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EMAIL US		 bullet Helen Denman Carmer Photo was born on 8 Jan 1896. Helen was the daughter of George Washington Carmer and Fannie Vanderbilt MacMurray [a descendant of Aries V. Vanderbilt who settled in Flatbush in 1667].

She was married to Brainard NORTON. Children were: Natalie Vanderbilt Norton, Robert Donald NORTON, Dorothy Cleveland NORTON .

bullet Mary Carney

She was married to Corliss PITKIN. Children were: David J. PITKIN, Maureen PITKIN.

bullet Abijah Howard CARPENTER Photo was born on 8 Nov 1803 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He died on 31 Oct 1884 in Victory Township, Guthrie Co, Iowa. According to Howard Carpenter, Abijah once lived in (and perhaps built) the house in Marshfield, Vermont owned in 1940 by Alvi T. Davis, and he owned and operated the village sawmill during the 1850's. He moved to Guthrie Iowa sometime before 1860 with his wife and eight children. None of them ever returned. The following letter was written from Abijah's granddaughter, Myra Russell to Abijah's son, George N. Carpenter of Cabot, regarding the disposition of Abijah' estate: "Guthrie Center, Iowa, April 5th 1894, Dear Uncle George, I will write a few lines in regard to Grandfathers estate it has laid about nine years without being settled, Our folks are trying to have it settled now. C.W. Hill lawyer doing the business. He wants you to give him authority to appear before the May term of Court to have your share set off for you. nearly all the notes are outlawed. you know the first administrator that uncle Jim wanted appointed left the country years ago and it has been hard work to get things together again. I dont suppose there will be much left of it. you had better write right away if you want him to act for you. you can either write to C.W. Hill or to us and we will hand it to him. Father is awful poorly. been sick all winter. dont get much better. Where is Will. is he still in Barre. We have Howard Carpenters little girl with us been here all winter. her mother died last fall she has been with us ever since. she is three years old. an awful smart little thing. Uncle Lew is still in Glendon. Uncle Tom (?) C. oldest boy is dead. Our Susie died nearly a year ago. so it is with life. Our turn will come soon. one by one they go. Would like to see you. I have saw them all but you and uncle Jim. Poor uncle Jim he went quick they tell me. been dead a long time before we ever knew it and then only by accident through Will, as he supposed we knew it. Well uncle George I cant write much as I want to write to some of the rest. answer when you get this and I remain your your niece, Myra E Russell"
Parents: Eliphalet CARPENTER and Lucy Holcomb.

He was married to Susan Dow on 14 May 1827. Children were: Lucinda CARPENTER, James H. CARPENTER, Eliza CARPENTER, Jane CARPENTER, George Nathan CARPENTER, Almira CARPENTER, Myron Dana CARPENTER, Oscar "Lewis" CARPENTER, Ancil CARPENTER , Clarence CARPENTER, Clarissa CARPENTER.

bullet Adrian CARPENTER Adrian married Ruth Barnes, sister of Harold Barnes who married Eva Carpenter. Parents: Myron E. CARPENTER and Minnie Kidder.

bullet Albert (Bert) Newton CARPENTER Parents: Myron Dana CARPENTER and Martha Shadle Gallino.

He was married to Martha (Mattie) Hall. Children were: Ralph CARPENTER , Helen CARPENTER.

bullet Alexander CARPENTER Parents: Brian Alexander CARPENTER and Katherine Anne Whaling.

bullet Alida CARPENTER Photo was born on 12 Jul 1924 in Barre, Vermont. Parents: Glenn Carroll CARPENTER and Lillian Enright.

She was married to Lawrence Erle Pierce on 14 Aug 1948 in Barre, Vermont. Children were: Cynthia Joan Pierce, Glenn David Pierce.

bullet Almira CARPENTER Photo was born on 19 May 1840. She died on 24 Oct 1887. Parents: Abijah Howard CARPENTER and Susan Dow.

She was married to H. Homer Hollister on 15 Mar 1856 in Cabot, Vermont. Children were: Mattie Hollister, Emma Hollister, Susie Putnam Hollister, Dwight Howard Hollister, Minnie Asenath Hollister .

bullet Ancil CARPENTER was born on 4 Oct 1848 in Marshfield, Vermont. Ancil married Rosa Welsey. Parents: Abijah Howard CARPENTER and Susan Dow.

bullet Arlene CARPENTER was born on 8 Jun 1909. Arlene married Kenneth Allen. They lived in Burlington, Vermont and had a son. Parents: Ivan CARPENTER and Lou Miller.

bullet Brian Alexander CARPENTER was born on 23 May 1966 in Barre, Vermont. Brian graduated from St. Michael's College in 1988. In 1995 he was a member of the ski patrol at Telluride, Colorado, and also worked as a fishing guide in that vicinity. Parents: William John CARPENTER and Daisy Riddel.

He was married to Katherine Anne Whaling on 29 Apr 1995 in Moretown, Vermont. Children were: Hunter CARPENTER, Alexander CARPENTER.

bullet Carly Ashley CARPENTER was born on 28 Oct 1990 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Parents: Col. William David CARPENTER and Jennifer Lee Johnson.

bullet Catherine M. CARPENTER was born on 23 Dec 1906. In 1930, Catherine married Kenneth Lamberton, son of Coolidge Lamberton and Jennie Tibbetts. They lived in Cabot, Vermont. Parents: Ivan CARPENTER and Lou Miller.

bullet Charles Ancil CARPENTER Parents: Myron Dana CARPENTER and Martha Shadle Gallino.

He was married to Grace Anna Hall. Children were: Noel Jasper CARPENTER , Eva Doris CARPENTER, Elmer Phillips CARPENTER, Walter Charles CARPENTER , Fern Anna CARPENTER, Victor Arthur CARPENTER, Clayton John CARPENTER, Norma June CARPENTER.

bullet Charles Howard CARPENTER Photo was born on 15 Aug 1911 in Cabot, Vermont. He died on 22 Mar 1981 in Berlin, Vermont. Charles grew up on his father's farm in Cabot. At the time of his mother's death in 1930, Charles was 19 years old, and the only child remaining at home. During the depression he worked for a while at the Roger's store in Cabot Village, in order to earn some cash with which to help make ends meet on the farm. Charles' father, Howard, had never really been a sugarmaker, as the sugarbush on the farm had been destroyed by caterpillars sometime around the turn of the century. Charles and his brother George, however, enjoyed sugaring on a small scale when they were young, and during the depression, Howard bought some sugaring equipment to try to add to the farm income. Charles built a new sugarhouse in 1948 in a very small stand of sugar trees northwest of the farmhouse, and sugared there until 1958. While Charles worked for his father, the barn was remodeled several times and the dairy herd was expanded to about 35 head of Jerseys. He was active in the Farm Bureau for a number of years, and his work for that organization allowed him to meet farmers all over central Vermont. Many of these acquaintances developed into lasting friendships. After the death of their father in 1953, Charles and his sister, Flora, operated the farm as partners until his marriage to Barbara Blachly in 1958. Barbara lived on an abandoned farm adjacent to the Carpenter farm. Charles and Barbara worked very hard to bring her run down farm into a condition which would support a family. During their first few years there, while raising two girls, they cleared the fields of rocks and trees, brought in tons of chicken manure to fertilize the fields, built a shop, a sugarhouse, and a new dairy barn, expanded the house, purchased more land, and increased the size of their dairy herd from six to twelve cows. He enjoyed a diversified work schedule which included sugaring, logging, dairying, and antiquing. Throughout his life, Charles enjoyed buying and selling antiques, and after his marriage he managed to develop this interest into a lucrative hobby. He and Barbara once owned the Lower Cabot Schoolhouse which they filled with antiques and then held an auction. Antiques became an important component of the family's income, and of the methods and means by which their work was done. Over the years, Charles and Barbara experimented many times with antiquated farm equipment, and enjoyed doing things the old fashioned way. Much of the farmwork was done with horses until several years after Charles died. He was an active member of the Cabot Historical Society, and was responsible for much of the restoration of the West Hill School. He served a term as director of the Washington Electric Co-operative and was also a member of the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association. Charles was social, and always enjoyed participating in community activities. The family usually had a float in the fourth of July parades in Cabot, and once in Plainfield. Parents: Howard Hastings CARPENTER and Lillian B. SHEPARD .

He was married to Barbara BLACHLY on 6 Aug 1958 in Barre, Vermont. Children were: Mary Adele CARPENTER , Susan CARPENTER.

bullet Clara CARPENTER Photo was born on 29 Dec 1902 in Cabot, Vermont. Date from Howard Carpenter's diary: "Girl born this morning at 5:30. Weight 8 lbs. Mr.s Stone here. Paid Dr. Warren $5.00" She died on 6 Oct 1987 in Berlin, Vermont. Parents: Howard Hastings CARPENTER and Lillian B. SHEPARD .

She was married to Edwin Angus Smith on 10 Oct 1929 in Cabot, Vermont. Children were: Olive Lillian SMITH, Robert Winfield SMITH, David John SMITH.

bullet Clarence CARPENTER was born on 13 Jan 1850 in Marshfield, Vermont. Clarence married Margaret Haines. Parents: Abijah Howard CARPENTER and Susan Dow.

bullet Clarence Francis CARPENTER Photo was born on 25 May 1902 in Barre, Vermont. He died on 18 Jul 1951 in Barre, Vermont. Clarence graduated from The University of Vermont in 1924. He ran the Green Mountain Spring Water Company in Barre, Vermont. He was an avid chess player, participating in the Vermont Chess Association tournaments, and winning the state championship for six or seven years. He had few, if any chess-playing equals in Vermont between 1933 and 1941. Parents: William A. CARPENTER and Elizabeth Monica Connelly.

He was married to Margaret Mary Tomasi on 9 Nov 1925 in Barre, Vermont. Children were: William John CARPENTER, Constance Ann CARPENTER , Margaret Mary CARPENTER.

bullet Clarissa CARPENTER was born on 23 Apr 1853 in Marshfield, Vermont. Clarissa married Howard Holcombe. Parents: Abijah Howard CARPENTER and Susan Dow.

bullet Clayton John CARPENTER Clayton married first, Helen collier. He married second, Doris _____. They lived in Long Beach, California. Parents: Charles Ancil CARPENTER and Grace Anna Hall.

bullet Constance Ann CARPENTER was born on 5 Feb 1932 in Barre, Vermont. She was christened in St. Monica's Church, Barre, Vermont. Connie graduated from Spaulding High School in Barre (1949) and received a B.S. from the University of Vermont (1953). She taught Special Education at Spaulding from 1971 to 1981. Connie and Lawrence reside at 489 Camp Street, Barre, Vermont. All of their children were christened at St. Monica's Church. Parents: Clarence Francis CARPENTER and Margaret Mary Tomasi.

She was married to Lawrence Hugh Reilly on 20 Jun 1953. Children were: Anne Maureen Reilly, John Lawrence Reilly, Daniel Francis Reilly, Mary Margaret Reilly, Erin Elizabeth Reilly .

bullet Cora E. CARPENTER Photo was born on 28 Feb 1863 in Marshfield, Vermont. Cora married Fred Woodbury who worked for a time at E.C. Pitkin's butterbox shop. Parents: James H. CARPENTER and Octavia Sanders.

bullet Dana CARPENTER Parents: Myron E. CARPENTER and Minnie Kidder.

Children were: Neal D. CARPENTER .

bulletDarritt CARPENTER. Darritt married Mrs. Lee Howard. Parents: Myron E. CARPENTER and Minnie Kidder.

bullet David Scribner Carpenter Photo David was an accomplished fiddle player, and earned a very modest income playing occasionally around the central Vermont area. He maintained a productive vegetable garden, and often his produce won ribbons at local fairs and farm shows. He also did some work on the farm during sugaring and haying seasons, and regularly helped with the barn chores. He was well read, and interested in a broad range of periodical literature. Before his marriage to Sue, he was a school teacher. Parents: Richard Carpenter and Joanne SCRIBNER.

He was married to Susan CARPENTER on 24 Dec 1988 in Cabot, Vermont. Children were: Samuel Lyman Charles Carpenter.

bullet Earl CARPENTER was born on 5 Dec 1892. He died on 14 Apr 1895. Parents: Oliver H. CARPENTER and Martha Deland Dwinell .

bullet Eliphalet CARPENTER was born in 1777 in Rehobeth, Massachusetts?. Date of birth estimated from affadavit sworn in 1850 when Eliphalet was 73 years of age. He died in Marshfield, Vermont. He was buried in Dwinell Cemetery, Marshfield, Vermont. An Eliphalet Carpenter was a resident of Groton, Vermont after the War of 1812, and is credited it that town with 6 weeks of service in the war.
Photocopy of the following in the possession of Caleb Pitkin:
"State of Vermont, County of Washington. On this 2nd day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, within and for the county and state aforesaid, Eliphalet Carpenter aged 73 years a resident of Marshfield in the State of Vermont, who being duly Sworn according to Law, declares that he is the identical Eliphalet Carpenter who was a Soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Chauncey Ives [spelling uncertain] in the 37th Regt. of U.S. Infy., cannot recollect the Col. name, his discharge is signed by M. Burbeck Gen. Commanding, in the War with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, A.D. 1812, that he enlisted at New London on or about the 22d day of April 1813 for the term of one year and continued in actual service in Said War for the term of one year and was honorably discharged at New London Connecticut on the 21st day of April, 1814, as will appear in his original Certificate of discharge herewith presented. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the act granting bounty lands to certain officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States passed September 28th, 1850. ss. Eliphalet Carpenter
"Sworn to and Subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I hereby certify that I believe the said Eliphalet Carpenter to be the identical man who served as aforesaid, and that he is of the age above stated. ss. Andrew English, Justice of the Peace." Parents: Nathan CARPENTER and Lucinda?.

He was married to Lucy Holcomb in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Children were: Abijah Howard CARPENTER.

bullet Eliphalet CARPENTER was born on 26 May 1721. He died on 22 Jun 1801. Parents: Ephraim CARPENTER and Martha Ide.

He was married to Freelove Chaffee on 27 Nov 1746.

bullet Eliza CARPENTER was born on 28 Mar 1833 in Marshfield, Vermont. She died on 3 Nov 1881 in Marshfield, Vermont. Eliza married Hiram Hannaford. Parents: Abijah Howard CARPENTER and Susan Dow.

bullet Elmer Phillips CARPENTER Elmer married Gladys L. Dempster. They lived in Neligh, Nebraska. Parents: Charles Ancil CARPENTER and Grace Anna Hall.

bullet Ephraim CARPENTER was born in 1683. He died on 20 Apr 1743. Parents: William Carpenter and Miriam SEARLES.

He was married to Martha Ide on 24 Mar 1719. Children were: Eliphalet CARPENTER.

bullet Eva Doris CARPENTER Eva married Harold Barnes who died in 1958. They lived in Valentine, Nebraska. Harold was the brother of Ruth Barnes who married Adrian Carpenter. Parents: Charles Ancil CARPENTER and Grace Anna Hall.

bullet Everett G. CARPENTER Photo was born on 29 Sep 1880. He died on 9 Feb 1918. Everett was crippled by meningitis when a young man. He used a wheel chair, and tended the Marshfield telephone central for several years. He never married. Parents: Oliver H. CARPENTER and Martha Deland Dwinell.

bullet Fern Anna CARPENTER Fern married first, Raymond Edwin Mayberry. They divorced. She married second, Owen Glenn Breech. Parents: Charles Ancil CARPENTER and Grace Anna Hall.

bullet Flora Shepard CARPENTER Photo was born on 13 Jan 1902 in Cabot, Vermont. Date from Howard Carpenter's diary: "Baby born 11:15 PM. Weight 6-3/4 lbs. Mrs. Stone came. Dr. Burbank here." She died on 8 Jan 1969 in Barre, Vermont. She was buried in Durant Cemetery, Cabot, Vermont. Flora was a school teacher in Cabot and Waterbury, Vermont. She was in Waterbury during the Flood of 1927 and wrote an account of her experience during that event. During the depression she returned to her father's farm in Cabot where she kept house for him and for her brother Charles. After the death of her father she operated the farm in partnership with Charles, and later for a number of years on her own. She served a term in the Vermont Legislature in 1957. Flora never married. Parents: Howard Hastings CARPENTER and Lillian B. SHEPARD.

bullet Frederick CARPENTER was born on 27 Nov 1901. Frederick married ______ Ross. They lived in Cabot, Vermont. Parents: Oliver H. CARPENTER and Martha Deland Dwinell.

bullet George Hastings CARPENTER(18) Photo was born on 9 Mar 1907 in Cabot, Vermont. Date from Howard Carpenter's diary: "Boy born this morning. Lizzie Pitkin came at night." He died in Jan 1966 in Montpelier, Vermont. George was a graduate of Cabot High School and attended Albany Business College for a short time. Much interested in public affairs, he served his town as moderator, tax collector, library trustee, and town representative. He was also a farmer, creamery worker, Methodist lay speaker and a church official. George and his family lived for a short time on what later became known as the Persons farm on Southwest Hill in Cabot, where Will and Alison Ameden resided in 1996. The Carpenters later farmed in Lower Cabot across the Winooski river from the old mill building of the Headwater Lumber Company. Later they resided in a house situated at the intersection of Southwest Hill and the Marshfield road (house owned by J. Earl Pike in 1996) Parents: Howard Hastings CARPENTER and Lillian B. SHEPARD .

He was married to Hazel Grace Pierce on 17 Aug 1929 in Middlesex, Vermont. Children were: Howard Herbert CARPENTER, Ruth Elaine CARPENTER, Harold Shepard CARPENTER, Grace Eleanor CARPENTER .

bullet George Nathan CARPENTER Photo was born on 18 Mar 1838 in Marshfield, Vermont. He died in Aug 1906 in Cabot, Vermont. George Carpenter grew up in Marshfield and attended the old brown schoolhouse in Marshfield village. He served in the War of the Rebellion and was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry and imprisoned at Chicago. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant as commander of Company F, 9th Vermont Infantry Volunteers, and discharged without injury after three years. His sword is still in the Carpenter family. George petitioned the government for a pension, as he believed his service in the war had ruined his health. There has been a suspicion in the family that perhaps George was an alcoholic. His second wife, Adelia, was very much involved in the business of running the farm, and in the land transactions they were involved in, perhaps out of necessity.
About a year after the death of his wife, Elvira, George purchased the Osgood farm in Cabot, and sometime after 1870 removed there with his son Willie and his second wife, Adelia Perry. They farmed there until 1883, when they purchased the farm across the road from Heman and Theron Lamphere. The two farms were operated as one from that point on although the mortgage on the Osgood place had been forclosed, and the Carpenter's didn't regain ownership of that farm for several years. The family moved into the Lamphere house, and, five generations and 110 years later, the house is still owned by their descendants.
In 1870, George was one of thirteen men petitioning the town of Cabot to build a road from his house to the nearest road leading to Marshfield Village. The Carpenter's daughter, Jettie, later attended school in Marshfield, and a diary kept by her brother, Howard, indicates that the family did most of their business there.
The 1880 census shows that George and Adelia owned 18 chickens, 8 sheep, 9 lambs, 7 milk cows, 7 calves, and one "other cattle." There were also 2 horses and $250 in farm machinery. That year they raised on the farm 300 bushels of potatoes (on 2 acres), 900 lbs. of butter, 90 dozen eggs, 175 bushels of oats, 20 bushels of Indian corn, 10 bushels of barley, 25 bushels of wheat, 2 acres of beans, fifty bushels of apples, 1000 lbs. of maple sugar, and 50 cords of wood. They had a hired man for 30 weeks that year for $5.00 per week. Parents: Abijah Howard CARPENTER and Susan Dow.

He was married to Elvira FOLSOM on 4 Jan 1859 in Marshfield, Vermont. Children were: William A. CARPENTER.

He was married to Adelia S. PERRY on 25 Dec 1870 in Cabot, Vermont. Children were: Ruth CARPENTER, Juliette (Jettie) Mabel CARPENTER, Howard Hastings CARPENTER, Glenn Carroll CARPENTER.

bullet George S. CARPENTER was born on 28 Sep 1893 in Barre, Vermont. He died on 16 Nov 1897 in Barre, Vermont. Parents: William A. CARPENTER and Emma Hollister.

bullet Glenn Carroll CARPENTER Photo was born on 21 Jul 1888 in Cabot, Vermont. He died on 24 Mar 1968 in Barre, Vermont. He was buried in Hope Cemetery, Barre, Vermont. Parents: George Nathan CARPENTER and Adelia S. PERRY.

He was married to Lillian Enright on 10 Sep 1913 in Chelsea, Vermont. Children were: Alida CARPENTER .

bullet Grace E. CARPENTER was born on 7 Mar 1888 in Barre, Vermont. She died on 10 Jun 1889 in Barre, Vermont. Parents: William A. CARPENTER and Cora Freeman.

bullet Grace Eleanor CARPENTER Photo was born on 30 Jun 1939. Grace and Ronald reside in Brooklyn, Connecticut (1996). Parents: George Hastings CARPENTER and Hazel Grace Pierce.

She was married to Ronald Glaude on 28 Jun 1958. Children were: Joyce Renee Glaude , Michelle Anne Glaude, Ronald Scott Glaude, Aimee Beth Glaude.

bullet Harold Shepard CARPENTER Photo was born on 5 Aug 1934. Harold and Rebecca reside in Sterling, Connecticut (1996). Parents: George Hastings CARPENTER and Hazel Grace Pierce.

He was married to Rebecca Thurber on 7 Sep 1958 in Plainfield, Vermont. Children were: Lisa Marie CARPENTER, Merry-Nell CARPENTER.

bullet Helen CARPENTER Helen lived in Neligh, Nebraska. She married Romaine Peterson. Parents: Albert (Bert) Newton CARPENTER and Martha (Mattie) Hall.

bullet Hilton CARPENTER Hilton married Charlene Wobig. Parents: Myron E. CARPENTER and Minnie Kidder.

bullet Homer G. CARPENTER was born in 1860. Homer married Lillia (Keyes) Ward, who was the widow of Thomas Ward and mother of Clifton Ward. She had first been married to George Tanner of Marshfield. Homer farmed in Marshfield Village at the place later owned by Clifton Ward (1940). Homer had no children. Parents: James H. CARPENTER and Octavia Sanders.

bullet Howard Cary CARPENTER Parents: Oscar "Lewis" CARPENTER .

Children were: Josie May CARPENTER.

bulletHoward Hastings CARPENTER(19) (20) Photo was born on 9 Jul 1877 in Cabot, Vermont. He died on 26 Jan 1953 in Cabot, Vermont. He was buried on 28 Jan 1953 in Durant Cemetery, Cabot, Vermont. Howard attended the Southwest Hill school in Cabot. As a boy he worked on his father's farm, sometimes working out with his father's corn planter. About 1900, Howard was engaged to teach the upper grades of the Marshfield village school. In addition to the prescribed course of instruction, he taught the boys boxing during recess. This time in the village afforded Howard ample opportunity to call on his sweetheart, who was also teaching in several of the schools in Marshfield. After their marriage, Howard and Lillian lived first in Marshfield caring for her father until he died. Howard was working at the Marshfield creamery. They then lived in Cabot village for a short time, and later they moved to the Carpenter farm, where they divided the house with his parents, George and Adelia, and where they remained the rest of their lives. During Howard's youth, the Carpenter family was more closely connected with Marshfield Village than with Cabot, and after his marriage to Lillian, these connections were strengthened. As a farmer, Howard continued to do business in Marshfield, in part because the railroad made it more of a commercial center than was Cabot Village, and in part because Lillian's family was located there. Howard made and peddled butter for several years after the death of his parents, and later also raised chickens in a barn which he built for that purpose. The cows were wintered in the barn at the Osgood farm which was owned by Howard's sister Jettie until he bought her out in 1913. For a few years around 1920, Howard was an appraiser for the federal land bank in Springfield, Massachusetts. He visited farms in Washington County with Ozias Pitkin, and together they bought at least two farms which were mortgaged to that bank. One of these farms was the Edwin Pitkin farm in Marshfield where Howard cut and sold hay for one or two years. Over the years, on several occasions Howard bought farms, held them for a year or two while harvesting the crops and making small improvements, and then sold them, sometimes at a profit. The Bolton farm in Cabot village, the Pitkin Farm, the Frank Marshall farm (Frank was Howard's brother in law), the farm which was later owned by Max Ducharme, and the Fred Robinson farm were some of his projects. About 1919, Howard was a founding member of the Cabot Farmer's Co-operative Creamery. By that time, Howard had shifted to Cabot village as his place of business for a number of reasons, and he was a very active and social member of that community. He served as town moderator for a few years, as selectman, and also as a director of the creamery. He represented Cabot in the state legislature in 1921. The years after Lillian died were very difficult for Howard. The depression was at its worst, the farm was mortgaged and not generating enough cash to make the payments and Howard had no family living at home with him. Charles moved to the village for a time to work in the Roger's store. George was trying to make a living on a farm in Lower Cabot. Clara had her own family in Cabot with Edwin Smith, and Flora was living and teaching school in Waterbury. For several winters Howard cut and delivered firewood every day between chores. He usually had hired help working in the woods, but often while drawing wood he was alone. His journal entries during that period make special note of any time spent with his children. Finally Charles was able to return to the farm and Flora, in what she considered to be an extreme sacrifice, also returned home to keep house for them. Howard kept two teams of draft horses for many years, and in addition to farmwork, he used them for rolling the town roads in the winter. He was fond of brook fishing, and would sometimes go down to the brook early in the morning to catch a breakfast of small trout which he would fry in butter and eat whole (according to Elliot Houghton who worked and lived at the farm as a hired man for several winters). He kept a can of chocolate syrup in the milkhouse, and sometimes treated Pete Tobias to a cold milkshake after a hot day of haying. He also was fond of butter, and would sometimes eat it plain. Parents: George Nathan CARPENTER and Adelia S. PERRY.

He was married to Lillian B. SHEPARD on 25 Feb 1901 in Danville, Vermont. Children were: Flora Shepard CARPENTER, Clara CARPENTER, Ruth Perry CARPENTER, George Hastings CARPENTER , Charles Howard CARPENTER.

bullet Howard Herbert CARPENTER Photo was born on 2 Feb 1931. He died on 6 Nov 1992 in Reynoldsville, Georgia. Parents: George Hastings CARPENTER and Hazel Grace Pierce .

He was married to Dorothy Gwendolyn Shepherd on 12 Jul 1956 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Children were: Shelley Jane CARPENTER.

bullet Hunter CARPENTER Parents: Brian Alexander CARPENTER and Katherine Anne Whaling.

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