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The life of Bessie Wilson Peck
Biography
Bessie Wilson Peck was the wife of Joseph Allen Carpenter and mother of Joseph A. Carpenter Jr., the artist from Rehoboth in southeastern Massachusetts. Her son’s obituary names her as Bessie Peck.
A transcription of the 1940 Rehoboth census places Bessie in the Carpenter household and gives her age as 47 and birthplace as Rhode Island. These details provide a working outline of her life, although other compiled records place her birth in Rehoboth around 1891.
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Children with Joseph Allen Carpenter
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A Rehoboth census transcription places Bessie in the Carpenter household, age 47 and Rhode Island-born. Accounts disagree on her birth details.
Rehoboth, Massachusetts, United States
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Family records
- Carpenter Cousins — Joseph Allen Carpenter and Bessie Wilson Peck
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- Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642–1896
- Joseph A. Carpenter obituary — J. H. Williams & Co. Funeral Home
- Remembering Joe Carpenter: An Artist Who Loved Rehoboth