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Surnames: Carr, Flemming, Black, McClain
Classification: Query
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My Great-Grandfather, Chester Carr, was born in Ontario, CA--probably near Finch and
Grantley--in the 1880's-1890's. He married Elizabeth Flemming from that same
area. They settled, illegally, in Canton, NY, in St. Lawrence County in the early
1900's. They had 2 sons and a daughter. Clifford Flemming Carr was born in Osnabruck
Center on 1/16/07. Nancy died as an infant. Kenneth Carr died recently and was born
about 1917. He lived most of his life in Wallkill, NY. My grandfather Clifford lived in
Theresa, NY, in Jefferson County, for most of his married life. He married Dorothy Mae
Lonkey in August of 1924.
My husband and I took a trip to Grantley-Finch area in the summer of 1977 and met Carr
cousins and other relatives. We did rubbings of gravestones from both the Grantley
cemetary and a private cemetary on or near the James Black homestead outside of Finch
where cousin Mercy McClain was living at the time. Gramp always said that a TOM CARR or
KERR had something to do with his father, Chester, losing the family homestead. ANYONE
WITH MORE INFO?