{"id":1072,"date":"2015-11-08T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:35","slug":"john-h-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-h-carr\/","title":{"rendered":"CARR, John H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>John H. CARR<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, merchant, trader and farmer, was born in Claiborne County, September 29, 1821, the son of <strong>Jesse and Eleanor (Hughes) CARR<\/strong>, who were married for over sixty years in this county. \u00a0The father was born May 1, 1796, in Washington County, and when thirteen came to this county, while the mother was born in Sullivan County in 1798 and died in this county in 1892. Both were Baptists. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our subject, the second of eleven children, was fairly educated, and has the habits of a reader. \u00a0He rented land when twenty-two, and afterward bought and improved the land where he now lives. \u00a0Since 1872 he has also been a merchant, successfully engaged at Old Town, and also postmaster, except three years, on account of his Democratic principles. \u00a0He was a magistrate twelve years, but refused re-election. He was a Whig and a Union Democrat, and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. \u00a0In 1844 he married <strong>Mary BRYANT,<\/strong> born August 5, 1826, and deceased April 27, 1865, in this county. \u00a0She bore him four sons and two daughters. \u00a0In 1866 he married <strong>Nancy BARTLETT<\/strong>, born in 1828, in this county. \u00a0They have two sons and three daughters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of from Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee<\/i>. Chicago: Goodspeed, 1887.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John H. CARR, merchant, trader and farmer, was born in Claiborne County, September 29, 1821, the son of Jesse and Eleanor (Hughes) CARR, who were married for over sixty years in this county. \u00a0The father was born May 1, 1796, in Washington County, and when thirteen came to this county, while the mother was born &#8230; <a title=\"CARR, John H.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-h-carr\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CARR, John H.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3666],"tags":[3695,3694,3692,3691,3693],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claiborne","tag-bartlett-nancy","tag-bryant-mary","tag-carr-jesse","tag-carr-john-h","tag-hughes-eleanor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}