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REV. ROBERT CARR
Vol. 5, p. 1762

A lifelong resident of the old Creek Nation, Rev. Robert CARR has
found opportunity for usefulness and service to his people both as a
farmer and for many years as a preacher.  He is one of the old timers
well worthy of the distinction of historical record.

He was born west of Fort Gibson on the Arkansas River in the Creek
Nation, about 1845, a son of Thomas and Sally (Russo) CARR.  His
parents were natives of Alabama and were members of the Creek tribe.
Thomas CARR was a well educated man, having been sent to a boarding
school in Kentucky.  The mother came to Indian Territory first, and
she lived in the territory until her death, in 1871.  She died about
a mile from where her son, Rev. Robert, now lives.  The father was a
soldier in the Confederate army, and died at one of the refugee camps
about 1863.  His business was that of stock raiser.  Of the two
children the son Richard served all through the Civil war, and died
in 1867.

Robert CARR during his boyhood attended the Asburry Mission School,
and learned to read, but after that he had no further education.  In
a business way he has found employment for his energies and
accumulated considerable estate by farming and stock raising.  Since
the close of the war he has had his home in what is now Hughes
County, and his 110 acre homestead adjoins the little city of Wetumka
on the southeast.  Until Wetumka was founded, in 1900, the nearest
town was Eufaula.  All members of Mr. Carr's family have their
allotments.

Rev. Robert CARR was for several years sheriff, or light horse
captain, in the Creek Nation.  In politics he is a democrat.  In 1871
he joined the Missionary Baptist Church, and ten years later was
ordained as a preacher, and has been active in the work ever since.
For many years he traveled as a missionary among his own people and
the Cherokees, and served as pastor of local missions.

In 1871 he married Elizabeth BARNETTE, who was a Creek Indian and
was born near Eufaula, April 13, 1855.  She has spent practically all
her life in this one locality.  Her parents were Daniel and Sally
BARNETTE, the former a Creek Indian and the latter possessing half
white blood.  Mrs. CARR's mother died along the Red River during the
war, while her father was a Confederate soldier and died near Fort
Smith.  Of the three sons and three daughters in the Barnette family
two are now living, Louisa GRAY near Wetumka, and Mrs. CARR.

Mr. and Mrs. CARR lost three sons in infancy, and their five living
daughters are:  Mrs. Nettie FRAZIER, who lives in the same
neighborhood as her parents, and has one child; Addie SMITH, of
Wetumka; Ida MC COY, who lives at Wetumka, and has seven children;
Lulu CANARD, of Wetumka, and the mother of one child; and Anius
CANARD, of Wetumka, who has two children.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916)