Mrs. Jane Carr (1819-1909)

CARR, MANIFEE, LARSON, MITCHELL, BARRET, JACKSON

Posted By: J. Mawdsley (email)
Date: 8/4/2003 at 20:29:52

DEATH OF MRS. ANANIAS CARR

Mrs. Jane Carr, wife of Ananias Carr, died Monday evening at the home of their son, James N. Carr in the north part of town, after an illness of pneumonia which had lasted four weeks. Her age was nearly eighty-nine years. Her funeral is conducted this afternooon by Elder Larson at the church of the Seventh Day Adventists.

Mrs. Carr was born and reared in Virginia, and there was married to George Manifee. With this husband and their children she migrated to Boone county Indiana where Mr. Manifee died as did also all of their children- except their son George. The widow was married in Indiana to Ananais Carr, a native of Ohio, and with him, in 1866 she came to New Albany township, Story county, and in this vicinity the remainder of her life has been passed.

The son by Mr. Carr's first marriage, grew up here and removed from Nevada to Oklahoma a month ago. The sons and daughters by her second marriage are James, Jesse, Benoni, Lizzie (Mrs. Mitchell), and Jane (Mrs. Barret) who survive their mother, and William, Daniel, and Phoebe (Mrs. Jackson) who are deceased. Benoni, James N., and Mrs. Lizzie Mitchell are residents of Nevada, and it was at the home of James N. that the mother passed away. Mrs. Carr's grand-children are numerous, as are also her great-grand-children, and her great-great-grand-children are two in number. Mrs. Carr had enjoyed a fair degree of vigor till seized by her fatal illness, and she has dropped away from the side of her husband, who is nearing his ninetieth birthday, at the end of a very long life journey, of which many good words are spoken by those who knew her.

From the Nevada Represenative, Feb. 3, 1909.