HISTORY OF ALBEMARLE
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l ottesville as a lawyer, was Commonwealth's Attorney for eleve n yea rs from 1818, bought Dahney Carr's place, and sold it to Ira Garrett when h e moved to the country, lived whete Dr. H. O . Austin recently resided, and finally emigrated to Mi ssouri. He was the father of Mary Ann, wife of Hugh Minor. Another son, Overton, was for many years Door keeper of the House of Representatives at \Vashington. Garland, youngest sou of J ohn, was a magistrate of the county, and li ved at Bentivar, whe re he died in 1838. He married Mary, daughter of \Villiam Winston, of Hanover, and his children were Francis, Daniel Ferrel, James 0., Barbara, the wife of J. Bouche: Carr. Elizabeth, the wifeof Rev. John D. Paxton, of Rockbridge, and Mary, the wife of Achilles Broadhead, who succeeded \Villiam \Voods as County Surveyor, removed to Missouri. and was the father of the late Hon. Jam es O. Broadhead, of St. Louis, and Professor Garland C., of the University of Missouri . Francis was in many ways a useful man, a physician. a teacher, an edi tor, Secretary of the County Agr icultura l Society, Secretary of the Faculty of the University, and for many years an active magistrate. He also served as She riff in 1839. He married first Virginia, daughter of Richard T errell, and sec ondly Maria, dau}thterof Richard Morris. H e had two sons, Peter, who rem oved to Missouri, and the late F. E. G. He lived in town in the one story frame in the rear of the late Thomas Wood's, and in the country at Red Hill, where he died in 1854. Daniel Ferrel succeeded his father at Bentivar, married Emily, daughter of William Terrell, and died in 1847 , leaving his estate to his son, Dr. \V. G. Carr. James 0., married Mary, daughter of Richard H . Allen, lived at the Mead ows, the present reside nce of H. C. Michie. and near t he close of his life removed to Amherst, where he died in 1864. William Carr was the patentee of upwards of four thousand acres on the north fork of the Rivanna, above that entered by Major Thomas Carr, and embracing the region lying west of the Burnt Mills. He was also granted a trac t - 11