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Nicholas Rowan MARR , Jr.

16 APR 1883 - 23 APR 1976

Known as: Rowe Marr
  • OCCUPATION: 1920, Carpenter, Shipyard, Vicksburg, Warren Co. MS
  • RESIDENCE: BET 1917 AND 1918, Warren Co. MS [859]
  • BORN: 16 APR 1883, Tyler, TX [856]
  • BORN: APR 1879, Tyler, TX
  • BORN: 16 APR 1880, Tyler, TX [857]
  • BORN: 16 APR 1882, Tyler, TX [858]
  • DIED: 23 APR 1976, Vicksburg, Warren Co. MS
  • CENSUS: 1900, Dwelling 126, District 14, Henderson Co. TN
  • CENSUS: 1920, Dwelling 286, Vicksburg, Warren Co. MS
  • BURIED: 24 APR 1976, Division C, Square 268B, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Warren Co. MS

Notes

Roen disappeared a little while before Lector D. Marr was born. He is found later in the 1920 census living in Vicksburg, MS working as a carpenter in the shipyards. He re-married after he left Decatur Co. TN.

Sources: research of Dorothy Marr Robertson, 1920 Warren Co. MS census, Social Security Death Index.


Nicholas R. Marr Dies Here Today

Nicholas Rowan Marr, 93, died early today in Mercy Medical Center after an illness of three weeks.
He was a native of Tennessee and had lived in Vicksburg most of his life. He was a commercial fisherman. He was a member of the Pentacostal Church.

He leaves no known survivors.

Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Fisher Funeral Home with Rev. G. R. Travis of the First Pentacostal Church officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be O. W. Thompson, Vincent Piazza, George Brewer, Irvin Marshall, James Bishop, Billy Wayne Bishop, Guy Creekmore, J. T. Marshall, and Jerry Marshall.

 - source: Vicksburg Post, Vickburg, MS, Friday April 23, 1976.

Family 1

Wife: Flora E. BUTLER

  • MARRIED: 27 MAR 1898, Henderson Co. TN [3382]

Children:

  1.  +Robert Harrison MARR
  2.  +Lector D. MARR

Family 2

Wife: Iola M.

Pedigree

                                                      __
                                                     |  
                                                   __|__
                                                  |     
                        _Nicholas Lafayette MARR _|
                       | (1824 - 1854) m 1847     |
                       |                          |   __
                       |                          |  |  
                       |                          |__|__
                       |                                
 _Nicholas Rowan MARR _|
| (1850 - 1895) m 1873 |
|                      |                              __
|                      |                             |  
|                      |                           __|__
|                      |                          |     
|                      |_Sarah Agatha PERKINS ____|
|                         m 1847                  |
|                                                 |   __
|                                                 |  |  
|                                                 |__|__
|                                                       
|
|--Nicholas Rowan MARR , Jr.
|  (1882 - 1976)
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|                       __________________________|
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|                      |                          |__|__
|                      |                                
|_Martha BUSBY ________|
  (1851 - 1881) m 1873 |
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                       |__________________________|
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Source references

[859] World War I Draft Registeration - Warren Co. MS

[856] Headstone

[857] USGenWeb Mississippi Archives Index

[858] Social Security Death Index

[3382] Marriage records of Henderson Co. web site