Thomas Jefferson Carr was born on June 20, 1875 in Stewart County, Tennessee. He was one of two children born to Robert Henry Carr and Mary Etna Turner Carr. His sister, Mary Robert Carr was born in 1877. He also had two half-siblings, Carlon Scott and Ora Scott from his mother’s second marriage to Nathaniel Scott. His parents were farmers who lived most of their lives in Stewart County. They both were buried in the Carr Cemetery in the Linton area of Trigg County, Kentucky.
On October 6, 1895, when Tom was 20 year old he married Daisy Dean Sumner in Stewart County, Tennessee. Daisy was born on June 26, 1875. In Trigg County, Kentucky, the daughter of James Edmond Sumner and Mary Louisa Bridges Sumner, who were both natives of Trigg County. James Edmond was a farmer and Mary Louisa was a housekeeper. Daisy was the oldest of their three children. Her sister Mollie Sumner was born in 1876 and her brother Thomas Darnell Sumner was born in 1877.
After their marriage, Tom and Daisy settled on a farm on Saline Creek in the northern area of Stewart County where Thomas was engaged in farming. Tom had a very good friend and neighbor named Frank Kennedy. Frank owned a general store which was located across the state line in Kentucky. In the late nineteen-twenties Tom purchased the general store from his friend and became a merchant. He moved his family from the farm and settled in a house which attached to the general store.
In the early 1940’s the U.S Army established a new army facility known as Camp Campbell at the time and later called Fort Campbell. The facility, straddling the state line in Kentucky and Tennessee, reached into Trigg and Stewart Counties. Unfortunately Camp Campbell claimed possession of the land occupied by Tom’s general store and their home. Tom and Daisy then moved to a house in Cadiz, Kentucky. After Tom lost his wife in 1944, he bought a home on the South Road and opened another small general/grocery store which he operated until his death.
Tom and Daisy were the parents of nine children, Louise Carr, born in 1896; Mollie Elizabeth Carr, born in 1899; William Amos Carr, born in 1901; Jennie Mahalie Carr, born in 1903; Elna Norine Carr, born in 1906; Tommie Blanche Carr, born in 1909; Annie Pearl Carr, born 1911; Dorothy Dean Carr, born in 1914; and Clarence Jefferson Carr, born in 1918. It was the custom that as each of their daughters were married, Tom would give them a milk cow and Daisy would make them a feather bed for their home. The Carr family produced many descendants who still live in the Trigg County area today.
Daisy Sumner Carr died in Cadiz on August 30, 1944 at the age of 69. Tom died on February 17, 1956 in the Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz at the age of 80. Both Tom and Daisy are buried in the East End Cemetery in Cadiz.
LINEAGE: (Thomas Jefferson Carr was the husband of Daisy Dean Sumner. Daisy was the first child of James Edmond and Mary Louisa Bridges Sumner. Mary Louisa was the second child of Drewry and Peachie Ann Tart Bridges. Drewry was the fourth child of William and Mary Thomas Bridges. William was the fourth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges. Mary was the fifth child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
My great grandparents.
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