Continuing info that was posted on 3-9-200 and 3-20-2000 on George #1 (
Zimmerman) and Anna (Shitly or Suhuleli) Carpenter.
I have a correction on John and George Pence.
John Pence was 1st married to Margaret Perky,
The children born before 1783 did not belong to Barbara Carpenter Also
George Pence was 1st. married to Sarah Perky, and the children born
before 1782 did not belong to Margaret Carpenter.
Now back to Lincoln Co. Ky.
After John #1 Carpenter died in 1885 his wife Elizabeth remarried
9-30-1791 to Ezra Morrison b.1754 d. 11-1-1844., he was also a Rev. War
soilder. They had a son named William Morrison b.8-24-1792
d.2-23-1839.There may have been other children. All 4 are buried in the
Old Carpenter Fort Cem,about 2 miles west of Hustonville, Lincoln Co.
Ky.There is a memorial plaque in the cem. with 20 names listed on it. I
have been there several times.
Elizabeth and Catherine Spears that married the Carpenter brothers had
the following sisters and brothers that joined them in Lincoln and Casey
Cos. Ky.
Mary Agnes Spears b. 1766 married Christopher Riffe, 3-1783 in
Rockingham Co. Va.They came to Ky.in the middle 1780's.
John Spears came to Ky. and settled in Fayette Co. Ky.
David Spears settled in Springfield Ky. He was a well known early Ky.
silversmith.
George #2 and Jacob Spears came to Lincoln Co. and married 2 Nealy
sisters.
George #2 married 2-19-1785 to Mary Nealy and settled in what was later
Green Co.Ky.
Some time later they moved to Menard Co. Ill.
where George #2 died in 1836.
Jacob married 6-3-1781 to Elizabeth Nealy.
Hannah Spears marreid Jonathan Newman and settled in what is now
Jessamine Co. Ky.
Only 2 Spears children stayed in Va.
George #1 Spears was the father of all the Spears's children. He died
shortly after 1800.
George #1 was married to Christeenah ??.I don't know if she is the
mother of all the children or not.
Station George and Jennie (Logan) Carpenter
had the following children;
Amanda Carpenter married 6-7-1832 Archibald Robords.
John Carpenter married 2-4-1828 Deborah (Debby) Miller.
America Carpenter married 10-2-1828 George Miller,
They had descendants at Aberdene and Okalona, Miss.
Ann Dorcas Carpenter married 5-15-1843 Alonzo Halleck and moved to Mo.
Hugh Logan Carpenter b.8-28-1816 d. 8-17-1879 married 12-4-1838
Elizabeth Morrison Bright b.7-18-1818 d.3-23-1888.
William Morrison Carpenter married 9-25-1841 Judith Ann Shelby. She was
the granddaughter of Gov.Isaac Shelby.They moved to Waco, Tx about 1857.
Sarah Carpenter b.1-4-1811 d.3-27-1848 married 11-14-1840 Dr. Peter
Mason. After her death in 1848 Dr.Peter Mason married 2nd 10-15-1849 to
Sarah's sister Elizabeth Carpenter b.1-15-1812 d.1852.
Harriet Carpenter married 11-4-1844 Dr. Andrew or Alexander Cambell.
Mary Carpenter b.11-18-1826 d.7-28-1892 married 10-10-1844 Sowyel
Woolfork Givens Sr.b.7-14-1820 d.4-25-1892. He was a descendant of Col.
George Givens who was a Rev. War soilder of Gen. George Washington.
Will post more later.
Harry Carpenter
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