Elizabeth Ann (Townsend) Carr (1817-1909)

TOWNSEND, CARR, PRIME, WHITE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/29/2017 at 16:24:57

From Nevada Representative April 2, 1909

OBITUARY

A Long Life Closed

Mrs. James Carr died Wednesday evening at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel White in Nevada, after an illness of pnuemonia which had lasted a week. She had attained the great age of 91 years, 10 months and 23 days, and more than 73 of those years had been years of uninterrupted married life, and always full of activity and self-helpfulness till in September of 1907, an unlucky fall broke her hip and made her thenceforth dependent on a wheel chair for moving about. But her mind remained active and bright to the last and dictated requests which are to guide in arrangements for her obsequies.

Elizabeth Ann Townsend, was born in Franklin county, Indiana, May 8 1817; and died as stated in Nevada, March 31, 1909. She was married in Boone county, Indiana to James Carr, September 24, 1835, and came to Iowa with her husband in 1861, settling on a farm in the east part of Nevada township which then belonged to New Albany. When the weight of years had told upon strength, Mr. and Mrs. Carr left the farm to abide near their daughter, Mrs. White; fifteen years ago the farm home of the daughter became theirs; four years ago entire household removed to Nevada; and under the broad roof of the old S. E. Briggs homestead, Mrs. Carr's last years have peacefully passed and closed. Her husband well along in his ninety-fifth year, her daughters, Mrs. J. T. Prime of Oxford, Nebraska, and Mrs. Samuel White, survive her. One child died in infancy. She also leaves twelve grand children and twenty-four great-grand children. Mrs. Carr was of long lived lineage--her father became almost a centenarian--and the strength which heredity gave was preserved and augmented by worth, hope trust and regularity of life. She adopted the faith of "The Church of God," more than half a century ago, and her funeral services will be conducted at the White residence at 1:30 Saturday by a minister of that faith, Rev. A. J. Eychauer of Iowa Falls and interment will be in the Nevada cemetery. Strong sympathy is with the venerable husband who now looks through cypress trees toward the companionship to which he has so long been wonted.