William Wallace Carpenter Jr.

William Wallace Carpenter Jr. was born in the Sunshine State of Florida more than 132 years ago on July 9th, 1887 to his Father William Wallace Carpenter Sr.and Mother Emmaretta Silcox.

** Interesting events that occurred around the World during Mr.Carpenters birth year of 1887 included.

• On January 28th, 1887 in a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick !!

• On January 28th, 1887 work begins on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.

• On February 23rd, 1887 the French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing approximately 2,000 people along the coast of the Mediterranean.

• On March 3rd, 1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old Helen Keller who is both blind and deaf.

• On April 10th, 1887 United States President Abraham Lincoln is re-buried with his Wife Mary Todd Lincoln in Springfield, Ilinois.

• On December 1st, 1887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in the novel "A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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This evenings honoree was the second of six children born to his Mother and Father. Elder Sister Maude was born 3 years prior to William's arrival in 1884... His younger siblings included Brother Frank and Sisters Ruth, Gertrude, and Irma.

Patriarch William Wallace the senior a native of Vermont supports his family as a carpenter.

William marries Schivalette Simonds on May 19th, 1909. We know little of his Wife under this name.

William would register to serve is Country on June 5th 1917 as the United States prepares to enter the First World War. He lists his occupation as that of being a business owner running a "Crate Mill".

He would serve his Country during the Great War until well after its conclusion on June 12th, 1919.

William is a business owner for the nearly ball of his adult life, mostly working with his hands in different elements of carpentry just like his New England born Father.

William and his Wife have three children during the course of their marriage although records for them are scarce.

By 1928 just after having celebrated his 41st birthday Williams health declines rapidly and he loses his life on October the 7th leaving behind a Wife and his three aforementioned children.

** William's death certificate states that his Wife's name is "Florence Carpenter" but we do not know if that is "Schivalette Simonds" whom he married nineteen years earlier in 1909.

William Wallace Carpenter... Beloved Husband, Father, and proud Patriotic Veteran of the First World War