Info about Carpenter family > From: "Mike mcgrath" <mmcgrath@highland.net> > Date: May 19, 2011 5:38:43 AM CDT > To: "Marilyn Morris" <MGM12@lighttube.net> > Subject: Re: [TNMORGAN] CARPENTER - SCHENCK PROPERTY (White Oak Creek) > > Dear Marilyn, > Dad and I about 2 months ago went down to Nydeck ( named for the Schneck van Nydeck family) just below the Carpenter Cemetery and found the old Dam that was probably built by Rev. Timothy Carpenter. Of course there is no house or remnants. He died around 1855 and is buried in Trinity Cemetery in McMinn Co. > The dam has been strngthened with cement but is still there. We were there just after a flood that put the water 25 feet high out of it's banks. Will go back and get some pictures this summer. It is a swimming hole for the locals. > > Mike > Burrville > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Marilyn Morris > To: Mike McGrath > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:14 AM > Subject: Fwd: [TNMORGAN] CARPENTER - SCHENCK PROPERTY (White Oak Creek) > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: CMW12635@aol.com >> Date: May 18, 2011 3:08:32 PM CDT >> To: TNMORGAN@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [TNMORGAN] CARPENTER - SCHENCK PROPERTY (White Oak Creek) >> Reply-To: tnmorgan@rootsweb.com >> >> >> I am hopeful a subscriber may be able to help me. The Carpenter family, >> maternal ancestors of mine, resided in Morgan County in the 1830s through to >> 1850. My great-great-great-great grandfather was an early Methodist >> minister, a circuit rider, the Reverend Timothy Carpenter (1773-1853). A >> grandson-in-law of his, the Reverend A.B. Wright, in his published >> autobiography, page 7 (published 1896),refers to Timothy Carpenter residing ".....on >> White Oak Creek, in Morgan County, Tennessee, where Schenck now lives. That >> is the old Carpenter place." >> >> I was hopeful that a subscriber might be able to help me pinpoint this >> location. It would be great if some remains of the Carpenter residence could >> still be seen, although I realize that is unlikely. Nevertheless, I would >> welcome the opportunity to visit the site where it was located, if given >> permission by the current owner. I have descriptions of the house, a >> dog-trot cabin, and there was also a lumber and grist mill built nearby by >> Timothy Carpenter, owned and operated by him. >> >> I have found that there is a Burnt Mill Bridge mentioned in the White Oak >> Creek area and wonder if this might be a reference, perhaps, to the mill of >> Timothy Carpenter. At this point, that is pure speculation. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. >> >> Charles Ward >> _CMW12635@aol.com_ (mailto:CMW12635@aol.com) >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1321 / Virus Database: 1509/3646 - Release Date: 05/18/11 >