Lucy Carpenter, the first wife of Middleton B. Holloway, was the eldest daughter and third child of the Reverend Timothy Carpenter (1773-1853) and his wife, Hannah (Brown) Carpenter (1770-1869). Her father was a Methodist Episcopal Church minister and a pioneering circuit rider. Her parents, natives of Attleboro, Massachusetts, left New England when she was a child and eventually settled in Tennessee.
The earliest marriage records for Fentress, Morgan, and Overton Counties, in Tennessee were all destroyed in courthouse fires. We do not have the marriage date for Lucy Carpenter and Middleton B. Holloway. Holloway was thirteen years younger than Lucy Carpenter. They appear to have been married prior to the 1840 census enumeration. Lucy Carpenter was living when she was enumerated in the household of Middleton B. Holloway on 20 Aug 1860 in the 1860 census enumeration, but had died prior to the 1870 census enumeration.
No grave marker remains for Lucy (Carpenter) Holloway. On Sunday, April 12, 1891, the Reverend Absalom B. Wright visited Middleton B. Holloway. Wright wrote,
"On Sunday morning, before preaching, myself and Uncle Holloway walked out one-half mile to the grave of Lucy Carpenter Holloway, his first wife, and also an aunt of my wife. We knelt down by the grave and prayed, then sang a verse of the hymn, "We shall sleep, but not forever." In the afternoon I boarded the train and ran down home to Sunbright."
Source:
Wright, The Rev. A. B. Autobiography of Rev. A. B. Wright, of the Holston Conference, M.E. Church. Prepared by his son, Rev. J.C. Wright, A.M., D.D. Cincinnati: Cranston & Curtis, 1896, pp. 324-325
For more information on this family, please see:
Ward, Charles Martin, Jr., "Carpenter Descendants of John Howland in Tennessee," The Mayflower Quarterly, volume 61, number 1 (February 1995), pp. 59-65.
The earliest marriage records for Fentress, Morgan, and Overton Counties, in Tennessee were all destroyed in courthouse fires. We do not have the marriage date for Lucy Carpenter and Middleton B. Holloway. Holloway was thirteen years younger than Lucy Carpenter. They appear to have been married prior to the 1840 census enumeration. Lucy Carpenter was living when she was enumerated in the household of Middleton B. Holloway on 20 Aug 1860 in the 1860 census enumeration, but had died prior to the 1870 census enumeration.
No grave marker remains for Lucy (Carpenter) Holloway. On Sunday, April 12, 1891, the Reverend Absalom B. Wright visited Middleton B. Holloway. Wright wrote,
"On Sunday morning, before preaching, myself and Uncle Holloway walked out one-half mile to the grave of Lucy Carpenter Holloway, his first wife, and also an aunt of my wife. We knelt down by the grave and prayed, then sang a verse of the hymn, "We shall sleep, but not forever." In the afternoon I boarded the train and ran down home to Sunbright."
Source:
Wright, The Rev. A. B. Autobiography of Rev. A. B. Wright, of the Holston Conference, M.E. Church. Prepared by his son, Rev. J.C. Wright, A.M., D.D. Cincinnati: Cranston & Curtis, 1896, pp. 324-325
For more information on this family, please see:
Ward, Charles Martin, Jr., "Carpenter Descendants of John Howland in Tennessee," The Mayflower Quarterly, volume 61, number 1 (February 1995), pp. 59-65.
Lucy Carpenter, the first wife of Middleton B. Holloway, was the eldest daughter and third child of the Reverend Timothy Carpenter (1773-1853) and his wife, Hannah (Brown) Carpenter (1770-1869). Her father was a Methodist Episcopal Church minister and a pioneering circuit rider. Her parents, natives of Attleboro, Massachusetts, left New England when she was a child and eventually settled in Tennessee.
The earliest marriage records for Fentress, Morgan, and Overton Counties, in Tennessee were all destroyed in courthouse fires. We do not have the marriage date for Lucy Carpenter and Middleton B. Holloway. Holloway was thirteen years younger than Lucy Carpenter. They appear to have been married prior to the 1840 census enumeration. Lucy Carpenter was living when she was enumerated in the household of Middleton B. Holloway on 20 Aug 1860 in the 1860 census enumeration, but had died prior to the 1870 census enumeration.
No grave marker remains for Lucy (Carpenter) Holloway. On Sunday, April 12, 1891, the Reverend Absalom B. Wright visited Middleton B. Holloway. Wright wrote,
"On Sunday morning, before preaching, myself and Uncle Holloway walked out one-half mile to the grave of Lucy Carpenter Holloway, his first wife, and also an aunt of my wife. We knelt down by the grave and prayed, then sang a verse of the hymn, "We shall sleep, but not forever." In the afternoon I boarded the train and ran down home to Sunbright."
Source:
Wright, The Rev. A. B. Autobiography of Rev. A. B. Wright, of the Holston Conference, M.E. Church. Prepared by his son, Rev. J.C. Wright, A.M., D.D. Cincinnati: Cranston & Curtis, 1896, pp. 324-325
For more information on this family, please see:
Ward, Charles Martin, Jr., "Carpenter Descendants of John Howland in Tennessee," The Mayflower Quarterly, volume 61, number 1 (February 1995), pp. 59-65.
The earliest marriage records for Fentress, Morgan, and Overton Counties, in Tennessee were all destroyed in courthouse fires. We do not have the marriage date for Lucy Carpenter and Middleton B. Holloway. Holloway was thirteen years younger than Lucy Carpenter. They appear to have been married prior to the 1840 census enumeration. Lucy Carpenter was living when she was enumerated in the household of Middleton B. Holloway on 20 Aug 1860 in the 1860 census enumeration, but had died prior to the 1870 census enumeration.
No grave marker remains for Lucy (Carpenter) Holloway. On Sunday, April 12, 1891, the Reverend Absalom B. Wright visited Middleton B. Holloway. Wright wrote,
"On Sunday morning, before preaching, myself and Uncle Holloway walked out one-half mile to the grave of Lucy Carpenter Holloway, his first wife, and also an aunt of my wife. We knelt down by the grave and prayed, then sang a verse of the hymn, "We shall sleep, but not forever." In the afternoon I boarded the train and ran down home to Sunbright."
Source:
Wright, The Rev. A. B. Autobiography of Rev. A. B. Wright, of the Holston Conference, M.E. Church. Prepared by his son, Rev. J.C. Wright, A.M., D.D. Cincinnati: Cranston & Curtis, 1896, pp. 324-325
For more information on this family, please see:
Ward, Charles Martin, Jr., "Carpenter Descendants of John Howland in Tennessee," The Mayflower Quarterly, volume 61, number 1 (February 1995), pp. 59-65.
Gravesite Details
No grave marker remains for Lucy (Carpenter) Holloway.
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