death_date years_active birth_place name background birth_date instrument genre article_title birth_name
april 28 , 1937 c. 1880 -- 1937 braxton county , west virginia , usa . shelt carpenter non_vocal_instrumentalist february 7 , 1862 fiddle old-time music shelt carpenter
 james orval shelton carpenter
shelt carpenter

shelton `` shelt '' carpenter , born february 7 , 1862 at sutton , west virginia , died april 28 , 1937 , was an outdoorsman , fiddle player , and mountain folklife philosopher of note .
he is interred in the braxton county memorial gardens cemetery at sutton , west virginia .
