Biography of J J Carr, Mississippi Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: Sep 1998
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Bibliography: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas.
Chicago:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.

J. J. Carr, a prominent planter at Barfield, was born in Robertson
County, Tenn., in 1853, and was the fifth child of Robert D. and
Elizabeth (Lowe) Carr, of Virginia and Tennessee, respectively. The
father was an extensive farmer and stock raiser in Tennessee, until
1858, when he moved to Mississippi County, Ark., and settled at
Barfield, on the farm upon which his son now resides. At his removal
Mr. Carr sold his property in Tennessee for $60,000, and invested the
greater portion of that sum in lands of this county, buying some 10,000
acres of land, and erecting a handsome residence one mile from the
river. Since that time the river banks have caved in to such an extent
that the residence has been removed one mile farther back, and now the
river flows directly past it. The elder Carr, soon after his arrival,
began improving his land on quite an extensive scale, and in a short
time had over 200 acres of land under cultivation. His death occurred
in 1861, at the age of fifty-five years, just three years after his
settlement in Arkansas. After his decease the estate was managed by his
widow and her oldest son. At the age of sixteen years J. J. Carr
attended school at High Plains, Tenn., and afterward entered the
seminary at Walnut Grove, where he remained for three years, returning
to Mississippi County on the occasion of his mother's death. He then
entered the business house of Edrington & Co., at Osceola, and occupied
a clerical position for three years, after which he went to Memphis,
Tenn., and traveled for a firm of cotton factors. At the first outbreak
of yellow fever, in 1877, he gave up his employment, and returned to
Mississippi County, where he took possession of his farm, then
consisting of 125 acres under cultivation, but numbering in all about
1,100 acres. He has added 350 acres more since then, and has some 150
acres under cultivation, well stocked and fenced. Mr. Carr was married
in 1882 to Miss Susie Phillips, of Missouri, a daughter of Richard R.
Phillips, one of the oldest settlers of New Madrid County, Mo. This
union has given them three children: John Haiden, Rosa Louise and an
infant daughter. Mrs. Carr is a devout Christian, and belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Carr is a member of Osceola Lodge
No. 1153, Knights of Pythias. His land will average one bale of cotton
to the acre, and about fifty bushels of corn, and in connection with
his farming interests he operates a cotton-gin on his place, and owns
the steamboat landing, known as the Chickasawba Landing, where most of
the cotton from the township of that name is shipped, and the goods for
that locality are received. Mr. Carr is a gentleman of pleasing manners
and address, and is well and popularly known throughout that section,
where he is highly esteemed.