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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Lucile Carpentier: Birth: 10 APR 1905 in Webster Groves, St Louis, Missouri, USA. Death: 02 MAY 2008 in St Louis, Missouri, USA

  2. Elizabeth Carpentier: Birth: 20 SEP 1906 in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Death: 18 FEB 2002 in St Louis, Missouri, USA

  3. Robert James Carpentier: Birth: 26 MAR 1908 in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Death: 10 APR 1995 in Hemet, Riverside, California, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Mass Card
2. Title:   Aunt Lucile O'Gorman
3. Title:   Zeitz.FTW
4. Title:   Registry of Births - City of St. Louis
Page:   Page 233 -1878 to 1881 Registry of Births #681
5. Title:   State of KS - Standard Certificate of Death
Page:   #1482
6. Title:   Dan O'Gorman
7. Title:   Marriage Certificate - Mary G. Hannagan & Robert C. Carpentier
Page:   #10747

Notes
a. Note:   H00093
Note:   Before she was married, she sold china for Barr, the store that later became Famous-Barr and is now know as the May Company. Mary & Robert Carpentier returned to St. Louis shortly before Robert C. Carpentier died on 1-15-08 The family had been in Nebraska at the time. They had gone there because they hoped the climate would help restore Robert's health. My father, Robert J., was born 2 1/2 months after his father died. Grandmother Mary G. Carpentier had a job at a little store behind (I think she said) the Knights of Columbus hall. She said they sold cigars, candy, etc. and that Grandmother Carpentier would help Grandmother Hannagan with the children during the day and then go to work in the afternoon and work until midnight. I do remember Dad (Robert J) telling about Grandmother Carpentier working late and how his dog - Buffer- would go to the bus stop every night and meet her to walk her home. Grandma was able to get a civil service job with the Dept of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Service and went to Muskogee, OK where she did health checks for the Cherokees. She originally took my father with her and he was staying at a home run by the Brothers. Later the sister in charge of the Ursuline Academy in Arcadia, MO told her he could come down there. He went go to school there and lived with the farm hands and other men who worked around the grounds. I have a copy of letter written by Mary July 29, 1917 shortly after she arrived in Muskogee, OK. According to the envelope she was staying at the Baltimore Hotel - Cook & Co., Props. - Muskogee, Oklahoma - also Mecca Hotel, Coffeyville, Kansas. The letter is on Dept of the Interior - United States Indian Service - Five Civilized Tribes. The letter is addressed to Mrs. R. Carpentier - 815 Big Bend Rd. - Old Orchard, MO. I also have copies of some of the pages of a record book that she kept during the time she was teaching. There is a picture of Mary handwritten on the back it says "after the Stump Dance - Aug. '17 - Sallisaw, OK". We now know that she went from Muskogee to Ardmore, OK near the Texas border. She worked at a bordering school there for 8 or 9 months and then was transferred to the Kickapoo Indian Reservation in Powhattan County which is adjacent to Horton, Mission County, KS where she worked as a Girls Matron. Apparently she was more than a matron but also a nurse, teacher, etc. Most of this information comes from data I received from the NARA. Mary was the victim of the Spanish Flu pandemic that was raging during 1917-1918. She was caring for a young female child who had the flu and contracted it from her.Before she was married, she sold china for Barr, the store that later became Famous-Barr and is now know as the May Company. Aunt Lucile tells me her wedding dress was kelly green with leg o' mutton sleeves.


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