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Carpenter was born in her great-grandparents' antebellum home in Salado in southern Bell County, Texas. In 1936, the 24-room Robertson House was declared a state historic monument. In 1967, a plaque was unveiled to indicate that Carpenter had once lived there.
Mar 27, 2022 · Born Sept. 1, 1920, in her great-grandparents’ antebellum home in Salado, Carpenter spent her early years in the 24-room Robertson House. At the age of 7, she moved with her family to Austin. The house was declared a state historic monument in 1936 when she was 16.
Sep 1, 2020 · She was born in Salado, Texas, on Sept. 1, 1920, a fifth-generation generation Texan who counted among her forebears a Texas Declaration of Independence writer and another who died at the Alamo (after her death at age 89 in 2010, her New York Times obituary got a couple of details wrong).
Dec 27, 2018 · Mary Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter was born in Salado, Bell County, Texas on September 1, 1920 to Thomas Shelton and Mary Elizabeth Robertson Sutherland. Her father was a state highway inspector and her mother was a homemaker. Liz was the middle child of five children.
Mar 24, 2024 · Carpenter, who died in 2010, came a long way from growing up in rural Salado and burgeoning Austin, where she paid $12.50 per semester to attend the University of Texas.
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Mar 21, 2010 · Mary Elizabeth Sutherland was born in Salado, Tex. on Sept. 1, 1920, the middle of five children — three brothers and one sister — of Thomas Shelton Sutherland, a rancher who later went into...
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Mar 20, 2010 · Robertson's son, Elijah Sterling Robertson, founded Salado College and built the plantation house where Liz was born. Meanwhile, Liz's paternal Sutherland forbears migrated from Alabama to form the Settlement in Jackson County.
