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Phil - Thank you - this is a wonderful obit. This line was one that Cora Lynn Davis wrote
down in the late 1800's. Her mother was the 1/2 sister of General James R. Carnahan.
(For those who don't know - Cora Lynn Davis b. 1863 was an enthusiastic Carnahan
researcher )
She gives the Carnahan ancestry of James R. Carnahan as:
General James R. Carnahan
James Aikman Carnahan and Martha Ann Dawson
James Carnahan and Elizabeth Aikman
James Carnahan and Jane Freyer (of Kentucky)
William Carnahan (of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania)
Cora Lynn Davis mentions that James Carnahan who married Jane Freyer was in the
Revolutionary War. I don't believe that I have seen any military records that I can
positively identify as his, though. Linda