This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FORE, BUTLER, CARPENTER, TINDALL/TINDEL/TYNDALL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/1594.2 Message Board Post: Would this Oscar P. Carpenter be related to Timothy and Melinda Miller Carpenter of Plainfield Twp. Kent Co. Michigan? Timothy b. July 26, 1796 in Cayuga Co., New York was also listed in the Biography section of "The History of Kent Co. Michigan". Timothy's daughter, Exania Carpenter Butler, and her husband Charles Harvey Butler named her son, Eber Landon Butler. Since Oscar's father was the Rev. Eber Carpenter I have always supposed there may be a family connection due to the unusual name of Eber. Please email me at cynthiafore@mindspring.com.