Modified
Register for Jiles Bryant (Pap) Carpenter
Submitted By: John Wayne Hickman at: New E-mail Address as of Jan. 2007.
graygo1945@txwifi.com
1. Jiles Bryant (Pap) Carpenter
was
born on 22 Feb 1853 in Alabama. He died on 26 Oct 1929 in McKenzie, Bulter,
Alabama, USA. He was buried on 26 Oct 1929 in Elizabeth, Primitive Bapt.,
McKenzie, Alabama.
Jiles
married Charity (Mammy) Bracken daughter
of Mathias Bracken and Delilah Grimes on 31 Oct 1875 in Alabama. Charity was
born on 30 May 1849. She died on 1 Jul 1923 in McKenzie, Butler, Ala.
She was buried in Elizabeth, Primitive Bapt., McKenzie, Alabama.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross,
!Ref, Debra Maddox Wilson, Cheryll Sumner News Paper obit:
Charity's parents were Mathias Bracken and Delilah Grimes.
Her Obituary
Mrs.
Charity Carpenter of McKenzie, died
at a local infirmary, Sunday morning, July 1st, age 74.
She is survived by her husband,
Mr. Jiles Carpenter and several children as follows:
Mr. John Carpenter, Mr. Elias Carpenter
of Georgiana, Mr. Willie Carpenter of Laurel, Miss., Mr. Jim Carpenter of
McKenzie
Mrs. Joe McKenzie, Mrs. Scott Cabiness, Mrs. G. B. Lee of McKenzie.
Mrs. Carpenter was by nature, bright and sunny, and had many warm friends
who regret her
death very deeply. She was a member
of the Primitive Baptist church, and found many ways to serve her Master.
Her sweet face will be missed at Elizabeth church and at other places.
Many hearts go out in sympathy
to the bereaved husband and other relatives in this sorrow.
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i. John R. Carpenter was
born on 11 May 1874 in Butler Co, AL. He died in 1940.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross, Debra Maddox Wilson:
John R. married Ida Payne.
3 F
ii. Amnitious Iola (Babe)
Carpenter was born on 2 Jul
1875. She died on 16 Nov 1954.
4 F
iii. Irene Ophelia
Carpenter was born on 21 Aug
1877 in Butler Co, AL.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross, Debra Maddox Wilson:
Irene married a Scott Cabiness.
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iv. Elias Dozier Carpenter was
born on 16 Jul 1878 in Butler Co, AL.
He died on 27 Jan 1957 in Georgianna, Butler Co, AL.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross, Debra Maddox Wilson:
Elias married a Kate McKenzie.
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v. Eldora Elefore Carpenter
was born on 17 Apr 1880 in
Butler Co, AL.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross, Debra Maddox Wilson: Eldora married Joe McKenzi
7 M
vi. William Ben Carpenter was
born on 13 Apr 1883 in Butler Co, AL.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross, Debra Maddox Wilson:
William 1st to Myrtte Music and 2nd to Johnette Arrington.
8 M
vii. James Wesley Carpenter
was born on 28 Apr 1884 in
Geneva Co, AL. He died in Aug 1949 in Panama City, Bay Co., FL.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross,
Debra Maddox Wilson: James 1st marriage to Dixie Burch and 2nd unknown.
9 F
viii. Jerushia May
Carpenter was born on 8 May 1888
in Butler Co, AL.
Ref, Debra Maddox
Wilson, Christine Lee Ross: She
married her sister husband Scott Cabiness.
3. Amnitious Iola (Babe)
Carpenter (Jiles Bryant (Pap))
was born on 2 Jul 1875. She died on 16 Nov 1954 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama,
USA. She was buried on 19 Nov 1954 in Elizabeth, Primitive Bapt., McKenzie,
Alabama.
Ref, Melissa WcWhorter
Parker, Christine Lee Ross: Iola's parents were Jiles B. Carpenter, born 23
Feb,1853
and Charity Bracken, Born 3 May 1849. Jiles's
parents were William Carpenter and Savannah Donaldson.
Charitys' parents were Mathias Bracken and Delilia Grimes.
Delilia's parents were William
and Lydia Grimes.
Lola's Nickname was Babe.
Amnitious married Gipson
Boyt (Gip) Lee son of George
Washington Sr. Lee and Rhodia Anne Elizabeth Mitchell on 23 Dec 1892 in Defuniak
Springs, Walton County, Florida, USA. Gipson was born on 4 Dec 1869 in Westover,
Covington, Alabama, USA. He died on 6 Nov 1962 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama,
USA. He was buried on 9 Nov 1962 in Elizabeth, Primitive Bapt., McKenzie,
Alabama.
Ref, Thermyl Juanita
Lee, Web E Lee, Candy Stacks, Sandra Johnson Taylor; Gipson Boyt Lee, known
as Gip, was born in Red
Level, Alabama to George Washington Lee Sr. and his wife Rhodia Anne
Elizabeth Mitchell Lee.
He lived most of his life in McKenzie, Alabama and worked in the early
years as
a lumber man and then a
farmer. He was a member of the
McKenzie City Council in 1936 and known as
a oral historian.
He was noted for his good memory and clear thinking at an age when most
citizens
tend to forget and gave
many accounts of the old McKenzie before his death at age 94.
His wife
Amnitious Iola
Carpenter, known as Babe, was the daughter of Jiles B. (Pap) Carpenter and
Charity
(Mammy) Bracken.
Aunt Christine Ross said in a letter to me in August 1995 that Gipson and
Amnitious
slip away from church at
Bethel to get married. Uncle
Dosh and Newt Hester went with them to Walton
County, Florida to be
married in 1892. Uncle Dosh and Newt
Hester rode mules and Papa and Mama
were in a buggy.
As they were going through the piney woods they came to a house were some
children
were playing.
Uncle Dosh asked them if they had any corn meal.
The children ran to the back and
asked the mother, when
they returned and remarked yes, Uncle
Dosh told them its is a good thing to
have..
I asked Aunt Christine again
in January, 1996 about the trip to Florida and Uncle Dosh's statement.
She told me that
Mama had relatives down there on both sides and her father may have
objected, but
she never heard.
She also said that as a small child,
Amnitious would go down to visit them by ox and
wagon, and had told the
story of how she would get tire of sitting and would get out and walk.
As to
Uncle Dosh's statement,
she stated that Uncle Dosh was a very humorous fellow, joked a lot,
even
when he was troubled he
would sang, and he had plenty of trouble. Aunt
Nancy fussed most of the time
and he had two boys that
drank. Granddaddy Lee worked as a
logger when he was young. They sawed
logs and
rode them down the rivers to Mobile, then walked back for another run.
The men would sleep
in the woods lots of
times, blacks as well as whites. Granddaddy Lee said some nights it got so cold
he
would have to cover up
his head to keep warm.
In Webb E. Lee's book he
reports the following from a Mobile Newspaper Article called the Climbing the
Family Tree from someone
named P. H. O. in Saraland. They
write that in the census of 1850, there is a
Caroline
Gipson, age 6 living in the household of Greenberry
Lee, who is married to Martha.
Just down
the road there is a Celia
Gipson, age 12, living with the South's.
We know they had a brother John (my
great-grandfather), who
was approximately age 10 at that time. In the 1840 Census there was a
Margaret Gibson born
1815-1820 living next door to Greenberry, who we believe to be the mother of
John, Celea and
Caroline. There is definitely a
close relationship between the Gibsons and Lees as
Greenberry's son George
W. was referred to by the Gipsons' as "Uncle George Lee" and George
even
named one of his sons
Gipson Boyt Lee (Gip).
In December, 1997,
Candience Hitson Stacks (Candy), email me with the following information.
The P.
H. O. from Saraland in the Mobile Newspaper Article is Candy's second cousin
from her Dad's (Ray
Vernon Hitson) side and their research says that Margaret Gipson or Gibson came
to Alabama with
Greenberry Lee and his wife. The story goes that Margaret was a mistress of
Greenberry's and lived in a
small house on his property. She had
three kids, a son named John (her Line) and two daughters. It is
unknown by them if these children were actually Gibson children or Greenberry's.
If they were Gibson
children, no one knows who there father was.
It is possible, though, that the father may have also been
named John, because there appears to be several John's in a line.
Sandra Johnson Taylor, a
Lee researcher, writes, the Gibsons of Covington County and Butler County
Sandra's research has convinced her that the Gibson lady was a cousin.
My Mother, also referred
to the Gibson's children connected to the Lee's "as those children from the
other side of the blanket".
10-31-1912 __GIP B. LEE
MAKES CORN RECORD__Produces Over 100 Bushels On Acre at a Cost of
About 35c Per Bushel. Gip LEE, on
his farm near McKenzie, made a corn record for his section in the
corn contest this season. He produced 102 bushels, 3 pecks and 6 pounds of corn
on his acre at a cost
of between 34 and 35c per bushel put in the crib. Mr. LEE informed us that the
yield from this acre cost
him less per bushel than did his general crop which he cultivated with the usual
methods employed,
demonstrating a fact of vital importance to the farmers, that not the quantity
of land, but the increased
yield on a reduced acreage with intensified cultivation, decreases the cost.
Gipson and Amnitious had the following children:
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i. Ollie Mae Lee was
born on 5 Jan 1894 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA.
She died on 7 Jan 1978 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA. She was buried on 10
Jan 1978 in
New Home Church, McKenzie, Alabama, USA.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross: Married Horace Wilton Sanford
Ollie married Horace Wilton Sanford.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross:
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ii. Alva Iola Lee was
born on 14 Feb 1896 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA. She died
on 31 May 1976.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross: 1st
marriage to Edd Shell and 2nd to Alferd Latner
12 F iii. Annie Blanche Lee was born on 22 Jun 1898 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA. She died on 30 Mar 1980 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA. She was buried on 2 Apr 1980 in Elizabeth, Primitive Bapt., McKenzie, Alabama. Ref, Christine Lee Ross: Never Married
13 F
iv. Myrtle Recie Lee was
born on 21 Jun 1900 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA. She died on 16 Feb 1988
in Nursing Home, Pensacola, Florida, USA. She was buried on 19 Feb 1988 in
Magnolia, Cemetery, Greenville, Alabama.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross:
Married Lee Andrew Duke. Aunt
Recie was a school teacher
in Bulter County for many years before moving to Pensacola to live.
Myrtle married Lee Andrew Duke on
3 Nov 1921. Lee was born on 5 Nov 1896. He died on 16 May 1942.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross:
14 F
v. Alma Odessa Lee was
born on 20 Jun 1903 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA. She died on 10 Sep 1980
in Greenville, Bulter, Alabama, USA. She was buried on 13 Sep 1980 in McKenzie,
Bulter, Alabama, USA.
was born 2 Dec 1901 and died 24 May 1965. Cecil
Hayes parents were Bama Ophelia Ledlow
born 30 Nov 1876 and Died 6 Aug 1966 and Marion F. Hayes born 4 Oct 1897.
Alma married Cecil Mckinley Hayes on
2 Jan 1922. Cecil was born on 2 Dec 1901.
He died on 24 May 1965.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross:
Cecil Hayes parents were Bama Ophelia Ledlow, born 30
Nov 1876 and died 6 Aug 1966 and Marion F. Hayes born 4 Oct 1897.
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vi. Clifford Morris (Buddy)
Lee was born on 17 Dec 1906 in
McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA. He died on 8 Feb 1958 in Pensacola, , Florida,
USA.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross:
Married Isaphine Williams from Industry Comm., Bulter County, Alabama
16 F
vii. Christine Eugenia Lee was
born on 7 Oct 1909 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA. She died on 28 Jan 1997 in
Atlanta, Georgia. She was buried on 31 Jan 1997 in Elizabeth Cem., McKenzie,
Alabama, USA.
Ref, Personal Knowledge
and Aunt Christine: Married Gary
Lamar Ross born 15 Oct 1903,
who passed away 2 Nov 1959.
Christine married Gary Lamar Ross .
Gary was born on 15 Oct 1903. He died in Sep 1959.
Ref, Christine Lee Ross:
17 F
viii. Thermyl Juanita Lee was
born on 2 Apr 1914 in McKenzie, Butler, Alabama, USA. She died on 9 Jun 1995 in
Greenville, Butler, Alabama, USA. She was buried on 12 Jun 1995 in Central
Church, Butler, Greenville, Alabama.
Ref, Information from
Thermyl Hickman as told to Cheryl and Wayne Hickman:
She
Principal at Central,
but never my school teacher.
How Thermyl (Mother) met
Eual Victor Hickman as told to Cheryl and Wayne Hickman.
I was teaching school at Central School and boarding down at Mrs. Ruby Pryor's.
Eual worked on a road crew for
Butler County, as a cook. They would
be out for a
week at a time, so a camp was sat up for the work crew to have a place to eat
and
sleep. They would stay out during
the week and come home on Friday for the
weekend. Saturday mornings, there
was no one at Mrs. Ruby's house, so I would go
up to Samuel and Minnie Hickman's house to visit with their daughters Opal and
Lessie. This was where I met Eual
for the first time. As our
relationship developed,
Eual would come home
more often on weekends. When the
girls would walk down to
Oscar Burts on the weekends to get vegetables Eual would want to go along and we
would walk and talk. Merle was
courting Regger at that time, and one day when they
were going to the picture show, Merle told Eual "Why don't you ask Thermyl
to go.
" He did and all Eual wanted to
do was talk about his girl friends. They
had a party at Mama
and Papa Hickman's and Eual comes home instead of seeing the Jackson girl.
She
later wrote him a letter saying if you want to go with that Miss Lee then you
can just do
it. He borrowed Merle's car and
drove me home to McKenzie for Christmas in 1933.
He came back and picked
me up after Christmas. We courted
mostly at Mama
Hickman's house after I returned. I
moved up from Mrs. Ruby's to board at Mama
Hickman's. The school closed for the
year in March, that year, when the money ran
out and I went back to Livingston's for a Semester.
Eual rode the bus to Montgomery
just to ride back with me. The next
year I taught at Sims School House and boarded
with Fred and Pearly Knight. Eual
was surveying for the county at that time building
terraces as part of soil conservation.
We set the date to marry
and my folks didn't even know. We
got married at the
parsonage at the First Baptist Church in Greenville on December 22, 1934.
We moved
in with Papa Hickman and I rode the school bus to Mt. Olive Church and walk two
or
three miles to the Sims School House. Eual
was still surveying at this time.
When the house was
finish, we moved in. There was no
ceiling at that time. Eual
would go with James Wesley McClure all over the country buying hogs and
Tennessee
Walking Horses. We sold a calf to
start the ceiling in the bedroom. Eual farmed a little,
had hogs, registered Durocs, didn't make any money.
Eual went to work for
Butler Manufacturing Company and made friends with a
Machinist named Draper from up North. They
would go fishing together. Draper
taught Eual to be a Machinists. When
Butler Manufacturing moved down to Flomation,
Alabama Eual would go down on Monday and come back on Friday.
He stayed with
the Knowles Family while down there. While
working at Butler Manufacturing, he
made a pocket maker to fold the pocket automatically when sewing the pocket on
the
shirt. He never received any thing
for his invention and it showed up on the next
Singer Model made. When Butler
Manufacturing would set out to get a new contract
for shirts, Eual would do the production model.
When Littles
Manufacturing Company opened in Greenville Eual went to work for them
and worked there until he died in 1954.
Note:
I asked Mother to give me more information on the story about building
the
house. I wanted to know about
Mama Hickman and Mother washing the black off the
boards. Who was the man that helped
built the house?
(Mother never got around to giving me the information).
and Minnie Ann Sims on 22 Dec 1934 in First Baptist, Pastorium,
Greenville,
Alabama. Eual was born on 22 Jan 1912 in Greenville, Butler, Alabama, USA.
He died on 21 Nov 1954 in Greenville, Butler, Alabama, USA. He was buried
on 21 Nov 1954 in Central Baptist, Church, Greenville, Alabama.
Maintenance Superintendent for Little Manufacturing Co.
He was a musician and
possessed an excellent voice. He
sang bass with the Greenville Singers. He
worked
on a road crew, in his early years as a cook.
He worked for awhile with the county
surveying, to build terraces as a part of the soil conservation effort.
He worked with
James Wesley McClure for awhile traveling around to county sales buying hogs and
Tennessee Walking Horses. Mother
stated they raised and sold a calf to put a ceiling
in the bedroom of their house. Mother
told me one time that; "Eual farmed a little, had
hogs, registered Durocs, and didn't make any Money." He went to work for
Butler
Manufacturing Company and made friends with a Machinist named Draper from up
North. Draper was the one that
taught Dad the trade of machinists. Draper
and Dad
loved to fish and they went allot, I can ever remember an early morning trip.
I'm sure it
was around 4:30 am and we where at the pond behind the house getting bait.
While
working at Butler Dad made most of the production samples when the company would
receive a new shirt contract. He
invented a pocket maker, as an attachment, for the
Singer Sewing machines that would fold the pocket automatically when sewing it
on
the shirt. He never received anything for his invention, but it was on the next
new
Singer Model that they received at Butler.
When Littles Manufacturing Company
opened in Greenville He went to work for them and worked there until he died in
1954.
He died on a Sunday in a Greenville Hospital from a Heart attack.
Submitted
by John Wayne Hickman graygo1945@txwifi.com
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