From the LaFollette Press, Thursday, October 27, 1983:
Abe Carey Carpenter, 87, of Jellico, died October 18 at St. Mary's Hospital in Knoxville. He was a retired postal employee, a member of AME church and a Veteran of World War I.
Funeral services were Saturday at Cox and Son Funeral Home with the Revs. George Buchanan and Harold Littlejohn officiating. Burial was in Jellico Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Irene McClellan Carpenter of Jellico; a son, George Carey Carpenter of Washington, D.C.; three daughters, Mrs. Sue C. Bull of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Wilhelmina C. Gary of Knoxville and Mrs. Kathryn C. Barnes of Chicago, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Mable McDade of Milwaukee, Wis.; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
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Cook Ernest Henry Carpenter, born 15 Nov 1893, was the son of George and Maggie (Turner) Carpenter of Jellico, Campbell County, TN. Jellico is 64 miles north northwest of Knoxville.
In the 1900 census 6-year-old Ernest is living with his parents and bothers Abe 3, and Samuel 7 months, in Civil District 16 of Campbell County, Tennessee. His father is a teamster.
In the 1910 census 16-year-old Ernest is living with his parents and Siblings Abe 14, Samuel 10, Theodore 7, and Clarence 1, in Jellico. His father is still a teamster.
At some point Ernest moved to Dayton Ohio. He resided at 10 Gard Ave. in Dayton.
Ernest enlisted in the National Guard 14 Jul 1917 in Dayton. He was single. He was employed by the Aetna Paper Company as a fireman in Dayton.
Cook Ernest Carpenter sailed for France with Company G of the 372nd Infantry Regiment attached to the 93rd Division from Newport News Virginia aboard the USS Susquehanna on 30 Mar 1918. His person to contact in case of emergency was his mother, Maggie, back in Jellico, Tennessee.
The 372 IR of the 93rd Division was attached to the French 157th Division. The 372d Infantry assumed command of the Vauquois subsector, east of the Aire River, on July 1. The French 157th Division was relieved in the front line on July 14 and, on July 16, relieved the French 68th Division in the Verdun Sector. The 372d Infantry participated in the occupation of the Verdun Sector with the French 157th Division until September 14. Per Steven Girard's post above Henry was killed by artillery near Montzeville, on the far left side of the map below, south of Esnes.
Newspapers of the day and Soldiers of the Great War, Volume 3, Tennessee, list Cooks: Carpenter, Ernest, from Jellico, as killed in action 20 Aug 1918.
Maggie Carpenter is listed with the 1929 Gold Star Mothers invited to visit her son's grave in France as a guest of the US government during 1930.
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Abe Carey Carpenter, 87, of Jellico, died October 18 at St. Mary's Hospital in Knoxville. He was a retired postal employee, a member of AME church and a Veteran of World War I.
Funeral services were Saturday at Cox and Son Funeral Home with the Revs. George Buchanan and Harold Littlejohn officiating. Burial was in Jellico Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Irene McClellan Carpenter of Jellico; a son, George Carey Carpenter of Washington, D.C.; three daughters, Mrs. Sue C. Bull of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Wilhelmina C. Gary of Knoxville and Mrs. Kathryn C. Barnes of Chicago, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Mable McDade of Milwaukee, Wis.; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
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Cook Ernest Henry Carpenter, born 15 Nov 1893, was the son of George and Maggie (Turner) Carpenter of Jellico, Campbell County, TN. Jellico is 64 miles north northwest of Knoxville.
In the 1900 census 6-year-old Ernest is living with his parents and bothers Abe 3, and Samuel 7 months, in Civil District 16 of Campbell County, Tennessee. His father is a teamster.
In the 1910 census 16-year-old Ernest is living with his parents and Siblings Abe 14, Samuel 10, Theodore 7, and Clarence 1, in Jellico. His father is still a teamster.
At some point Ernest moved to Dayton Ohio. He resided at 10 Gard Ave. in Dayton.
Ernest enlisted in the National Guard 14 Jul 1917 in Dayton. He was single. He was employed by the Aetna Paper Company as a fireman in Dayton.
Cook Ernest Carpenter sailed for France with Company G of the 372nd Infantry Regiment attached to the 93rd Division from Newport News Virginia aboard the USS Susquehanna on 30 Mar 1918. His person to contact in case of emergency was his mother, Maggie, back in Jellico, Tennessee.
The 372 IR of the 93rd Division was attached to the French 157th Division. The 372d Infantry assumed command of the Vauquois subsector, east of the Aire River, on July 1. The French 157th Division was relieved in the front line on July 14 and, on July 16, relieved the French 68th Division in the Verdun Sector. The 372d Infantry participated in the occupation of the Verdun Sector with the French 157th Division until September 14. Per Steven Girard's post above Henry was killed by artillery near Montzeville, on the far left side of the map below, south of Esnes.
Newspapers of the day and Soldiers of the Great War, Volume 3, Tennessee, list Cooks: Carpenter, Ernest, from Jellico, as killed in action 20 Aug 1918.
Maggie Carpenter is listed with the 1929 Gold Star Mothers invited to visit her son's grave in France as a guest of the US government during 1930.
Contributor: usafdo (48612389)
From the LaFollette Press, Thursday, October 27, 1983:
Abe Carey Carpenter, 87, of Jellico, died October 18 at St. Mary's Hospital in Knoxville. He was a retired postal employee, a member of AME church and a Veteran of World War I.
Funeral services were Saturday at Cox and Son Funeral Home with the Revs. George Buchanan and Harold Littlejohn officiating. Burial was in Jellico Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Irene McClellan Carpenter of Jellico; a son, George Carey Carpenter of Washington, D.C.; three daughters, Mrs. Sue C. Bull of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Wilhelmina C. Gary of Knoxville and Mrs. Kathryn C. Barnes of Chicago, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Mable McDade of Milwaukee, Wis.; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
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Cook Ernest Henry Carpenter, born 15 Nov 1893, was the son of George and Maggie (Turner) Carpenter of Jellico, Campbell County, TN. Jellico is 64 miles north northwest of Knoxville.
In the 1900 census 6-year-old Ernest is living with his parents and bothers Abe 3, and Samuel 7 months, in Civil District 16 of Campbell County, Tennessee. His father is a teamster.
In the 1910 census 16-year-old Ernest is living with his parents and Siblings Abe 14, Samuel 10, Theodore 7, and Clarence 1, in Jellico. His father is still a teamster.
At some point Ernest moved to Dayton Ohio. He resided at 10 Gard Ave. in Dayton.
Ernest enlisted in the National Guard 14 Jul 1917 in Dayton. He was single. He was employed by the Aetna Paper Company as a fireman in Dayton.
Cook Ernest Carpenter sailed for France with Company G of the 372nd Infantry Regiment attached to the 93rd Division from Newport News Virginia aboard the USS Susquehanna on 30 Mar 1918. His person to contact in case of emergency was his mother, Maggie, back in Jellico, Tennessee.
The 372 IR of the 93rd Division was attached to the French 157th Division. The 372d Infantry assumed command of the Vauquois subsector, east of the Aire River, on July 1. The French 157th Division was relieved in the front line on July 14 and, on July 16, relieved the French 68th Division in the Verdun Sector. The 372d Infantry participated in the occupation of the Verdun Sector with the French 157th Division until September 14. Per Steven Girard's post above Henry was killed by artillery near Montzeville, on the far left side of the map below, south of Esnes.
Newspapers of the day and Soldiers of the Great War, Volume 3, Tennessee, list Cooks: Carpenter, Ernest, from Jellico, as killed in action 20 Aug 1918.
Maggie Carpenter is listed with the 1929 Gold Star Mothers invited to visit her son's grave in France as a guest of the US government during 1930.
Contributor: usafdo (48612389)
Abe Carey Carpenter, 87, of Jellico, died October 18 at St. Mary's Hospital in Knoxville. He was a retired postal employee, a member of AME church and a Veteran of World War I.
Funeral services were Saturday at Cox and Son Funeral Home with the Revs. George Buchanan and Harold Littlejohn officiating. Burial was in Jellico Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Irene McClellan Carpenter of Jellico; a son, George Carey Carpenter of Washington, D.C.; three daughters, Mrs. Sue C. Bull of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Wilhelmina C. Gary of Knoxville and Mrs. Kathryn C. Barnes of Chicago, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Mable McDade of Milwaukee, Wis.; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
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Cook Ernest Henry Carpenter, born 15 Nov 1893, was the son of George and Maggie (Turner) Carpenter of Jellico, Campbell County, TN. Jellico is 64 miles north northwest of Knoxville.
In the 1900 census 6-year-old Ernest is living with his parents and bothers Abe 3, and Samuel 7 months, in Civil District 16 of Campbell County, Tennessee. His father is a teamster.
In the 1910 census 16-year-old Ernest is living with his parents and Siblings Abe 14, Samuel 10, Theodore 7, and Clarence 1, in Jellico. His father is still a teamster.
At some point Ernest moved to Dayton Ohio. He resided at 10 Gard Ave. in Dayton.
Ernest enlisted in the National Guard 14 Jul 1917 in Dayton. He was single. He was employed by the Aetna Paper Company as a fireman in Dayton.
Cook Ernest Carpenter sailed for France with Company G of the 372nd Infantry Regiment attached to the 93rd Division from Newport News Virginia aboard the USS Susquehanna on 30 Mar 1918. His person to contact in case of emergency was his mother, Maggie, back in Jellico, Tennessee.
The 372 IR of the 93rd Division was attached to the French 157th Division. The 372d Infantry assumed command of the Vauquois subsector, east of the Aire River, on July 1. The French 157th Division was relieved in the front line on July 14 and, on July 16, relieved the French 68th Division in the Verdun Sector. The 372d Infantry participated in the occupation of the Verdun Sector with the French 157th Division until September 14. Per Steven Girard's post above Henry was killed by artillery near Montzeville, on the far left side of the map below, south of Esnes.
Newspapers of the day and Soldiers of the Great War, Volume 3, Tennessee, list Cooks: Carpenter, Ernest, from Jellico, as killed in action 20 Aug 1918.
Maggie Carpenter is listed with the 1929 Gold Star Mothers invited to visit her son's grave in France as a guest of the US government during 1930.
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