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I, Hugh Turner Carr, was born in the Ragged Mountains of Albemarle County, Virginia, on January 28, 1896, in a small log cabin on the north side of Fan Mountain, near Covesville, Va.,
(as my mother told me during one of the worst winter storms she had ever seen). Much of my early childhood was spent in the Ragged Mountain area, as most of my kinfolks lived here. Although most of my adult life has been spent in the so-called, flat woods country, I have always looked upon myself as a Mountain Man.
When I was one year old, my father, William James Carr, and my mother, Mary Hansford Turner Carr, moved to Charlottesville,
Va., corner of and Dice Streets, into a new house which was just completed. This was home to me during my childhood days.
When I was about two years old, my father died, October 6, 1898. My younger brother, William James Carr,. Jr., was born some four months later, February 11, 1899. My mother was left with two small children, a new	home with a large	mortgage, and no
assets. How she survived	this first year I	will never	know.	I
do know that many friends	of my father and mother gave	what help
they could. The mortgage	holder giving her	one year's	grace	on
payment oft the mortgage.
At this period in time ready-made clothes did not exist, but were made by hand. My mother, having had some experience at sewing, opened a ladies tailor shop in her home. I well remember the long hours my mother worked and the long procession of ladies coming for'fittings. From so small a beginning my mother prospered at her business venture and was able to pay off the mortgage, feed, clothe and educate her two sons.
She did not marry her second husband, Mr. John Dudley, until late in life, he died about two years later. Thus she was a widow for most of her adult life.
I was a most delicate child even in my young adult life. I never weighed one hundred pounds until I was about twenty-four years old. The doctors said I was a constitutional consumtive and would not live to manhood. I am proud to say that thev were wrong... I am now eighty years old, weigh one hundred forty pounds, and in perfect health.