The funeral of James Newton CARR, a pioneer of Jackson Township, took place at Ashcraft Chapel, Friday afternoon of last week, the Rev. W. H. WYLIE, of Bloomfield officiating. All of the members of the immediate family were present except his wife, who was unable to go on account of sickness. The church was crowded with a large number of relatives and friends who came to pay their last tribute of respect. From the sketch of his life read at the funeral we extract the following:
On Lincoln’s birthday sixty-nine years ago today, February 12, 1835, James Newton CARR was born near Orleans, Orange County, Indiana. At the age of five years, in 1840, he removed with his parents to a farm on Indian Creek, two miles east of Owensburg, Greene County, where he resided until his marriage in 1859. He lived in Lawrence County, near Bedford until April 1866. He then purchased a farm one mile north of Pleasant Ridge Church, in Jackson Township, Greene County, where he resided for more than thirty-six years. In November 1902 he removed to his farm near Koleen, where he resided until his death, February 10, 1904. His age was 68 years, 11 months and 28 days.
His parents were Linsey CARR and Nellie (CHAMBERS) CARR. He had five sisters, Katherine, Eliza, Amanda, Mary and Rowena and one brother Thomas. Three sisters, Eliza FERGUSON, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Amanda MATHES, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mary YANT, of Creston, Iowa, survive him. His father was one of the oldest settlers in the State, coming here from Kentucky about the time Indiana was admitted into the Union.
On February 24, 1859, he was married to Laura A. E. STALLINGS, of Lawrence County. As a result of this union there were three children—John W. CARR, of Anderson, Martha E. WALTERS, of Edina, Mo., and Mary P. D. HORN, of Koleen. His wife and all of his children survive him, his being the first death in his own family in almost forty-five years.
His education was meager, being such as was given in the pioneer schools of Greene County from 1840 to 1850—a period prior to the organization of our splendid school system. The term never exceed three months, the books were few in number and poor in quality, the teachers were untrained, the school houses were very poor and the equipment none at all. He never was permitted to go a full term to school in his entire life, always having to stay at home to work. However he was able to read and write and to make simple calculations in arithmetic. He was a firm believer in education and made many sacrifices and endured many privations in order that his children, especially his son, might receive an education.
In most respects he was a typical pioneer—a class that is now almost extinct. He helped his father clear one of the early farms in eastern Greene County. He settled upon a farm of his own in the virgin forest in 1866. He did not belong to the hunter and trapper class of pioneers but to that class that immediately followed them, who cleared the forest, built homes, roads, churches, school houses—in short made the State.
In early manhood he united with the Christian Church, near Owensburg, and remained a member until he removed from that community. He then withdrew by letter, but as he never lived convenient to another Christian church he never joined any other. He was always a believer in religion, was an attendant and supporter of the church, and exemplified most of the Christian virtues in his life.
His tastes were as simple as a child’s. He liked plain food, plain clothing, plain manners and plain people. He despised cant of every kind. He cared nothing for show and everything for reality. He was hospitable and even enjoyed entertaining better than being entertained. He loved his friends and neighbors and was ever ready to loan anything he had or to lend a hand in time of need.
His character was of the noble Puritanical mold. He abhorred drunkenness, dishonesty, laziness, gambling, lewdness and “orneriness” of every kind. He was scruptiously honest and was never happy if he owed any man a dollar. His motto was “pay as you go,” and it was one of his delights in his later years to be able to carry it out to the letter. At the beginning of his last sickness he owed no man a dollar. He believed in family discipline, and while he almost never inflicted corporal punishment, yet there was always obedience and industry in his family. He always enjoined upon his children the necessity of practicing virtue and simple straightforwardness and he showed how it was done.
His chief characteristic was his great industry. Few men ever worked as he did. No task was ever too hard, no weather too bad for him to work. Work, work, work, spring, summer, fall and winter—work before daylight and after dark—never a vacation in his whole life. Other men could surpass him in planning and skill in execution, but he was alone when it came to persistence and dogged endurance. He was skilled in the use of no other weapon but industry, but he was master of that. With that he fought misfortune and poverty and seeming disaster and came off victorious. He has well earned a rest eternal.
While he had not been well for some time, yet only a week ago today, he was about his affairs as usual. That night he took pneumonia. Medical aid availed naught, and at 9:30 o’clock Wednesday morning he breathed his last. His death was as peaceful as a child going to sleep in his mother’s arms. He opened his eyes, smiled, and then entered upon the life immortal. He had never heard much of the plaudits of men; let us hope that he heard the “well done” of the Master.
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CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1994, G.C.H.S., Ashcraft Chapel Cemetery, Jackson Township, Section 7, Page 106: CARR, James Newton, 12 Feb 1835—10 Feb 1904; CARR, Laura A., w/o James N., 23 Apr 1833—20 Aug 1917;
CARR CEMETERY, Jackson Township, Section 25, Page 108: CARR, Nell Chambers, 2 Dec 1810—20 Jul 1849
On Lincoln’s birthday sixty-nine years ago today, February 12, 1835, James Newton CARR was born near Orleans, Orange County, Indiana. At the age of five years, in 1840, he removed with his parents to a farm on Indian Creek, two miles east of Owensburg, Greene County, where he resided until his marriage in 1859. He lived in Lawrence County, near Bedford until April 1866. He then purchased a farm one mile north of Pleasant Ridge Church, in Jackson Township, Greene County, where he resided for more than thirty-six years. In November 1902 he removed to his farm near Koleen, where he resided until his death, February 10, 1904. His age was 68 years, 11 months and 28 days.
His parents were Linsey CARR and Nellie (CHAMBERS) CARR. He had five sisters, Katherine, Eliza, Amanda, Mary and Rowena and one brother Thomas. Three sisters, Eliza FERGUSON, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Amanda MATHES, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mary YANT, of Creston, Iowa, survive him. His father was one of the oldest settlers in the State, coming here from Kentucky about the time Indiana was admitted into the Union.
On February 24, 1859, he was married to Laura A. E. STALLINGS, of Lawrence County. As a result of this union there were three children—John W. CARR, of Anderson, Martha E. WALTERS, of Edina, Mo., and Mary P. D. HORN, of Koleen. His wife and all of his children survive him, his being the first death in his own family in almost forty-five years.
His education was meager, being such as was given in the pioneer schools of Greene County from 1840 to 1850—a period prior to the organization of our splendid school system. The term never exceed three months, the books were few in number and poor in quality, the teachers were untrained, the school houses were very poor and the equipment none at all. He never was permitted to go a full term to school in his entire life, always having to stay at home to work. However he was able to read and write and to make simple calculations in arithmetic. He was a firm believer in education and made many sacrifices and endured many privations in order that his children, especially his son, might receive an education.
In most respects he was a typical pioneer—a class that is now almost extinct. He helped his father clear one of the early farms in eastern Greene County. He settled upon a farm of his own in the virgin forest in 1866. He did not belong to the hunter and trapper class of pioneers but to that class that immediately followed them, who cleared the forest, built homes, roads, churches, school houses—in short made the State.
In early manhood he united with the Christian Church, near Owensburg, and remained a member until he removed from that community. He then withdrew by letter, but as he never lived convenient to another Christian church he never joined any other. He was always a believer in religion, was an attendant and supporter of the church, and exemplified most of the Christian virtues in his life.
His tastes were as simple as a child’s. He liked plain food, plain clothing, plain manners and plain people. He despised cant of every kind. He cared nothing for show and everything for reality. He was hospitable and even enjoyed entertaining better than being entertained. He loved his friends and neighbors and was ever ready to loan anything he had or to lend a hand in time of need.
His character was of the noble Puritanical mold. He abhorred drunkenness, dishonesty, laziness, gambling, lewdness and “orneriness” of every kind. He was scruptiously honest and was never happy if he owed any man a dollar. His motto was “pay as you go,” and it was one of his delights in his later years to be able to carry it out to the letter. At the beginning of his last sickness he owed no man a dollar. He believed in family discipline, and while he almost never inflicted corporal punishment, yet there was always obedience and industry in his family. He always enjoined upon his children the necessity of practicing virtue and simple straightforwardness and he showed how it was done.
His chief characteristic was his great industry. Few men ever worked as he did. No task was ever too hard, no weather too bad for him to work. Work, work, work, spring, summer, fall and winter—work before daylight and after dark—never a vacation in his whole life. Other men could surpass him in planning and skill in execution, but he was alone when it came to persistence and dogged endurance. He was skilled in the use of no other weapon but industry, but he was master of that. With that he fought misfortune and poverty and seeming disaster and came off victorious. He has well earned a rest eternal.
While he had not been well for some time, yet only a week ago today, he was about his affairs as usual. That night he took pneumonia. Medical aid availed naught, and at 9:30 o’clock Wednesday morning he breathed his last. His death was as peaceful as a child going to sleep in his mother’s arms. He opened his eyes, smiled, and then entered upon the life immortal. He had never heard much of the plaudits of men; let us hope that he heard the “well done” of the Master.
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CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1994, G.C.H.S., Ashcraft Chapel Cemetery, Jackson Township, Section 7, Page 106: CARR, James Newton, 12 Feb 1835—10 Feb 1904; CARR, Laura A., w/o James N., 23 Apr 1833—20 Aug 1917;
CARR CEMETERY, Jackson Township, Section 25, Page 108: CARR, Nell Chambers, 2 Dec 1810—20 Jul 1849
The funeral of James Newton CARR, a pioneer of Jackson Township, took place at Ashcraft Chapel, Friday afternoon of last week, the Rev. W. H. WYLIE, of Bloomfield officiating. All of the members of the immediate family were present except his wife, who was unable to go on account of sickness. The church was crowded with a large number of relatives and friends who came to pay their last tribute of respect. From the sketch of his life read at the funeral we extract the following:
On Lincoln’s birthday sixty-nine years ago today, February 12, 1835, James Newton CARR was born near Orleans, Orange County, Indiana. At the age of five years, in 1840, he removed with his parents to a farm on Indian Creek, two miles east of Owensburg, Greene County, where he resided until his marriage in 1859. He lived in Lawrence County, near Bedford until April 1866. He then purchased a farm one mile north of Pleasant Ridge Church, in Jackson Township, Greene County, where he resided for more than thirty-six years. In November 1902 he removed to his farm near Koleen, where he resided until his death, February 10, 1904. His age was 68 years, 11 months and 28 days.
His parents were Linsey CARR and Nellie (CHAMBERS) CARR. He had five sisters, Katherine, Eliza, Amanda, Mary and Rowena and one brother Thomas. Three sisters, Eliza FERGUSON, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Amanda MATHES, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mary YANT, of Creston, Iowa, survive him. His father was one of the oldest settlers in the State, coming here from Kentucky about the time Indiana was admitted into the Union.
On February 24, 1859, he was married to Laura A. E. STALLINGS, of Lawrence County. As a result of this union there were three children—John W. CARR, of Anderson, Martha E. WALTERS, of Edina, Mo., and Mary P. D. HORN, of Koleen. His wife and all of his children survive him, his being the first death in his own family in almost forty-five years.
His education was meager, being such as was given in the pioneer schools of Greene County from 1840 to 1850—a period prior to the organization of our splendid school system. The term never exceed three months, the books were few in number and poor in quality, the teachers were untrained, the school houses were very poor and the equipment none at all. He never was permitted to go a full term to school in his entire life, always having to stay at home to work. However he was able to read and write and to make simple calculations in arithmetic. He was a firm believer in education and made many sacrifices and endured many privations in order that his children, especially his son, might receive an education.
In most respects he was a typical pioneer—a class that is now almost extinct. He helped his father clear one of the early farms in eastern Greene County. He settled upon a farm of his own in the virgin forest in 1866. He did not belong to the hunter and trapper class of pioneers but to that class that immediately followed them, who cleared the forest, built homes, roads, churches, school houses—in short made the State.
In early manhood he united with the Christian Church, near Owensburg, and remained a member until he removed from that community. He then withdrew by letter, but as he never lived convenient to another Christian church he never joined any other. He was always a believer in religion, was an attendant and supporter of the church, and exemplified most of the Christian virtues in his life.
His tastes were as simple as a child’s. He liked plain food, plain clothing, plain manners and plain people. He despised cant of every kind. He cared nothing for show and everything for reality. He was hospitable and even enjoyed entertaining better than being entertained. He loved his friends and neighbors and was ever ready to loan anything he had or to lend a hand in time of need.
His character was of the noble Puritanical mold. He abhorred drunkenness, dishonesty, laziness, gambling, lewdness and “orneriness” of every kind. He was scruptiously honest and was never happy if he owed any man a dollar. His motto was “pay as you go,” and it was one of his delights in his later years to be able to carry it out to the letter. At the beginning of his last sickness he owed no man a dollar. He believed in family discipline, and while he almost never inflicted corporal punishment, yet there was always obedience and industry in his family. He always enjoined upon his children the necessity of practicing virtue and simple straightforwardness and he showed how it was done.
His chief characteristic was his great industry. Few men ever worked as he did. No task was ever too hard, no weather too bad for him to work. Work, work, work, spring, summer, fall and winter—work before daylight and after dark—never a vacation in his whole life. Other men could surpass him in planning and skill in execution, but he was alone when it came to persistence and dogged endurance. He was skilled in the use of no other weapon but industry, but he was master of that. With that he fought misfortune and poverty and seeming disaster and came off victorious. He has well earned a rest eternal.
While he had not been well for some time, yet only a week ago today, he was about his affairs as usual. That night he took pneumonia. Medical aid availed naught, and at 9:30 o’clock Wednesday morning he breathed his last. His death was as peaceful as a child going to sleep in his mother’s arms. He opened his eyes, smiled, and then entered upon the life immortal. He had never heard much of the plaudits of men; let us hope that he heard the “well done” of the Master.
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CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1994, G.C.H.S., Ashcraft Chapel Cemetery, Jackson Township, Section 7, Page 106: CARR, James Newton, 12 Feb 1835—10 Feb 1904; CARR, Laura A., w/o James N., 23 Apr 1833—20 Aug 1917;
CARR CEMETERY, Jackson Township, Section 25, Page 108: CARR, Nell Chambers, 2 Dec 1810—20 Jul 1849
On Lincoln’s birthday sixty-nine years ago today, February 12, 1835, James Newton CARR was born near Orleans, Orange County, Indiana. At the age of five years, in 1840, he removed with his parents to a farm on Indian Creek, two miles east of Owensburg, Greene County, where he resided until his marriage in 1859. He lived in Lawrence County, near Bedford until April 1866. He then purchased a farm one mile north of Pleasant Ridge Church, in Jackson Township, Greene County, where he resided for more than thirty-six years. In November 1902 he removed to his farm near Koleen, where he resided until his death, February 10, 1904. His age was 68 years, 11 months and 28 days.
His parents were Linsey CARR and Nellie (CHAMBERS) CARR. He had five sisters, Katherine, Eliza, Amanda, Mary and Rowena and one brother Thomas. Three sisters, Eliza FERGUSON, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Amanda MATHES, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mary YANT, of Creston, Iowa, survive him. His father was one of the oldest settlers in the State, coming here from Kentucky about the time Indiana was admitted into the Union.
On February 24, 1859, he was married to Laura A. E. STALLINGS, of Lawrence County. As a result of this union there were three children—John W. CARR, of Anderson, Martha E. WALTERS, of Edina, Mo., and Mary P. D. HORN, of Koleen. His wife and all of his children survive him, his being the first death in his own family in almost forty-five years.
His education was meager, being such as was given in the pioneer schools of Greene County from 1840 to 1850—a period prior to the organization of our splendid school system. The term never exceed three months, the books were few in number and poor in quality, the teachers were untrained, the school houses were very poor and the equipment none at all. He never was permitted to go a full term to school in his entire life, always having to stay at home to work. However he was able to read and write and to make simple calculations in arithmetic. He was a firm believer in education and made many sacrifices and endured many privations in order that his children, especially his son, might receive an education.
In most respects he was a typical pioneer—a class that is now almost extinct. He helped his father clear one of the early farms in eastern Greene County. He settled upon a farm of his own in the virgin forest in 1866. He did not belong to the hunter and trapper class of pioneers but to that class that immediately followed them, who cleared the forest, built homes, roads, churches, school houses—in short made the State.
In early manhood he united with the Christian Church, near Owensburg, and remained a member until he removed from that community. He then withdrew by letter, but as he never lived convenient to another Christian church he never joined any other. He was always a believer in religion, was an attendant and supporter of the church, and exemplified most of the Christian virtues in his life.
His tastes were as simple as a child’s. He liked plain food, plain clothing, plain manners and plain people. He despised cant of every kind. He cared nothing for show and everything for reality. He was hospitable and even enjoyed entertaining better than being entertained. He loved his friends and neighbors and was ever ready to loan anything he had or to lend a hand in time of need.
His character was of the noble Puritanical mold. He abhorred drunkenness, dishonesty, laziness, gambling, lewdness and “orneriness” of every kind. He was scruptiously honest and was never happy if he owed any man a dollar. His motto was “pay as you go,” and it was one of his delights in his later years to be able to carry it out to the letter. At the beginning of his last sickness he owed no man a dollar. He believed in family discipline, and while he almost never inflicted corporal punishment, yet there was always obedience and industry in his family. He always enjoined upon his children the necessity of practicing virtue and simple straightforwardness and he showed how it was done.
His chief characteristic was his great industry. Few men ever worked as he did. No task was ever too hard, no weather too bad for him to work. Work, work, work, spring, summer, fall and winter—work before daylight and after dark—never a vacation in his whole life. Other men could surpass him in planning and skill in execution, but he was alone when it came to persistence and dogged endurance. He was skilled in the use of no other weapon but industry, but he was master of that. With that he fought misfortune and poverty and seeming disaster and came off victorious. He has well earned a rest eternal.
While he had not been well for some time, yet only a week ago today, he was about his affairs as usual. That night he took pneumonia. Medical aid availed naught, and at 9:30 o’clock Wednesday morning he breathed his last. His death was as peaceful as a child going to sleep in his mother’s arms. He opened his eyes, smiled, and then entered upon the life immortal. He had never heard much of the plaudits of men; let us hope that he heard the “well done” of the Master.
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CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1994, G.C.H.S., Ashcraft Chapel Cemetery, Jackson Township, Section 7, Page 106: CARR, James Newton, 12 Feb 1835—10 Feb 1904; CARR, Laura A., w/o James N., 23 Apr 1833—20 Aug 1917;
CARR CEMETERY, Jackson Township, Section 25, Page 108: CARR, Nell Chambers, 2 Dec 1810—20 Jul 1849
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