He married Sarah about 1838 in DeRuyter. He was a carpenter with 2 children, in Michigan in 1846. Still in Michigan, on a farm with 3 children in 1848, and listed in the 1850 census for Lenawee City, MI.
Civil War Veteran - Grand Army of the Republic. 23rd Michigan Infantry, company A. Enlisted 6 August 1862, age 44, from Washington Twp., Gratiot Co., Michigan; discharged 27 Oct. 1862.
He married Phebe Van Buskirk as his second wife in 1873. He was living with his son James T. Carr in 1880 with his second wife, Phebe. She died between that time and 1884 in Gratiot Co.