He was a Law Attorney and a Farmer.
C.O.D.: Burned from fire
William Alexander Carpenter, son of Edward and Catherine Duncan Carpenter, was born August 31, 1847, died February 23, 1914, aged 66 years. He was born on the home farm near Londonderry and died on the farm which had been entered by his grandfather. Edward Carpenter, in 1805.
He was married to Susannah Whittington, Sept. 10th, 1868, who died Jan. 3, 1903. To this union were born eight children, three of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are Mrs. Emma Bennett, Belgrade, Neb.; Mrs. Lilla Stewart, city; Mrs. Alice Hyde, Londonderry; Ross Carpenter, Brewster, Neb., and Frank Carpenter, of Akron, O.
Of a family of 12 children three sisters survive: Mrs. T. P. Proudfit, Washington, Pa., and this twin, Mrs. Catherine Hall, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. W. E. Tedrick, Akron, O. There are eight grandchildren.
In 1877 he moved to Cambridge and was admitted to the Guernsey county bar in 1878, having read law in St. Clairsville, also with Skinner & Steele of this city. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1879 and served two terms. In 1886 he returned to the home farm where he and his wife had begun housekeeping Feb. 23, 1869, just 45 years before the date of his death.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Londonderry and was long an influential member of same. Largely through his efforts a new church was built and no time was spared to give the congregation a comfortable building for worship.
C.O.D.: Burned from fire
William Alexander Carpenter, son of Edward and Catherine Duncan Carpenter, was born August 31, 1847, died February 23, 1914, aged 66 years. He was born on the home farm near Londonderry and died on the farm which had been entered by his grandfather. Edward Carpenter, in 1805.
He was married to Susannah Whittington, Sept. 10th, 1868, who died Jan. 3, 1903. To this union were born eight children, three of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are Mrs. Emma Bennett, Belgrade, Neb.; Mrs. Lilla Stewart, city; Mrs. Alice Hyde, Londonderry; Ross Carpenter, Brewster, Neb., and Frank Carpenter, of Akron, O.
Of a family of 12 children three sisters survive: Mrs. T. P. Proudfit, Washington, Pa., and this twin, Mrs. Catherine Hall, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. W. E. Tedrick, Akron, O. There are eight grandchildren.
In 1877 he moved to Cambridge and was admitted to the Guernsey county bar in 1878, having read law in St. Clairsville, also with Skinner & Steele of this city. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1879 and served two terms. In 1886 he returned to the home farm where he and his wife had begun housekeeping Feb. 23, 1869, just 45 years before the date of his death.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Londonderry and was long an influential member of same. Largely through his efforts a new church was built and no time was spared to give the congregation a comfortable building for worship.
He was a Law Attorney and a Farmer.
C.O.D.: Burned from fire
William Alexander Carpenter, son of Edward and Catherine Duncan Carpenter, was born August 31, 1847, died February 23, 1914, aged 66 years. He was born on the home farm near Londonderry and died on the farm which had been entered by his grandfather. Edward Carpenter, in 1805.
He was married to Susannah Whittington, Sept. 10th, 1868, who died Jan. 3, 1903. To this union were born eight children, three of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are Mrs. Emma Bennett, Belgrade, Neb.; Mrs. Lilla Stewart, city; Mrs. Alice Hyde, Londonderry; Ross Carpenter, Brewster, Neb., and Frank Carpenter, of Akron, O.
Of a family of 12 children three sisters survive: Mrs. T. P. Proudfit, Washington, Pa., and this twin, Mrs. Catherine Hall, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. W. E. Tedrick, Akron, O. There are eight grandchildren.
In 1877 he moved to Cambridge and was admitted to the Guernsey county bar in 1878, having read law in St. Clairsville, also with Skinner & Steele of this city. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1879 and served two terms. In 1886 he returned to the home farm where he and his wife had begun housekeeping Feb. 23, 1869, just 45 years before the date of his death.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Londonderry and was long an influential member of same. Largely through his efforts a new church was built and no time was spared to give the congregation a comfortable building for worship.
C.O.D.: Burned from fire
William Alexander Carpenter, son of Edward and Catherine Duncan Carpenter, was born August 31, 1847, died February 23, 1914, aged 66 years. He was born on the home farm near Londonderry and died on the farm which had been entered by his grandfather. Edward Carpenter, in 1805.
He was married to Susannah Whittington, Sept. 10th, 1868, who died Jan. 3, 1903. To this union were born eight children, three of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are Mrs. Emma Bennett, Belgrade, Neb.; Mrs. Lilla Stewart, city; Mrs. Alice Hyde, Londonderry; Ross Carpenter, Brewster, Neb., and Frank Carpenter, of Akron, O.
Of a family of 12 children three sisters survive: Mrs. T. P. Proudfit, Washington, Pa., and this twin, Mrs. Catherine Hall, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. W. E. Tedrick, Akron, O. There are eight grandchildren.
In 1877 he moved to Cambridge and was admitted to the Guernsey county bar in 1878, having read law in St. Clairsville, also with Skinner & Steele of this city. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1879 and served two terms. In 1886 he returned to the home farm where he and his wife had begun housekeeping Feb. 23, 1869, just 45 years before the date of his death.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Londonderry and was long an influential member of same. Largely through his efforts a new church was built and no time was spared to give the congregation a comfortable building for worship.
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