JOSEPH CARR

CARR, ALTMAN, MALENGER, PIXLY

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/31/2009 at 10:44:22

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

JOSEPH CARR, farmer, Sec. 8, he was born Aug. 27, 1825, in Chatteris, England; in 18937, came to Bucks Co., Penn.; in 1843, to Hancock Co., Ohio; in 1851, to Dubuque Co.; in 1855, removed to Houston Co., Minn.; in 1870, came to his present farm; owns 120 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre. Married Sarah Altman in 1845; she was born in 1824 in Ross Co., Ohio; died May 23, 1855; had five children, three living - Thomas R., George W., and Susan A. Second marriage to Caroline Malenger in 1855; she was born in 1838 in Illinois; died in June 1876; had ten children, nine living - J. H., J.M., A.W., Julia A., Elizabeth M., A. Martin, Estella, Ella, and Jessie. Third marriage to Susan Pixly in 1877; she was born in October 1825 in Ohio. John Owen enlisted in 1863 in Co. K, 6th Minn. V.I.; served to the end of the war; he died in 1866, aged 21 years of disease contracted in the army. Republican; Christian Church.