Bio: Benjamin F. Carr, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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===Benjamin F. Carr is a native of De Kalb County, Ala., his birth 
occurring October 25, 1848.  B. L. Carr, his father, was born in 
North Carolina, and when a lad, went to Georgia with his parents, 
where he grew up and married Miss Susan Turner, a Georgian.  He 
afterward moved to Alabama, and after following the occupation 
of farming there until the fall of 1848, they came to Louisiana, 
and settled in what is now Webster Par., Louisianaand on the land where 
the subject of this sketch now resides.  Mr. Carr owned numerous 
slaves before the war, and with their help, opened up a very large 
plantation, on which he made his home until his death, in May, 1879, 
his widow surviving him a few years, and dying in 1883.  Benjamin F. 
Carr grew to manhood on this farm, an after attending the Pine Grove 
School-house for some time, supplemented this with one year's 
attendance in Minden College.  In February, 1879, he was married to
Miss E. O. Sandlin, a daughter of William Sandlin, a sketch of whom 
appears herein, an din this parish Mrs. Carr was reared and educated, 
being an attendant of the Minden Female College.  Mr. Carr remained 
with his father on the farm, and in 1873 took charge of the place, and 
has successfully conducted it up to the present time.  He has about 
1,000 acres of land, 500 being under cultivation.  On this land is an 
exceptionally good residence, a gin-house, barn, etc., and this place 
is otherwise well improved. Mr. Carr is a social and agreeable gentle-
man to meet, and as a business man is a decided success.  He and his 
wife have two children: Benjamin Bearto and Ruby.  Three children are 
deceased: Ruth (at the age of four years), William S. And Clarence B. 
(the last two dying in infancy).  Mr. Carr and his wife belong to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is vice-president of the local 
Farmers' Union, and has always taken a deep interest in the workings 
of this organization.