John Carr

CARR, MCMULLEN, REYNOLDS, CLARY

Posted By: Suzanne Folk (email)
Date: 6/25/2016 at 20:54:45

Death of John Carr, Sr.
Died at His Home Near Nicholasville, Kentucky, Oct. 30th

The jessamine News, Nicholasville, Ky.: John Carr, Sr., well-known farmer and good citizen died Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at his home near Nicholasville, on the Danville pike, aged 84 years. Although his rapid decline was but recent, he had been an invalid for four years as the result of slight injuries caused by a fall. He leaves a wife, who was Miss Mary Boland, of Cincinnati, and one son, John Carr, of Nicholasville, and two daughters, Mrs. Joseph Reynolds and Mrs. Bettie Clary, of Nicholasville.

The funeral will be held at St. Luke’s Catholic church at 9 o’clock this morning by Rev. Wm. O’Hare; and the interment in Maple Grove cemetery.

John Carr was a native of Ireland and came to America before the civil war and was at Pike’s Peak with the Forty-niners, and was a private in the Fourth Ohio Volunteer cavalry, Company B. He was at camp Nelson and after the close of the war was for many years express messenger between Nicholasville and Danville, and afterward succeeded in amassing a comfortable estate as a successful farmer. He was a man of good information and high type of character, a gentile and kind man whose republicanism was firm but never obtrusive. It is a high tribute that no one ever had cause to say other than praise of him as a citizen neighbor and churchman.

John Carr was a brother of the late Michael Carr, of Temple Hill, and Thomas Carr of Prairie Creek, and is an uncle of John and Thos. P. Carr, of Bernard, Mrs. W. McMullen and Joseph E. Carr, of Cascade, and Wm. Carr, of Portland, Oregon, and the late Michael Carr, of Anthon, Ia.
--Cascade Pioneer, Cascade, Iowa, November 16, 1916, page 5.