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Carpenter, Celia

Personal Information
Last Name Carpenter
First Name Celia
Middle Name
Maiden Name Cutright
Death Date 4/9/1887
Birth Date 3/4/1815
Obituary Source Martinsville Republican, April 21, 1887
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Spouse John Carpenter (died 1858)
Survived By Five children.
Other Age 72 years, 1 month, and 5 days. Born in Kentucky; daughter of John Cutright. Family lived in Kentucky until she was "8 or 9 years old," and then "moved to Texas, on the Red River and lived there 2 or 3 years. They moved to Indiana about the spring of 1827. She met and married John Carpenter near Eminence, and they had 13 children, 8 girls and 5 boys, but 8 preceded her to the grave. She sent 3 sons to war, 2 of whom never got back." Married on May 12, 1838 in Morgan Co., Ind.
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