Emily Alston Carpenter

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James Harris Fitts, "Genealogy of the Fitts or Fitz Family in America," MDCCCXCVII page 129 No.164 Emily Alston/5 Leach was born Dec. 1, 1843, and baptized April 28, 1844. She was married to James Slaughter Carpenter, of Louisville, Ky., on April 3, 1865.

He was a Captain at that time in the Confederate Army, and was captured in Tuscaloosa, April 3, 1865, soon after the marriage ceremony was performed, and paroled by a Federal Major.

James Slaughter Carpenter, of Louisville, Ky., was born in Bardstown, Ky., January 23, 1840, and was educated at St. Joseph’s College, Bardstown, and at Bethany College, Va. At the outbreak of the Civil War, when barely of age, he joined the Confederate Army as a private, 9th Kentucky Infantry, and was appointed a Captain in the Commissary Department. He married, April 3d, 1865, Miss Emily Alston Leach, daughter of Dr. Sewell J. and Elizabeth Fitts Leach, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was captured the evening of his marriage by General Croxton, of the Federal Army (who was making a raid through that section a few days before the close of the war), but was paroled.

Mr. Carpenter was the youngest child of the Hon. Samuel and Margaret Bowie Carpenter, nee Slaughter. His father was an Attorney at Law, Kentucky State Senator, and Circuit Judge. His mother’s father was Hon. Robert Slaughter, of Nelson County, Ky., son of Col. James Slaughter, of Culpeper County, Va., who commanded a regiment of militia at the battle of the Great Bridge, the first battle of the Revolution fought on Virginia soil. Robert’s oldest brother, Capt. Phillip Slaughter, joined the Revolutionary Army before he was 17 years old, and served until the war terminated. Mr. Carpenter’s grandmother’s father was Col. James Pendleton, Revolutionary Army, who married a daughter of Gov. Robert Bowie, of Maryland, a Captain in the Revolutionary Army. This James Pendleton was a son of James Pendleton, the oldest of five sons of Henry and Mary (Taylor) Pendleton, their youngest son being Judge Edmund Pendleton, of Richmond, Va., formerly of Carolina County, Va.

Mr. Carpenter has been for thirty-two years General Agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn., for Tennessee and Kentucky, and has always been noted for his promptness and dispatch. He is a deacon of the First Christian Church, at Louisville, and a member of the Louisville Commandery of K. T.

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