Anybody familar with this Carpenter family
William CARPENTER married Betsy BANNISTER in Gainesville, Wyoming County NY
in 1811. They settled in Groveland, Livingston County NY soon after that. Their
children were sons: Billezar, and Joseph. Daughters: Charity, Eliza, Mary,
Hortense, and Elizabeth. Betsy (Bannister) CARPENTER was born May 20, 1791, and
died 13 March, 1826 at Groveland, NY. In 1844 William Carpenter and all of his
children and their families moved to Wheatland, Kenosha County Wisconsin.
William died there 13 April 1859, Charity may also have died in Wisconsin. In
1870 Billezar CARPENTER and his wife Almira (?) returned to to live at Lakeville,
Livingston County NY and were living there when he died in the mid-1880's.
Joseph CARPENTER, Eliza (FELCH), Mary (CARMON), Hortense (BELDEN), and Elizabeth
(BUSWELL) along with their spouses and children moved to Illinois for a short
time, then to Brown County Kansas in abt. 1872. They are buried in the family
lot at Wheatland Cemetery near Horton, Brown County Kansas.