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From: "corbal" <djfrog(a)mail.softcom.net
To:
"John Carpenter" <jcarp45(a)top.monad.net
Sent:
Monday, November 13, 2000 12:44 AM
Subject: Information written by David Riley Carpenter
John, Here is a copy of some information written by my great
grandfather. It is pretty interesting, but I doubt Mathias is the son
of Samuel since Mathias came from Holland according to this. > Very truly
yours, Joann Stewart
Can Anyone help Joann ?
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF
THE CARPENTER AND BURTON FAMILIES
BY DAVID RILEY CARPENTER, NEWTON, KANSAS
MATHIAS CARPENTER AND TWO BROTHERS COME FROM HOLLAND AND SETTLED IN NORTH
CAROLINA ABOUT THE LATTER PART OF THE 18TH CENTURY. TWO OF THESE BROTHERS
WENT SOUTH AND MATHIAS REMAINED IN NORTH CAROLIA AND BECAME A RICH
SLAVEHOLDER.
MATHIAS HAD THREE CHILDREN, ONE GIRL AND TWO BOYS. ONE BOY WAS ACCIDENTALLY
KILLED WHEN GROWN, THE OTHER, DAVID CARPENTER IS THE GRANDFATHER OF THIS THE
OLDEST GENERATION OF CARPENTERS LIVING, AND JACOB CARPENTER HIS SECOND CHILD
AND FIRST SON IS THE FATHER OF THIS CARPENTER FAMILY.
MATHIAS CARPENTER, THE SLAVEHOLDER, DIVIDED HIS SLAVES BETWEEN HIS TWO
CHILDREN, AND DAVID CARPENTER WAS A SLAVEHOLDER JUST LONG ENOUGH TO WRITE
EACH ONE'S DISCHARGE OR RELEASE FROM SLAVERY, AND THAT RELEASE WAS
PERMANENT.
THIS DAVID CARPENTER, AND HIS WIFE CATHARINE MAY REARED TEN CHILDREN, FIVE
BOYS AND FIVE GIRLS. ABOUT THE YEAR 1833, THE YEAR THAT ALL THE STARS
FELL, HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO MONROE COUNTY, INDIANA AND SETTLED NEAR THE
LITTLE VILLAGE OF STAMFORD. HERE HE LIVED TILL ABOUT THE YEAR 1870. WHEN
HE WENT TO MISSOURI FOR A FEW YEARS, HE HAD ACCUMULATED CONSIDERABLE
PROPERTY, AND WAS ABLE TO GIVE EACH OF HIS CHILDREN FORTY ACRES OF LAND.
MEANTIME HE HAD VOLUNTERED AS A SOLDIER IN THE MEXICO WAR.(PER: HELEN
JONES ADAMS, "I REMEMBER SEEING THE RIFLE DAVID CARRIED HANGING OVER THE
DOORWAY OF GRANDAD'S PLACE IN NEW MEXICO. WHAT HAPPENED TO IT, I DO NOT
KNOW". MEXICAN WAR 1846-1847- GENERAL SCOTT TOOK MEXICO CITY SEPTEMBER 14,
1847. TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO FEBRUARY 2, 1848.) BUT ON HIS WAY ACROSS
THE GULF OF MEXICO TO THE WAR ZONE, HIS COMMAND WAS MET BY THE RETURNING,
CONQUERING ARMY FROM MEXICO. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH AND AT
ONE TIME A METHODIST CLASS LEADER.
CATHARINE (MAY) CARPENTER, LIVED TO BE ABOUT 70 YEARS OLD AND DAVID
CARPENTER LIVED TO BE 97 YEARS OLD. THEY WERE BOTH BURIED IN THE GREEN
COUNTY METHODIST CHURCH YARD, OR GRAVEYARD, ONE MILE WEST OF THE VILLAGE OF
STAMFORD, INDIANA. SEVERAL OTHERS OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY WERE BURIED
THERE.
JACOB CARPENTER, THE FATHER OF THIS OLDEST GENERATION OF CARPENTERS, WAS
BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA, MAY 16.1818, AND HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH BURTON WAS BORN
IN NORTH CAROLINA DECEMBER 12, 1824. THEY WERE UNITED IN MARRIAGE MARCH 16,
1843, NEAR ORLEANS, INDIANA. AFTER LIVING HERE AND THERE FOR A TIME THEY
SETTLED ON A LITTLE FARM IN MONRO COUNTY, NEAR THE VILLAGE OF STAMFORD,
INDIANA IN THE YEAR 1855. HERE THEY REARED THE LAST HALF OF THEIR FAMILY OF
14, 9 GIRLS AND FIVE BOYS.
IN THE SPRING OF 1871 THEY MOVED TO HARRISON COUNTY, MISSOURI, AND IN 1874
THEY MOVED TO ADAMS COUNTY, NEBRASKA AND SETTLED NEAR HASTINGS. HERE THEY
CELEBRATED THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING, MARCH 16, 1893 WHEN TWELVE CHILDREN SAT
DOWN WITH THEM AT THE DINNER TABLE. IN 1894 THEY SETTLED ON A LITTLE FARM
ONE MILE EAST OF THE TOWN OF FRANKLIN. JACOB DIED MARCH 14, 1913, AT THE
AGE OF 97 (95), LACKING TWO MONTHS. ELIZABETH DIED APRIL 6, 1905. THEIR
REMAINS LIE SIDE BY SIDE IN THE GREENWOOD CEMETARY NEAR FRANKLIN, NEBRASKA.
HERE ABOUT 15 RELATIVES OF THE CARPENTERS AND BURTONS ARE BURIED. TODAY BUT
FIVE OF THEIR CHLIDREN ARE LIVING; SARAH C. BURTON, ON A FARM NEAR
FRANKLIN, NEBRASKA, DAVID RILEY CARPENTER, IN NEWTON KANSAS, MRS MAGGIE E
JONES, IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MRS. AMANDA P. HARRISON IN GEERING,
NEBRASKA, AND JAMES T. CARPENTER ON A FARM NEAR POWELL, WYOMING. (WE DON'T
KNOW WHEN THIS WAS WRITTEN, PROBABLY BETWEEN 1939 AND 1940 SOMETHING. David
Riley Carpenter died April 21, 1944.)
RECAPITULATION
AT THE TIME OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION A BAND OF MURDEROUS TORIES WENT
THROUGH THE COUNTRY KILLING ALL WHO WERE IN SYMPATHY WITH THE COLONIES, AND
WHEN THEY CAME TO THE HOME OF MATHIAS CARPENTER, HE WAS SICK IN BED, SO TWO
OF THEIR NUMBER TOOK HIM OUT OF THE BED AND STRETCHED HIM ACROSS THE OPEN
DOOR, WHILE A THRID STOOD OUTSIDE AND SHOT AT HIM. AT THE CRACK OF THE GUN
THE TWO MEN LET THEIR VICTIM FALL TO THE FLOOR, SUPPOSING HIM TO BE DEAD.
HE WAS NOT STRUCK BY THE BALL AND WHEN THE TORIES WERE GONE HE GOT BACK IN
BED. WHEN THE TORIES HAD MADE THEIR ROUNDS THEY RETURNED BY WAY OF THIS
HOUSE AND STOPPED AND CONSULTED WHETHER THEY SHOUD GO IN AND SEE IF THEIR
VICTIM WAS STILL ALIVE, BUT FINALLY DECIDED HE WAS DEAD ENOUGH, SO THEY WENT
ON.
JOHN PLEASANT BURTON WAS A REVOLUTION SOLDIER, A VOLUNTEER FROM VIRGINIA.
HE DIED IN INDIANA, AND WAS BURIED IN THE OLD BURTON GRAVEYARD, TWO OR THREE
MILES WEST OF MITCHEL, INDIANA. AS IT WAS THE CUSTOM FOR SOME OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS TO BE BURIED STANDING, HE REQUESTED TO BE BURIED THE
SAME WAY, WHICH REQUEST WAS GRANTED.
DAVID RILEY CARPENTER MARRIED EMMALINE AGUSTA PEAK AND HAD 12 CHILDREN.
, ONE OF WHICH WAS ANNA BEATRICE CARPENTER.
ANNA MARRIED SOLOMON LEROY JONES AND HAD FOUR CHILDREN. LE ROY, DON ,
CLELAND(PEE WEE) AND HELEN JONES.
ANNA'S SECOND MARRIAGE WAS TO BILL SANDLIN AND THEIR ADOPTED DAUGHTER RUTH
IS THE DAUGHTER OF ANNA'S ELDEST SON LE ROY AND FIRST WIFE DAISY BAKER.
LE ROY'S SECOND WIFE MARIAN DOOLEY
CHILDREN WILLIAM LEROY AND MARGIE.
DON JONES MARRIED ANN WHITE
ADOPETE SON JIMMY LEE JONES
SECOND WIFE JOYCE WILLIAMS
SON DONALD STAR JONES
CLELAND (PEE WEE JONES)
MARRIED PAULINE ADAMS
CHILDREN DON LE ROY AND TERRI LYNN
HELEN MARRIED JOSEPH S. ADAMS (no relation to Pauline)
CHILDREN JOSEPH WILLIAM AND JOANN