Hello to everyone on the Carpenter list,
I have the following mystery that I hope someone will recognize as one of
theirs also.
Any help is appreciated.
Cary Dyer Carpenter - b..unknown d. before 1875
he married. Mary Taylor dau of Elijah Taylor and Rhoda (Roby) Stone of
Scituate, RI
They had a son - Charles Cary Dyer Carpenter - b. 1858 - Slatersville, RI
I believe they were there working in the mills.
Charles C. D. Carpenter m. Jane Eyers (Ayers) b England
married 31 Mar 1879, Burrillville, RI
Charles and Jane had my grandmother...May Emeline Carpenter b. 12 May 1880 in
Burrillville, RI.. Her birth records state Charles is a worker in the mill
there.
In 1889, May marries George F. Hopkins (train engineer) in Moosup, CT where
she is living with her mother and grandmother. (Says nothing about a father.)
When Jane Eyers Carpenter dies in 1922 it says she is a widow.
My question...what happened to Charles? He appears to fall off the earth. I
have not been able to find a death record for him and my older sister that
remembers the gr grandmother says that the story was that they were divorced,
but as I say, death record calls her a "widow".
Sorry this is so long, but really couldn't condense it so you would
understand.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Jean