Thomas and Diana Carr started their family in Lewisburg Virginia. Records indicate that they had the following children:
Mary Carr born in 1810 in Lewisburg Virginia:
James Carr born in 1815 Lewisburg Virginia:
James married Barry Hudnalls Widow, Matilda Gillispie Hudnall, and they had 3 children:
He was in the Civil War, Co. B. enlisted 9-2- 1861
discharged 2-8- 1862 Peytona , Boone Co. Wv. with disabilitys.Listed as being 5-9 tall, dark comp. dark eyes and dark hair. He worked at the Salt Works in Malden Wv and the US Census shows him as living in Malden at the age of 65. James Past away at the age of 82 in 1897 in Kanawha County
John K Carr born in 1812 in Lewisburg Virginia:
DeWitt County Illinois GenWeb
Biographical Album - 1891- Surnames C-D
JOHN K. CARR Page 196
John
K. Carr is distinguished in the annals of Nixon Township as being the
third man to settle within its precincts, and for many years he has
aided in carrying on the agriculture of DeWitt County. He was born in
Greenbrier County, W. Va., in the town of Lewisburg, September 18, 1812.
His father, Thomas
Carr, was born and reared in the Old Dominion, and was there married to
Diana Martin, who was also of Virginian birth.
They were the parents of six sons and three daughters, whom they called
Mary, John K., James, Elizabeth, Ezekiel, William, Marion, George and
Violetta.Of these children our subject was the second in
order of birth and the second son. His boyhood days were passed in the
place of his nativity, and he attended school in the little log house,
that had a dirt floor and slab benches, and was lighted with greased
paper window. His schooling was very limited, as he never attended
school only two months.
** He remained with his parents, assisting his father in his work of building flatboats on the Kanawha River.
December 6, 1833, his marriage with Margaret Wiont took place. Mrs.
Carr was born in Dearborn County, Ind., but was reared in Virginia. Our
subject and his wife have had a pleasant wedded life of unusual duration
as for more than half a century they have traveled life's road hand in
hand, and their marriage has been greatly blessed to them by the birth
of the following children--Clarke, Violetta, John, Isaac, Julia A.
(deceased), Mary, (deceased), Jane, Sarah, Samantha, Michael and Leonard
S. All of these children were trained to useful lives and all married
and reared families, and are now scattered in different parts of the
country. Mr. and Mrs. Carr have besides many grandchildren, thirty
great-grandchildren among their descendants.
Mr. Carr soon after
marriage took up his residence among the pioneers of Brown County, Ohio.
He had a uncle who fitted him out with a peddler's outfit and for two
years he was engaged in peddling in that State. In 1836 he returned to
Virginia and resumed his calling as a builder of flatboats on the
Kanawha River for awhile. In 1837 he again went to Ohio and engaged in a
shipyard in Cincinnati at building steamboats. In 1838 he went from
there to Rising Sun, Ind., where he operated an engine in a cotton
factory, helping to build a steamboat there before he commenced to run
the engine. In 1839 he removed to Boone County, Ind., and wintered on
the Rock River in the season of 1839-40, engaging in carpentering, etc.,
and he also worked in the spring at the trade of a carpenter, erecting
barns and other buildings. His next venture was to buy a tract of one
hundred and twenty acres of heavily timbered land, which he cleared and
on which he erected a house, beside making other improvements. He
remained there several years, and then sold the farm at a sacrifice that
he might move to Northern Missouri, where he thought he could better
his condition. He located on the Grand River in Mercer County, that
State, and remained there one year. Apparently not finding the situation
agreeable, he came to DeWitt County in 1852, and the first year of his
residence here rented land, and during that time entered the farm on
section 9, Nixon Township, where he now resides. But two men had
preceded him to this location, and he found it in a state of nature much
as the Indians had left it. His tract comprised one hundred and sixty
acres of wild prairie, and his was the pioneer task to break the sod and
cultivate the virgin soil. He and his boys made the rails, and drew
them a distance of six miles to fence the land into convenient fields,
and it is now all neatly fenced. He built a little house for the shelter
of his family, which is still standing on the place, and he also
erected a barn which has fallen to decay. He has here a fine farm which
is under the best of cultivation, and yields him ample harvests, which
are the source of a good income, so that he is now taking the world
easy. He has always been very industrious and has shown practical skill
in his work and in his dealings with his fellowmen has been fair and
honest. He and his good wife are justly regarded as people of great
worth, and are held in respect and esteem by the entire community. Mr.
Carr is a sturdy advocate of the policy of the Republican party. He has
always taken a true interest in whatever concerned his adopted township,
and besides the assistance he has given in its development he has
faithfully served it as School Trustee and School Director.**
Elizabeth Carr born 1816 in Lewisburg Virginia :
Elizabeth married Jacob Kelly on February 22nd of 1935..together they had 11 children:
Napoleon B Kelly
1836 –
Julia A Kelly
1839 – 1876
Sarah Kelly
1841 –
Thornton Kelly
1843 –
**Asa Carr born 1824 in Virginia:
Asa was my 3rd Great Grandfather. He married Nancy Morrow and they had 7 children:
Lucy J Carr
1850 – 1927 {Lucy was my 2nd Great Grandmother} Records at Wv Cultural and history Museum indicate that she was married to
James H Smith in October of 1887 but in 1900 she is living with her daughter Maggie and listed as son in the 1910 Census. In the 1880 Census she is living with her parents and so are her three children, Edward, Henry and Maggie..All
are Listed with the last name Carr. Death Certificates for Maggie and Henry list her as Mother..Edward was living with relatives
of Maggie Elliot, his deceased wife, at the time of his death so parents were listed as "Unknown"
Betty Carr
1854 –
David M Carr
1855 –
George W Carr
1856 – 1857
william Henry Carr
1859 – 1924
Asa Carr
1861 –
Philip Carr
1863 –
George Carr was born 1824 in Virginia:
William Marion Carr was born in Virginia:
Ezekiel Carr was born 1825 in Alum Lick,Kanawha County,Virginia:
In 1850, 29 yr old
Ezekiel Carr, his wife and
children were living in the same household as Robert E. Perry and his
wife, but in 1847 he purchased 50 acres of land at what would become
Eskdale. His land started at the first bottom above the Cane Bottom
and included all the land fit for cultivation up to a place just below
the mouth of Tom's Fork (leewood) Excerpt from
A Pictorial History of Cabin Creek vol II by Dale Payne 2009..,,Ezekiel marriedVirginiaVienna Grass On August 24th in the year 1840. They had 10 Children:
Violetta Carr was born 1826 in Kanawha County :
Francis M. Carr was born 1831 in Kanawha County:
George Carr was born 1833 in Kanawha County:
Ann Carr was born 1845 in Kanawha County:
