Dabney S. Carr

Carr, Dabney Smith (1802-1854) — Born in Albemarle County, Virginia, March 5, 1802. Grandnephew of Thomas Jefferson; son of Peter Carr and Hester Smith-Carr; grandson of Dabney Carr and Martha Jefferson Carr (Thomas Jefferson's sister); married to Sidney Nichols. Newspaper publisher; U. S. Resident Minister at İstanbul, to Turkey, 1843-49. Died in Charlottesville, Virginia., March 24, 1854. Interment at Thomas Jefferson's home, "Monticello", family cemetery, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Sources

s:Narrative Of The United States Expedition To The River Jordan And The Dead Sea Narrative Of The United States’ Expedition to the River Jordan and The Dead Sea by Lieutenant William Francis Lynch, U.S.N., 1849, Chapter I on WikiSource.

• Appletons' Cyclopedia Of American Biography v.1

External links

• History of Monticello graveyard

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Name	Carr, Dabney S.
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Date of birth	1802
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Date of death	1854
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