Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameThomas Page Carper 
Birth1844, Virginia
Death2 Dec 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Death Memoof influenza
BurialGrave 1, Lot 253, Sec. 12, Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Alias/AKAT. Page Carper
FatherSamuel Carper (~1811-1878)
MotherMargaret “Peggy” Hite (~1810-1878)
Spouses
1Emma
Birth1832, Spartenburg, Indiana
Death18 Feb 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
BurialGrave 2, Lot 253, Sec. 12, Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Notes for Thomas Page Carper
aka: Thomas Page Carper; T. Page Carper; Page Thomas Carper
T. Page Carper: (obit from an undated, unnamed newspaper):
T. Page Carper, 781 Broadway, for thirty years in the employ of the Dom'nion Express company, died yesterday at the General hospital. He was 73 years old, a native of Virginia and had been resident in Winnipeg for more than forty years, and during the whole of that period he had been a member of Grace church. Mr. Carper had also been connected with the I. O. O. F. and was one of the oldest members of North Star lodge of this city. He is survived by a widow and son, Howard, now in Europe on active service as lieutenant in the Canadian Engineer Mechanical Transport department. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Service will be held at Thomson's and interment will be at Elmwood cemetery.
(Notes: Sometimes his given names were reversed, as Page Thomas. I noted there was a physician in Berkeley Co. by the name of Dr. Thomas Page.
Cemetery records:
Page Carper died 2 Dec. 1918 aged 73 years of influenza.
Grave location: Grave 1, Lot 253, Sec. 12, Elmwood Cem. Winnipeg, Manitoba
There is a photo of him in the obit.
Wife, Emma died 18 Feb 1940, 90 yrs, 5 mos, 4 days, b. Spartenburg, Indiana, location Grave 2, same lot.
Son Howard P. a barrister, died 12 April 1922 , 44yrs, 11mos, b. Winnipeg, location Grave 3, same lot, informant, Leila Murray Carper (his wife).
T. Page Carper: (obit from an undated, unnamed newspaper):
T. Page Carper, 781 Broadway, for thirty years in the employ of the Dom'nion Express company, died yesterday at the General hospital. He was 73 years old, a native of Virginia and had been resident in Winnipeg for more than forty years, and during the whole of that period he had been a member of Grace church. Mr. Carper had also been connected with the I. O. O. F. and was one of the oldest members of North Star lodge of this city. He is survived by a widow and son, Howard, now in Europe on active service as lieutenant in the Canadian Engineer Mechanical Transport department. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Service will be held at Thomson's and interment will be at Elmwood cemetery.
(Notes: Sometimes his given names were reversed, as Page Thomas. I noted there was a physician in Berkeley Co. by the name of Dr. Thomas Page.
Cemetery records:
Page Carper died 2 Dec. 1918 aged 73 years of influenza.
Grave location: Grave 1, Lot 253, Sec. 12, Elmwood Cem. Winnipeg, Manitoba
There is a photo of him in the obit.
Wife, Emma died 18 Feb 1940, 90 yrs, 5 mos, 4 days, b. Spartenburg, Indiana, location Grave 2, same lot.
Son Howard P. a barrister, died 12 April 1922 , 44yrs, 11mos, b. Winnipeg, location Grave 3, same lot, informant, Leila Murray Carper (his wife).
Notes for Emma (Spouse 1)
Wife, Emma died 18 Feb 1940, 90 yrs, 5 mos, 4 days