WARREN A. KARR, farmer, P.O. Johnsonville, was born in Meigs County, Ohio, April 30, 1838, to Alexander and Martha (Jones )Karr; she was the daughter of Phillip Jones., the originator of Middleport, Ohio. The Karr family are of Scotch origin, and, as tradition hands it down, the original ancestor married an Irishwoman, and came to America previous to 1776. They were the parents of seven sons, all of whom took part in the Revolutionary war, and were afterward frontiersmen in Ohio and Kentucky, and many by the name were killed by the Indians. Karr's Run, in Ohio, was named in honor of the family.
At the age of two years, our subject was left an orphan through the death of his father; his mother afterward was married to the Rev. J.W. Bradley, a minister in the Christian Church; she was the mother of nine children, six by her first husband and three by the second, only five of the family now living.
Our subject was reared on a farm in Ohio, and educated in the common schools, and attended the first free school in the State.
April 12, 1860, he was married, in Wayne County, Ill., to Miss Sarah J. Irwin, a daughter of William Irwin, who has been a farmer in this county for about fifty years.
Mr. and Mrs. Karr have three children---
In August 1862, he entered the army in Company C, One Hundred and Eleventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Capt. T. O. Pierce, and served till being mustered out June 17, 1865. He was in the engagements of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, siege of Atlanta, Sherman's march to the sea, charge of Fort McAllister, etc. etc. After returning from the army he followed farming for three years, and then engaged in railroading for six year, being car inspector and repairer on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, operating in Tennessee and Kentucky. Since that time he has been engaged in farming; he now owns 180 acres of land, most of which are in cultivation.
He is a member of Xenia Lodge, I.O.O.F. He and family are members of Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he is Republican.
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