Looking for info on Carrs, especially Paddy and John, whose names appear on 1825 Creek nation treaty. Interested in names of children. Looking for a Henry Carr.
Uncertain if they came west to Creeknation County.

Willie Carr was my great-grandfather, wife Addie Carr.
My Grandmother was Etta Carr born 12/24/1896 and an Aunt named Mabel Carr born 5/1/1898. They are enrolled on Creek Nation Rolls. Resided in Onapa on Creek Indian Reservation believe at Muskogee OK. Those are the only names I have.

My grt.grt. grandmother Malinda Friend Brown married a James Henry Carr.(1880 census for Howard Co in Arkansas lists this family) They had a son, John Henry Carr who was orphaned at age 5 in 1884 and then raised as a servant by Smyth Graham in Nevada County, Prescott, AR., Boughton Twnshp.His mother was part Indian, possibly Creek.

Kay Brown Sirmon

Creeknation County IT. I am seeking any information on John Wily Carr. He was possibly born in April of 1880 in hills of N. Georgia. Went by name John Wily Bryant. Mother was Martha (Matt) Elvira Carr or Bryant. She brought John Wily to Lamar Co. Alabama when he was about 7 years old. John Wily was illigitimate. I am hoping to find the name of his father. I have been told that I am a decendant of Paddy Carr. I would like to know the names of Paddy and John Carrs children. All that I know of Paddy Carr is that he was an interpreter for the Creek Chief when he went to Washington. Any information that you would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Virginia S. Porter

Hi,

My Great Grandmother is Etta Carr, I think she may be listed on the Dawes Roll as a Creek Indian, but I am not yet 100% certain it is her and not another Etta Carr on the Roll. Does anybody here know anything about her? She spent the last years of her live in Gurdon/Arkadelphia.

Best wishes,
Caitlyn Meeks

You might try and contact the National Archives in Tx. and
request a copy of the actual enrollment card no. for your relative in question. This enrollment card should have parents listed on it as well as any siblings. It has their degree of Indian blood, Tribe enrollment town, parents, etc. I did this several years ago for several of my family members, Baker, Gentry and Hambys that are on the Dawes Roll. A lot of info can be obtained from these Roll Cards.
Barbara

searching for information on the David Carr family. david carr b. 1856? TX wife Adeline McCraacken b.1860 Ark. Children
Silas Nathanial Carr b.1882
Fannie Carr b.1883
James Monroe Carr b. 1886
Martha Carr b. 1888
William Carr b. 1889
Jessie Ann Carr b.1890
Henry Clay Carr b. 1894
mathilda Carr b.1897
Ethel Carr b.1901
Dan Carr abt 1905

All of Davids children were born in the Creek Nation Indian Territory.Jessie Ann Carr ( Bearden ) was my great grandmother. I have most of the info on Adelines side of the family but nothing on the Carr side. Rumored to be of Creek or Choctaw decent.
Thanks dtwolfe1@comcast.net

I believe Paddy Carr is my great great geat grandfather and I just read from another post that he was married to Chief William McIntosh's youngest daughter after her husband was killed. There are a lot of Carr's in and around the Eufula, Ok. area.

Paddy Carr grew up at Ft. Mitchell, AL & had a brother named Tom. They were educated in a Methodist mission school there. The property he owned before the removal was in what is now Russell County, AL. Handed down in one family is information that, yes, he accompanied two of his wives & their children to what was called the Arkansa Territory, now Oklahoma. However, his third wife had just given birth to a son, too young to make the trip. They were left in what was Pike County, that included Eufaula, AL. He did return to this area and lived his remaining life here where he was buried in burial grounds on the Chattahoochee River. He did not leave this area until 1838, but we do not know when he returned. My husband's father reported hearing his father speak of aunts by the name of Adri & Adne, the names of Paddy Carr's twin daughters by Jane McIntosh. His great grandfather was James Jasper Carr who worked for the railrod and ran for mayor of Eufaula in 1912. One of his grandsons, Asa Battles, became a famouse artist of the west and of Indians and reported being Creek Indian. The grandmother was of Creek heritage, also. Due to the treaty, any of Indian heritage in AL had to skillfully hide this fact for if known, their properties could be confiscated. Information about their heritage had to be passed by word or mouth. It is therefore difficult to obtain information regarding the origins of James Jasper Carr as have been unable to uncover any birth records, only that he was born in Pike County, which included Russell & Barbour Counties.

More on Paddy Carr, the interpreter who went to Washington. His first wife bore 2 boys, his second wife bore twin daughters. All of these children went west during the removal. Paddy Carr's father was a trader and friend of Henry Crowell, brother to Col. John Crowell, Indian Agent and head of the Ft. at Ft. Mitchell. Henry owned the trading post at the Ft. The father of Paddy & Tom Carr returned to his home in Cork Ireland, leaving the children with Henry. Ft. Mitchell was an out post across the Chatahochee River from what is now Ft. Benning, GA. Paddy Carr is buried in the Ft. Mitchell Cemetary. Names of the 2 sons were not listed in my sources, but names of the twins were Adri & Adne, after Henry's daughter. Jane McIntosh Hawkins was the second wife whom Paddy married after the Red Sticks murdered her husband during the uprising of Indians. Some were White Sticks and followed the laws of the white man, but Red Sticks did not.

In 1836 Paddy Carr helped to raise over 900 Creeks to fight against the Seminoles and was second in command. They were all made to believe they would not have to be removed to the Territory if they assisted in fighting the Seminoles. But, this did not happen.

Verbal history in the Carr family that remained in Alabama was that the original Carr came from Cork, Ireland, had a son, then returned to Ireland, leaving the child here. The story was that this son became an Indian Agent and interpreter. It was handed down in the family the ability to count to 10 in Creek language. Paddy Carr did become an Indian Agent and interpreter. He, also, obtained rich land in Alabama after his first marriage.

This information is mostly based upon a book, Russell County in Retrospect, no longer in publication or availabe. I have one of the last copies. Also, from Historical Quarterlies. Peter Brannon, former head of the State Archives of History was a large contributer of the book.