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Since no one told me that I had posted incorrectly when I posted the
Grooms List I am now posting the Brides List from the County Clerks
office in Clark County Ar. I copied the following information. I hope
that it helps someone else as much as it did me. Brides List.
Name: Spouse Year Book Page
CARR, Ada PATILLO, A.J. 1916 S 0200
CARR, Alberta, NEAL, Eddie 1910 P 0319
CARR, Alpha L PORTER, Douglas M 1964 15 0433
CARR, Bessie A KEITH, Alfonzo 1988 25 0062
CARR, Candace J ALLEN, Phillip B 1978 21 0056
CARR, Clara SMITH, Willie 1918 T 0355
CARR, Dewey COLWELL, Henry 1940 5 0443
CARR, Earline JESTER, Lonnie 1944 7 0448
CARR, Earnstine WRIGHT, J.D. 1936 3 0122
CARR, Elizabeth C BURROW, Billy W 1966 16 0260
CARR, Emily A ROUNTREE, Wiley 1883 JK 0321
CARR, Ernestine BROWNING, Cleo 1943 7 0272
CARR, Etta HANNIGAN, Henry 1916 S 0176
CARR, Flay MAYS, Carl 1938 4 0417
CARR, Gertrude LUST, Tom 1913 R 0156
CARR, Janetta BUCKLEY, Willie O 1980 22
0171 CARR, Lindy HAMMONDS, Dan 1899 K 0559
CARR, Louisa CAHOUN, John A 1875 G 0010
CARR, Maggie LOVETT, Marshall 1902 M 0077
CARR, Mammie JOHNSON, Neill 1904 M 0569
CARR, Marie B CARR, Carroll B 1961 14 0056
CARR, Marsha E VICK, Kenneth L 1974 19 0444
CARR, Marshel A JOHNSON, Joe H 1976 20 0177
CARR, Mary F TURNER, John L 1869 EE1 0152
CARR, May B SMITH, George 1940 5 0308
CARR, Mildred JACKSON, Grady 1947 9 0346
CARR, Muriel LUSTER, Charles V 1970 18 0106
CARR, Nancy NCCLANAHAN, Lonnie 1904 M 0566
CARR, Ophelia NEAL, Roosevelt 1945 8 0207
CARR, Ophelia SMITH, Gaston 1938 4 0404
CARR, Tommie L WHITE, Thomas E 1981 22 0438
CARR, Viola BROWNING, James 1943 7 0051
CARR, Virgie M JONES, Lewis 1946 8 0290
CARR, Virgie M SWINK, Sloan 1963 15 0155
CARR, Virgie M SWINK, Sloan 1960 13 0616
CARR, Wilma MEEKS, Jim 1932 1 0368
CARR, Wilmar SIMS, Jack 1938 4 0311
CARR, Z.A. DUNN, A.A. 1872 F1 0099
CARR,(HENDRIX)Eugenia L CARR,(11)John 1995 28 0234
KARR, Alice COOPER, Sam 1926 X 0531
KARR, Bessie DEAN, Lester 1926 X 0358
KARR, Caledonia HANKINS, Miles 1879 II 0079
KARR, Emma A CARY, Joe 1920 U 0198
KARR, Florence HAMMONDS, D.H. 1890 H 0473
KARR, Henrietta AVERY, J.B. 1897 K 0105
KARR, Jo Ann DIFFEE, Calvin 1973 19 0407
KARR, Leslie J PUGH, Louis W 1969 17 0444
KARR, Lillie LEAMONS, A.J. 1900 L 0093
KARR, Lou FRANKLIN, J.A. 1895 J 0323
KARR, Martha J EADS, Thomas H 1859 D2 0135
KARR, Martha J EADS, Thomas H 1860 D1 0135
KARR, Mary H HURST, Jerry L 1960 13 0548
KARR, Mary L ARNOLD, Duke M 1960 13 0569
KARR, Mecia L CLOVER, J.M. 1890 H 0401
KARR, Milrene COPELAND, Bill 1957 13 0070
KARR, Neoma MANNING, Roy G 1964 15 0270
KARR, Rosy DRAPER, James 1899 K 0505
KARR, Sandra L MCKENZIE Miles L 1984 23 0557
KARR, Sarah A BAIRD John 1871 F1 0053
KARR, Stella CALLAWAY, John W 1925 W 0527
KARR, Susan I WESSON, William A 1991 26 0419
KARR, Vivirene R ROGERS,SR. Garry L 1987 24 0446
This is all the information on the Brides that I have. If you want a
copy of the
Marriage Lic. Please contact the County Clerk in Arkadelphia, Ar.
Sheila
I need help with the ancestors and syblings of JAMES W. CARR b. 15 mar.
1840-1842 in Kentucky?? d. 4 Jun 1886 near Stillwell, Hancock Co., Ill. m. 7
Apr 1867 MARY ANGELINE SYMMONDS b. 4 Nov 1847 Basco, Hancock Co., Ill. d.
Near Stillwell, Hancock Co., Ill.
Children
(1) Franklin Merrett Carr b. 24 Feb 1866 d. 24 Oct 1916 m. Mary G. Southerland.
(2) Louis Larkin Carr b. 14 Sep 1869 d. 18 Sep 1926 m. Mary Marie Akers
(3) Laura B. Carr b. 10 d. ? Jul 1925 m. Mack (George) Nelson
(4) Rosa Lee Carr b. 18 Apr 1873 d. 20 Aug 1947 m. Edgar Cheney Divorced M.
William Everett Long
(5) Ida May Carr b. 14 Mar 1875 d. 28 Oct 1916 m. Thomas F. Newell
(6) Herbert Norman Carr b. 4 May 1877 d. 4 Oct 1942 m. Mary E Whitinger
(7) William Harvey Carr b. 28 May 1879 d. 23 Apr 1880
(8) Harmon Elmer Carr b. 31 Jan d. ? Nov 1907
(9) James Homer Carr (my grandfather) b. 12 Jul 1883 d. 27 Nov 1947 m.
Luetta B. Brooks
(10) Roya Fenman Carr b. 8 Dec 1885 d. 17 Jan 1950 m.-1 Mary Susan Clampitt
m.-2 Lucey Cheney Ritchie m.-3 Beatrice Van Winkle.
Supposedly he is descended from James Karr and Sarah Cook, but Karr family
records don't bear this out. The rest of the family has retained the Karr
surname to this day, and don't have a record of him.
Thanks for the help
Jim Carr
hamkarr(a)hctc.com
This is my first post so if it is not in the right place please forgive
me. I have just come from a day at the County Clerks office in Clark
County Ar. I coppied the following information. I hope that it helps
someone else. Grooms List first.
Name: Spouse Year Book Page
CARR, Alonzo L PEBSWORTH, Nancy J 1875 F2 0329
CARR, Alive GORDON, Thelma 1962 14 0429 & 0428
CARR, Billy D BUCKLEY, Mary L 1987 24 0647
CARR, Billy D BUCKLEY, Mary L 1985 24 0119
CARR, Carroll B CARR, Marie B 1961 14 0056
CARR, Charles WALKER, Gracie L 1945 8 0081
CARR, Coy F SMITH, Alpha S 1940 5 0462
CARR, David C KECK, Sara L 1994 27 0589
CARR, Earnest BROWNING, Elizabeth 1944 7 0484
CARR, Francis B PROCTOR, Essie 1973 19 0216
CARR, Guy LOYD, Rachel 1943 7 0166
CARR, Isaac SHORTY, Lula 1916 S 0425
CARR, Isaac JONES, Betsy 1879 HH 0291
CARR, Isear NEIL, Ella 1908 O 0439
CARR, Isiah HALE, Lucile 1927 X 0564
CARR, J.A. CARPENTER, Robert(?) E 1917 T 0081
CARR, J.D. BUCKNER, Evelyn 1942 6 0538
CARR, J.D. MCCAULEY, Tenny 1955 12 0268
CARR, John H PORTER, Annita M 1962 14 0210
CARR, Milton JONES, Sarah 1914 R 0447
CARR, Nick JONES, Glennie 1920 U 0350
CARR, Pleas JONES, Pearlee 1907 O 0126
CARR, Roosevelt HOUSE, Caldonia 1943 7 0102
CARR, Roy STILL, Audrey 1941 6 0105
CARR, Sherman BULLOCK, Cleva 1925 W 0616
CARR, Shurman MCCLANAHAN,Sendela 1909 P 0242
CARR, Verdie BRIM, Estella 1955 12 0375
CARR, John H. II HOWELL(HEDRIX)Eugenia L 1992 27 0106
CARR, John H. II CARR (HENDRIX)Eugenia L 1995 28 0234
CARR, Coy F. JR OSBORNE, Eva N. 1963 15 0038
CARR, Verdie JR JOE, Amanda F 1984 23 0502
CARR, James A. SR LASPEY, Marlena A 1996 28 0436
KARR, Andrew G MCKINNEY, Louisa M 1859 D1 0096
KARR, Cesro BROWN, Nancy C 1869 EE1 0157
KARR, Coleman BARNES, Maggie 1942 6 0606
KARR, Coleman ROSS, G LADYS 1935 3 0037
KARR, Coleman KEELING, Goldie M 1933 1 0544
KARR, D WHITHEAD, Mary J 1886 LL 0485
KARR, D.E. HENDERSON, Bettie 1890 I 0161
KARR, Daniel REDMOND, Susan 1879 HH 0390
KARR, David L ROE, Sherry A 1963 15 0099
KARR, Dennis W LITTLE,Michaelle A 1990 26 0161
KARR, Don PEBSWORTH, Birdie 1900 L 0124
KARR, George SMITH, Tullar B 1939 5 0178
KARR, Horace TURNER, Evelyn, F 1941 6 0034
KARR, Isaac JOHNSON, Rachael 1870 F1 0005
KARR, James PRICHARD, Teresa L 1987 24 0493
KARR, James LOY, Zettie L 1929 Z 0030
KARR, James V RING, Sarah L 1983 23 0144
KARR, James V DEATON, Cheryl L 1978 21 0285
KARR, James V DANIELS, Rowena L 1986 24 0396
KARR, James V WHISENHUNT(JESTER) Rowena L 1991 26 0244
KARR, James W BROWN, Emily A 1876 G 0276
KARR, John B THOMAS, Sallie 1906 N 0415
KARR, Leonly L WHITE, Cynthia E 1871 F3 0051
KARR, M.B. PETTY, Ora L 1933 1 0593
KARR, M.D. HUGHES, Willie 1902 M 0231
KARR, Myles B DOWDY, Sarah F 1986 24 0193
KARR, Pinkney BIRD, Elizabeth 1871 F3 0049
KARR, T.C. MANNING, S.E. 1889 H 0363
KARR, T.S. WARREN, Callie 1897 K 0103
KARR, Thomas C HUBBARD S.C. 1877 HH 0039
KARR, Virgle L HUGHES, Melbie J 1959 13 0282
KARR, W.B. SUBLETT, Emma 1911 Q 0157
This is all the information on the Grooms that I have. If you want a
copy of the
Marriage Lic. Please contact the County Clerk in Arkadelphia, Ar.
Will post the Brides CARR/KARR list in a couple of days, unless I find
out That I have posted incorrectly.
Sheila
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997 CARRJJ(a)aol.com wrote:
> That region was not a popular venue for the Kerrs, but there were obviously
> some there.
I know that most settled in the south and southeast near the border, but
many of my "immediate" family (great-grandfather to the present) lived in
Motherwell.
Mike.
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Mike Kerr | http://www.net/~mkerr
Kerr Information Systems | http://www.kerris.com/
mkerr(a)kerris.com | Web Guy, etc.
Does anybody have any information, at any time, about KERRs in Motherwell,
Scotland? It's just outside of Glasgow. A lot of my family apparently
came from there, and I'm wondering if there aren't some decendants on this
list.
Mike.
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Mike Kerr | http://www.net/~mkerr
Kerr Information Systems | http://www.kerris.com/
mkerr(a)kerris.com | Web Guy, etc.
My grand father was James W Carr b TX 1955 (where?) m Maggie Bouldin (ANY
INFO NEEDED ON HER), lived in Coleman and DeWitt Co, TX.
1900 census states his father b in MS and mother b TN.
James and Maggie's children include
Willie Ray (my grandmother) m Jesse Elijah Reeves
Martha m Buddy Clark, lived in Wichita Falls, TX (any info helpful!)
Wyche m Henry Demmer, lived in Ballinger, TX (any info needed, please!)
Bouldin, died as young adult
Douglas, died as child
Stephena, died as child
Boon, died as child
Carmen, died unmarried 1996, lived in Galveston, TX
I appreciate your time and hope to hear from you!
No, but I bet the Montecello library does. Just write to Montecello
Foundation, Charlottesville, VA and it will get thru (does anyone else have a
better address?). They have been most helpful in the past.
Joe Carr
Here it is
Dabney Carr: The Carr Who Is Buried Next To Thomas Jefferson ant
Montecello
Friday, March 12, 1773 was a turning point in American history.
For the previous several years relations between the American
colonists and Great Britain had steadily deteriorated. The Stamp
Act of 1765 brought "taxation without representation," while the
Townshend Act of 1767 further burdened ostensibly free colonists
with "legislation without representation." In June 1772, an
incident in Rhode Island added fuel to the simmering cauldron. The
British schooner GASPE was burned off Newport. In response, the
British Parliament passed an act that allowed colonists to be
shipped to England for trial. The freedoms which the colonists
cherished so dearly were in terrible jeopardy.
Sensing a severe threat to colonial liberties, several prominent
Virginians elected members of the House of Burgesses secretly
met together in Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg) on March 11, and
proposed formation of a network of Committees of Correspondence
that would allow the colonies to keep in touch with each other, and
to monitor British intentions. Several of the burgesses in the
meeting Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee,
Francis Lightfoot Lee, and DABNEY CARR (possibly others also)
decided to offer the idea of the Committees of Correspondence to
the assembled house. The idea seems to have been Richard Henry
Lee's, with Thomas Jefferson writing the text of the formal
resolution that would be offerred for vote. But it was 29-year old
lawyer Dabney Carr who was tasked to rise in the House of Burgesses
and introduce the resolution.
The resolution was passed (although not without debate), and
Carr, along with ten others, were appointed to the colonies' first
Committee of Correspondence. By February 8, 1774 only one of the
remaining twelve colonies had not established their own Committees
of Correspondence; by September 5, 1774 the first Continental
Congress met in Philadelphia ...and as they say, "the rest is
history."
The road to the American Revolution was surveyed by Dabney Carr,
but he unfortunately did not live to trod upon it. On May 16, 1773,
only two months after delivering the speech that resulted in
formation of the Committees of Correspondence, and ultimately to
the Continental Congress and the American Revolution, the youthful
Dabney Carr died of fever in Charlottesville, VA. He is buried at
Monticello (Photo A) in the Jefferson family cemetery on the
southwestern slope of Mr. Jefferson's beautiful mountain.
When you visit Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, the
gravesite is behind, and down the hill from, the west garden. If
you stand on the porch of Monticello, the gravel path down the hill
to the Jefferson family gravesite is on the left. Follow the path
along the west lawn, and then down the hill to the gravesite, which
is guarded by a wrought iron fence. Follow the path around to the
right, along the edge of the site, to the gate (it's locked).
Thomas Jefferson's tombstone is right inside the gate. Immediately
to the right of Jefferson's own tombstone is that of Dabney Carr.
The bronze plaque at the site reads (in part) as follows:
This graveyard had its beginning in an agreement
between two young men, Thomas Jefferson and Dabney Carr,
who were school-mates and friends. They agreed that they
would be buried under a great oak that stood here.
Carr, who married Jefferson's sister, died in 1773. His
was the first grave on this site, which Jefferson laid
out as a family burying ground. Jefferson was buried here
in 1826.
According to the story, Jefferson and Carr had studied under the
"great oak" while school-mates. They both loved the location, and
pledged that whichever died first would bury the other under the
tree. Only a dozen or so years later Dabney Carr would be the first
buried there, as Thomas Jefferson kept his youthful promise.
Dabney Carr was born on October 26, 1743 at a thousand-acre
Louisa County, Virginia farm named Bear Castle. He was the son of
John Carr, grandson of Major Thomas Carr, and great-grandson of
"Thomas Carr, Gentlemen," who held extensive land patents in
Virginia from about 1701. Dabney attended the academy of Reverend
James Maury. Other students at the prestigious private school were
Thomas Jefferson and Matthew Maury. At the age of eighteen, Dabney
Carr enrolled in William and Mary College in Williamsburg, and
later studied to be a lawyer. Although his legal education
("reading law" under a practicing attorney) was interrupted in 1763
by militia service on the frontier with the Louisa County Volunteer
Rangers, Dabney was licensed to practice law only two years after
leaving college. In July 1765, Dabney Carr married Martha
Jefferson, Thomas' sister. The couple made their home at Spring
Forest in Goochland County, VA.
Dabney Carr was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1771 and
1772, and served on two House committees, including the influential
Committee of Privileges and Elections. He helped incorporate the
Virginia Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge, a group
"...dedicated to a discussion of geography, natural history,
natural philosophy, agriculture, practical mathematics, commerce,
medicine and American history."
Contemporaries regarded Dabney Carr as a powerful orator who was
a serious challenge to the acknowledged master orator, Patrick
Henry. Of Carr, Patrick Henry's biographer, William Wirt, said
[Dabney Carr] "...was considered...the most formidible rival in
forensic eloquence that Mr. Henry had ever yet had to encounter."
Of Carr, Thomas Jefferson said he "...was one of the earliest and
most distinquished leaders in the opposition to British tyranny."
Although Dabney Carr is largely forgotten by the history books,
except for a little microbe ("bilious fever" the doctor called it)
he would surely have been one of the giants of the American
Revolution. As it was, Dabney Carr's contribution to the formation
of the American democracy is subtantial, even though he died young.
Notes on the Family Line of Dabney Carr
Descendents of Virgnia Carrs from the family of Dabney Carr
often become confused and erroneously append their ancestors to the
Loudoun County line (the opposite mistake is also made quite
frequently, i.e. descendents of Loudoun Carrs appending their kin
to the line of Dabney. To serve the former, I am including the
material that I have on the "downstate" Carrs related to Dabney
Carr.
These families are found largely in Albemarle County, Louisa
County, Caroline County and in the Shenandoah Valley Counties of
Virginia stretching out as far south as North Carolina. A person
with the surname Carr from these counties is not necessarily a
relative of the family described below, but their numbers are
sufficiently large to warrant looking at that connection. Keep in
mind that the lines of John Carr in Loudoun, and relatives of
Dabney Carr downstate, are not the only Carr families existing in
Virginia at the time. So please don't be too quick to append your
own line to another without documentary evidence.
Thomas Carr. (b.1655, d. >1724). Emigrated from England to
Topping Castle, Caroline County, Virginia in late 17th century.
Thomas Carr of Louisa County, VA. This Thomas Carr is styled
"Thomas Carr, gentleman" in a patent granted to him on April 25,
1701 for 546 acres of land in St. John's Parish, Pamunkey Neck,
King William County (VA) "...for the transportation of 11 persons
in the colony...." Positions held by Thomas Carr: Justice (1702),
High Sheriff (1708-09). Genealogies of Virginia Families Vol. I, p.
588ff, reprints a letter from Col. Wilson Miles Cary of Baltimore,
written to The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical
Magazine, who asserts that Thomas Carr had two sons: Major Thomas
Carr of Caroline County (VA), born 1678, and William Carr (who is
the ancestor of the Carrs in Spotsylvania County, VA, and also of
Kentucky and Missouri).
Major Thomas Carr was appointed Justice for Caroline County at
the time of its formation in 1728; he served in the Caroline court
until his death (May 29, 1737). He has also been Justice in King
William County from 1714, and was High Sheriff in 1722-23.
Major Thomas Carr was married to Mary Dabney (b. 1688, d. Sept.
7, 1748) in 1704. The children of this marraige were: Thomas (b.
1705, d. 1743 without children); John (below); Agnes (married in
1730 to Colonel John Waller of Spotsylvania); Sarah (b. Nov. 14,
1714, d. 1772), who married John Minor (1702-43), a wealthy planter
of Spotsylvania County.
The son of Major Thomas Carr who left descendents was John Carr,
Esq. of "Bear Castle," Elk Run, Louisa County, VA.; He was born on
December 26, 1706 in Caroline County, VA. John Carr, who owned
extensive estates, was a Member of the County Court (Louisa) from
its formation in 1742 until his death, and served as High Sheriff
in 1753-54.
John Carr, Esq. was married twice. His first wife, Mary Garland,
died March 10, 1736. Their son was Thomas Carr (b. Nov. 24, 1735),
is recognized as the direct ancestor of the Carr line in North
Garden, Albemarle County. The second wife of John Carr was Barbara
Overton (b. April 20, 1720, d. Dec. 1794), daughter of Capt. James
Overton of Hanover. John and Barbara had eleven children, of which
six survived: Dabney (discussed below); Samuel (b.1765, d.1777);
Elizabeth (b.1747); Overton (b. 1752), married Ann Addison of Oxon
Hill, MD.; Garland (b.1754, d.1837), of Albemarle County, married
Mary Phillips (nee' Winston) in 1783; Mary (b. 1756).
William, the other son of the immigrant Thomas Carr and brother
of Major Thomas Carr, died in 1760 sometime between the making of
his will (dated Aug. 2, 1760) and its "proving" in Spotsylvania
county on August 12, 1760. His wife was named Susannah, and their
children were: Sarah Carr (married Mordecai Hord), Thomas Carr,
William Carr, Ann Carr, Elizabeth Carr, Phebe Carr, Walter Chiles
Carr, Charles Brooks Carr, Agnes Brooks Carr (married William
Ellis), Susannah Carr, Mary Carr.
Walter Chiles Carr (d. 1848) married Elizabeth Chiles. Their
children were: Susan Carr, Charles Carr, Phebe Carr, Thomas Carr,
Nancy Carr, William Chiles Carr, Virginia Carr, Dabney Carr, Walter
Carr, Eliza Minor Carr, and Hulda Carr.
Charles Carr, son of Walter and Elizabeth (Chiles), married
Elizabeth Todd of Fayette County, Kentucky. Elizabeth was the
daughter of Levi Todd, and sister of Robert(?) Todd (who was the
father of Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln). Of the thirteen
children of Charles and Elizabeth, Robert Elisha Carr married Sarah
Block (who was Jewish).
Dabney Carr, grandson of Thomas Carr and son of John Carr,
married Martha Jefferson, sister of Thomas Jefferson, on July 20,
1765. Dabney Carr served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and was
a leader in pre-revolutionary Virginia. He died on May 16, 1773 of
fever, and is buried in the Jefferson family cemetary at Montecello
(Charlottesville, VA).
You are welcome. We originally ran it in The Borderline, the newsletter of
the Kerr Family Association of North America. Since then, I was appointed
Genealogy Director, with a co-director named David H. Kerr in New Jersey
(dhkerr(a)bellatlantic.net). We field as many questions about KERR/CARR names
as possible. After the death of Hub Kerr, my predecessor, Hub's son gave us
the electronic database files. We are currently converting them to a modern
file structure based on Microsoft Access to make reports, queries and data
handling better. We are currently fielding about 20 queries a week. The
database may someday be "on-line", and will certainly be on the CD-ROM we are
preparing (VERY nearly completed).
In a message dated 97-06-08 02:59:14 EDT, you write:
<< Sanfordeth(a)aol.com >>
===============Here it is.
Dabney Carr: The Carr Who Is Buried Next To Thomas Jefferson ant
Montecello
Friday, March 12, 1773 was a turning point in American history.
For the previous several years relations between the American
colonists and Great Britain had steadily deteriorated. The Stamp
Act of 1765 brought "taxation without representation," while the
Townshend Act of 1767 further burdened ostensibly free colonists
with "legislation without representation." In June 1772, an
incident in Rhode Island added fuel to the simmering cauldron. The
British schooner GASPE was burned off Newport. In response, the
British Parliament passed an act that allowed colonists to be
shipped to England for trial. The freedoms which the colonists
cherished so dearly were in terrible jeopardy.
Sensing a severe threat to colonial liberties, several prominent
Virginians elected members of the House of Burgesses secretly
met together in Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg) on March 11, and
proposed formation of a network of Committees of Correspondence
that would allow the colonies to keep in touch with each other, and
to monitor British intentions. Several of the burgesses in the
meeting Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee,
Francis Lightfoot Lee, and DABNEY CARR (possibly others also)
decided to offer the idea of the Committees of Correspondence to
the assembled house. The idea seems to have been Richard Henry
Lee's, with Thomas Jefferson writing the text of the formal
resolution that would be offerred for vote. But it was 29-year old
lawyer Dabney Carr who was tasked to rise in the House of Burgesses
and introduce the resolution.
The resolution was passed (although not without debate), and
Carr, along with ten others, were appointed to the colonies' first
Committee of Correspondence. By February 8, 1774 only one of the
remaining twelve colonies had not established their own Committees
of Correspondence; by September 5, 1774 the first Continental
Congress met in Philadelphia ...and as they say, "the rest is
history."
The road to the American Revolution was surveyed by Dabney Carr,
but he unfortunately did not live to trod upon it. On May 16, 1773,
only two months after delivering the speech that resulted in
formation of the Committees of Correspondence, and ultimately to
the Continental Congress and the American Revolution, the youthful
Dabney Carr died of fever in Charlottesville, VA. He is buried at
Monticello (Photo A) in the Jefferson family cemetery on the
southwestern slope of Mr. Jefferson's beautiful mountain.
When you visit Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, the
gravesite is behind, and down the hill from, the west garden. If
you stand on the porch of Monticello, the gravel path down the hill
to the Jefferson family gravesite is on the left. Follow the path
along the west lawn, and then down the hill to the gravesite, which
is guarded by a wrought iron fence. Follow the path around to the
right, along the edge of the site, to the gate (it's locked).
Thomas Jefferson's tombstone is right inside the gate. Immediately
to the right of Jefferson's own tombstone is that of Dabney Carr.
The bronze plaque at the site reads (in part) as follows:
This graveyard had its beginning in an agreement
between two young men, Thomas Jefferson and Dabney Carr,
who were school-mates and friends. They agreed that they
would be buried under a great oak that stood here.
Carr, who married Jefferson's sister, died in 1773. His
was the first grave on this site, which Jefferson laid
out as a family burying ground. Jefferson was buried here
in 1826.
According to the story, Jefferson and Carr had studied under the
"great oak" while school-mates. They both loved the location, and
pledged that whichever died first would bury the other under the
tree. Only a dozen or so years later Dabney Carr would be the first
buried there, as Thomas Jefferson kept his youthful promise.
Dabney Carr was born on October 26, 1743 at a thousand-acre
Louisa County, Virginia farm named Bear Castle. He was the son of
John Carr, grandson of Major Thomas Carr, and great-grandson of
"Thomas Carr, Gentlemen," who held extensive land patents in
Virginia from about 1701. Dabney attended the academy of Reverend
James Maury. Other students at the prestigious private school were
Thomas Jefferson and Matthew Maury. At the age of eighteen, Dabney
Carr enrolled in William and Mary College in Williamsburg, and
later studied to be a lawyer. Although his legal education
("reading law" under a practicing attorney) was interrupted in 1763
by militia service on the frontier with the Louisa County Volunteer
Rangers, Dabney was licensed to practice law only two years after
leaving college. In July 1765, Dabney Carr married Martha
Jefferson, Thomas' sister. The couple made their home at Spring
Forest in Goochland County, VA.
Dabney Carr was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1771 and
1772, and served on two House committees, including the influential
Committee of Privileges and Elections. He helped incorporate the
Virginia Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge, a group
"...dedicated to a discussion of geography, natural history,
natural philosophy, agriculture, practical mathematics, commerce,
medicine and American history."
Contemporaries regarded Dabney Carr as a powerful orator who was
a serious challenge to the acknowledged master orator, Patrick
Henry. Of Carr, Patrick Henry's biographer, William Wirt, said
[Dabney Carr] "...was considered...the most formidible rival in
forensic eloquence that Mr. Henry had ever yet had to encounter."
Of Carr, Thomas Jefferson said he "...was one of the earliest and
most distinquished leaders in the opposition to British tyranny."
Although Dabney Carr is largely forgotten by the history books,
except for a little microbe ("bilious fever" the doctor called it)
he would surely have been one of the giants of the American
Revolution. As it was, Dabney Carr's contribution to the formation
of the American democracy is subtantial, even though he died young.
Notes on the Family Line of Dabney Carr
Descendents of Virgnia Carrs from the family of Dabney Carr
often become confused and erroneously append their ancestors to the
Loudoun County line (the opposite mistake is also made quite
frequently, i.e. descendents of Loudoun Carrs appending their kin
to the line of Dabney. To serve the former, I am including the
material that I have on the "downstate" Carrs related to Dabney
Carr.
These families are found largely in Albemarle County, Louisa
County, Caroline County and in the Shenandoah Valley Counties of
Virginia stretching out as far south as North Carolina. A person
with the surname Carr from these counties is not necessarily a
relative of the family described below, but their numbers are
sufficiently large to warrant looking at that connection. Keep in
mind that the lines of John Carr in Loudoun, and relatives of
Dabney Carr downstate, are not the only Carr families existing in
Virginia at the time. So please don't be too quick to append your
own line to another without documentary evidence.
Thomas Carr. (b.1655, d. >1724). Emigrated from England to
Topping Castle, Caroline County, Virginia in late 17th century.
Thomas Carr of Louisa County, VA. This Thomas Carr is styled
"Thomas Carr, gentleman" in a patent granted to him on April 25,
1701 for 546 acres of land in St. John's Parish, Pamunkey Neck,
King William County (VA) "...for the transportation of 11 persons
in the colony...." Positions held by Thomas Carr: Justice (1702),
High Sheriff (1708-09). Genealogies of Virginia Families Vol. I, p.
588ff, reprints a letter from Col. Wilson Miles Cary of Baltimore,
written to The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical
Magazine, who asserts that Thomas Carr had two sons: Major Thomas
Carr of Caroline County (VA), born 1678, and William Carr (who is
the ancestor of the Carrs in Spotsylvania County, VA, and also of
Kentucky and Missouri).
Major Thomas Carr was appointed Justice for Caroline County at
the time of its formation in 1728; he served in the Caroline court
until his death (May 29, 1737). He has also been Justice in King
William County from 1714, and was High Sheriff in 1722-23.
Major Thomas Carr was married to Mary Dabney (b. 1688, d. Sept.
7, 1748) in 1704. The children of this marraige were: Thomas (b.
1705, d. 1743 without children); John (below); Agnes (married in
1730 to Colonel John Waller of Spotsylvania); Sarah (b. Nov. 14,
1714, d. 1772), who married John Minor (1702-43), a wealthy planter
of Spotsylvania County.
The son of Major Thomas Carr who left descendents was John Carr,
Esq. of "Bear Castle," Elk Run, Louisa County, VA.; He was born on
December 26, 1706 in Caroline County, VA. John Carr, who owned
extensive estates, was a Member of the County Court (Louisa) from
its formation in 1742 until his death, and served as High Sheriff
in 1753-54.
John Carr, Esq. was married twice. His first wife, Mary Garland,
died March 10, 1736. Their son was Thomas Carr (b. Nov. 24, 1735),
is recognized as the direct ancestor of the Carr line in North
Garden, Albemarle County. The second wife of John Carr was Barbara
Overton (b. April 20, 1720, d. Dec. 1794), daughter of Capt. James
Overton of Hanover. John and Barbara had eleven children, of which
six survived: Dabney (discussed below); Samuel (b.1765, d.1777);
Elizabeth (b.1747); Overton (b. 1752), married Ann Addison of Oxon
Hill, MD.; Garland (b.1754, d.1837), of Albemarle County, married
Mary Phillips (nee' Winston) in 1783; Mary (b. 1756).
William, the other son of the immigrant Thomas Carr and brother
of Major Thomas Carr, died in 1760 sometime between the making of
his will (dated Aug. 2, 1760) and its "proving" in Spotsylvania
county on August 12, 1760. His wife was named Susannah, and their
children were: Sarah Carr (married Mordecai Hord), Thomas Carr,
William Carr, Ann Carr, Elizabeth Carr, Phebe Carr, Walter Chiles
Carr, Charles Brooks Carr, Agnes Brooks Carr (married William
Ellis), Susannah Carr, Mary Carr.
Walter Chiles Carr (d. 1848) married Elizabeth Chiles. Their
children were: Susan Carr, Charles Carr, Phebe Carr, Thomas Carr,
Nancy Carr, William Chiles Carr, Virginia Carr, Dabney Carr, Walter
Carr, Eliza Minor Carr, and Hulda Carr.
Charles Carr, son of Walter and Elizabeth (Chiles), married
Elizabeth Todd of Fayette County, Kentucky. Elizabeth was the
daughter of Levi Todd, and sister of Robert(?) Todd (who was the
father of Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln). Of the thirteen
children of Charles and Elizabeth, Robert Elisha Carr married Sarah
Block (who was Jewish).
Dabney Carr, grandson of Thomas Carr and son of John Carr,
married Martha Jefferson, sister of Thomas Jefferson, on July 20,
1765. Dabney Carr served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and was
a leader in pre-revolutionary Virginia. He died on May 16, 1773 of
fever, and is buried in the Jefferson family cemetary at Montecello
(Charlottesville, VA).
Dabney Carr was bil of T Jefferson, does anyone know about the children
of Randolph JEFFERSON, bro of TJ?
Sandy in Florida :-)
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Burdette*Burr*Bush*Callison*Clendenin*Cornwell*Cooper*Craig*Curry
Dean*Elkins*Edwards*Ferrell*French*Garten*Griffith*Girt*Haines*Hooper
Hudson*Jefferson*Johnson*Kinton*Knapp*Lambert*Lawson*LeFever*Liggon
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Stockton*Taylor2*Thredder*Turley*Watson*Wells*Welch*Woodrum*Wolfe
All in WV, VA, MD, NJ, MA, PA, OH
My dad is doing research on the following names but does not have access
to the internet, so I am sending this message on his behalf. He would
like to know if there is a snail mail address for future contacts?
Individuals:
David Kerr - reputed Revolutionary War spy
also:
William Carr (died ca. 1702) - whose daughter married a John Bailey
My address:
David Brown
dabrown(a)zoomnet.net
dabrown(a)eurekanet.com
My dads snailmail address:
Stanford Brown
31 E. Camelia Rd. N.E.
Rome, GA 30161
In a message dated 97-06-06 20:36:16 EDT, you write:
<< Subj: Rueben Carr
Date: 97-06-06 20:36:16 EDT
From: minga(a)sanctum.com (Minga )
Resent-from: CARR-L(a)rootsweb.com
To: CARR-L(a)rootsweb.com
I am looking for any information I can find on the parents of Rueben Carr.
CARR,Rueben
B.1 July 1800 VA
M.30 Sept. 1830 Mary Creamer (Fayette) OH
D.10 July 1871 buried Aten Cemetery (Jasper) IL
>>
There is some information on this line in World Family Tree CD#2 pedigree
5088. The info is less complete than yours, but it has some additional
children's names, etc. Maybe of some use? I don't have time today to
compare notes but hope to do so in a week or so.
Note that the name is usually spelled Reuben.
Pat
Loretta;
This is my family & I believe I may have posted a descendancy chart
to the CARR list.
Do not have more on your Robert, but if you ever do find more, I
would be very glad to hear of it.
Sandra in Sacramento
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From:
lgb1(a)ix.netcom.com
At 09:00 AM 6/7/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Edson Carr's book (p.121) says the following about my CARR line:
>
>"Robert CARR lived in London, Eng., and raised a large family. His
>youngest son who came to this country (US) was, 1845X1 William Henry
>Carr, born about 1779."
>
>If anyone has run into this family in their research or has more
>information on the family of Robert Carr, I'd love to hear from you.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Loretta Barnard
>
>My CARR descent:
>
>Robert >Henry William >Benjamin >William Henry >Gertrude Florence
>>Louis Garvey >me
>
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Earlier, I sent an answer to this message asking for the copy of
this text file & just got this in my E-mail. It looks like my message was
cut off.
And, when I tried to respond to the below person, I kept getting
error messages, so, here goes this message through the CARR list.
Sanfordeth(a)aol.com
==================================================================
At 06:59 PM 6/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Mr. Joe,
>
>In a message dated 97-06-06 14:24:03 EDT, you write:
>
>>Subj: Re: Benjamin CARR
>>Date: 97-06-06 14:24:03 EDT
>>From: CARRJJ(a)aol.com
>>Resent-from: CARR-L(a)rootsweb.com
>>To: CARR-L(a)rootsweb.com
>>
>>Ooppps. The list apparently doesn't allow attachments. If anyone wants the
>>Dabney Carr textfile, which first appeared as my article in The Borderline
>>(newsletter of the Kerr Family Association), send me direct e-mail at
>>carrjj(a)aol.com.
>>
>>Joe Carr
>
> I would appreciate very much receiving this text file. Thank you.
>San---cut off here-------------------------------
>
My message is, I would very much appreciate reveicing this text
file. Thank you. Sandra in Sacramento
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From: Sanfordeth(a)aol.com
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 18:59:46 -0400 (EDT)
To: CARR-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: Benjamin CARR
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Dear Mr. Joe,
In a message dated 97-06-06 14:24:03 EDT, you write:
>Subj: Re: Benjamin CARR
>Date: 97-06-06 14:24:03 EDT
>From: CARRJJ(a)aol.com
>Resent-from: CARR-L(a)rootsweb.com
>To: CARR-L(a)rootsweb.com
>
>Ooppps. The list apparently doesn't allow attachments. If anyone wants the
>Dabney Carr textfile, which first appeared as my article in The Borderline
>(newsletter of the Kerr Family Association), send me direct e-mail at
>carrjj(a)aol.com.
>
>Joe Carr
I would appreciate very much receiving this text file. Thank you.
San
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whole new direction. At any rate, please forgive.............<g> <heavy sigh>
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