... 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 early became an itinerant Methodist preacher. He had a brother named Samuel Carpenter, who was a missionary Baptist preacher. Timothy Carpenter, with his young wife, came as an itinerant to Kentucky. After traveling in that State a few years, he came to Tennessee, and purchased a good farm on the head of Wolf River, and lived near where William Pile now lives.
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.
Your mother's Grandfather Carpenter sold out on Wolf River, and moved and settled on White Oak Creek, in Morgan County, Tennessee, where Schenck now lives. That is the old Carpenter place. Some of Rev. Timothy Carpenter's family married while he lived on Wolf River, and the others in Morgan County. ...
