becoming common in many places until the late '40s.
In those last years of isolation, before the war brought change - before the roads were graveled and the phone lines run and religious barriers between Catholics and Protestants softened, communication was still difficult. Pete says there were a couple phones in Galvez, one phone in French Settlement at a store, and it was hard to get in touch with people even a few miles away in Lake.
"Basically, you still communicated through the U.S. Mail, weddings, and funerals."
But World War II, although it didn't have much effect on daily life, set in motion processes that would accelerate life all over America, even in rural Ascension Parish.
Servicemen returned home with new horizons and bigger thoughts. The brute force of American industry built up during the war provided better jobs. Paved roads began to appear and the baby boom filled schools. The hard work of those early settlers grew deeper and more firmly entrenched, unlike that of the unfortunate Canarian Spaniards of Galveztown.
As for Pete? He timed it right. After a couple years of temp work at Standard Oil, he caught wind of a DuPont plant opening in Baton Rouge in 1938 and had saved enough money to buy a Model A to get him down the gravel road to where the asphalt began at Perkins Road. His interest in electricity led to a solid 34-year career as an electrical inspector for what became the Ethyl Corporation. The old Model A became a new Mercury and son Darrell and daughters Ina and Emily came along.
In 1942 the family moved to the raised house on the Amite, out on Hwy. 42. Pete served on the school board from 1950 to 1968, and continues his 81-year attendance at Carpenter's Chapel - still driving himself down Hwy. 933 each Sunday to the modern, spacious sanctuary across the road from the site of the 1911 church. And his family still counts on those fresh vegetables from his garden. Alfred and Pete: Two lives, spanning 168 years - enclosing the history of their community like bookends.
Oh, and the little white chapel? Drop in sometime for a cup of coffee at that new Internet cafe that just opened on Hwy. 42, maybe half a mile past 44 headed toward 61. You know the place - the one with the brick front that used to be Barattini's - the one that used to be Simpson's Bar and Restaurant. Take a good look at the wood - the old ceiling - the posts... You're looking at the original Carpenter's Chapel, salvaged and rebuilt in a different form.
From church, to bar, to restaurant, to cybercafe. Born once again. History is closer than you think.
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http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/-1084660196/factsAncestry Sources
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1900 United States Federal Census
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1920 United States Federal Census
Family Data Collection - Individual Records
Louisiana, Marriages, 1718-1925
Louisiana, Marriages, 1718-1925
Louisiana, Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964
U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012Parents
Unknown Father
Mary 3 Carpenter 1820-1910 <--- no spouses listed - Her father is listed as Thomas 2 Carpenter and Patience WaltmanSpouse
Henrietta E. Devall 1848-1868
Spouse & Children
Elizabeth Jane Devall 1846-1916
Mary Angeline Carpenter 1870-1938
Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter 1872-1963
Alfred Dalton Jr. Carpenter 1874-1948
Edward Clinton Carpenter 1876-1961
Richard Thomas Carpenter 1878-1918
Henry David Carpenter 1880-1968
Nathaniel Cornelius "Neal" Carpenter 1881-1953
Ada Julia Carpenter 1883-1957
Phillip Steven Carpenter 1885-1966COMPARE to the very similar:
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No father but mother listed as Mary A. Carpenter with unknown parents
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Ancestry Family TreesParents
Unknown Father
Unknown MotherSpouse & Children
Unknown Spouse
Alfred Dalton Carpenter Sr. 1838–1934
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William D. "Peter" Devall 1818–1859
Louisa Carpenter 1822–1859 <------------
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Richard Thomas 1 Devall 1820–1908
Sarah Ann Allen 1826–1859CENSUS: 1850 US Census - with parents
CENSUS: 1860 US Census - with parentsMARRIAGE: 1869 - image
Name: Elizabeth Jane Devall
Spouse: A. D. Carpenter
Marriage Date: 6 Dec 1869 <----- different date - I was given 21 Dec 1869
Marriage Pace: East Baton Rouge
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Compiled Marriage Index, 1718-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: Hunting For Bears, comp.. Louisiana, Marriages, 1718-1925. Compiled from a variety of sources including original marriage records located in Family History Library microfilm, microfiche, or books. Original marriage records are available from the Clerk of the Court where the marriage license was issued.CENSUS: 1900 US Census - EXTRACT
Name: Elizebeth J Carpenter [Elizabeth J Carpenter]
Age: 54
Birth Date: Feb 1846
Birthplace: Louisiana
Spouse's name: Alfred D Carpenter
Marriage Year: 1871
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother: Number of Living Children: 9
Mother: How Many Children: 9CENSUS: 1910 US Census - EXTRACT
Name: Jane Carpenter [Jane Carfenter]
Age in 1910: 64
Birth Year: abt 1846
Birthplace: Louisiana
Spouse's name: Alfred Carfenter
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Years Married: 48
Number of Children Born: 9
Number of Children Living: 9GRAVE: image
Elizabeth Jane Devall Carpenter
Birth: 20 Feb 1846 Scotlandville, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death: 27 Jul 1916 (aged 70) Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial: Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Memorial #: 38729218
Family Members
Parents
Richard Devall 1821-1908
Spouse
Alfred D Carpenter 1838-1934
Children
Mary Angeline Carpenter Ficklin 1870-1938
Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter Dugas 1872-1963
Alfred Dalton Carpenter 1874-1948
Edward C. Carpenter 1876-1961
Richard Thomas Devall Carpenter 1878-1918
Henry David Carpenter 1880-1968
Nathaniel Cornelus Carpenter 1881-1953
Ada Julia Francis Carpenter Kelley 1883-1957
Philip Stephen Carpenter 1885-1966
Created by: marlene mckinnon lee (47133916)
Added: 25 Jun 2009
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38729218/elizabeth-jane-carpenter
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 December 2019), memorial page for Elizabeth Jane Devall Carpenter (20 Feb 1846–27 Jul 1916), Find A Grave Memorial no. 38729218, citing Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by marlene mckinnon lee (contributor 47133916) .
CENSUS: 1880; Census Place: 8th Ward, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: 447; Family History Film: 1254447; Page: 165A; Enumeration District: 096; Image: 0336
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Mary Angeline Carpenter Ficklin
Birth: 7 Dec 1870 Baker, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death: 28 Nov 1938 (aged 67) Gonzales, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial: Ficklin Family Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Memorial #: 37911859
Family Members
Parents
Alfred D Carpenter 1838-1934
Elizabeth Jane Devall Carpenter 1846-1916
Spouse
William Joseph Ficklin 1867-1923
Siblings
Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter Dugas 1872-1963
Alfred Dalton Carpenter 1874-1948
Edward C. Carpenter 1876-1961
Richard Thomas Devall Carpenter 1878-1918
Henry David Carpenter 1880-1968
Nathaniel Cornelus Carpenter 1881-1953
Ada Julia Francis Carpenter Kelley 1883-1957
Philip Stephen Carpenter 1885-1966
Children
Myrtle F Braud Unknown-1973
William Adlar Ficklin 1891-1918
Mary Brunetter Ficklin Dixon 1892-1975
Hattie Anne Jane Ficklin Lear 1896-1959
Andrew Alfred Ficklin 1896-1983
Ada Eretta Ficklin 1898-1898
Edward Dudley Ficklin 1899-1903
Elton Joseph Ficklin 1902-1982
Birdie Adonia Ficklin Arceneaux 1904-1986
Earnest Alvin Ficklin 1905-1907
Flossie Ficklin Villar 1908-1980
Created by: marlene mckinnon lee (47133916)
Added: 4 Jun 2009
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Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 December 2019), memorial page for Mary Angeline Carpenter Ficklin (7 Dec 1870–28 Nov 1938), Find A Grave Memorial no. 37911859, citing Ficklin Family Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by marlene mckinnon lee (contributor 47133916) .
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William Joseph Ficklin
Birth: 6 Jan 1867 Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death: 23 Feb 1923 (aged 56) Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial: Ficklin Family Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Memorial #: 37911760
Bio: FICKLIN, William J. - - - (By N. A. Ficklin) Died at his home at Gonzales, Friday, February 23 at 4:30 p.m. Elder Ficklin aged 56 years, 1 month and 17 days. He was sick only a few days and it was a shock to the community to learn of his death. He was a loyal and progressive farmer. He was born and raised in Ascension Parish at Galvez. He was married quite early in life to Miss Mary Carpenter of Galvez and they lived a happy and contented life. He settled in the Black Bayou section, built his home, and was a leader in political and social circles. Everybody liked "Uncle Willie" as he was called by most everyone. Several years ago he moved to Kelsey, Texas, thinking he would better his condition, but after a short period of one year, returned to his relatives, friends and to the native state. He was a true and loyal member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and was a local Elder of the church and a Sunday school leader, and in company with his nephew Newton A. Ficklin, he has done missionary work for the past eight years throughout this state and many thousand of people heard him beat testimony of truthfulness of the Gospel as he understood it. Survived by wife and children; Mrs. Nettie Dixon of Scotland, Mrs. Hattie Lear of Doyle, Mrs. Freddie Ficklin of Duplessis, Elton Ficklin of Burtville and Bertie, Flossie and Myrtle, Fourteen grandchildren. (His oldest son Wm. A. Ficklin was killed in action in France during World War One.) The interment was held at 9:30 a.m. on February 25, in Ficklin Cemetery. A most beautiful and impressive funeral service was held. Elders Earl W. Allen, Fly de C. Campbell and J. Leo Hanson officiated. The ceremonies were attended by a large crowd of friends and relatives.GONZALES WEEKLY 3 March 1923.
Family Members
Parents
Andrew Jackson Ficklin 1832-1914
Mary Louisiana Hodgeson Ficklin 1845-1914
Spouse
Mary Angeline Carpenter Ficklin 1870-1938
Siblings
John McJemsy Ficklin 1856-1930
Martha Ann Ficklin Miller 1869-1941
Emma Dora Ficklin Story 1871-1910
Sarah Jane Ficklin Parker 1872-1946
Andrew Jackson Ficklin 1874-1928
Wiley Christopher Ficklin 1876-1973
Ada Ophelia Ficklin Carpenter 1878-1918
Frances Mathilda Ficklin Nickens 1881-1968
Lula Erata Ficklin Nickens 1883-1965
George Franklin Ficklin 1885-1941
Children
Myrtle F Braud Unknown-1973
William Adlar Ficklin 1891-1918
Mary Brunetter Ficklin Dixon 1892-1975
Hattie Anne Jane Ficklin Lear 1896-1959
Andrew Alfred Ficklin 1896-1983
Ada Eretta Ficklin 1898-1898
Edward Dudley Ficklin 1899-1903
Elton Joseph Ficklin 1902-1982
Birdie Adonia Ficklin Arceneaux 1904-1986
Earnest Alvin Ficklin 1905-1907
Flossie Ficklin Villar 1908-1980
Created by: marlene mckinnon lee (47133916)
Added: 4 Jun 2009
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37911760/william-joseph-ficklin
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 December 2019), memorial page for William Joseph Ficklin (6 Jan 1867–23 Feb 1923), Find A Grave Memorial no. 37911760, citing Ficklin Family Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by marlene mckinnon lee (contributor 47133916) .
824. Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter
CENSUS: 1880; Census Place: 8th Ward, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: 447; Family History Film: 1254447; Page: 165A; Enumeration District: 096; Image: 0336
PENSION:
The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007; Record Group Number: 15; Series Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; SeGRAVE: image
Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter Dugas
Birth: 18 Nov 1872
Death: 20 Oct 1963 (aged 90)
Burial: Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Memorial #: 8192391
Gravesite Details do M & M Alfred Carpenter
Family Members
Parents
Alfred D Carpenter 1838-1934
Elizabeth Jane Devall Carpenter 1846-1916
Spouse
J L Dugas 1874-1943
Siblings
Mary Angeline Carpenter Ficklin 1870-1938
Alfred Dalton Carpenter 1874-1948
Edward C. Carpenter 1876-1961
Richard Thomas Devall Carpenter 1878-1918
Henry David Carpenter 1880-1968
Nathaniel Cornelus Carpenter 1881-1953
Ada Julia Francis Carpenter Kelley 1883-1957
Philip Stephen Carpenter 1885-1966
Maintained by: Find A Grave (8)
Originally Created by: Herald (46532092)
Added: 18 Dec 2003
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8192391/sarah-elizabeth-dugas
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 December 2019), memorial page for Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter Dugas (18 Nov 1872–20 Oct 1963), Find A Grave Memorial no. 8192391, citing Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) .
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J L Dugas
Birth: 1874
Death: 1943 (aged 68–69)
Burial: Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Memorial #: 8192397
Family Members
Spouse
Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter Dugas 1872-1963
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Originally Created by: Herald (46532092)
Added: 18 Dec 2003
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8192397/j-l-dugas
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 December 2019), memorial page for J L Dugas (1874–1943), Find A Grave Memorial no. 8192397, citing Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) .
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Ada Julia Francis Carpenter Kelley
Birth: 5 Aug 1883
Death: 15 Nov 1957 (aged 74)
Burial: Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Memorial #: 8189477
Gravesite Details do MM Alfred Carpenter
Family Members
Parents
Alfred D Carpenter 1838-1934
Elizabeth Jane Devall Carpenter 1846-1916
Spouse
Hardy D Kelley 1878-1956
Siblings
Mary Angeline Carpenter Ficklin 1870-1938
Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter Dugas 1872-1963
Alfred Dalton Carpenter 1874-1948
Edward C. Carpenter 1876-1961
Richard Thomas Devall Carpenter 1878-1918
Henry David Carpenter 1880-1968
Nathaniel Cornelus Carpenter 1881-1953
Philip Stephen Carpenter 1885-1966
Children
Lena K. Kelley Smiley 1900-1985
Anna Belle Kelley Cantu 1903-1987
Vera Kelley Callender 1905-1984
Ida Mae Kelley Cook 1907-1980
Walter Hardy Kelley 1909-1996
Louise M. Kelley Gauthier 1911-1949
Goldie K. Anderson 1913-1991
Alton Earl Kelley 1915-2001
Violet Kelley Atkinson 1919-1997
Maintained by: Find A Grave (8)
Originally Created by: Herald (46532092)
Added: 17 Dec 2003
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8189477/ada-julia_francis-kelley
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 December 2019), memorial page for Ada Julia Francis Carpenter Kelley (5 Aug 1883–15 Nov 1957), Find A Grave Memorial no. 8189477, citing Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) .
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Hardy D Kelley
Birth: 22 Feb 1878
Death: 5 Oct 1956 (aged 78)
Burial: Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Memorial #: 8189473
Gravesite Details so MM Louis Kelly
Family Members
Parents
Louis N. Kelley 1850-Unknown
L. J. Kelley 1848-1927
Spouse
Ada Julia Francis Carpenter Kelley 1883-1957
Siblings
William Babin Kelly 1887-1960
Children
Lena K. Kelley Smiley 1900-1985
Anna Belle Kelley Cantu 1903-1987
Vera Kelley Callender 1905-1984
Ida Mae Kelley Cook 1907-1980
Walter Hardy Kelley 1909-1996
Louise M. Kelley Gauthier 1911-1949
Goldie K. Anderson 1913-1991
Alton Earl Kelley 1915-2001
Violet Kelley Atkinson 1919-1997
Maintained by: Find A Grave (8)
Originally Created by: Herald (46532092)
Added: 17 Dec 2003
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8189473/hardy-d-kelley
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 December 2019), memorial page for Hardy D Kelley (22 Feb 1878–5 Oct 1956), Find A Grave Memorial no. 8189473, citing Carpenters Chapel Cemetery, Galvez, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) .
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U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995Parents
Unknown Father
Unknown MotherSpouse & Children
Thomas James Carpenter 1852–1904
Eunice Eliza Carpenter 1885–1971
Thomas Benjamin Carpenter 1890–1989Spouse
Buchanan LeBlanc 1880–
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1880 United States Federal Census
1900 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
1940 United States Federal Census
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012Parents
Peter Nathaniel Borskey 1845–1917
Emma Carrie Carroll 1850–1936Spouse & Children
Eunice Eliza Carpenter 1885–1971
Peter N Borskey II 1904–1976
Lottie Borskey 1906–
Bertha Borskey 1908–
Sadie Beatrice Borskey 1910–
Thomas S. Borskey 1913–1999
Benjamin W. Borskey 1916–1988
August V Borskey 1924–2003
Private
Private
833. Thomas Benjamin Carpenter
Ancestry Sources
1900 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
Florida Death Index, 1877-1998
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
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http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/-1135979208/factsAncestry Sources
1880 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal Census
Louisiana, Marriages, 1718-1925Parents
Phillip Carpenter 1822–1878
Eliza Ann McCulloch 1831–1871Spouse & Children
Mary Jane Chemin 1869–1913
Phillip David Carpenter 1889–1953
Minerva A. Carpenter 1893–1930
Olivia Mary Carpenter 1894–1983
Allen Carpenter 1896–
Julius Carpenter 1901–1978
William "Uncle Willie" Carpenter 1905–1979
O'Neal Benjamin Carpenter 1908–1974
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1880 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal Census
Louisiana, Marriages, 1718-1925Parents
Wilfred Chemin 1838–1883
Mary Jane Lucus 1839–
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1900 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
Ancestry Family Trees <------------------ use caution when yoou see this!
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012Parents
John Samuel 1 Griffin 1849–1931
Sarah Louise Austin 1849–1913Spouse & Children
Minerva A. Carpenter 1893–1930
L. Elena Griffin 1915–1938
John Samuel Griffin Corp. 1917–1964
C.B. Griffin 1918–1994
Joseph D. Griffin 1919–1974
Jesse L. Griffin 1922–
Sarah Griffin 1923–2005
Howard E Griffin 1924–1946
Inez Griffin 1926–
Mary Minerva Griffin 1927–1931
Carrie B. Griffin 1929–
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1900 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal CensusParents
Adolph E. Jones 1854–1920
Mary Ellen Hodges 1863–1931
Spouse & Children
Olivia Mary Carpenter 1894–1983
Lillie Mae Jones 1915–2007Spouse & Children
Sophia A. Brashears 1887–1956
Sammy H Jones Jr. 1921–1991
Rudolph B. Jones 1921–1981
Cited in the 1910 census but not in the 1900 US Census? Strange.
Ancestry Sources
1910 United States Federal Census
1940 United States Federal Census
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
839. William "Willie" Carpenter
Ancestry Sources
1910 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
1940 United States Federal Census
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
ANCESTRY:
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/-273927634/factsAncestry Sources
1920 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
1940 United States Federal Census
U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-2015
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012Parents
Howard Wright Thoms 1874–1959
Mabel Smith 1883–1958Spouse & Children
William "Uncle Willie" Carpenter 1905–1979
Private
Private
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http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/-1135967778/factsAncestry Sources
1880 United States Federal Census
1900 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal Census
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http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/-1027549232/factsAncestry Sources
1880 United States Federal Census
1900 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal CensusParents
John Kirkwood 1830–1897
Miranda Nancy Borskey 1839–1876
ANCESTRY:
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/84254775/factsAncestry Sources
1900 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
Louisiana, Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964
New Orleans, Louisiana, Birth Records Index, 1790-1915
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918Parents
Jacob Brechtel –1900
Barbara Wendel 1846–1924Spouse & Children
Effie C. Carpenter 1894–1975
Cleo Vernice Brechtel 1916–1976
Barbara Brechtel 1921–
John J. Brechtel 1922–2004
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http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/84445189/factsAncestry Sources
1920 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995Parents
Unknown Father
Unknown MotherSpouse & Children
Edith Pearl Carpenter 1897–1973
George G. Bourg Jr. 1918–1973
Allen Joseph Bourg 1919–2005
Ancestry Sources
1910 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012
ANCESTRY:
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/86509633/factsAncestry Sources
1910 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014Parents
Unknown Father
Unknown MotherSpouse
Tom Joseph Carpenter 1903–1978
Note:
she married a Flynn.Ancestry Sources
1910 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012
ANCESTRY:
Semi-conflicting parents and minimum confused sources. There may be name changes or mis-spellings.
1)
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/-1106932599/facts
James Frank Carpenter
BIRTH 16 FEB. 1868 • East Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana
DEATH 29 NOV. 1912 • Walker, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
parents
Josiah Frank Carpenter 1832- <----- Then back to Thomas & Thomas of LA same a 2) but different spouse.
Louisiana Mary Powers 1842–
Spouse & Children
Angelina Gonzales 1880–1909
Cheley Basil Carpenter 1903–1988
Beulah Pearl Carpenter 1905–1983
Artie Carpenter 1907–
Bertha Carpenter 1908–1991
Ancestry Sources
1910 United States Federal Census
Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-20122)
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/27558261/person/26126643911/facts
James Frank Carpenter
BIRTH 16 FEB. 1868 • East Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana
DEATH 29 NOV. 1912 • Walker, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
Parents
Josiah Reno Carpenter 1829– <------ Then back to Thomas & Thomas of LA same as 1) but different spouse.
Mary Louisiana Powers 1842–
Spouse & Children
Angella Gonzales 1889–
Cheley Basil Carpenter 1903–1988
Beulah Pearl CARPENTER 1905–1983
Bertha CARPENTER 1908–1991
Ancestry Sources
1910 United States Federal Census
Ancestry Family Trees
Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012-------------------------------------------------------------
CENSUS: 1870 US Census
CENSUS: 1880 US Census
CENSUS: 1890 US Census - burnedCENSUS: 1900 US Census
CENSUS: 1910 US Census - See also below for James F. verses John F. - looks like James F. to me.
Name: John F Carpenter
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1910
Event Place: Police Jury Ward 6, Ascension, Louisiana, United States
District: ED 9
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1867
Birthplace: Louisiana
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Sheet Letter: B
Sheet Number: 1
Sheet Number and Letter: 1B
Household ID: 14
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T624
Affiliate Film Number: 507
GS Film Number: 1374520
Digital Folder Number: 004971620
Image Number: 01030
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
John F Carpenter Head M 43 Louisiana
Chaley B Carpenter Son M 7 Louisiana
* E Carpenter Daughter F 5 Louisiana
Bella E Carpenter Daughter F 3 Louisiana
Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPTD-G6D : 29 October 2015), John F Carpenter, Police Jury Ward 6, Ascension, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 9, sheet 1B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,520.
SEE ALSO: <---------- Name change? This is the Ancestry.com entry. Census image looks like James F.
Name: John F Carpenter [James J Carpenter] [James F Carpenter]
Age in 1910: 43
Birth Year: abt 1867
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1910: Police Jury Ward 6, Ascension, Louisiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Native Tongue: English
Occupation: Carpenter
Industry: House
Employer, Employee or Other: Wage Earner
Home Owned or Rented: Rent
Farm or House: House
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Years Married: 6
Out of Work: N
Number of weeks out of work: 0
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
John F Carpenter 43
Chaley B Carpenter 7
* E Carpenter 5
Bella E Carpenter 3
Source Citation
Year: 1910; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 6, Ascension, Louisiana; Roll: T624_507; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0009; FHL microfilm: 1374520
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.GRAVE: image
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42233973
James F Carpenter
Birth: Feb. 16, 1868
Death: Nov. 29, 1912
Inscription:
Husband of Catherine Erwin Perkins
Burial:
Judson Cemetery
Walker
Livingston Parish
Louisiana, USA
Plot: Row 7, 19
Created by: Jerry Biggs
Record added: Sep 21, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 42233973
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http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/6931522514/facts
Ancestry Sources
1910 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal Census --------------> see notes for sister Artie.
California, Death Index, 1940-1997
California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
CENSUS: 1920 US Census - Same person?
Name: Artie Carpenter
Age: 13
Birth Year: abt 1907
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1920: Police Jury Ward 2, Livingston, Louisiana
Street: Cine Market Road
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Stepdaughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's name: Cathrine Perkins
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Able to Speak English: Yes
Attended School: Yes
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Willie Perkins 55
Cathrine Perkins 46 ---> b. abt 1874 LA, parents from LA
Roberta Mcdowell 16 <----------- step daughter
Pearl Carpenter 15 <----------- step daughter
Artie Carpenter 13 <----------- step daughter
Bertha Carpenter 12 <----------- step daughter
Source Citation
Year: 1920; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 2, Livingston, Louisiana; Roll: T625_614; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 68; Image: 899
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.
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http://person.ancestry.com/tree/7237085/person/6931500554/factsSpouse & Children
Andrew Arsene Thibodeaux Sr. 1901–1988
Thelma Thibodeaux 1931–
Viola Thibodeaux 1933–2009
Ray Thibodeaux 1938–
Mildred Thibodeaux 1938–2008
Carolyn Thibodeaux 1941–Ancestry Sources
1920 United States Federal Census --------------> see notes for sister Artie.
1930 United States Federal Census ---------------> married
1940 United States Federal Census
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012
GRAVE: image
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42234128
S Catherine Perkins
Birth: Mar. 31, 1873
Death: Apr. 1, 1959
Burial:
Judson Cemetery
Walker
Livingston Parish
Louisiana, USA
Plot: Row 7, 18
Created by: Jerry Biggs
Record added: Sep 21, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 42234128
NOTE:
She was married to Carpenter for a few years after the death of his first wife, she then married William Lyman Perkins. In the 1920 US Census with Perkins - it appears she had been married prior to Carpenter to a Mcdowell who she had at least one daughter with. In 1920 she is still caring for the Carpenter stepdaughters.