The Nanon Carr Collection 1940-1970

Access and use

Location of collection:
Thomas Balch Library
Thomas Balch Library
208 West Market Street
Leesburg, Virginia 20176
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Alexandra S. Gressitt
Phone: (703) 737-7195
Fax: (703) 737-7195

Summary

Creator:
Nanon Carr
Abstract:
This collection contains of photocopies of research completed by Nanon Carr. It consists mostly of Carr family ancestry as well as collateral lines and is arranged by family name. Also included is correspondence from relatives and friends. Book 1 includes a personal name index. Also available is an Access database that indexes the whole collection by personal name. It is currently available only at the Reference Desk. Please consult library staff for use.
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains of photocopies of research completed by Nanon Carr. It consists mostly of Carr family ancestry as well as collateral lines and is arranged by family name. Also included is correspondence from relatives and friends. Book 1 includes a personal name index. Also available is an Access database that indexes the whole collection by personal name. It is currently available only at the Reference Desk. Please consult library staff for use.

Biographical / historical:

Nanon Lucile Carr was a descendant of the Carr family of Virginia. She was born in Osborn, Missouri on 8 June 1897, and was the eldest of three daughters of John Christopher Carr (1876-1944) and Elizabeth Agnes Metcalfe (1878-1962).

She graduated from Cameron Missouri High School in 1914, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Missouri in 1918. Ms. Carr worked as a teacher in the Kansas City Public School System from 1923 until her retirement. In 1945, she was awarded a Master of Arts in the Teaching of English Language and Literature from the University of Kansas City.

She had an active interest in genealogy and spent many years researching the Carr and related families. A few of the many family names she researched are: Ball, Brown, Carr, Chinn, Duncan, Fulkerson, Kerr, Livingston, Metcalfe, Musick, Patton, Perkins, Puller, Ridgeway, Strode, Strode, and Winn. Much of the collection consists of correspondence with distant cousins, pedigree charts, and newspaper clippings on the various branches of her family.

Ms. Carr died in San Diego, California, in March 1978. It is unclear whether she left Kansas City upon her retirement or if she moved to California to be near her younger sister, Mary Margaret (Carr) Pochodowicz (1913-1999) who lived in the San Diego area.

Acquisition information:
Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri