Can someone supply the name of the eight children of George Carr? Are the
4 names signed at the bottom of this 4 of his children? Thank you.
George Carr (1800- 1886)
George Carr was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, November 16,
1800, three months before Thomas Jefferson was elected president of the
United States. He was one of ten children of Micajah Carr (1752-1812) and
Elizabeth Wood. His father, who once owned "Colle" and was thus a neighbor
of Jefferson, served in the Revolution during Jefferson's County
Lieutenancy, and by 1794 held the rank of Lieutenant in the Virginia Militia.
George Carr's grandfather, Gideon Carr (1712-1794[Error= d. 1783])
, a native of New Kent County, was the first settler on the north side of
the Southwest Mountains. It was here that he raised a family of nine children.
George Carr was educated in the local schools. At age eighteen he
was teaching a twelve year old grandson of Jefferson. At nineteen, when the
Charlottesville Academy opened under Jefferson's patronage, he was both a
student and an assistant instructor. The following year (1820) the Academy
closed and George Carr opened his own grammar school at 611 East Main
Street. He continued in educational work at least into the 1830's. For
awhile during the 1820's he was at Samuel Minor's school at "The Farm."
During this period he qualified himself for the bar and on
September 15, 1822, was licensed to practice in Virginia. He qualified
himself as an attorney-at-law in the local bar on October 10 of the same year.
George Carr was well past middle age when he married Melinda
Cahoon Poore (1827-1898). They were married in February, 1855. A few years
later, during the early days of the Civil War, they bought a farm five
miles northwest of Charlottesville. During the Revolution Hessian prisoners
had been encamped here. Garland Garth built the home known as "The
Barracks" in 1819. It was here that George and Melinda Carr raised their
eight children.
A few years before the Civil War, George Carr had been named
Commissioner for the Liquidation of the Monticello Estate, a legal
assignment which occupied him for two decades. In the early years of the
war he was Mayor of Charlottesville.
George Carr died October 1, 1886. The Reverend Edgar Woods wrote
of him that at the time of his death he was the Nestor of the Albemarle
County Bar.
Memorial Given by:
George Tompkins Carr, Charles Gilmer Carr, Augustina Carr Mills, Thomas
Wood Carr, M.D.