This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5AB.2ACE/2685.2.1 Message Board Post: Roger, This James was the son of Wilson and Nancy Jane Prewitt Carpenter. I have seen his middle initial as E and L. There was lots of James in the Carpenter family. I have him born 10 Nov 1862. I used this year as it works with the 1900 census and also the obit. His tombstone has 1863.