Carpenter, Edith Mansfield Leffert

Rome Sentinel
December 29, 1904

Mrs. Edith E. Carpenter, in her 31st year, wife of Ald. Cyrus D. Carpenter, died at her home, 801 W. Dominick Street, shortly before 12 o'clock noon today. She had been ill for over a year with a complication of diseases and for most of the past month had been confined to her bed. Mrs. Carpenter was a daughter of Milo Mansfield and was born in New London, coming to Rome with her parents about twenty-three years ago. She was twice married, her first husband being Jacob Leffert. Besides her second husband, Ald. Carpenter, whom she married three years ago, she leaves three children by her first husband, Charles, Christine and Frank Leffert, and one son, Frank Carpenter, by her second husband. She also leaves her father, Milo Mansfield and one brother, Frank Mansfield, and two sisters, Mrs. Benjamin Armstrong and Mrs. John Fahey of Rome. Mrs. Carpenter was a member of the First M. E. Church and had many friends who extend their sympathy to the bereaved family.