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Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:27:17 -0700

Hello to the List

I'm searching for information on my great-grandfather John T. Carpenter and
only recently began looking into his moving from Georgia to Arkansas. A
little background, John T. Carpenter married Frances E. Richardson in
Chattooga County, Georgia on 18 January 1855. Their first son was born in
1857 and in Georgia according to census records. Their next child, a
daughter was born in June 1864, and again in Georgia according to census
records. However, in between these two dates, the 1860 census has John, his
wife Frances and their son John Jeff living in Greene County along with a
Felix Turner. John's Real Estate is valued at $1,000 and personal property
at $560. It is thought that this could only mean that he had purchased
property in Arkansas.

My question is this: What route or routes could he have used in travelling
to the North Eastern portion of Arkansas from the North western portion of
Georgia in about 1858 or 1859? There are also questions of why he went to
Arkansas? And, why he left in about 1862 or 1863 and came back to Gerogia?

Any help on these areas would be most helpful.

Thanks in advance. Bob Carpenter

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