At 8:46 PM -0700 6/22/00, Flossie Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Ms Pettit, > You helped me so much once before that I am asking for you help again. > I am looking for a Nancy Ann Carpenter who was born in Rowan or Bath Co., Ky > July 9, 1842. She married Winfield Scott Utterback, mother to J.M. who > married Dora Rose Pettit. I have the background on the Utterbacks but > can find nothing on the Carpenters. Flossie, I am not having much luck. Rowan County was not formed until 1856, from the north part of Morgan Co and the south part of Fleming Co. Up through at least 1860, UTTERBACK and CARPENTER appear to be mostly Bath County surnames. The 1860 census of Bath Co. lists 9 UTTERBACK families and 9 CARPENTER families, while the 1860 census of Rowan Co. lists *nobody* with the surname CARPENTER, and the only UTTERBACK is an infant, Harmon Utterback age 1 living with Benjamin F. COREY, age 21 and Elizabeth COREY age 13. (Curiously, this family is also listed in the 1860 census of Bath County. They must have lived near the county line and been counted by both census takers.) But I cannot find Winfield Scott UTTERBACK nor Nancy Ann CARPENTER in the 1860 census. My guess is that they were already married, but living in another county, neither Bath nor Rowan. (Perhaps Fleming or Morgan.) Interestingly, there was a Winfield S. CARPENTER age 13 listed in the 1860 census of Bath Co., son of Michael CARPENTER age 60 and wife Sarah age 57. Unfortunately, I do not have access to the 1850 census of Bath Co., nor the 1860 censuses of Fleming Co. or Morgan Co. The 1860 census of Bath County is online, but Adobe's connection to the Internet seems to be down at this time. No matter what site I try to connect to, it just puts up the "Waiting for reply..." message. The last time I used it, the URL was: http://www.webpak.net/~kyblue/bath/census.htm but it may have moved. There is also a small fraction of the 1850 census of Bath Co. online - transcriptions of 5 of the original pages - but that fragment contains no UTTERBACK or CARPENTER families. (Even though I can't access those census pages online at this time to check the URLs, I can do searches in them because I long ago downloaded them to my hard drive for just this reason.) I would suggest posting your query to the KYBATH-L discussion list and also putting a query on the Bath County Ky GenConnect board. In fact, to save some time I will copy the KYBATH-L list on this reply. -- Teri Pettit [email protected] USGenWeb County Coordinator for Rowan Co., KY