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Note: !See Nathaniel's record for Census data. !Royalton Center Methodist Chruch, Bound book in county historian's
office, Locksport, Niagara Co., NY. Sept 1995. Elmira Carpenter app ears
on the Methodist Church rolls until Aug. 1857, and her name was taken
off "by letter". Her daughters Polly and Pauline were also on the li st
Pictures of the church were taken in 1995. (Nathaniel's sister Betsy
Carpenter Griffis and husband Thomas Griffis and Wm., Henry, and Hira m,
also appear in these church records.)
!Almyra was 59 on the 1870 census and in the home of her dau. Polly a nd
Chester Honeywell in Prairieville, Barry, MI. Her daughter Polly died
about 1775, and Almira not until 1888 so she probably was with son
Fernando after Polly's death. We could not find Fernando on the 1880
Soundex for MI to validate this assumption. (Her name has been record ed
as Almira, Elmira, Elvira and Myra on different documents). Almira is
buried by her son Fernando and his family, in the Hillside Cemetery , Gum
Plain Twp., Plainwell, Allegan, MI.
!The Plainwell Enterprise (Newspaper) 18 Apr 1888 - Mrs. Carpenter,
mother of Fernando Carpenter and Mrs. W. H. King, died about 9:30
Saturday morning and was buried yesterday.
!On her death record #852, died 14 April 1888, 76y6m10d, it said her
parents' names were Robert Carpenter and Louise. On her son's death
record (Wm. Riley Carpenter 1830-1920) she was listed a Myra Lewis
(Almira on most Census). We are going to use Lewis, because it is too
much of a concidence that her father and her husband's father would h ave
the same name, Robert Carpenter. When she died someone might not have
remembered and used Louise, instead of Lewis. Or they probably thou ght
they were asked for the names of both parents' fathers, and the person
said, Robert Carpenter and Lewis, and the one recording it heard Loui se.
(Descendants were found in 1993 and they have confirmed the name is
Lewis, and Almira's father was Levi Lewis, mother was Polly Putnam) .Her death certificate is wrong.
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