. West Virginia and its people. son of Jesse Carpenter and a nephew of Basil Wright, both of whomwere soldiers in the war of 1812. By occupation he was a farmer, and inreligion a Methodist Protestant. He married Sarah Wright, who wasborn in 1812. on Fork Lick of the Big Elk River, and died July 23, 1872,in Roane county. West \irginia. Children: John, married Bridget Rey-nolds and removed to New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where he died; Eliza,married Hiram Chapman : James, mentioned below. (II) James, son of Thomas and Sarah (Wright) Carpenter, wasborn March 7, 1838, on Storer Fork of Rudy, in wha
. West Virginia and its people. son of Jesse Carpenter and a nephew of Basil Wright, both of whomwere soldiers in the war of 1812. By occupation he was a farmer, and inreligion a Methodist Protestant. He married Sarah Wright, who wasborn in 1812. on Fork Lick of the Big Elk River, and died July 23, 1872,in Roane county. West \irginia. Children: John, married Bridget Rey-nolds and removed to New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where he died; Eliza,married Hiram Chapman : James, mentioned below. (II) James, son of Thomas and Sarah (Wright) Carpenter, wasborn March 7, 1838, on Storer Fork of Rudy, in what was then Jacksoncounty, \irginia. \^nien six years of age he removed with his parentsto Charles Fork of Spring Creek, six miles south of Spencer, West Vir-ginia, where he resided until his death in May, 1908. He served foreight years in Captain Donaldsons company in the Federal army. Hewas a Republican in politics and a Methodist Protestant in religion ; andhe was a school trustee for a number of terms, and trustee of Hundley. WEST VIRGINIA 213 Chapel, of the Methodist Protestant church, at the time of his death. Hemarried, December 2, 1857, Rachel, daughter of Robert R. and Elizabeth(Heinzman) Raines, born April 10, 1839, in Harper District, now Roanecounty. West \irginia. Her father was born in Pendleton county, \^ir-ginia, and her mother in Lewis county, \irginia. They settled in Jack-son, now Roane county, in 1838, where Mr. Raines died in 1863, and hiswife died, March 6, 1882. Children of James and Rachel (Raines) Car-penter: Daniel W., born April 4, 1859, died October 23, 1862; Mary D.,born September 8, i860; George B., born December 16, 1861 ; Martha P.,born November 11, 1863, died March 10. 1910; Anna M., born October15, 1865; Barbara E., born November 27, 1867; John B., born May 26,1870: Sarah E., born December 29, 1872; Thomas D., born June 17,1875, now deceased; Harvey born January 15, 1878; Eliza R., bornMarch 17, 1880; and Walter Audas, mentioned below. (Ill)
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