>Dear Ernest and Donny: > Are you guys reacting to each other, or are your recent queries coincidental? Some months ago I posted queries for any connection between Carpenter and Yelverton famiilies. Rod Carpenter provide a clue in citing Yelverton Carpenter in NC, who he said was said to have been maybe a son of Stephen and brother of Fielding (or maybe the other way around?), perhaps from Pennsylvania. (Are on on line, Rod? Am I getting this right?) I made a couple of inquiries in PA, to no avail. > So Ernest, if you find anything on Yelverton Carpenter's parents I'd sure like to know it. Donny, are you only looking in TN? Maybe NC, or even PA are possibilities. > My own interest in this is that way up in Orange Cty NY there were two marriages--a Carpenter-Yelverton and a Carman-Yelverton (Eager's History of Orange County) that may or may not have produced a Yelverton Carpenter, and may or may not have produced a Carman Carpenter. Various Orange County Carpenters (including my own) moved to PA, so if some then moved to NC and thence TN there may be connection. Or, maybe just similar names. This gets pretty tenuous...but I've tracked down more than one relative on tenuous coincidence. > Robin >