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Recent pictures of the grave in West Earl can be seen by accessing Emanuel Carpenter on ancestry.com, and clicking on Photos.
*Provided by Irma Wilhelm
Inscription
His tombstone in the "Carpenter's Graveyard," near Earlville, erected by his grandson, Emanuel Carpenter Reigert, bears the following inscription:
"Here entombed lie the remains of Emanuel Carpenter, Esq., late Presiding Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County. If true piety, benevolence and Christian charity and unsullied reputation, and an entire devotion to the rights of man, at the most gloomy period of our national struggle, are commendable, the example of the deceased is worthy of imitation. He closed his useful and well spent life on April 1, 1780. And also of his wife, Catharine Carpenter, who died in February, 1785, in the 84th year of her life.
Filial affection and respect for ancestral worth induced the erection by their grandson, A. D. 1827."
[Walker, Edwin Sawyer, ed. (1907). Genealogical Notes of the Carpenter Family including the Autobiographical and Personal Remembrances of Dr. Seymour Carpenter, Lieutenant Colonel, in the War for the Union, with Genealogical and Biographical Appendix. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Journal Company. 32-33.]
Gravesite Details
Here entombed are the remains of Emanuel Carpenter Esq. P-bate Presiding Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster Co. Pa. Died April 1780 in the 78th year of his age. And Also - Those of his wife Catherine Carpenter. Died Feb. 1785.
