When Priscilla Frances Carpenter was born on 24 March 1864, in Marion, West Virginia, United States, her father, Jacob Carpenter, was 23 and her mother, Sarah ( Kata) Brumley, was 22. She married Sylvester Myers on 16 September 1881, in Colfax, Marion, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cabell, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Magnolia District, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 5 October 1933, in New Martinsville, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Williams Cemetery, Manassas Park, Henry, Virginia, United States.
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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.
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