This may help someone who is out there looking for this family:
CARPENTER, Archie R.- Archie R. Carpenter was born January 17, 1881, at
Middlebury, and died after an extended illness Friday morning, December 18,
1936. He married Rena Copley June 28, 1900. To this union two children were
born, Ivan Clare Carpenter and Helen Carpenter Haddeau. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter
lived in Chatham Township until 1907 when they moved to the Lyman Copley farm
in Richmond township, where they lived until last April, when on account of
his prolonged illness they moved to Mansfield, where he lived when he died.
Mr. Carpenter was a member of the Christian Missionary Alliance Church at
Holliday the I. O. O. F. Lodge at Kenneyville and the Crooked Creek Grange. He
was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Carpenter, of Middlebury, and besides his
wife, the deceased leaves his son, Ivan Clare Carpenter, of Ossining, N. Y.;
his daughter, Helen Carpenter Haddaeu, of Penn Yan, N. Y.; the following
grandchildren, Keith, Phyllis and Kenneth Carpenter; two sisters, Mrs. John
Lyon and Lottie Carpenter, of Niles Valley; one brother, James D. Carpenter,
of Osceola. A sister, Mrs. Ernest Monks, died September 1, 1936, and a
brother, Clarence, died when he was twelve years old. The funeral was held
Sunday at 2:30 at the late home, Rev. Ford Crippen, of East Smithfield,
officiating. Burial was in Hills Creek Cemetery. Some of those who attended
the funeral from away were Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt A. Brown, Mr. John Jenkins and
Mr. Willard Crowl, of Elmira; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Keeley, Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore Wilson, of Painted Post; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Roche, of Corning; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Neal, Ernest
Neal, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Morrell Stebbens, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lyon, Mr.and Mrs. Melvin Lyon, of Wellsboro;
Mr. and Mrs. John Lyon and Lottie Carpenter, of Niles Valley; Mr. Ernest
Monks, of French Hill; Mr. and Mrs. James Carpenter and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Doane, of Osceola; Ivan Carpenter and family, of Ossining, and Helen Carpenter
Haddeau, of Penn Yan.
The little ship sailed into port and then put out to sea, and bore away our
dear Archie out of his misery. He was tired and could not tarry, so he went on
alone, to the place where his blessed Lord has prepared his mansion home.
These were almost his parting words; "Ere they place me under the son, O my
darling loved ones, Prepare to meet thy God. "I know that I must leave you
that I am going home; O, my dear, dear darling loved ones, Promise me you will
come. "And meet me in heaven, Yes, on that blessed shore, Where there's no
more pain and sadness, But Joy, joy forevermore." Submitted by Barbara Conrad