1882 Creek (Muskogee) Nation Census
Cussehta Town
nos. 264-287) April 15, 1882 [frame 104]
Name Age sex
1 Albert Carr 30 m

(nos. 288-294) [frame 105, back of 104]
Name Age sex
Mrs. Lizzie Carr white 35 f
Billie Carr 10 m
Lillie " 14 f
Sallie " 8 f
Tommie " 5 m
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HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA.
W. M. Carr, of one of the old families of McIntosh county, Oklahoma, was born in
Fort Smith, Arkansas, a son of Albert and Susan E. (Sheley) Carr, the former a threequarter Creek and his wife of white parents. Albert Carr was reared principally around Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and was married in Fort Smith. He was a son of Thomas Carr, a half blood, who married a full blook Creek. The father of Thomas Carr was a white man and married a Creek Indian woman. Thomas Carr came to the Indian Territory with the McIntosh party of the Creek tribe. Albert Carr was a farmer and stock man, and after his marriage moved to what is now McIntosh county, settling on Carr Creek, near where his son now resides. He was one of the successful men of the county and served in the Confederate army during the Civil war. He served during the last two years, and was once wounded. Mr. Carr died March 7, 1909, at Ramona, Oklahoma, where he had lived but a short time. He was three times married, and by his first wife had one son, John. By his second wife he had five children, namely: William M. ; Sallie, wife of Fred Coon, of McIntosh county ; Thomas ; Severs ; and Frank. William Carr was educated in Eufaula High School, which was kept up by the
Creek fund. Upon reaching manhood he engaged in cattle raising and farming. He
has been very succesful in this line and now owns a fine farm of one hundred and sixty
acres, well improved, with good house, barns, etc. He si actively interested in public af
fairs and politically is a strong Democrat. He and his children own a large tract of sev
eral hundred acres of land, considerable of which is improved. He is a member of
Checotah Lodge Number 28, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1907 Mr. Carr
was elected the first Constable of Checotah township, the Carr Creek District, and in
connection with this office was appointed deputy sheriff. He took the first prisoners
from McIntosh county to the state penitentiary at McAlester in 1909, the charge on
which they were convicted being robbery and larceny.
Mr. Carr married, December 5, 1900

Headstone reads d. Sep 11, 1900. However, in the 1900 census, enumerated June, Albert Carr is listed as a widow.