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- Born Sept. 1, 1920, in her great-grandparents’ antebellum home in Salado, Carpenter spent her early years in the 24-room Robertson House.
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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 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 ...
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.
Mar 20, 2010 · Carpenter was born Liz Sutherland in Salado, a small town between Waco and Austin. She recalled riding on horseback to pick up the mail and cleaning weeds out of the creek every spring.
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.
Mar 21, 2010 · Born Mary Elizabeth Sutherland Sept. 1, 1920, in Salado, Texas, she met the Johnsons while working as a reporter for a Washington news service with her husband, Leslie Carpenter. He died...
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).
