from
New England Families, Genealogical & Memorial
compiled by William Richard Cutter, A. M., 1915
(sorry, I didn't copy the publisher info)
pp. 2058 - 2059:
continued from part 1:
"(VII) Captain John Carr, son of Caleb (3) Carr, was born at Warren,
February 12, 1771. He married, June 15, 1794, Patty Davis, who died June
26, 1850. He was a master mariner. He died December 25,
1815. Children: John, mentioned below; James D., born June 6,
1797; Rebecca, September 19, 1800; Stephen, May 14, 1802; Caleb,
February 28, 1804; Ann Eliza, January 22, 1806; Lewis, April 16,
1809; Daniel, May 21, 1816."
to see photos of the gravestones of Capt. John & Patty Carr and John Flavel
Carr:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/stones/carr_graves3.html
"(VIII) John (2) Carr, son of John (1) Carr, was born at Warren, April 7,
1795, and died at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, April 3, 1873. He married, March
17, 1824, Maria Brayton, born September 15, 1801, who died at Pawtuxet,
March 13, 1863. Children: Elizabeth Mason, born January 26, 1826, died
young; John Flavel, April 23, 1827; Elizabeth Wheaton, October 20,
1830; George Wheaton, mentioned below; Levi Forbes, August 17,
1840; Maria Greene, November 8, 1843.
(IX) Dr. George Wheaton Carr, son of John (2) Carr, was born in Pawtuxet,
in the town of Warwick, Rhode Island, January 31, 1834. He was fitted for
college at Fruit Hill Classical Institute and entered Brown University in
1853, graduating in 1857 with the degree of Master of Arts. He began to
study medicine in the office of Dr. J. W. C. Ely, of Providence, and later
entered the National Medical College of Washington. He afterward went to
the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the degree
of Doctor of Medicine in 1860. He began to practice in Providence and was
appointed assistant surgeon general of Rhode Island. He was transferred to
the first troops sent to the front in the civil war, as assistant surgeon
of the First Rhode Island Regiment and he was with his regiment at the
battle of Bull Run. After the First Regiment was mustered out, he was
appointed assistant surgeon of the Second Rhode Island Regiment and
subsequently became its surgeon. He was brigade operating surgeon of the
Fourth and Sixth Army Corps, participating in the battles of Yorktown,
Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Gettysburg, Sharpsburg, Mine Run, Rappahannock,
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and other engagements. At the close of the war
Dr. Carr resumed practice in Providence. In 1860 he jointed the Rhode
Island State Medical Society, and the Providence Medical Association, of
which he was president from March 7, 1870, to March 4, 1872. He was
appointed physician of the Rhode Island State Prison, July 14, 1868, and
held that office until the prison was removed from the city in 1878. For
many years he was United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions. He was
surgeon of the Rhode Island Hospital from the date of opening in 1868 until
he died. He was medical director of the Rhode Island militia and first
surgeon of the Grand Army, and for several years was medical director of
the Department of Rhode Island. In 1880 he was appointed consulting
surgeon of the Butler Hospital for the Insane, serving as such until his
death. He died at his home, Waterman and Benefit streets, Providence, June
18, 1907.
He married, April 17, 1871, Imogene Mathewson (see Mathewson). Their only
child, George Wheaton, Jr., died in childhood. His widow resides in
Providence. Dr. Carr was a member of the Hope and University Clubs and of
the Squantum Association, all of Providence."
from the RI Historical Cemeteries Database:
CARR, GEORGE WHEATON 1834 - 18 JUN 1907 PV003
CARR, IMOGENE (MATHEWSON*) 1848 - 10 DEC 1947 PV003
CARR, GEORGE WHEATON 1879 - 16 MAR 1881 PV003