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Mark Aurelius Carpenter
b.26 Jul 1887 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
d.9 Dec 1967 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
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Name[1][2][3][4][5][6] Mark Aurelius Carpenter
Gender Male
Birth[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] 26 Jul 1887 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Residence[20][28] 6 Jun 1900 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Education[15][29] 1910 Stanford, Santa Clara, California, USA
Residence[21] 1920 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Marriage 19 Dec 1920 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USAto Melissa Chardon Ball
Residence[22][30] 2 Apr 1930 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Residence[23] 12 Jan 1937 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Residence[24] 23 Mar 1937 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Residence[11][31] 9 Dec 1967 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Occupation[18][11][19] County Purchasing Agent
Death[11][16][8][9][10][15][26] 9 Dec 1967 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USACause: Chronic Pyelonephritis
Burial[17][9][11][15][27] 12 Dec 1967 Russian River Cemetery, Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Soc Sec No[8][11] 562-66-1465

Ukiah Daily Journal 11 Dec 1967 Page 1, Col 6 and Page 8, Col. 7

City Pioneer Carpenter Dies at 80

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday for Mark A. Carpenter, 80, who for nearly four decades has been a familiar figure in Ukiah. Born here on July 26, 1887, of pioneer parents, he had spent his life in California and this community. Until about two months ago, when he was hospitalized, it was his custom to walk about the main business streets, stopping to do errands and to talk with friends he had known from his boyhood. He died Saturday in a Ukiah hospital.

The services will be at the Eversole Mortuary with the Rev. Harold Watkins officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in Ukiah cemetery.

Mr. Carpenter was graduated in 1906 from Ukiah high school and then went to Stanford University from which he received his law degree in 1910. He passed the California Bar Association examinations that same year.

His great uncle Hale McCowen, the father of the late Superior Judge Hale McCowen, was at that time and for many years the clerk of Mendocino County and the young Mark Carpenter joined him as a deputy and served the county for 32 years filling the offices of clerk of the board and county purchasing agent in later years.

In high school and at Stanford, Mr. Carpenter took an active interest in football, playing on some of the teams and managing others.

Mr. Carpenter was the son of Grant Carpenter of Potter Valley. His father, a native of Potter Valley, and a twin sister Grace Carpenter Hudson, who later became a famous painter, were the first twins born in Potter Valley. She was the wife of the late Dr. John W. Hudson of this city. It was through her study and portraiture of the Pomo Indians fo this Valley that she became recognized.

On the death of the Hudsons, Mr. Carpenter inherited their unusual home, Sun House, on S. Main Street and he and his wife Melissa had made their home there during the passing years. It became the mecca for those seeking his aunt's paintings in which interest was recently revived due to discovery of some of her sketches. Mr. Carpenter handles the sale of these through an agent. He was one of the few original remaining pioneers of this city.

Besides his wife Melissa, he leaves a niece Patricia Rabinovitz of Michigan and his stepmother Mrs. Grant Carpenter in Los Angeles.

References
  1. ↑ Interview with Ronald Dumas. (Location: Notes in possession of Ronna Dumas).
  2. ↑ Blanche Brown. Grass Roots of Anderson Valley. (1981 AVA Printing Shop, Boonville, CA)
    p 8.
  3. ↑ Death certificate of Grace Hudson 48. (File Num: Book 15, page 323 Location: Original on file at Mendocino County Recorder, Ukiah, CA)
    Informant on Grace's Hudson's death certificate.
  4. ↑ Mrs. Kendrick, county pioneer dies at age 81. (Ukiah Daily Journal).
  5. ↑ 1930 U. S. Census (8). (Location: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=CAT626_177-1017)
    Mark A. Carpenter.
  6. ↑ 1900 U. S. Census (3). (Location: http://www.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/ifa_image.cgi?SEC=California&IN=011597&PN=211a&CD=923)
    Mark Carpenter.
  7. ↑ Interview with Ronald Dumas. (Location: Notes in possession of Ronna Dumas)
    26 Jul 1887.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Rootsweb. California Birth Records. (URL: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/birth/search.cgi)
    CARPENTER MARK A 07/26/1887 STORM M CALIFORNIA MENDOCINO 12/09/1967 562-66-1465 80 yrs.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Grave of Mark Aurelius Carpenter.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Phil Carnahan. Mendocino County Cemetery Index. (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mendocem/cemetery/ceml.txt)
    Carpenter, Mark Aurelius 07/26/1887 12/09/1967 Russian River Cem., Ukiah.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Death certificate for Mark A. Carpenter 2300. (File Num: Book 40, page 536 Location: Original on file at Mendocino County Recorder, Ukiah, CA).
  12. ↑ Mellissa Ball Carpenter. Famiily Group Sheets. (Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA).
  13. ↑ 1930 U. S. Census (8). (Location: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=CAT626_177-1017)
    Age 42 born California.
  14. ↑ 1900 U. S. Census (3). (Location: http://www.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/ifa_image.cgi?SEC=California&IN=011597&PN=211a&CD=923)
    Age 12 born July 1877 in California.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 California. Ukiah.  Ukiah Daily Journal
    "City Pioneer Carpenter Dies at 80," 11 Dec 1967, p. 1 and 8, col. 8 and 7.
  16. ↑ Interview with Ronald Dumas. (Location: Notes in possession of Ronna Dumas)
    1967.
  17. ↑ Phil Carnahan. Mendocino County Cemetery Index. (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mendocem/cemetery/ceml.txt).
  18. ↑ Phil Carnahan. 1930 Mendocino County Great Register. (URL: http://www.pacificsites.com/~pcarna/)
    Carpenter, Mark A, Ukiah No. 1 Rep County Purch Agt Ukiah.
  19. ↑ 1930 U. S. Census (8). (Location: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=CAT626_177-1017)
    Purchasing agent for county.
  20. ↑ 1900 U. S. Census (3). (Location: http://www.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/ifa_image.cgi?SEC=California&IN=011597&PN=211a&CD=923).
  21. ↑ Phil Carnahan. 1920 Mendocino County Great Register. (URL: http://www.pacificsites.com/~pcarna/)
    Carpenter, Mark A, Ukiah No. 1 Rep County Purch Agt Ukiah.
  22. ↑ 1930 U. S. Census (8). (Location: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=CAT626_177-1017).
  23. ↑ Probate of Grace Hudson. (File Num: 6020 Location: Superior Court of Mendocino County, Ukiah, CA).
  24. ↑ Death certificate of Grace Hudson 48. (File Num: Book 15, page 323 Location: Original on file at Mendocino County Recorder, Ukiah, CA).
  25.   Ronna Dumas. Dumas-Morris Ged File from RootsWeb.
  26. ↑ Mendocino County Hospital
  27. ↑ Block M-4, lots 12 & 13
  28. ↑ In 1900 Mark was living in the home of his grandparents Aurelius and Helen Carpenter
  29. ↑ He graduated in 1910 with a law degree.
  30. ↑ East Clay Street
  31. ↑ 431 S. Main St.
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