Shelton "Shelt" Carpenter (February 7, 1862, at Sutton, Virginia – April 28, 1937) was an outdoorsman, fiddle player,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. and mountain folklife philosopher of note.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. He is interred in the Braxton County Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Sutton, West Virginia.
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