MRS. CARPENTER, 96, DIED HERE MON., JUNE 24

Early Settler. Came To County In 1870. Homesteaded On York Creek

Mrs. Esther Carpenter, a resident of this county for the past seventy six years, died at her home on East Colfax Street on Monday, June 24th, at 11:30 a.m.

Deceased was born in Morrow County, Ohio on May 31, 1850. When she was four years of age she came with her parents to Lucas County, Iowa where she grew to womanhood. She was married to William Carpenter on December 27, 1870, and immediately moved to Washington County, Nebraska where Mr. Carpenter had previously homesteaded on a piece of land in Grant Township.

Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, five of whom survive. The survivors are Mrs. Ida B. Hindley of Blair and Alice and Minnie at home; Moses Carpenter of Oakland, California; and Henry of Appleton City, Missouri. Besides these, she leaves twenty two grandchildren, a number of great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.

Funeral services are being held this Thursday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. from the Methodist church with Rev. Sidney L. McCaig, pastor of the church officiating, and interment is to be made in the Rose Hill cemetery.

To have lived in one community for seventy six years and have known the material changes as Mrs. Carpenter has known them is an education that can be acquired in no other manner. It is indeed a great loss to the community and to her many friends to have her go to her last rest. Old friends, old scenes have been her life and although nature has made her call, her memory will remain sacred to her relatives and friends.

#2 Printed in the Thursday, June 27, 1946 Pilot-Tribune, p. 1

Mrs. Carpenter is Dead at 96

BLAIR’S OLDEST RESIDENT DIES THREE WEEKS AFTER HER BIRTHDAY

Less than a month after she had observed her 96th birthday, Mrs. Esther J. Carpenter, 96, Blair’s oldest resident, died Monday morning at her home, 108 East Colfax Street.

Funeral services are being held at 2pm today at First Methodist church, the Rev. Sidney L. McCaig officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill cemetery under the direction of the Bendorf Funeral Home.

Mrs. Carpenter was born in Iowa May 31, 1850 and was married there in 1870 to William Carpenter. Twenty-two years ago, after his death, Mrs. Carpenter moved to Blair.

An invalid many years, the aged Blairite had been cared for by two daughters, Misses Alice and Minnie Carpenter.

Surviving besides Alice and Minnie are one sister, Mrs. Ida B. Hindley of Blair, and two sons, Moses of Oakland, California and Henry of Appleton City, Missouri.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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