CARR, Charles Marvin 1845-1926

CARR, COUNTRYMAN, LEDDY, MCCLURE

Posted By: Erin Galyean (email)
Date: 1/19/2008 at 00:37:16

LA PORTE CITY TO PAY
LAST TRIBUTE TO UNION VETERAN

Charles Carr's Funeral
Will Be Tuesday Afternoon
in Evang'l Church

LaPorte City, Iowa, Oct. 25 - The funeral of Charles Carr, Civil war veteran who was stricken with illness while on a fishing trip Wednesday and died late Saturday will be conducted in the Evangelical church at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The pastor Rev. C. H. Vandersall will officiate and burial will be in the family lot at West View cemetery. Since disbanding of F. M. Thompson post, Grand Army of the Republic, Mr. Carr had been a member of Robert Anderson post, Waterloo.

Charles Marvin Carr was born on May 15, 1845 in Herkimer county, New York. When he was 11 years old, his parents moved to DeKalb county, Illinois, and his enlistment for service in the union army was at St. Charles, Illinois, in Eighth Illinois cavalry, which was assigned to the army of the Potomac. He was honorably discharged after three years of service and re-enlisted, serving until the end of the conflict and being in active service four years and 10 months. He took part in 64 battles.

He was married on October 10, 1865, to Sarah Countryman in Winnebago county, Illinois. They moved to Iowa in 1868, locating at LaPorte City, where they lived for 14 years.

In 1883 the family moved to Burleigh county, North Dakota, and took up a homestead, returning to LaPorte City in 1914. Mrs. Carr died on March 3, 1917, since when he had kept house for himself.

Mr. and Mrs. Carr were the parents of five children, two sons, Edwin and William dying in infancy, and a daughter, Mrs. Celia Leddy, in 1905 at Edmonton, Alberta.

The two surviving children are Everett L. Carr, Driscoll, North Dakota, and Mrs. Julia McClure, Cedar Falls, both of whom now are here. There also survive 10 grandchildren, 16 great grand children and one brother, Frank M. Carr, Bismarck, North Dakota, the only remaining member of a family of 11 brothers and sisters.

Waterloo [Iowa] Evening Courier;
Mon., Oct. 25, 1926