History of Nancy Carr Cunningham

The pair of candlesticks that Nancy (Carr) Cunningham brought with her from Virginia.  These are listed in William's estate appraisement.  They were passed down through the family of John Cunningham.  In this photo they were in the possession of Magdalene Mize (1986)

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See the lineage of Nancy's mother,

Anne Sandridge

she is #32 at the site

This page was last updated: May 2, 2008

View the Revolutionary War Pension Information for Nancy's father,

Gideon Carr, Jr.

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The last 2 pages (a letter) have been typed below...

November 2, 1937

Gideon Carr

S. 3119

BA-J/AWF

Mrs. Bailey Davis

Cadiz

Kentucky

Dear Madam,

    Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Gideon Carr of Albermarle County, Virginia.

    The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 3119, based upon the military service of Gideon Carr in the War of the Revolution.

    Gideon Carr was born November 5, 1752 in Albermarle County, Virginia.  The names of his parents were not given.

    While residing in said Albemarle County, Gideon Carr served, shortly after the capture of Burgoyne, four months in Colonel Taylor's Virginia regiment, guarding prisoners at Albemarle Barracks.  He enlisted in the spring of 1781, and served in Captain Leak's company, Colonel Lindsley's Virginia regiment, marched below Richmond, and was there placed under Captain Hamner and marched up the James River to guard public stores, length of this service two months.

    He moved about ten years after the close of the Revolution from Albemarle County, to Dickson County, Tennessee.  He was allowed pension on his application executed October 8, 1833, then a resident of Dickson County, Tennessee.

    The papers on file in this claim contain no reference to the wife or children of the soldier, Gideon Carr.  His brother, Meekins Carr, was living in 1833 in Albemarle County, Virginia.

    In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and furnish the following data:

Gideon Carr

Certificate #25097

Issued November 23, 1833

Rate $21.00 per annum

Commenced March 4, 1831

Act of June 7, 1832

West Tennessee Agency.

Very Truly yours,

A.D. Hiller

Executive Assistant

to the Administrator

Estate sale of Nancy Cunningham...

Will Book B, Page 298

Sale of the Estate of Nancy Cunningham, deceased

Buyers were:

Thomas Baker - yoke of steers $35.00

S. A. G. Noel - red cow $8.00

Gabriel Wise - red cow $6.75

John F. Harris - white cow and calf $12.00

Blake Baker - red cow and calf $9.00; 3 second choice hogs $8.37 1/2;

     red steer $10.00; shot gun $4.75

James Cunningham - cow and calf $10.00; 7 geese $1.37 1/2; bay horse $57.00;

bedstead $.93 3/4

Isaac Wright - red bull $1.37 1/4

Edward Hogan - pied steer $8.50

John Curtis - yearling $2.62 1/2

Wiley M. Carney - white steer $11.50; 4 first choice hogs $14.11 1/2

John Thomas - 2 sows and pigs $6.00

William B. Curtis - 20 barrels corn $21.00

James Mitchel - 4 first choice sheep - $4.64 1/2

Augustin W. Holland - 6 second choice sheep - $6.15

Henry Martin - 7 third choice sheep $7.25

James Slaughter - sow and pigs $2.50

John Cunningham - red heifer $2.75; bureau $15.97; cotton wheel $1.00; side saddle $4.25;

     hoe $.18 3/4; bedstead $.31 1/4

Alexander Cunningham - sorrel colt $20.50

Ransford Smith - sorrel colt $18.00

Dabney Cunningham - broad ax $3.27; cupboard $20.56; oven $1.00; kettle $2.75;

  plough and geers $3.12 1/2; table $1.12; red heifer $7.00; 5 shoats $7.00

Eleven Oliver - sorrel mare and colt $50.50

Isaac Gray - cotton wheel $1.00; flax wheel $2.12 1/2; kettle $1.50; kettle $2.43 3/4;

   oven and lid $2.06 1/4

A. K. Boland - wheel $1.37 1/2; barrel and sifter $1.18 3/4

John Prescott - churn $56 1/4; shelled corn $.31 1/4

William Kidd - loom and two slays $2.50

Mickins Cunningham - glass $1.25; 5 chairs $2.00; counterpin $3.00; 11 barrels of corn $11.87 1/2

Henry Haley - chest $2.50; counterpin $4.00

Alburtis Prince - ax and shovel $.68 1/2

Sale of the Estate of Nancy Cunningham, deceased, was held on this 8th day of June 1840

John Cunningham, Administrator