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Mary Chapin Carpenter

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John Henderson Vawter

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Mary Chapin Carpenter — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 52 
  • Father:
  • William Boulware Vawter Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret "Peggy" Henderson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Jan 1800 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hans Creek, Monroe, Virginia (now West Virginia) 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jun 1877 
  • Death Location:
  • Hans Creek, Monroe, West Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Vawter Cemetery, Greenville, Monroe, West Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Clara S. Peck
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Jul 1833 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Charles Erastus Vawter (Ahnentafel No:26 )

• Additional marriages for John Henderson Vawter

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  • Spouse:
  • Adaline Dunlap
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Jan 1828

• Sources for John Henderson Vawter

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A054746 and #A118389.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/24/2016).
  • ³ Richmond Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia), 04 JUN 1905, p. 32, "Vawter Family of Virginia".
  • ⁴ Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940, Marriage record for son Charles E Vawter and Virginia H. C. Longley.
  • ⁵ Miller, James H., History of Summers County: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Hinton, West Virginia: Unknown (1908), 654.
  • ⁶ Miller, Joseph Lyon, Ancestry and Descendants of Lieut. John Henderson, of Greenbrier County, Virginia, 1650-1900, Richmond, Virginia: Whittet and Shepperson, General Printers (1902), 24-25.