In reference, would your "John Carpenter" happen to be "John Dosh Carpenter", the son of Cary and Joanna Carpenter? These were my great-grandparents through their daughter and my mother's Mother, Mary Ellen Carpenter who first married Charles Braxton Farnham/Farnam in Conecuh County, Alabama. John Dosh was the brother to Mary Ellen and 3 brothers.
Joanie.