I've been going through my great grandmother's scrapbook, which begins in 1882. In it, I found the obituary of her little boy, Joseph Neibert Carpenter Grafton, who died at 4 years old. Later, I found clipping of his birth and what a beautiful baby he was.
After Captain Thomas Rose's (her father) suicide, she and her sisters sold firewood out of a wheelbarrow to make ends meet. With Elodie and Mr. Carpenter's daughter, Camille, best friends, Carpenter took pity on the family and bought them a house on Washington Street, furnished it and took care of them for the rest of his life. So that explains a Carpenter name in the Grafton family.
Lots of clippings about social events of the day as well as obituaries of people who were important to her.
