continued from part 1.
"John Carr, son of Judge Nicholas, was born on the old homestead, May 5,
1774, was educated in the local schools, and grew up on the farm, which he
operated during his life. He died July 27, 1823, while still in the prime
of life, and was buried in the cemetery of the Baptist Church, in which he
was a local preacher. On Dec. 5, 1805, Mr. Carr was married to Mary Cross,
born in Charlestown, R.I., who died Dec. 24, 1822, daughter of Peleg Cross,
and to this union came children as follows: Peleg Cross, born April 17,
1807, is mentioned below; Mary Eldred, born April 18, 1808, died unmarried,
Aug. 29, 1873; Catherine Congdon, born April 23, 1809, married Robert Hazard
Watson; Thomas Jefferson, born Dec. 25, 1810, died May 2, 1858; Nicholas,
born April 8, 1812, died in Providence; John Eldred, born Jan. 15, 1814,
died Oct. 20, 1885; Celia Ann, born Jan. 24, 1816, married Smith Carpenter,
of Rochester, N.Y.; William Carter, born June 24, 1817, died in Providence;
George Cross was born Dec. 22, 1818; Hannah Carter, born Oct. 9, 1822, died
in 1834.
Hon. Peleg Cross Carr, son of John, was born on the home farm, the eldest of
a family of ten children. The parents died when most of the family were
still young, and their care fell to the lot of Peleg C. and his sister Mary
E. He continued on the homestead, where he owned and operated a tract of
120 acres, engaged in general farming and raised sheep, being at one time
one of the leading sheep men in the county. He was well known and highly
respected, and was noted for his industry and thrifty habits. He was first
a Whig and later a Republican in politics, and during the Civil war
represented the town in both branches of the State Legislature. He also
served as a member of the town council, of the board of assessors and of the
school board for many years. Mr. Carr was active in any enterprise which
had for its object the betterment of the town or its people, and died as he
had lived, a good citizen, father and husband, Sept. 16, 1884, at the age of
seventy-seven years. He was buried in Cedar cemetery, Jamestown.
On Dec. 31, 1835, Mr. Carr was married to Catherine Watson Weeden, born at
Laurens, N.Y., daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Weeden) Weeden, natives of
Jamestown, and descendants of its oldest families. Mrs. Carr died at her
home in August, 18871, and was buried in the Cedar cemetery. The following
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Carr: Henry Clay; Mary Catherine, who
married Allen Gardner, and died July 18, 1898, leaving four children,
Catherine Weeden, John Howland, Lucy Allen and Giles Carr; Abby Frances and
Thomas Giles, twins; Hannah Carter, who married Gustavus Adolphus Clarke, of
Jamestown, and has two children, Clarence Field Clarke and Celia Elizabeth
(Clarke) Goodman; Sarah Weeden; Clarence Edward; Celia Elizabeth, who
married George H. Clarke, of Shannock, R.I. , and had children: George
Perry, Harriet Sunmer, Henry Garfield and Florence; and Isabella Watson,
widow of Walter D. Watson, who resides in Michigan (her children are Walter
Leon, richard Carr and John Mitchell).
Henry Clay Carr, son of Hon. Peleg C., was born on the homestead, and was
there educated, later attending East Greenwich Academy and Brown University,
from which he was graduated with the class of 1861. He then went to New
York, and studied law in the office of Chauncey Schaffer, after which he
practised for some time before the New York Bar, later removing to Iowa.
After some time spent at his profession there Mr. Carr removed to
California, and his death occurred in the city of Los Angeles, in 1892. Mr.
Carr married Louise Low, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the children born to this
union were: Catherine Carpenter; Elizabeth Reed, who married Edmund Locke,
of Los Angeles; and Henry Clay, Jr., who married Alice Eaton.
Clarence Edward Brested Carr, son of Hon. Peleg C., was born on the old
homestead, and was educated in the local schools and East Greenwich Academy.
He has given his entire attention to farming and sheep raising, and since
his father's death has operated the old homestead, where he resides with his
sisters, Miss Abby Frances and Miss Sarah Weeden Carr, ladies of culture and
refined tastes, who are much devoted to the old home and its traditions.
Hon. Thomas Giles Carr, son of the late Hon. Peleg C., was born on the home
farm, Jan. 16, 1843, and was educated in the local schools and the East
Greenwich Academy. He then returned to the homestead, continuing there with
his father until the early seventies, when he went to South Carolina and
located near Charlestown, where he became engaged in growing cotton,
spending two years. Returning to Jamestown, Mr. Carr located on the Knowles
property on Shore Rock, where he has been farming a tract of seventy acres
ever since, being also interested in sheep raising with his brother,
Clarence E. B. Carr, as well as in the breeding of fine poultry. He has
always been quite active in public life, has been assessor of taxes of
Jamestown for over twenty years, chairman of the board, a member of the
council and for many years a member of the school board; he has always taken
a deep interest in educational matters, and for the past ten years has been
superintendent of the schools of Jamestown. He is an ardent Republican in
politics, and was first elected a member of the State Legislature in 1869,
serving two terms. In 1872 he was elected to the State Senate, and served
two terms in that body also. Mr. Carr was reelected to the lower house of
the General Assembly in 1895, serving two years, and then until 1902 was in
the Senate, during which time he served on the committees on Accounts and
Claims and on Fisheries. Mr. Carr is a charter member of the local Grange,
in which he is chaplain.
In 1883 Mr. Carr was married, in Jamestown, to Lucy J. Cory, daughter of the
late Capt. Andrew Cory, a well-known whaling captain. Four children have
been born to this union: Nicholas, a clerk in the Industrial Trust Company,
Providence; Maria Almy, a typewriter and stenographer at Providence; and
George Caleb and Louise Cory, both of whom make their home with their parents."
[portrait: Peleg C. Carr]
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CARR, Henry Clay. 1862. A.B., admitted to the bar, 1864;
lawyer in N.Y., 1864 - 1867; Tipton, Iowa 1867 - 187?,
mayor of Tipton 4 years, Iowa senate 4 years.
lawyer in Los Angeles, CA, 1887 - 1890.
b. Jamestown, RI April 13, 1839
d. Los Angeles, CA Dec. 25, 1890
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