Lamar Co., TX - W. M. Carpenter ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: June E. Tuck USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** From the files of June Tuck Carpenter Family - One of the most remarkable families in this section of the state and of the entire states, resides in Paris. The head of the family is W. M. Carpenter. One of the remarkable features about this family is that there are nine children, everyone of whom are girls and the eldest is only 16 years old. The youngest is two months old. The father was born in Tennessee and is 41 years old, and the mother was born in Lamar county in Milton community and has lived in the county all of her life. She married at the age of 18 and although she is the mother of nine, she is only 35 year old. She is a most remarkable woman to be the mother of so many children and to have preserved her health and youthful appearance perfectly. She has a handsome oval face and a placid expression of countenance from which a person might infer that she had never had a care in her life. ( Paris News, reprinted in the Sulphur Springs Daily News-Telgram, July 30, 1924