Jacob Carr
Jacob Carr, farmer and stock raiser, Washington, is a son of Joab and Elizabeth Carr, natives of Virginia. They immigrated to Ohio, on horseback, in 1815 ; came to Fayette County and settled where the subject of this sketch now lives, in 1818; where the father died in 1824, and the mother in 1832. They were the parents of four children - three sons and one daughter : George, married, and living in Clinton County; Joab, married, and living in White County, Indiana; Mary Susan, died in 1832.
Jacob, our subject, was born October 7, 1817, on the spot where he now lives. January 22, 1842, he married Miss Polly Herrod, daughter of Samuel Herrod, of Madison County, Ohio, who raised a large family, all of whom, including the father and mother, are now dead, except Mrs. Carr and one sister.
Mr. and Mrs. Carr have had iiine children - four sons and five daughters - born unto them : Matilda A., wife of William Thornton, of Madison County; Salathiel H., married, and living on the home farm; Elijah Scott, married, and living in Millidgeville, this county. Ellen A., married to Elam Thornton, and living in the neighborhood ; David M., married, and living in the vicinity of his father; Amanda Jane, married, and living in Clinton County; Angeletta, married, and living in the neighborhood, and Susan and Jesse Sherman, who are single, and remain at home with their parents.
June 2, 1881, the entire family, consisting of father, mother, and nine children, appeared before an artist in Washington, and had their negatives taken for a family picture.
Mr. Carr owns and lives on a most excellent farm, containing one hundred and thirty-one acres, located two miles west of Washington, between the Wilmington and Palmer or Jamestown pikes. Here he has lived all his life, raised his family, and expects to remain the balance of his days. Mr. Carr has never had a law suit, and has never paid a dollar as fees to a lawyer. Was elected assessor of his township in 1855, and has assessed the township fifteen times, and assisted to do the same work five times. Sold pork in the early part of his farm life at one cent per pound, and delivered corn in Washington at ten cents per bushel. In politics he is a Republican, and is a straightforward, honest, truthful man. The family are well-to-do, and much respected by all who have to do with them.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County