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years old. He moved to Logtown in 1854. He married Viola Batte on December 30, 1858 in Bell County, Texas.
Mr. Carre' was associated in the lumber business in Logtown with his brother, W. W. Carre' of New Orleans, his cousin, Judge d. R. Wingate and Henry Weston.
He owned extensive tracts of property in Logtown and the surrounding area. In about 1875 he donated the land for the Methodist Church. He was a leader in this first church in Logtown named Cooper's Chapel. He also donated the property for the Logtown School.
Mr. and Mrs. Carre' had one daughter, Viola Amelia Carre' who married Mr. J. S. Otis.
On October 23, 1883, Mr. Carre' became the first Postmaster in Logtown. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge. He was a pioneer in the lumber business and the development of Hancock County. He died December 2, 1901 in Logtown. (From a handwritten document by Mildred Otis Fountain. Copy in the HCHS VF Weston)
Carrere, Adolphine, (Mrs. John B. Magnard) died in N. O. age 45. Had previously resided in BSL. Home was located on the site of the Tulane Hotel.
Carrere, Ed. C., Waveland (Ph 48 thru 50- 55)
Carrere, Edward C. Mrs., Photo. Church and social. (SCE Jubilee 1942 pg 24).
See King's Daughter's Emergency Hospital Carrere, Richard J. Mrs., 370 Beach Blvd. Waveland (Ph 50-55)
Carrick, A. J. Mrs., 234 Bordage Clermont Harbor (Ph 50- 55) Carrick, M. J. r 239 Nicholson, Waveland (Ph 55)
Carrie, Bro. Robert - Rev. A. B. Nicholson, writing from
Pearlington October 23,	1878	says	"Yellow fever has been in
this town ever since the first of August. It has visited this place several times, but has never been an epidemic, in the common acceptation of that word, though it proved fatal in nearly every case, so it has this year. No new cases at this date. Business of all kinds has stopped; church matters suspended; Sunday-school stopped; our flock scattered -some have crossed the last river, mostly young people. Logtown, two miles above here, a small place of not more than two hundred inhabitants has been awfully scourged by the fever, in fact I question whether any place in the South has suffered more than Logtown, according to its population. While the entire population has been prostrated; the death rate very heavy. In that community we had a new and beautiful church, a respectable congregation, Sunday-school and Missionary Society; but alas, how sad today. Our steward there Bro. Robert Carrie, a noble


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