... Your mother's grandfather, on her mother's side, was named Timothy Carpenter, a Yankee, born and raised to manhood in the State of Connecticut. When a young man he wandered into the State of Massachusetts, and was united in marriage to Hannah Brown, who was raised in the city of Boston. ... He and wife raised eight children, five boys and three girls. The boys' names were Timothy, Consider, John, Dan, and Cyril. The girls' names were Lucy, Deborah, your grandmother, and Nancy. ...