James Carpenter

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By some he was called Fred, by others he was called Jim throughout his life. He was the eldest son born in northeast Kansas to a farming family and upon graduation taught school & joined Kansas National Guard at Ft Sill. He married in Doniphan County Kansas and rented land to farm himself. Within 6 years they had 5 children, only one girl. He drove the rural school bus along with the farming and caring of stock. He suffered with catarrh which affected his breathing and was diagnosed with Tuberculosis as a young adult.

Jim and Lucile moved their family out to Webster Kansas to try a drier climate; it was there all their children spent most of their school years, graduated and found their mates.

When the Webster Dam & Reservoir went in all of the town of Webster and the Carpenter's farming land was repossessed by the state. Jim and his wife moved on further west into El Paso County Colorado where two of his brothers were living. They rented a tiny house (without electricity) in the 1960's; with one barn, shed and dry land to farm on just south of Calhan in their senior years and barely made it from year to year on their cream check and egg sales.

When Lucile's father died they took in her mother whose bed took over their little living room and she was with them for about 10 yrs until she died. When they reached Social Security years they finally lived without always being concerned about having enough money to make it through the long hard winter blizzards and hot dry summers.

Grandpa died of stomach cancer unattended to at the age of 87, Grandma died just months shy of 100 yrs old. (Strong stock which we are very proud of!!)

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Evelyn, 5th of their 20 grandchildren

<reference/>Marriage Record: State of Kansas, 26 Jun 1916. This document is stored in my files at home. Death Certificate. State of Colorado, 1482 Dist. 69, Certified 27 Oct 1983 by Jane Green, Deputy of Registrar.

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