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MISSISSIPPI RIVER FOLK BACKGROUND
DAVID CARR It has a quiet but steady companion for company now, since Captain J.D. Barnes of LeClaire placed a cut stone marker on the Public Landing close to the tree in memory of an old playmate who was born only two miles away. Captain Joe Barnes is a veteran of the Civil war. He and David Carr of Davenport are the only survivors of the crew that made the first and only rafting trip made by the little steamer 'LeClaire' of LeClaire, Iowa, in 1866.
Source: A Raft Pilot's Log , Blair, Walter A., Arthur H. Clark Company, 1929, p. unknown.