John Carr, "Uncle Jackie," as he was familiarly called, was born near Ramshouse's Mill, in South Carolina, September 5, 1773. While he was an infant his father moved with his family to Houston's Fort, on Big Moccasin Creek, about twenty miles below Abingdon, VA. His father died in 1782, leaving a widow and her children, the eldest son married, set out for the Cumberland country, and arrived at Mansker's Station. The next year they removed to Hamilton's Station, on Drake's Creek, a short distance above Shackel Island. As a boy and as a young man, John Carr participated in the Indian wars and was a brave and fearless soldier. He was a devout Christian, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a good citizen, a kind neighbor and a true friend. He was the author of a very interesting little volume, now very scarce, "Early Times in Middle Tennessee." He married Miss Cage. Many of the descendants of Mr. Carr and of his brothers are still living in Sumner County and elsewhere. "Uncle Jackie's" house was four miles east of Gallatin, where he died in 1857. His younger brother, William, who was born on January 29, 1776, at Houston's Fort, Virginia, and died in Cannon County, Tennessee, on December 12, 1856, fought in the Indian wars and in the War of 1812. He was a local Methodist preacher and for many years had his home on Goose Creek, near Hartsville.