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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:56:38 -0600

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Note toward the end - Elizabeth Dice Carr married George Washington
Stuart...........
Thought this might be of interest to some of the Stuart/Stewart lines!

Shirley Antrim

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Reference is made below to Sally Ann (Carr) Houston, who lived in
"Leop, Clay Co, TX." in 1889. I visited the Clay Co site at Rootsweb and
determined that the post office of Loop was established in 1886 and closed in
1896, sending its papers to Myrtle PO, which closed in 1899 and sent its
papers to Shannon PO. FYI.

Pat

The ARK. Family Histoian Vol 6 #4 1968

THE CARR FAMILY

(These notes copied from Ford Barr Hanna's notes owned by
his daughters. Most of this was compiled by Mrs Annette
Wilson Smith, assisted by her husband, Capt. M/ O. Smith,
USA. Copied 16 feb 1968, by Jo Whitmore Dildy, Box 155,
Nashville, ARK 71852)

Thomas Carr, born ca 1651, is the first of the Carr family
we have any knowledge of in America. He settled in Virginia
and received many grants of land, among them one for 546
acres in St. John's Parish and another in King & Queen
county, 24 Apr 1701. He was the sheriff of King William
Co. in 1708 & 1709. He was alive in 1724; we have no
records of the date of his death. He had a son named Thomas
Carr.

Major Thomas Carr of Bear Castle, Caroline County, was born
in 1678 & died 29 May 1737. He also had various grants, one
whick was for 25,000 acres in the counties of Louisa and
Albermarle in VA.
He married Mary Dabney of King William Co in 1704 & had
issue: John, b: 1706; William, b: 1707;
Thomas, b 1709; and Sarah, b: 1714.

John Carr was born 25 Jun 1706, died June 1778. He named
his county seat 'Bear Castle', probably after his father's
place. It was situated in Louisa Co, VA. He was married
to Mary Gardland & second to Barbara Overton. His
children: Thomas, b: 1737; James, b: 1740; Dabney, b: 1743;
Samuel, b: 1745; Elizabeth, b: 1747; John, died young;
Overton, b: 1752; John, b: 1753; Garland, b: 1754; Mary,
b: 1756; & Sarah, b: 1758. Dabney, b: 26 Oct
1743.....married Martha Jefferson, a sister of Thomas
Jefferson.

Thomas Carr, son of Major Thomas Carr and brother of John
Carr, was born in VA. in 1709. His children were: Thomas,
b: 15 May 1742; William, b: 1745; McCager Carr, b:
1748; and Gideon Carr, b: 1752.

Thomas Carr was born in VA., probably in Albermarle Co. He
married Ann Sanders, 27 Jan 1770. She was born 6 Feb
1750, died 10 Sept 1826. He died in Tennessee, 5 May
1821. Their children were: Thomas, Gideon, Eliza,
John, Walter, Nancy, Richerdson, Betty, Susan, Sarah,
Polly, and Lucy.

Thomas Carr was born in Albermarle Co, VA, in 1771. He
married Mary Harpole, who was born on the ocean in 1792.
They were married 2 may 1811. He died 12 may 1858 & she
on 24 June 1868. Their children were: (1) John Harpole
Carr, b: 16 Apr 1812; married Miss Nea (2)
Elizabeth Dice Carr, b: 8 Aug 1814, md: George
Washington Stuart. (3) Martha Brown Carr, b: 8 Feb
1817, md: Mr. Hamil. (4) Thomas H. Carr, b: 4 Mar
1822 (5) Sarah Ann Carr, b: 26 Jan 1826, md: John
Houston. (6) Cassandra Hill Carr, born in Tenn., 5 or
13 June 1830, md: Benjamin Russey, who Lived one year
afterward, md: #2 June 1858 to Jacob Manly Sims.

A....Josephine RUSSEY, b: 4 Mar 1856, d: 12 May 1926,
md: J. T. Coulter. (1) Elzie Coulter, md: Roy M.
Stocking. (a) Josephine Stocking (b) Jerome
Stocking (2) John Ed Coulter, md: Mable White.
(3) Oscar Coulter md: Marie --------- (4)
Harold Coulter, md: Connie -------.

B....Mary Catherine Sims, b: 20 Feb 1859, md: Richard
Patrick Wilson (1) Marie Wilson, b: 29 Oct 1883,
md: Percy Francis Wisher, Oct 1905. (a) John Horner
Wisher, b: 7 June 1911. (b) Richard Sims Wisher, b:
7 Sep 19--, in Shanghai, China (2)
Annette Wilson, b: 6 Oct 1885, d: 1934, md: 27 Dec
1906 to Wm. Cury Smith. (a) Mary Sims Smith, b: New
Orleans, 30 Nov 1913.

C...... Nettie Sims, b: 9 Nov 1861, md: 15 Sept 1885,
to Charles Andrew Burton. Nettie Sims Burton died 30 Nov
1905: Charles Andrew Burton d: Nov 1928. He md: Miss
Gabie Betts in 1907. (1) Charles Andrew Burton, b: 5
Oct 1886, md: May, 1922, to Sarah Waumgarther. (a)
Charles Andrew Burton, Jr., b: 5 Aug 1924. (2)
Sims Wilson Burton, b: 21 June 1888, md: Ella -------,
Oct. 1928. (3) Allan Burton, b: 16 June 1891, md:
Dale Smith, 22 feb 1931. (4) Joe Burton, b: 12
Sept 1893, md: Ruth Stocking, Sept 1931. (5)
Edgar Kimberlain Burton, b: 7 Nov 1895, md: 31 Dec
1933, to Mrs. Mignon Hancock.

D....... John Thomas Sims, b: 1 July 1867, md: 17 Dec
1895, to Zella Lovelace. (1) Cassandra Sims, b: 30
Aug 1897, md: 16 Aug 1922, to James Harvey Morris
(a) Cassandra Sims Morris, b: 12 Oct 1925 (b)
James Harvey Morris II, b: 29 Aug 19-- . (2)
John Thomas Sims, b: 20 Oct 1899, md: 17 Sept
1930 (3) Zella Muffett Sims, b: 18 Dec 1901,
md: Louie B. Merrell, 30 Apr 1924 (a) Zella Muffett
Merrell, b: 30 May 1925. (4) Fannie Florence
Sims, b: 3 Aug 1904 md: 14 Dec 1930, to Clifford
Monroe Whitmore. (a) Clifford Sims Whitmore, b: 30 July
1933 (5) Nettie Mary Sims, b: 21 Oct 1907.

E...... Edgar Manly Sims, b: 13 July 1872, md: 1 jan
1911, to Minnie Wetter. No children.

An extract from a letter written by Sally Ann Carr (married
Houston) daughter of Thomas Carr, to her nephew, Richard
Carr, Donaldsville, GA., on 22 Sept 1889:::::::
"Leop, Clay County, Texas.

Thomas was Father's and Grandfather's name. Your Grandpa
Carr and Grandma Carr came from Wilson County, Tennessee in
1817. Your Grandpa Carr was born in Albermarle County,
Virgina. Your Grandma was born on the Ocean but was raised
in Tennessee. Your Gradpa Carr with several other men
built a keel boat and brought their families down the Ohio
into Mississippi, from Mississippi to Red River, up the
Red River to Lo Pararie where they landed, sold their
boat, scattered over Arkansas, which was then a
wilderness. They could get all the land they wanted by
simply filing for it. Most of the company got rich in the
course of time.

Elizabeth Dice Carr, daughter of Thomas Carr and Mary
Harpole, married George Washington Stuart. A partial
history of the Stuart family is also included in this issue.

[re-copied for the : Pat
Kennedy 17 Jan 2000 . Any one
wanting copies of this or the Stuart, three (3)
pages...e-mail me.
I'm also working on the Carr/Kerr genealogy.......Alice
Carr/Kerr (possible connection to a Dabney Carr line???)
md: Samuel Vance b: 1726 d: 26 May 1789 Surry Co,
(Gilford Co) N.C. Children: David Vance; Nathaniel
Vance md: Mary Dunbar McTier; Samuel Vance md:
Elizabeth Gilmore; Sarah Vance md: Abraham Endsley
(MY LINE); Hannah Vance md: John Lowry/Lowrey; Alice
Vance; John Vance md: Lucretia Whicker; James
Vance; Elizabeth Vance md: James M. Word; Joseph
Vance md: Penina -----]

Pat Noble

Always interested in your Carrs. Don't forget to visit:
< <A HREF="http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=pnoble66"><My Carr Database at <</A><A HREF="http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=pnoble66"><RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project </A>
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=pnoble66


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