This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CARR, EDMUNDSON, HORN, NORTHCRAFT, STALLINGS Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4510 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Friday August 24, 1917, Volume LVI, Number 70, Page 1, Columns 4 & 5, “OBITUARY. LAURA ANN EDMUNDSON CARR.” [Transcribed 30 Apr 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] Laura Ann Edmundson (STALLINGS) CARR was born in Washington County, Kentucky, April 29, 1833, and died at the home of her youngest daughter, Mrs. Joseph HORN, near Koleen, in Greene County, Indiana, August 20, 1917; aged eighty-four years, three months and twenty-eight days. She was the daughter of Willa W. STALLINGS and Permelia (NORTHCRAFT) STALLINGS, and had four brothers and four sisters. Of this family only one survives her—David W. STALLINGS, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, who is her junior by five years. At the age of sixteen, she came with her family to Indiana, locating first east and later southwest of Bedford, on Salt Creek, where she resided till her marriage. On February 24, 1859, she was married to James Newton CARR, of Greene County, Indiana, and resided first in Lawrence County for a few years, then in the Kentucky Ridge neighborhood, in Jackson Township, Greene County, Indiana, for nearly thirty-eight years. She was the mother of three children—John Wesley CARR, of Swarthmore, PA; Martha Ellen WALTERS, of Edina, Missouri; and Mary Permelia Dovie HORN, of Koleen Indiana. Each of her children survives her, but her husband died more than thirteen years ago. Since his death, she has made her home with her son, and was in Indiana to visit her daughter and old neighbors at the time of her death. She belonged truly to the pioneer mothers, who are rapidly passing from us. She was, by instinct and feeling, a southern woman. Her parents came from Maryland and Virginia, and in her early life they owned slaves. When the great Civil War came, she belonged to that noble band of southerners, who, though loving the South, cast their lot with the North, and her youngest brother, David, was a Union soldier throughout the entire war. Her educational opportunities were few; yet she was especially gifted in writing and continued to keep up a correspondence—not only with her children and grandchildren, but with several of her neighbors and friends, both old and young. She had a great appreciation of learning and never failed to encourage her children and grandchildren to acquire an education. Humor, romance and sentiment especially appealed to her, and as a result, she never ceased to be interested in people—especially young people. She never grew old in thou! ght and feeling and though a semi-invalid all of her life, visions of hope, joy and love were ever before her. She dearly loved company, and was never so happy as when with people of refinement and culture. She was fond of travel, and not only enjoyed but profited by what she saw. During the last thirteen years of her life, she traveled more that thirty thousand miles and became familiar with much of the scenery in the eastern part of the United States. She liked to visit great cities and was fond of the mountains and the sea; yet no place was quite so beautiful and so dear to her as the hills of Greene County, and her one request was that she might repose among their quietude and beauty until the Great Awakening. In early womanhood, she joined the Baptist church, and continued a member until her death. . She attended church whenever she had the opportunity; and loved and served the Master. She was concerned but little about creed or dogma, but believed and practiced joy, peace, temperance, love, and other fruits of the spirit. Though a constant sufferer, yet her last illness was of short duration. She was taken ill Thursday night while visiting among her old neighbors. She was brought to her daughter’s home the next day, and shortly before dawn Monday morning she entered upon the life immortal. She lived the simple life, and died lake a philosopher and true disciple of the Master. May she rest in peace. J. W. CARR. — Link to the Obituary of her husband, James Newton CARR: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene&m=2952 — Link to Aaron Hamm’s photo album of the CARR Cemetery, Jackson Township, Greene County, Indiana: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292002693 —