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Marriage: Children:
  1. Orin Gilmore Carpenter: Birth: 1822 in Avon Twp, Lorain, OH. Death: 1882

  2. Elijah Carpenter: Birth: ABT 1825. Death: 9 AUG 1840 in Avon Twp, Lorain, OH

  3. Sally M. Carpenter: Birth: ABT APR 1828. Death: 5 FEB 1839 in Avon Twp, Lorain, OH

  4. Sarepta Cordelia Carpenter: Birth: 1833 in Avon Twp, Lorain, OH.

  5. Tressa Melissa Carpenter: Birth: 1837 in Avon Twp, Lorain, OH. Death: AFT 1916

  6. Theodore Jasper Carpenter: Birth: 1839 in Avon Twp, Lorain, OH. Death: 1918

  7. Luke Johnson Carpenter: Birth: 1841 in Avon Twp, Lorain, OH. Death: AFT 1916

  8. Charles Norton Carpenter: Birth: 14 JAN 1846 in Avon Twp, Lorain, OH. Death: 24 FEB 1919 in Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI

  9. Person Not Viewable


Sources
1. Title:   Wright, G. Frederick, <i>History of Lorain County</i> (1916)
Page:   pp. 705-6
2. Title:   Carpenter, Amos B., <i>A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America brought down from their English ancestor, John Carpenter, 1303, with many biographical notes of descendants and allied families</i> (Amherst, Mass., Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1898)
Page:   p. 578
3. Title:   Barbour, Lucius Barnes, <i>Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records (1636-1850)</i> (98 rolls of microfilm)
Page:   roll 14
4. Title:   White, Loraine Cook, compiler, <i>Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Andover 1848-1879, Ashford 1710-1851, Avon 1830 - 1851</i> (Baltimore, MD, Genealogical pub. co., 1994)
Page:   p. 57
5. Title:   Wright, G. Frederick, <i>History of Lorain County</i> (1916)
Page:   p. 706
6. Title:   Wright, G. Frederick, <i>History of Lorain County</i> (1916)
Page:   p. 705
7. Title:   <i>1830 U.S. Federal Census</i>; Fifth Census of the United States 1830 (National Archives of the United States, microfilm publications, Washington D.C., National Archives, 1955)
Page:   p. 6
8. Title:   <i>1850 U.S. Federal Census</i> (Washington D.C., National Archives microfilm publications)
Page:   Avon, Lorain, OH, p. 928
9. Title:   <i>1860 U.S. Federal Census</i> (Washington D.C., National Archives microfilm publications)
Page:   Avon, Lorain Co., OH, p. 33
10. Title:   <i>1850 U.S. Federal Census</i> (Washington D.C., National Archives microfilm publications)
Page:   Avon, Lorain Co., p. 928

Notes
a. Note:   hio with a friend Hosea Harris arriving in 1819. Their destination was his uncle's home in Lorain County. A Lorain Co. history indicated it was in honor of his uncle that Mr. Ephraim Keyes Carpenter was named. Arriving in Avon he worked for his uncle and gradually paid for the 50 acres of new land which he secured as the nucleus of the old Carpenter homestead in Avon Township.
  He was a charter member of the Avon Methodist Episcopal Church was a class leader from its beginning for forty years. He was also a licensed exhorter and local preacher. He was one of the men who helped to build up churches and extend religious influences in the old Western Reserve of Ohio. In the absence of regular preachers or missionaries he frequently held meetings in his neighborhood and the Carpenter home was often the scene of gatherings for prayer and Bible reading. After moving to Michigan he became a member and active worker in the Evangelical Church at East Gilead. He was married to Lavina Carly Cooper, daughter of David Cooper and Polly Atwell. They had nine children.
  Ephraim Keyes Carpenter's uncle was Ephraim Keyes, brother to his mother Hannah Keyes. In 1820 Masilva and Ephraim Keyes sold 75 acres of land in Avon, Lorain County Ohio to Ephraim K. Carpenter.
Note:   Ephraim Keyes Carpenter (known as Keyes) apparently walked to Northern O
b. Note:   . Oct.1, [ ], vol 4, page 7. The History of Lorain County [OH] indicates Ephraim Keyes Carpenter was "born in Lee Township, Berkshire County, MA, December 29, 1799; Ephraim Keyes Carpenter was a son of Levi and Hannah (Keyes) Carpenter. The family did live in Tyringham, Berkshire, MA where the youngest two children were born.
Note:   Barbour collection indicates Ephraim Keyes Carpenter, s. Levi & Hannah, b
c. Note:   aing Robins.
Note:   The marriage year of 1820 came from the family group sheets of Barbara L


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