Husband of Eliza Jane Carr.
Father of sons: Elijah, Ward, Thomas, & Pleasant; and daughter: Elizabeth.
Enlisted July 31, 1861, at Livingston, Tennessee, in Company F, 25 Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Private Carr suffered a severe head wound on December 31, 1862, the first day of the Battle of Murfreesboro. His name appeared on a list of Confederate prisoners who died within the Federal lines, in the Department of the Cumberland, from December 31, 1862, to March 1, 1863.
Private Carr was taken prisoner at Stone River. Cause of death was a gunshot wound. Date of death was January 5, 1863. Place of death was Murfreesboro.∼James and family were living on Cane Creek when he died in 1826. His farm was in both Jackson and White counties. This location is now in Putnam County, formed in 1854 from parts of Jackson, Overton, Smith and White counties.
James is buried in the family cemetery in an unmarked grave. Huge oak trees surround the cemetery and falling limbs may have destroyed his gravesite
Husband of Eliza Jane Carr.
Father of sons: Elijah, Ward, Thomas, & Pleasant; and daughter: Elizabeth.
Enlisted July 31, 1861, at Livingston, Tennessee, in Company F, 25 Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Private Carr suffered a severe head wound on December 31, 1862, the first day of the Battle of Murfreesboro. His name appeared on a list of Confederate prisoners who died within the Federal lines, in the Department of the Cumberland, from December 31, 1862, to March 1, 1863.
Private Carr was taken prisoner at Stone River. Cause of death was a gunshot wound. Date of death was January 5, 1863. Place of death was Murfreesboro.∼James and family were living on Cane Creek when he died in 1826. His farm was in both Jackson and White counties. This location is now in Putnam County, formed in 1854 from parts of Jackson, Overton, Smith and White counties.
James is buried in the family cemetery in an unmarked grave. Huge oak trees surround the cemetery and falling limbs may have destroyed his gravesite
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