Descendants of William Carpenter of Providence (Pawtuxet section, now in Cranston), Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, now part of Providence County, RI

Notes


675. Sudna Elizabeth Carpenter

BOOK: See page 42 (for notes) of the Mowrey 1997 book. See book information
below:  Page 52 for family.
UPDATE OF THE GENEALOGY OF THE NEW ENGLAND CARPENTER FAMILY OF ENGLISH
ORIGIN - THE VIRGINIA / WEST VIRGINIA BRANCH - SOME DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH
CARPENTER - PIONEER OF THE JACKSON RIVER - MOWREY"S VERSION.
BY TERRY LEE CARPENTER AND PAUL THOMAS MOWREY.
PRO BONO PUBLICO - PRIVATELY PUBLISHED, DOVER, OHIO, 1997.
BY PAUL THOMAS MOWREY.
Page 42: 13. Sudna Elizabeth (16) Carpenter was born about 1765, married Samuel
Tanner on November 28, 1791 and died after 1850. Sudna's brother, Thomas, was
the bondsman for this marriage in Harrison County, Virginia. Samuel Tanner was
a veteran of the Revolutionary War (Jesse (16) Carpenter was one of his
testators when Sam made his pension application, but didn't receive any land
grant or pension (page 43) because he had not served long enough).  These
Tanners, along with a man named Jonathan Wolfe and a boy called "Tate", are
credited with being the founders of Spencer, seat of Roane County, West
Virginia. They are variously said to have lived in Harrison, Wood, Jackson and
Roane Counties. Aside from a brief stay in Gallia County, Ohio near her
brother, Jesse, they never moved, but the counties did!

CHILDREN: Page 52-54: Children of Sudna Elizabeth (16) Carpenter, of Solomon
(15), of Joseph (14):
       1. William Tanner was born about 1790. No further information.
       2. Jesse "Ike" Tanner was born circa 1795, married 1st Mary "Polly"
Carpenter 14 August 1820 in Mason County (Mary was a daughter of Jesse and
Sarah Jane Riffe Carpenter) and 2nd Judith Carpenter (Judy was a daughter of
Jeremiah and Elizabeth Hamm Carpenter) circa 1837. All of Jesse and Judith
Carpenter Tanner's children 1837-1846 listed their parents as Jesse and Judy
Tanner when they married.  Judy died 10 October 1859 and is reportedly buried
in the "Old Tanner Cemetery" on Craig Ridge.  Mary Carpenter Tanner died in
childbirth with her last child, William, and is supposedly buried in the same
graveyard. Jesse Tanner married 3rd Lucinda Raines 11 February 1860 and died 26
March 1885. Lucinda was a daughter of Uriah and Massie (Hughes) Gandee, a widow
of Abraham Raines and a first cousin, but
once removed, to Jesse Tanner through the Hughes family. They are buried in the
Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Spencer, West Virginia. Jesse and Lucinda's (Page
52) children, 1862-1872, all listed their parents as Jesse and Lucy or Lucinda
when they married. Parental listings offer substantial proof of whom Jesse
Tanner married and
when he married them.
    3. Joseph Tanner married Nancy Miller 17 August 1821 in Mason County,
Virginia- now West Virginia. Joseph and Jesse Tanners' marriage records are
found in Point Pleasant (Reverend Benjamin Wright's original records may be
inspected in Cottageville), West Virginia. This Nancy Miller has not been
linked with the pioneers,
Samuel and/or Joshua Miller, and remains unidentified as far as family is
concerned.
    4. James Tanner was born circa 1800 and married Nancy (surname unknown).
    5. Elijah Tanner was born about 1802 and married Marian King 29 August
1833. (This woman's name is also found as Mary A. and Mary Ann.)
    6. Mary Tanner was born around 1810. No further information.
    7. Elizabeth Tanner was born circa 1812 and married Benjamin Wright.
    8. Louise Tanner married Basil Miller. No further information.
    9.There was at least one other child in this family- perhaps an
?Artimethia?
    Samuel Tanner, Sudna Elizabeth Carpenter, Jonathan Wolfe, and a boy called
"Tate" were supposedly the first settlers in what is now Spencer, West Virginia
in 1812 (Jesse Carpenter's oldest son, Thomas, was fifteen years old at that
time and was nicknamed "Tater"). They had heard very enticing stories about the
area and its wonderful spring from Tanner's brothers-in-law, Jesse Hughes and
Jesse Carpenter, and had decided to sojourn there to see what it was like and
perhaps settle.
   It seemed to be an ideal place to homestead. There was a huge overhanging
rock shelf (variously called "the Cliffs", "Carpenter's Cave" et cetera), the
beautiful spring, a nearby creek (Tanner's Run) and abundant game in the
surrounding forest.
   There were even gigantic sugar trees in the "bottoms" for maple syrup in
March if things went well. Logs were cut and stood on end between ground and
ceiling to form the outside wall and brush was piled against it for insulation
and to shed water. Other logs were split to make "puncheon" table and chairs,
dry leaves were piled in the corners to serve as beds and a fire pit made so
that most of the smoke would go out through a crevice in the roof. A small
field had been cleared and enough corn planted to see them through the winter
(squash and "lazy wife" beans were interspersed with the "eight rows white"
corn to provide other preservable foodstuff).
   A sturdy cabin was built where the Roane County courthouse now stands the
following spring and Elizabeth, supposedly the Tanners" first child, was born.
Other Carpenters and Tanners as well as Runnions and Millers inhabited the
region shortly (page 53) thereafter. It would be unusual to find many people in
Roane County, even today, who are not related in some way to at least one of
these old founding families.
   The cliffs are still there on the campus of old Spencer High School but are
no more than a shadow of their original selves. Because of the danger to the
children, much of the shelf was broken off deliberately. There is a movement
afoot to preserve them. In their "heyday" the cave consisted of two rooms, side
by side with a partition of rock in between. The larger room must have been
some fifteen feet deep and thirty feet long with an eight foot ceiling, The
smaller room was just as deep but perhaps only half as long and served as a
stable for livestock, especially the family's milk cow.


Samuel Tanner

SAMUEL & SUDAH (CARPENTER) MARRIAGE RECORDED MARR. BK.#1, PG 15 BOND BY
SAMUEL & THOMAS CARPENTER. STATE OF VIRGINIA.
Sidney Carpenter on marriage record not Sudna, m. by Rev. Joseph
Cheuvront.

NOTE: There is, at times, heated discussion of who was Samuel's spouse(s).
All can agree on "Sudna or Sidney or both." Who were her parents is another
question.  So I will list 2 spouses until further detail can come out.

E-MAIL:
From: Rick Greathouse
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:30 PM
To: John R. Carpenter
Subject: Samuel Tanner
You may have Samuel Tanner's deposition for Rev War pension... Thanks, Rick Greathouse rick@greathouse.us Archivist/Historian/Webmaster Greathouse Point Home of Guild Greathouse Admin Greathouse DNA Project


676. Samuel Carpenter

AF has father as Soloman.  However Soloman may have been an uncle.  NFD.
Not in the Mowrey 1997 book!


1592. Rebbeca Carpenter

Rebecca (17) Carpenter was born 18 March 1798 and married Adam
Persinger before 1842. No further information.


1593. Joseph Carpenter A Twin

Joseph (17) Carpenter was born 3 June 1800, died 27 November 1874 and
married on 29 September in Boone County, Missouri, Arabella Davis, daughter of
Daniel and Lucinda (Hawkins) Davis. She was born 18 June 1812 and moved to
Boone County circa 1825. Joseph Carpenter was a twin.

Mary Evelyn Harlow Carpenter, wife of Joseph H. Carpenter, 3rd great
grandson of Joseph (14) Carpenter, wrote The Carpenters of Fort Carpenter,
1746- 1949 (privately published at Covington, VA, cl949).
It is a valuable work on one line of descent from Joseph the pioneer
but virtually impossible to obtain. The author was fortunate
enough to borrow Fort Carpenter's only copy for xeroxing during a 1989
visitation and return the original at his convenience by insured parcel post.


1594. Mary or Polly Carpenter A Twin

Mary "Polly" (17) Carpenter (Joseph (17)'s twin) was born 3 June 1800,
never married and died 23 October 1828.
The question is did she stay in VA or move to Boone county, MO about 1825?


1595. Martha Carpenter

Martha (17) Carpenter was born 25 December 1802 and married John
Mallow before 1842. No further information.


1596. Sarah or Sally Carpenter

Sarah "Sallie" (17) Carpenter was born 13 March 1805 and married William
Brunnerner before 1842. No further information.


1597. Elizabeth Carpenter

Elizabeth was never married.


1598. Jane "Jenney" Carpenter

Jane "Jenny" (17) Carpenter was born on 26 October 1809 and married
Isaac Tackett before 1842. No further information.


684. Jesse Carpenter

He married twice.  First wife's name is unknown, it may have been Polly.
He served as an indian spy during the Revolution, under Major William Lowther
and in Col. Joseph Crockett's Regiment.  This regiment was called Illinois as
it was under George Rogers Clark which went to Ohio country to subdue the
indians at at Vincennes.  These soldiers protected the Contintal Army from
having to fight on two fronts.  IE the indians in the west and the British in
the east.  Jesse also served in the War of 1812.
Braxton county, Virginia is now in West Virginia.

CHILDREN: Elizabeth, Jesse, Nancy and James added from:
Van Ripper Family Tree
http://www.vanriper.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=vanriper&view=0&pid=26720&rand=52178330


1602. Stephen Carpenter

Stephen (17) Carpenter was born about 1806 in Jackson County, married
Susanna Westfall 19 November 1829 in Lewis County and died after 1870 in Roane.


1603. Susan Runnion

May have belonged to first marriage?
Susan (17) Carpenter was born circa 1816 in Jackson County, married
David Reed, Jr. in Lewis County 29 June 1837 and died after 1860 in Roane
County.


1605. Martha Runnion

Martha (17) Carpenter was born 1817-1820 and was unmarried in 1860.


686. Sudna Sidney Carpenter

In this record their is two Sudna Carpenters who married Samuel Tanner on the
same date.  One of the Sudnas is in error and should be Sidney who married
Samuel Tanner on 5 Dec. 1791 per the History of Harrison County, West Virginia.


Samuel Tanner

SAMUEL & SUDAH (CARPENTER) MARRIAGE RECORDED MARR. BK.#1, PG 15 BOND BY
SAMUEL & THOMAS CARPENTER. STATE OF VIRGINIA.
Sidney Carpenter on marriage record not Sudna, m. by Rev. Joseph
Cheuvront.

NOTE: There is, at times, heated discussion of who was Samuel's spouse(s).
All can agree on "Sudna or Sidney or both." Who were her parents is another
question.  So I will list 2 spouses until further detail can come out.

E-MAIL:
From: Rick Greathouse
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:30 PM
To: John R. Carpenter
Subject: Samuel Tanner
You may have Samuel Tanner's deposition for Rev War pension... Thanks, Rick Greathouse rick@greathouse.us Archivist/Historian/Webmaster Greathouse Point Home of Guild Greathouse Admin Greathouse DNA Project


1614. Elizabeth Tanner

Was there two Elizabeth Tanners in this family?  One died young?
Elizabeth Tanner was born circa 1812 and married Benjamin Wright.


1616. Joseph Tanner

Joseph Tanner married Nancy Miller 17 August 1821 in Mason County,
Virginia- now West Virginia. Joseph and Jesse Tanners' marriage records are
found in Point Pleasant (Reverend Benjamin Wright's original records may be
inspected in Cottageville), West Virginia. This Nancy Miller has not been
linked with the pioneers, Samuel and/or Joshua Miller, and remains
unidentified as far as family is concerned.
Nancy Miller probably married Joseph Carpenter also.


Nancy Miller

Two Millers listed.  Nancy Miller & ? Miller. Probably the same but maybe
sisters?


1621. Artimethia Tanner

There was at least one other child in this family- perhaps an ?Artimethia?


1622. Louise Tanner

Louise Tanner married Basil Miller. No further information.


1623. Mary Wright

Mary Tanner was born around 1810. No further information.


688. Soloman Carpenter

Solomon Carpenter Compact Disc #13 Pin #4773


Hannah

Hannah Carpenter Compact Disc #13 Pin #4774


696. Zophar Carpenter

Zophar, Jr. was a drummer in Capt. Dickerson's Rangers in Augusta  Va.
He was a Patriot, he served in the Revolutionary War.
This Zophar is not mentioned in his father's 1794 will indicating he died
previously.  Decendants of Zopher supplied by :
Charles Carpenter of Pocatello, Idaho  83204.
Gerald Reid Tudor indicates that there was only one Zophar Carpenter and has
the two Zophar families intermixed.

E-MAIL: Some misc. info:
>From: "GT"
>Subject: Zophar
>Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 13:28:44 -0400
>She died Aug. 14th A.D. 1832 Aged 97  years.
>An  inventory was taken at Mary Carpenters later.
>This means he was in the area earlier.
>  "" meant and  to who?
>Zophoe Carpenter appointed Surveyor of the Road, in room  of
>William Wooley, who is discharged from that office.
>Zopher appointed Surveyor of the Road from Fort Defiance (Boyle's Allum
>Rock)  and the tithables who usually wrought thereon do attend him.
>   & c.
>It is unlikely that he served again as a Drummer).
>(later research by Oma Glasburn Robinson and others proves the
>original record  to say Zopher instead of Joseph).
>Furnished supplies to the  soldiers-wheat, corn, and one time
>400lbs. of beef. (does not say for what  war).
>Zophar in court due to indebtedness to Israel Christian  incurred on the
>21st of Dec1765 for one shilling six pence for three Jews  Harps.
>   "  " the above individuals).
>Zophar first  appears in the Madison Co., VA tax list. (This is one year
>before Madison Co.  became a Kentucky County.)
>(Later, seven acres of the 300 would be claimed by the Ambrose
>Ross estate which joined to the south. This was taken into consideration
>when  Rufus Carpenter had the land surveyed in  1846.
>Her husband, also a descendant, owns another joining 10 or  13
>acres.  Officials  then could not verify the marriage as the
>minister did not make a return to the  court house.
> ""        It is possible that  the mother of Rachel Reed Carpenter
>was a Davis, and that the McCarthy belongs  to Mary, wife of Zophar. (NO
>PROOF) If Zophar married his step-mother, is it
>likely that they would name a second son Rufus and possibly a daughter
>Mary?  For the children  of Zophar and Mary, they will be forth
>coming in other notes.        4Jul1998


1627. Mary Carpenter

MARRIAGE: m. 11May1792:   Mary Carpenter married Alexander Boyle, son of John Boyle.   John's  daughter, Ann, later married Zenith Carpenter on 23 Mar 1793. These are neighbors and have close ties in land transactions.

E-MAIL: Wed, 6 Jun 2001  From: "Timothy Bell"
Thank you for letting me know about the cd set. My ancestor Alexander Boyle, son of Major John Boyle and Jane Black Boyle, married Mary Carpenter, according to research on the internet she was the daughter of Zophar Carpenter.  Do you know if this is correct?  If it is I will order the cd set right away.  Please let me know.
Sincerely,  Lavinia Bell.


1629. Leah Carpenter

MARRIAGE:  20 Nov 1793:    Leah Carpenter married Thomas Tinsley.  Zenith
Carpenter is the bondsman.  Later Rufus Carpenter gives proof of age for
Levisa Tinsley in her marriage to a Hugh Ross.  Levisa is most likely
the daughter of Leah and Thomas.  Leah and Thomas are completely lost
from the scene after their marriage.  There was an early Thomas Tinsley
who was a minister and likewise was heard of no more.  Could have been
the same as preachers moved about (NO PROOF).


1631. Rachel Carpenter

MARRIAGE: 13 Dec 1799:   Rachel Carpenter married Stephen McCollum.
There is less convincing evidence for Rachel as a daughter, but the
marriage took place in the newly formed Garrard Co. and there were no
other Carpenters except Zophar and his family.  Certainly, none of these
ladies would have been on the frontier without family.  Therefore, it
looks like Zophar had this one for a daughter also.   There is a
McCollum connection to the Carpenters through the Reed/Reid family.  In
1808, John Reed either made his will and / or it was proved on the same
date or in the same year.  The court papers do not say when proved.  In
his will are sons, John and Andrew; a daughter Rachel, who in the same
year married Rufus Carpenter, son of Zophar.  The will also put to
Rufus' charge, the care and education of a David McCollum.  This same
David later married a Polly Gentry in neighboring Lincoln Co.  He later
moved to Missouri at about the same time Zophar's youngest son Robert
went west.  David took as his second wife, Nancy Carpenter, daughter of
Robert.  An 1889 short biography of David McCollum reports that, "His
father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather were all named Davy;"
that he was born in Garrard Co., Ky., Jan 22, 1802.  His mother was
Polly Reed.  This Polly had to be a sister to Rachel who married Rufus
Carpenter and probably died in child birth or shortly after David was
born.  Knowing that Rachel, his daughter was to be married or was
already married to Rufus, was incentive and agreeable to all that David
would be in good hands.   At least the family ties continued.  As to how
close Stephen, husband of Rachel Carpenter McCollum was to the other
McCollums is uncertain.  Stephens bond was signed by a Daniel McCollum.
Perhaps he was a brother to David, the father of young David who was put
in the care of Rufus.  As with the Tinsleys, there is no further
knowledge of Rachel and Stephen.


697. Elizabeth Carpenter

Charles Carpenter has this Elizabeth of Zophar Jr. but birth date would
indicate Zophar, Sr.


698. Zenes or Zenith Carpenter

NAME: Probably Zenes.
BIRTH:  Some say he was born in Boteourt county, VA.


700. Rufus Carpenter

Rachel Carpenter, widow of Rufus Carpenter lately returned from Missouri in
1870.  There may have been 2 Rufus Carpenter about one generation apart.
Which one fought in the War of 1812 is a question.  A Rachel Carpenter applied
for a pension that revealed which one and her maiden name.

PICTURES: Data provided by Gerald Tudor.
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/u/d/Gerald-R-Tudor/
SEE: MISC PICS. RIN 20270
Rufus Carpenter. son of Zophar, born Botetourt County, VA, came with his family
to what became Garrard Co., KY
in 1790-91. He married 1808 to Rachel Alexander Reid, born Greenville
District or County, South Carolina. Rufus
served in the War of 1812 under John Faulkner and Richardson. His marker
is in the Carpenter Cemetery on the land his father homesteaded.


1645. Jeremiah Carpenter

Garrard county was created out of Madison in 1797.
Some researchers do not agree that Jeremiah belongs in this family.


701. Zenas Carpenter

Number 311 in the book, the Carpenter Family in America by Daniel H.
Carpenter, 1901.  No family listed.
He was of Coyeman's, Columbia county.
This descendant line is from Cheri Nolan who submitted it as a querry in July
1999.  "The following information is from the Bible of Julia Smith Davis and in
the possession of  Paul Davis, Erie, PA.  The information was there, but not the
relationships.  I sent for death certificates and through them and was able to
determine who the parents of Julia's mother, Charity Carpenter was.  From
there, I took the e first wife and her children, then who was the second wife
and her children.  I determined Elizabeth's first husband was from the Bible
records."  Per Cheri Nolan.  


1651. John Carpenter

Died aged 49 years.  See 1850 Census Mortality Schedule which lists him dying in Feb 1850. He was a merchant and I can not read his cause of death clearly.  "In Liver" is the close as I can get.


1652. Phebe Carpenter

Died aged 63 years, 5 months and 17 days.


Daniel Pomeroy

Julia Ann Smith daughter of Charity Carpenter was married in the home of
Daniel Pomeroy, Mckean, Erie county, PA.


1653. Nancy Carpenter

Died aged 73 years.


1654. Benjamin Carpenter

Died aged 53 years.


Elizabeth Nichols

Died aged 77 years.


1656. Mariah Carpenter

Died in August of 183?.  Last digit unreadable.


1658. Judith Carpenter

Died in aged 75.
MARRIAGE: The year is the guesstimate.  Last two digits unreadable.


Phineas Pomeroy

Died in aged 79.


1659. William B. Carpenter

Died in aged 73.


Gideon French

Chart of Ruth Deem Nelson, 1984.