I recently found this information in the Greene County Directory at the
Illinois Archives. It includes some interesting CARR history.
Archibald and Mary (Polly Amelia) CARR are my gg grandparents. As you
read this, please help me if you have any information as to who the
"immortal Bruce and Burns" might be!
"CARR, R. W. drugs and groceries, Sec. 13, P.O. Fayette. The subject of
this sketch is a grandson of James CARR, who was one of the early
pioneers of Morgan County, who made the first purchase of land on which
Jacksonville now stands; he was Gen. Jackson's cook during the war of
1812, and was at all the battles that took place during that time;
remebers very distinctly of seeing Gen. Packenham fall from his horse.
Upon his return from the war he settled in Macoupin County; this hardy
pioneer and notable character died in the Fall of 1874, in his 79th
year. R. W., who heads this page, is a son of Archibald and Mary CARR,
who was born in Tennessee, and came to this State at an early age and
settled in the vicinity of Carrolton, and subsequently in Macoupin
County, where R. W. was born, which was at a point two miles east of
Fayette; his ancestors were among the most wealthy and influential
citizens of their time, and trace their antecedents to the land of the
immortal Bruce and Burns . . . ."
(There is more for anyone focusing on R. W.'s children if anyone is
interested.)
Karen in Illinois