Shelt Carpenter
Shelt Carpenter | |
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Birth name | James Orval Shelton Carpenter |
Born |
February 7, 1862 Braxton County, West Virginia, USA. |
Died | April 28, 1937 |
Genres | Old-time music |
Instruments | Fiddle |
Years active | c. 1880–1937 |
Shelton "Shelt" Carpenter, born February 7, 1862 at Sutton, West Virginia, died April 28, 1937, was an outdoorsman, fiddle player,[1] and mountain folklife philosopher of note.[2][3] He is interred in the Braxton County Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Sutton, West Virginia.[4]
References
- ↑ Gerald Milnes. 1999. Play of a Fiddle, Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 41-42.
- ↑ Braxton County, West Virginia Historical Society. 1974. "Shelt Carpenter's Tales Famous Throughout State" in Journal of the Braxton Historical Society, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 3, 9.
- ↑ Michael Kline. 2006. "Carpenter Family" in The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Ken Sullivan, ed. Charleston, W.Va.: The West Virginia Humanities Council, pp. 113-114; see also http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/print/Article/976.
- ↑ Find A Grave.com: Braxton County Cemetery, Sutton, W. Va., http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=1361294&GRid=68870615&.
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