Sarilda Caroline Carpenter

Brief Life History of Sarilda Caroline

When Sarilda Caroline Carpenter was born on 22 July 1849, in Orleans, Orleans Township, Orange, Indiana, United States, her father, Jacob Henry Carpenter, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth "Eliza" Burton, was 24. She married Almanzor M Clay on 7 June 1868, in Monroe, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Indian Creek Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States in 1870 and Clear Creek, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 2 November 1894, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Adams, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Almanzor M Clay
1844–1916
Sarilda Caroline Carpenter
1849–1894
Marriage: 7 June 1868
Sophronia Ethel Clay
1869–1941
Della Caroline Clay
1874–1957
Zaring Ezra Clay
1877–1923
Alma Olga Clay
1884–1965

Sources (9)

  • Caroline Clay in household of Almanzor Clay, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Carrie Clay, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Caroline Carpenter in entry for John H Anderson, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2018"

World Events (8)

1851 · Constitution of 1851

Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854: Monroe, Indiana, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English (southern): occupational name for a worker in wood, Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).

Americanized form (translation into English) of German Zimmermann , French Charpentier , Italian Carpentieri , or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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