David G. Carr  David Green Carr (May 24, 1809 – April 7, 1889), who settled in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and farmed before the American Civil War, after the war's end became active in the Republican Party and served in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868, in the Virginia Senate and as customs collector in Petersburg. Born in 1809 in rural Laurens, Otsego County, New York to Mary Greene Carr (1789-1845) and her husband George Carr (1786-1858), he was descended on his father's side from colonial Rhode Island governor Caleb Carr. David G. Carr married Hannah Burnside (1811-1855) by 1833, and they had 3 sons and 3 daughters before the family moved to Dinwiddie County, Virginia, where Carr had purchased 380 acres near San Marino. However, his wife died of cancer on February 10, 1855. After her death Carr returned to New York, where he married widow Susan M Walker (1820-1882), who also moved to Dinwiddie County with him, and with whom he had a daughter, Hannah (b. 1859). Son Charles H. Carr (1833-1862) and daughter Eveline Carr (b. 1837) (who both appeared on the 1850 census with their mother) do not appear on the 1860 Virginia census, although son Henry C. Carr (1839-1873) and daughter Mariett (b. 1846) appear on both censuses. Charles H. Carr did move to Virginia with his parents, but he and his wife (whom he married in 1856) lived nearby in Petersburg, and they had a daughter and son before Charles was conscripted into the 41st Virginia Infantry in March 1862. By May private Carr was hospitalized at Camp Winder hospital in Richmond because of dysentery, and he committed suicide with a revolver the following month while ill with typhoid fever. David Carr became active in the Republican party after the American Civil War, perhaps embittered by his elder son's conscription and death, or his daughter-in-law's move with the young grandchildren back to New York. Petersburg and Dinwiddie County had become battlefields, especially late in the war, and Carr later filed documents for tools, grain and hogs (among other items) destroyed or taken by Union troops from his farm. In the first postwar election, in which emancipated blacks were a majority of the county's voters, David Carr and William Reed were elected to represent Dinwiddie and neighboring Prince George county at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868.