Individual Details

Major George, became her right-hand man in the management of her affairs and that he probably lived with her in the family homestead, or nearby in Casey County, from which place he conducted his own extensive financial and legal dealings. To him eventually fell the burden of handling the myriad details of administering the will of his father Adam, helping with the settlement of Conrad’s estate, and then that of Catherine herself.

One cannot help but speculate on the reasons why Major George remained single at a time when men and women married at a very early age. Obviously he assumed the duties of his deceased father in Catherine’s household and was an extremely busy man, but this should not have prevented his marrying. It is possible that he was dominated by his mother, who was certainly a strong-minded woman. The reason George was called “Red-face” is that he had a facial birthmark. If the birthmark was extremely disfiguring, of course, few women would have have been drawn to him, and this may have been a factor. But it does seem curious that a year after Catherine’s death in 1848, and at the age of 52, George married Rachel Wilson Jones and moved to Lincoln County where they settled near Hustonville and produced seven children in rapid succession, but that is getting ahead of the story.
On February 1, 1825, George was commissioned a captain of the 74th Regiment of the State Militia; on June 5, 1830, he was commissioned major, and after that he was usually ( and more kindly) referred to as Major Carpenter, rather than George Red-face, in distinguishing him from his cousin Station George.

Birth

15 Jun 1797

Father	Adam Carpenter ( - 1806)
Mother	Catherine Spears (1760 - 1848)
Sibling	William Carpenter (1785 - )
Sibling	Christina Carpenter (1787 - )
Sibling	Sarah Carpenter (1790 - )
Sibling	Mary Carpenter (1792 - )
Sibling	Margaret Carpenter (1794 - )
Sibling	Conrad Carpenter ( - )
Sibling	Henry Carpenter ( - )
Sibling	Catherine Carpenter (1801 - )
Sibling	Adam Carpenter (1804 - 1877)