Susan Carr, daughter of Benjamin Carr of Baltimore and Mary Anna Jennings Carr of Virginia, was born 16 March 1816 in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
The Carr family had moved through mountains and forests and settled in the Western Reserve about the year Ohio became a state in 1808.
Susan Carr married Michael Grant February 15, 1837 in Stark County, Ohio. The family was living in Sugar Creek Township, Stark County, Ohio in 1850. By 1860 the family was living in Elkhart, Clinton County, Indiana. Susan divorced Michael sometime before 1870 at which time she was living in Perry, Noble County, Indiana with children John M., Silas, Bunyan, and Mary E.
Susan was a very efficient and tireless worker. She did many of the pioneer chores, attended a huge Dutch oven and the dry house, and made maple sugar and tallow candles. She reared three orphan children in Ohio and in Indiana she took in three Maloney children.
Susan came to Buffalo County with several of her children and settled at Crowelton (Odessa) where she had a post office in her home which was the social center of the community. She filed for a homestead in 1878. Her son, John Marshall, had a library of 300 books which, along with the only sewing machine in the area, were constantly loaned to the neighbors.
Susan and Michael were the parents of the following children: Celecta (1839-?); Hadassah (1841-1911), wife of John Dillion Seaman, Tulsa, Okla.; Benjamin (1842-1865) of Indianapolis, Ind.; Helen (1845-1919) ,wife of Lawrence Casey Shelly, Davenport, Iowa; John M., wife Cyrena Jane Brown, Marysville, Wash.; Howard (1850-1853), Stark Co., Ohio; Silas Wright (1852-1908, wife Margaret Maloney, Cabool, Missouri; Bunyan LeRoy (1855-1877), Odessa, Neb.; Adah Alfretta (1857-1890, wife of E. R. Webb of Odessa, Neb.; and Mary Estelle (1859-1917), wife of Thomas Jefferson Scott, of Kearney, Nebraska.
The children's father Michael Grant, son of John and Elizabeth Casner Grant, died February 15, 1883 in Prairie Hill, Chariton County, Missouri.
Sources
1850, 1860, 1870,and 1880 United States Federal Census
"Generations of Scotts" by Myron Scott
BUFFALO COUNTY Nebraska AND ITS PEOPLE
by Samuel Clay Bassett, 1916

Kearney Daily Hub, December 4, 1891, page 3
AN OLD SETTLER PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Susan Grant, of Odessa, mother of Mrs. H. J. Seaman, city librarian, died yesterday afternoon at her home. Mrs. Grant is one of the oldest settlers in this county and at the time of her death she was 75 years of age. She has been affected with Bright's disease and her demise has been expected for some weeks. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning.