(I regret that if the book names the newspaper, I did not get it in my copied
page...so sorry...but hope it will prove useful anyway to someone.)
From: Early Anderson County, S. C. Newspapers, Marriages, and Obituaries
1841-1882, Abstracted by Tom C. Wilkinson, index prepared by Mrs. Colleen Norse
Elliott, Published by Southern Historical Press, Easley, South Carolina, 1978,
pp. 167-168).
Issue of: Thursday, April 22, 1875.
"We regret to learn of the death of Mr. John Carpenter an aged and highly
respected citizen of this County, which sad event occurred at his residence about
six miles southeast of this place on Wednesday night last after an illness of
only three hours, occasioned by disease of the heart. The deceased had been
suffering for up to a year from the same cause, but nothing serious was
apprehended until the attack came on which terminated in his death. He was seventy
one years old and during his long life was ever the constant Christian, kind
parent, faithful friend and upright citizen. His remains were interred in the
cemetery at Neal's Creek Church on Friday morning last. Mr. Carpenter was
born near Calhoun in Anderson County on the 20th of February 1805. When he was
two years old, and his father, (Burrell Carpenter) moved to the place where he
died and he lived on this place for sixty eight years. He is the last one of
a large family. His father emigrated from Wake County, North Carolina in the
fall of 1796. Mr. Carpenter joined the Methodist Church in 1828 and he was
married to Elizabeth Emerson (daughter of Samuel Emerson) in the year 1825. We
are indebted for these particulars to a near relative of the deceased."