Can anyone identify this William Carpenter? Was he a part of the descendents of my Adam Carpenter d. 1851 in Edgefield District, South Carolina? Was he a brother of my ancestor, Ed/Edward/Edmund Carpneter b. c. 1842 d. 1816 Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia,buried in WestView Cemetery? Or was he from some other group of CarpenterS? William Carpenter, Jr. brother of my Ed Carpenter was missing from the list of heirs when his grandfather's land was sold in 1882-1883. I just presumed that he was deceased by that time, perhaps dying in the Civil War or some such thing? The item cited below was found posted to the Carpenter forum at Genealogy.com. Surely some news items about the trial would have been in the Edgefield newspapers!? Can anyone find a reference to it in the Edgefield newspapers of the time? Any assistance appreciated. Vivian Cates, Alto, Texas Swain County Herald, (Swain Co. NC) Thursday, December 5, 1889: "SOUTH CAROLINA---Two Murderers Sentenced: William Carpenter and Whitfield Murrell were convicted at Edgefield, S.C., Thursday of the murder of Preston Younce in June last. The jury deliberated three hours and returned a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy. A motion made in arrest of judgement was refused by the judge, and the prisoners were sentenced to be hanged on the third of next January. These are the first white murderers convicted in Edgefield County for forty years."