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/1308.1315.1323.1328 Message Board Post: I have your Joseph Jesse Carpenter in my line. His mother was Delphia Bragg Ward Carpenter and his father was Fielding Carpenter, Sr. Joseph was born in 1815 in KY and died abt 1873 in Madison Co, KY.He married Anna Gabbard.He married Nancy Runyon 28 Jun 1860 in Jackson Co, KY.She was born in 1815 in North Carolina and died around 1880 in Madison Co, KY. Your Joseph would have been related to my ggrandfather Boyd Carpenter of Rockcastle CO. My mother remembers Boyd as tall and thin, he was 84 or so when he died and she went to his funeral. I have more on the Fielding Carpenter line.