Carr, Dabney Smith — Born in Albemarle County, Virginia

Albemarle County, Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 79,236 people, 31,876 households, and 21,070 families residing in the county. The population density was 110 people per square mile . There were 33,720 housing units at an average density of 47 per square mile...

, March 5, 1802. Grandnephew of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...

; son of Peter Carr and Hester Smith-Carr; grandson of Dabney Carr

Dabney Carr

Dabney Carr was born at Spring Forest, a Goochland County, Virginia, plantation just three weeks before the death of his father, also named Dabney Carr, brother-in-law and close friend of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson took an active role in the support and education of his nephew after his father's...

 and Martha Jefferson Carr (Thomas Jefferson's sister); married to Sidney Nichols. Newspaper publisher; U. S. Resident Minister at İstanbul

Istanbul

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, to Turkey

Turkey

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, 1843-49. Died in Charlottesville, Virginia., March 24, 1854. Interment at Thomas Jefferson's home, "Monticello", family cemetery, in Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville is an independent city geographically surrounded by but separate from Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom.The official population estimate for...

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