Opps! I forgot to mention that NC had some Zimmerman Carpenters of good German and Swiss stock. If anyone has a good GEDCOM of the Carpenters that came from the Zimmerman German / Switzerland, I would be happy to add it to the Carpenter CD Project. My apologies to those good NC Carpenters of German / Swiss ancestry for forgetting them for a minute on my last message. John R. Carpenter La Mesa, CA jrfranklin wrote: > > Sho' nuff! I have Mathias Zimmerman/CARPENTER b 1750 PA d 1835 Ashe m. > Elizabeth MILLER to his son, Jacob b 1778 and his grandson, David W. b > 1806 who married 2nd Mira GRAGG. Their son, Ervin b. about 1843 Yancey > Cty was last heard of in the 1860 census. He did not go to > Graham/Cherokee Cty with the rest of his family. He did, however, have a > daughter named Betty Jane who is my husband's Ggrandmother. I have been > unable to determine who Ervin married or where he went but it must not > have been far. Betty Jane and her son, Mack Leonard Carpenter were > definitely in Western NC. I would also like to determine the parentage > of Mathis Zimmerman and where he came from in PA. He was German without > a doubt. Audrey Franklin > > John Comer wrote: > > > Hi to all you Carpenter genealogists out there, > > I have been watching with much interest all the posts that are coming > > through, very interesting but I haven't seen anything on any NC > > Carpenters. > > Are there any researchers out there researching this area? > > > > Thanks, Joyce Comer