Dan Carpenter was born June 14, 1768 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, a son of Deacon Cyril Carpenter and his first wife, Lucy (Lane) Carpenter. He settled in Camden, South Carolina where he was a successful merchant. He was a strong supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a personal friend of Francis Asbury.
He married Lydia Thornton, daughter of Gilbert and Keziah Thornton, both of whom are buried in the Quaker Cemetery in Camden.
Mrs. Isaac Alexander wrote of Dan Carpenter:
“No man has ever lived in Camden who sacrificed more to private benevolence or public good. His house and heart were open to all who stood in need. He sacrificed all, even life, to public benefit, for he caught the fever of which he died in his attempts to render the river navigable."
Source: Historic Camden, Part Two: Nineteenth Century, by Thomas Kirkland and Robert M. Kennedy, Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company, 1926, page 287 (quoting Mrs. Isaac Alexander’s manuscript, “Camden Fifty Years Ago,” written circa 1856).
Dan Carpenter has no extant marker in the Quaker Cemetery. He died unexpectedly from yellow fever and according to family sources was buried in the family plot of his father-in-law, Gilbert Thornton, who had previously been buried in the Quaker Cemetery. A memorial inscription was placed on the grave marker of his parents in Woodlawn Cemetery in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
View Cenotaph HERE.
He married Lydia Thornton, daughter of Gilbert and Keziah Thornton, both of whom are buried in the Quaker Cemetery in Camden.
Mrs. Isaac Alexander wrote of Dan Carpenter:
“No man has ever lived in Camden who sacrificed more to private benevolence or public good. His house and heart were open to all who stood in need. He sacrificed all, even life, to public benefit, for he caught the fever of which he died in his attempts to render the river navigable."
Source: Historic Camden, Part Two: Nineteenth Century, by Thomas Kirkland and Robert M. Kennedy, Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company, 1926, page 287 (quoting Mrs. Isaac Alexander’s manuscript, “Camden Fifty Years Ago,” written circa 1856).
Dan Carpenter has no extant marker in the Quaker Cemetery. He died unexpectedly from yellow fever and according to family sources was buried in the family plot of his father-in-law, Gilbert Thornton, who had previously been buried in the Quaker Cemetery. A memorial inscription was placed on the grave marker of his parents in Woodlawn Cemetery in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
View Cenotaph HERE.
Dan Carpenter was born June 14, 1768 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, a son of Deacon Cyril Carpenter and his first wife, Lucy (Lane) Carpenter. He settled in Camden, South Carolina where he was a successful merchant. He was a strong supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a personal friend of Francis Asbury.
He married Lydia Thornton, daughter of Gilbert and Keziah Thornton, both of whom are buried in the Quaker Cemetery in Camden.
Mrs. Isaac Alexander wrote of Dan Carpenter:
“No man has ever lived in Camden who sacrificed more to private benevolence or public good. His house and heart were open to all who stood in need. He sacrificed all, even life, to public benefit, for he caught the fever of which he died in his attempts to render the river navigable."
Source: Historic Camden, Part Two: Nineteenth Century, by Thomas Kirkland and Robert M. Kennedy, Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company, 1926, page 287 (quoting Mrs. Isaac Alexander’s manuscript, “Camden Fifty Years Ago,” written circa 1856).
Dan Carpenter has no extant marker in the Quaker Cemetery. He died unexpectedly from yellow fever and according to family sources was buried in the family plot of his father-in-law, Gilbert Thornton, who had previously been buried in the Quaker Cemetery. A memorial inscription was placed on the grave marker of his parents in Woodlawn Cemetery in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
View Cenotaph HERE.
He married Lydia Thornton, daughter of Gilbert and Keziah Thornton, both of whom are buried in the Quaker Cemetery in Camden.
Mrs. Isaac Alexander wrote of Dan Carpenter:
“No man has ever lived in Camden who sacrificed more to private benevolence or public good. His house and heart were open to all who stood in need. He sacrificed all, even life, to public benefit, for he caught the fever of which he died in his attempts to render the river navigable."
Source: Historic Camden, Part Two: Nineteenth Century, by Thomas Kirkland and Robert M. Kennedy, Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company, 1926, page 287 (quoting Mrs. Isaac Alexander’s manuscript, “Camden Fifty Years Ago,” written circa 1856).
Dan Carpenter has no extant marker in the Quaker Cemetery. He died unexpectedly from yellow fever and according to family sources was buried in the family plot of his father-in-law, Gilbert Thornton, who had previously been buried in the Quaker Cemetery. A memorial inscription was placed on the grave marker of his parents in Woodlawn Cemetery in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
View Cenotaph HERE.
Gravesite Details
No extant marker. According to family sources he was buried in the family plot of his father-in-law, Gilbert Thornton.
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