U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Carpenter, Reason (1820-1895) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Page 607 King Knob Settled By the Carpenters. — Though King Knob is one of the most distinguished points of land in Murphy district, being the highest (1270 ft.) its forest remained unbroken until 1881, when the late Reason Carpenter came here from Pleasants county with his family, and erected the old, deserted cabin that still stands, as a reminder of the days that have gone by. Mr. Carpenter was born in Ohio, in 1820, and there he was married near the year 1841, to Miss Rachel Porter, who was born in the little State of Delaware, on February 26, 1825, but, with her parents, removed to the "Buckeye state" when she was a small child. From there, in 1875, they removed to Tyler county, and three years later, to Pleasants, and from there they came here. Mr. Carpenter died in 1895, and filled the first grave that was made in the King Knob churchyard. And Mrs. Carpenter survived until March 1, 1910, when she joined him on the other side. Their children were twelve in number: William and Robert, Tyler county; Albert, Mrs. Margaret Hedge, Mrs. Julia Ann Edgell and Mrs. Nancy Dye, are all of this county; Mrs. Rachel Smith, and Mrs. Eliza Stull, Clarksburg; Mrs. Jane Carpenter, and the late Mrs. Sarah Haga, Ohio; and the late Mrs. Drusilla Carpenter, Ohio; and the late Mrs. Mary Carpenter, Middlebourne. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Ritchie County, WV (Page 39) FULL-NAME: Reason Carpenter BIRTH-DATE: AGE-AT-DEATH: 75y-0m-4d DEATH-DATE: July 1, 1895 DEATH-PLACE: Goff, W.Va. MARITAL-STATUS: Married CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Disease of Heart BURIAL: near Washburn ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------