240:, where Carr had purchased 380 acres near San Marino. However, his wife died of cancer on February 10, 1855. After her death Carr returned to New York, where he married widow Susan M Walker (1820-1882), who also moved to Dinwiddie County with him, and with whom he had a daughter, Hannah (b. 1859). Son Charles H. Carr (1833-1862) and daughter Eveline Carr (b. 1837) (who both appeared on the 1850 census with their mother) do not appear on the 1860 Virginia census, although son Henry C. Carr (1839-1873) and daughter Mariett (b. 1846) appear on both censuses.
312:, who had received a prompt pardon from President Andrew Johnson despite his namesake son's Confederate military service and had won the seat in 1865. In 1869 Carr was nominated as the customs collector in Petersburg, and Congress confirmed his appointment on April 21, 1870. Carr then gave his farm to his son Henry (who had married in 1867) and moved to Petersburg, but Henry Carr died in 1873. In the 1871 election, the Senatorial district's voters replaced Carr with
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and distribute the proceeds to fund public schools. Delegate Carr also supported proposals disenfranchising
Confederate officers and officials (which voters failed to approve) the following year. Occupying military authorities appointed Carr an election registrar in 1869. Voters in Dinwiddie and
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Dinwiddie County, Virginia district 1. In both those censuses, another David Carr (or 2) owned many slaves in Fredericksville, Albemarle County, Virginia and a few in Loudoun County,
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In the first postwar election, in which emancipated blacks were a majority of the county's voters, David Carr and
William Reed were elected to represent Dinwiddie and neighboring
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Charles H. Carr volunteered for the 5th New York infantry in May 1861, but died of disease supposedly at his mother's home in New York in July 1862.
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