W. P. Carpenter

Payette Enterprise
Thursday, December 29, 1921

ANOTHER G.A.R. MEMBER DIES

W.P. Carpenter, for many years a minister in Kansas for the Methodist Protestant church, and for three and one-half years a soldier in the Civil war, departed this life at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fred Zeiger of near Payette, Dec. 26th, 1921. He had reached the ripe age of nearly 85 years.

The gates of heaven stand ajar before us. Our dear old friend has now passed through them. His presence will never again in this life be with us. He is dead. Dead? No, he lives. Never was he more alive than now. There is no death.

"The stars go down,
to rise upon some other shore.
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown
They shine forevermore."

He has simply changed his residence place from the earthly house to the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. And there in the kingdom of God he shines in the glory of the undying sun.

He was a member of Co. K of the 17th Iowa Reg. Thus another G.A.R. member has left us. How rapidly they are going. Someday in big head lines of the paper we will read that the last one has left us. American people honor and respect them. Deepest sympathy is extended to the bereaved family but they find comfort that he belonged to the Grand Army of the Redeemed.

Brief services were conducted by the Rev. Argyl Houser of the Church of God at the Lauer Undertaking Parlors. Mrs. Zeiger journeyed with the body to Earleton, Kansas, where the funeral services will be held from the M.E. Church where Mr. Carpenter was a minister for several years.