Itasca 155 year old hill County Pioneer Reburied in Itasca........ Jul 8 1983.
... The Carr family plot in Itasca where wife Rebecca was buried in 1925
included a place for Dr. Carr to be interred; however this move from
Woodbury Cemetery had never been preformed. Permission to make this
transfer was requestd and approved by the State of Texas.
Rufus Wiley Carr was born in 1828 North Carolina [Stokes Co], the son of
Thomas Carr & Rachel Deering Carr. [this was Thomas Carr son of William
Carr & Alice, and his 2nd wife he m. 1st Mary Dalton]. He was educated at
the Medical College in New Orleans, not Tulane University. Married in 1860
to Rebecca Hasteltine Brownlee of Mississippi, [m. 8 Feb 1861 Holmes Co.,
MS] Dr. Carr operated a home-hospital there during the Civil War. The
family moved to Texas in 1869 and bought 160 acres of land in Hill County
near the place where Itasca was later located. Dr. Carr had lumber hauled
from Waco and Dallas to build home and the first cotton gin in the area. Dr
and Mrs. Carr were the parents of nine Children, the youngest of which was
Lena Carr Holland, a lifelong resident of Itasca who passed away in 1962.
Other children all reared in Itasca, were William Carr, Kate Carr, Easter
Lella Carr Wilson, Pleasant Absolum Carr, Thomas Winston Carr, Ida Carr
Germany, Noa Carr Popejoy and Norma Carr Hasty. .......