Job Carr. Husband to Rebecca Vail Pittman. Father to Anthony Pittman Carr, Francis Howard Carr, Marrietta Elizabeth Carr and Margaret Ann Carr. Job Carr arrives at the future site of Tacoma, WA, on Commencement Bay on December 25, 1864. A veteran of the Union Army from Indiana, who came West to seek opportunities. Job Carr was the founding father of Tacoma. The first Mayor of Tacoma. The first Postmaster of Tacoma. Carr was the first permanent Euro-American settler in Tacoma, after the abondoment of earlier claims in 1855, due to the Indian War of 1855-1856. Carr later sold most of 168 acre-claim to McCarver which combined his town of "New Tacoma" and Carr's town of Tacoma, to form one city of Tacoma. All on a land site the Nisqually and Puyallup Peoples called Shubahlup, or "sheltered place".
My family tree footnote:
Job Carr's son, Francis Howard Car, married the daughter of Pierce County's first appointed sheriff, John Bradley & Mary Elizabeth Reylea (a fourth great Aunt of this author). Mary Elizabeth's sister was Frances Louisa Reylea, who married & divorced Frederick Meyer. She later married a Philipp Hansleman. Frances would be my fourth Great Grandmother. Mary Elizabeth (Reylea) Bradley, later married A.C. Heisen. Mary and A.C. Heisen are buried in the Crawford Cemetery, near Battle Ground, WA. Her sister, Frances Louise (Reylea) Meyer & her second husband, Philipp Hanselman, are buried in the Illwaco Cemetery, Illwaco, WA.
Also see Frederick Meyer, Frances Louisa Reylea, Wilhelmina Mary Meyer, Nettie Greenlaw and my Grandfather, Byron C. Turner.
My family tree footnote:
Job Carr's son, Francis Howard Car, married the daughter of Pierce County's first appointed sheriff, John Bradley & Mary Elizabeth Reylea (a fourth great Aunt of this author). Mary Elizabeth's sister was Frances Louisa Reylea, who married & divorced Frederick Meyer. She later married a Philipp Hansleman. Frances would be my fourth Great Grandmother. Mary Elizabeth (Reylea) Bradley, later married A.C. Heisen. Mary and A.C. Heisen are buried in the Crawford Cemetery, near Battle Ground, WA. Her sister, Frances Louise (Reylea) Meyer & her second husband, Philipp Hanselman, are buried in the Illwaco Cemetery, Illwaco, WA.
Also see Frederick Meyer, Frances Louisa Reylea, Wilhelmina Mary Meyer, Nettie Greenlaw and my Grandfather, Byron C. Turner.
Job Carr. Husband to Rebecca Vail Pittman. Father to Anthony Pittman Carr, Francis Howard Carr, Marrietta Elizabeth Carr and Margaret Ann Carr. Job Carr arrives at the future site of Tacoma, WA, on Commencement Bay on December 25, 1864. A veteran of the Union Army from Indiana, who came West to seek opportunities. Job Carr was the founding father of Tacoma. The first Mayor of Tacoma. The first Postmaster of Tacoma. Carr was the first permanent Euro-American settler in Tacoma, after the abondoment of earlier claims in 1855, due to the Indian War of 1855-1856. Carr later sold most of 168 acre-claim to McCarver which combined his town of "New Tacoma" and Carr's town of Tacoma, to form one city of Tacoma. All on a land site the Nisqually and Puyallup Peoples called Shubahlup, or "sheltered place".
My family tree footnote:
Job Carr's son, Francis Howard Car, married the daughter of Pierce County's first appointed sheriff, John Bradley & Mary Elizabeth Reylea (a fourth great Aunt of this author). Mary Elizabeth's sister was Frances Louisa Reylea, who married & divorced Frederick Meyer. She later married a Philipp Hansleman. Frances would be my fourth Great Grandmother. Mary Elizabeth (Reylea) Bradley, later married A.C. Heisen. Mary and A.C. Heisen are buried in the Crawford Cemetery, near Battle Ground, WA. Her sister, Frances Louise (Reylea) Meyer & her second husband, Philipp Hanselman, are buried in the Illwaco Cemetery, Illwaco, WA.
Also see Frederick Meyer, Frances Louisa Reylea, Wilhelmina Mary Meyer, Nettie Greenlaw and my Grandfather, Byron C. Turner.
My family tree footnote:
Job Carr's son, Francis Howard Car, married the daughter of Pierce County's first appointed sheriff, John Bradley & Mary Elizabeth Reylea (a fourth great Aunt of this author). Mary Elizabeth's sister was Frances Louisa Reylea, who married & divorced Frederick Meyer. She later married a Philipp Hansleman. Frances would be my fourth Great Grandmother. Mary Elizabeth (Reylea) Bradley, later married A.C. Heisen. Mary and A.C. Heisen are buried in the Crawford Cemetery, near Battle Ground, WA. Her sister, Frances Louise (Reylea) Meyer & her second husband, Philipp Hanselman, are buried in the Illwaco Cemetery, Illwaco, WA.
Also see Frederick Meyer, Frances Louisa Reylea, Wilhelmina Mary Meyer, Nettie Greenlaw and my Grandfather, Byron C. Turner.
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