David French Carpenter, born June 7, 1899, in Clay County, West VirginiaThis birth date is the one given in his WWI Draft Registration Card, the Social Security Death Index, and the 1900 federal census; an article in The West Virginia Encyclopedia (Ken Sullivan, ed., The West Virginia Humanities Council, Charleston, W.Va., 2006, p. 114) gives his birth date as June 7, 1905. died May 22, 1965, was a noted West Virginia mountaineer old-time fiddle player.Michael Kline: "French Carpenter" in The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Ken Sullivan, ed., The West Virginia Humanities Council, Charleston, W.Va., 2006, p. 114.Gerald Milnes: "The Carpenter Legacy" in Play of a Fiddle, Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., 1999, pp. 35–44. He is listed by the Library of Congress as a musician on two sound recordings: Elzics Farewell, Kanawha, 1976; and Old-time music from Clay County, West Virginia, Charleston, West Virginia, Folk Promotions, 1964.Library of Congress Online Catalog search for "French Carpenter", http://catalog.loc.gov/, January 27, 2011.
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