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Note: N5 BIRTH PARENTS: Named in Naomi Carpenter's will BIRTHDATE and PLACE: Social Security Record; U.S. Naval Service Separation Paper, 11/7/1945; Application for Federal Employment, 5/8/1949 MARRIAGE: Marriage license, Santa Rosa Co., FL, by C.J. Clarke, #356, Marriage Book 2, p. 356 2nd Marriage license: They were divorced in 1958, but they remarried in 1964. FIRST JOB after marriage & moving to Mississippi: Lumber Company in Moss Point, July, 1938 DEATH: Death certificate, Memorial obituary, Daily Herald, 11/29/66 and Family Records Stephen dropped the Rensselaer part of his name. He never knew his father, or his father's family. He died of emphysema. Stephen Carpenter helped to install the electrical wiring on board the first nuclear submarine bult in the United States. Stephen was a small man. In an application for federal employment when he was about 34, he stated that he was 5 ft., 7 1/2 in., and weighted 132 pounds. He had gray eyes and dark brown hair.
From my brother, Van: Barbara - after reading your article I thought of a couple of other things of note. To me at least. Daddy also installed and set up one of the first radar units put on a private yacht. Mr. Ingalls wouldn't let anyone else touch it except him. (That's what someone told me.) He also was a foreman for the electrical work on the last passenger/cruise ship built in America (1957 or 1958). When Jo Ann and I went on a cruise back a lot of years ago we found out that the ship we were on was the one he had worked on. If we run out of important stuff - he was the first and only one in Moss Point to have a skinny-wheeled- bicycle! I'll keep thinking!
Barbara - I can't remember if it was 1957 or 1958 that the ship was finished. It was the last cruise ship Ingalls had contracted. Daddy had reached the foreman / superintendent level in the electrical department and spent a lot of time drinking with the big shots. His drinking kept getting worse until he was demoted down to changing lightbulbs on cranes when he got sick. The ship we were on had a metal plate on the wall telling when constructed, where, etc.
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