Thomas Williams Carr

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Merrimack and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire Biographies
Released 24 May 2004
Thomas W. Carr spent his early life upon the farm. While quite a young man, he was a Captain of militia. Later he engaged in farming and lumbering. The latter business was carried on in a factory the beam of which was twenty-four inches square and seventy feet long, and much heavy timber was turned out. He was a well-read man and a Republican in politics. He married Caroline Connor, of Henniker, daughter of George and Hannah (Campbell) Connor. They had eight children-Philip, John Alfred, George Titcomb, Thomas Tyler, Frank Henry, Charles Clinton, Caroline Elizabeth, and Ellen Bruce, Philip died at the age of ten. John Alfred is now living in Boston. Caroline Elizabeth is a trained nurse in Concord. Ellen Bruce, who married William Carpenter, of Manchester, died two years after her marriage. Of this family four sons fought in the Civil War, one giving up his life therein. George Titcomb served in the United States Navy. In September, 1861, Thomas Tyler enlisted in Company B, Second New Hampshire Volunteers, was made Sergeant, served his full term, and was wounded at Fair Oaks and Gettysburg. Charles Clinton enlisted in the Fourteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, on September 23, 1862, being then a boy of nineteen. He was wounded at Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, and died in the hospital at Winchester, Va., November 2 of the same year. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Carr spent their last years in West Hopkinton with their son Frank Henry.

1880 Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH
Frank H. CARR Self M Male W 39 NH Kit Maker MA NH
Mary A. CARR Wife M Female W 36 NH Keeping House ME NH
Anna C. CARR Dau S Female W 8 NH NH NH
William T. CARR Son S Male W 6 NH NH NH
Clara L. CARR Dau S Female W 3 NH NH NH
John F. CARR Son S Male W 1 NH NH NH
Thomas W. CARR Father W Male W 71 MA Farmer MA MA

Thomas married Caroline Connor, daughter of George Connor and Hannah Campbell. (Caroline Connor was born circa 1810 and died before 1880.)