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21 May

Ernie Carpenter received the Vandalia Award

Members of the Carpenter family were among the first white people to settle in what is now central West Virginia, and their descendants populate a wide area today. Family stories recount the arrival in the late 1700s of brothers Benjamin and Jerem...

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