Shelt Carpenter Explained

Shelt Carpenter
Birth Name:	James Orval Shelton Carpenter
Birth Date:	February 7, 1862
Birth Place:	Braxton County, Virginia, US
Death Date:	April 28, 1937
Instrument:	Fiddle
Genre:	Old-time music
Years Active:	c. 1880–1937

Shelton "Shelt" Carpenter (February 7, 1862, at Sutton, Virginia – April 28, 1937) was an outdoorsman, fiddle player,^[1] and mountain folklife philosopher of note.^{[2] [3]} He is interred in the Braxton County Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Sutton, West Virginia.

Notes and References

1. Gerald Milnes. 1999. Play of a Fiddle, Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 41-42.
2. Braxton County, West Virginia Historical Society. 1974. "Shelt Carpenter's Tales Famous Throughout State" in Journal of the Braxton Historical Society, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 3, 9.
3. Michael Kline. 2006. "Carpenter Family" in The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Ken Sullivan, ed. Charleston, W.Va.: The West Virginia Humanities Council, pp. 113-114; see also http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/print/Article/976.