Carr Waller

Biography

The Morrison Observatory, Glasgow, Mo. To: Dr. Lyon G. Tyler:

DEAR SIR:

At your request, I send a part of the record contained in the old family Bible of my grandfather, Carr Waller. Some explanation is due by way of introduction.

In Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, Excursus-Waller, pp. 382-3, among the descendants of Col. John Waller, Gentleman, first clerk of Spotsylvania Co., Va., the family record of Thomas Waller, one of his grandsons, is given. The oldest son of that family, Carr Waller, named from the family of his grandmother, Agnes (Carr) Waller, is stated to have died single.

This seems to imply that he never was married. In fact, he was twice married. His first wife was Miss Elizabeth Martin, daughter of Gen. Joseph Martin, of Henry Co., Va., and his second wife was Miss Susanna Edwards, daughter of Ambrose Edwards, of Henry Co., and niece of Gen. Martin.

The reason that so little was known to the genealogists of the family of Carr Waller is that soon after attaining his majority, he left the old family seat in Spotsylvania, and settled in the newly organized Co. of Henry. Here he married, reared a family of four children, and saw them all married and settled in life. In 1842 he removed with his son, Hon. Joseph Granville Waller, to Warren Co., Mo., where he died May 7, 1843. His old family Bible, with the record in his own fair handwriting, was left by his will to this writer, his oldest grandson.

Carr Waller Pritchett.

From the Old Family Bible Record of Carr Waller, Henry Co., Va.

My father, Mr. Thomas Waller, was born July 29, 1732, & departed this life February 10, 1787. 0. S.

My mother, Sarah Dabney, was born October 2, 1740, & departed this life January 10, 1822, aged 81 years, 3 months and 8 days.

Carr Waller was born March 12, 1769.

Elizabeth Martin, wife of Carr Waller, was born October 13, 1768 & departed this life June 11, 1805.

Susanna Edwards, wife of Carr Waller, was born December 25, 1775, & departed this life September 19, 1831, aged 55 years and 8 months.

Pomfrett Waller, Sen., was born January 20, 1747, and departed this life June 20, 1799.

Martha Waller departed this life June 20, 1813.

Pomfrett Waller, Jun., was born May 8th, 1775, & departed this life April 29th, 1814.

Dabney Waller was born Feb. 20th, 1772.

John Waller was born 1780, & departed this life 1824.

Sarah Matilda Waller, daughter of Carr Waller & Elizabeth his wife, was born July 23, 1797.

William Ira Waller, son of Carr Waller & Elizabeth his wife, was born January 5, 1799.

Joseph Granville Waller, son of Carr Waller & Elizabeth his wife, was born June 17, 1802.

Patsy Myra Waller, daughter of Carr Waller & Elizabeth his wife, was born December 23, 1803.

NOTES - Dabney Pomfrett, Jun., & John were brothers of Carr Waller. Pomfrett, Sen., was his uncle.

Dabney Waller died at the old family seat, "Cedar Point," on the North Anna River, June 6, 1849.

Martha Waller was the wife of Pomfrett Waller, Sen., as appears from the will of Pomfrett Waller, Sen., on record in Spotsylvania Co. She was also the sister of Gen. Joseph Martin, as appears from her will on record in Henry Co., Va. Some of the genealogists have confounded Pomfrett Waller, Sen., with Pomfrett Waller, Jun., and have placed the death of the former in 1814.

Sarah Matilda Waller married Henry Edwards June 12, 1814. She died in Saint Charles Co., Mo., about 1879. Of her 10 children, 6 daughters and 4 sons, three survive. The late Judge William Waller Edward was her oldest son.

Dr. William Ira Waller, gained distinction as a physician, but afterwards became a prominent member of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After 1844 he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was for some years president of Shelby College, Ky. He died in Louisville, Ky., in 1878. He married Miss Mariah Norval, of Lynchburg.

Rev. Granville Carr Waller, of Louisville, Ky., is one of their surviving children.

Joseph Granville Waller married Miss Virginia McDonald January 8, 1822. He moved to Missouri from Henry Co., Va., in 1842. For many years he was presiding Judge of the Co. court of Warren Co. He died about 1860.

Three of his ten children now survive. His youngest daughter, Eliza, with her husband & 5 children, perished in the great disaster at Galveston last September.

Martha Myra Waller (written Patsy by her father) married Henry Pritchett, October 23, 1822. She died Nov 23, 1857.

The writer is the oldest of her ten children, of whom 5 now survive.

Research Note

I have unlinked Mary Edwards as a wife for this profile as she was born in 1907. Templeton-1883 18:39, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Data Changed
Name: Carr Waller. [1] [2] [3]
Born 12 March 1769. Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA. [1] [3]
Died 7 May 1843. Warren County, Missouri, USA. [3]
Buried Wright City, Warren County, Missouri, United States of America. [3]

Biography

Carr Waller in the Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940

Name: Carr Waller Gender: Male Marriage Date: 12 Jul 1806 Marriage Place: , Henry, Virginia Spouse: Susanna Edwards FHL Film Number: 0031988 Reference ID: 2:3Z240DB

Sarah Matilda Waller
in the North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 View North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000

Report issue

Name: Sarah Matilda Waller Gender: Female Age: 87 Birth Date: 1797 First Marriage Date: 1814 Death Date: 1884 Father: Carr Waller Mother: Elizabeth Martin Spouse: Henry Edwards Child: Albert hamilton Edwards

Find-A-Grave: Carr Waller BIRTH 12 Mar 1769 Spotsylvania Co. VA DEATHci BURIAL Pritchett Cemetery, Wright City, Warren Co., Missouri Parents: Thomas Carr Waller 1732–1788, Sarah Anne Dabney Waller 1740–1822 Spouse: Elizabeth Martin Waller 1768–1805

Sources

• Bible Records of the Waller Family. Published in the Va. Magazine of History and Biography, "Copy of the Waller Record"
• William & Mary Quarterly, William & Mary Quarterly - pages 118-120.
• William Pope Anderson, The Early Descendants of William Overton & Elizabeth Waters of Virginia and Allied Families (Published by W. P. Anderson, 1938 203 W. Third Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, or Biddeford Pool, Maine, from June 15 to September 20.).
• Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75576133/carr-waller

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Source: #S1583600910 Source number: 882.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: GW1 Ancestry Record 7836 #1276933
2. ↑ Source: #S1581305869 Volume: 99 Ancestry Record 2204 #216803
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Source: #S1585080589 Ancestry Record 60525 #40307963

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Waller-1095
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