Carr, Eva C.
Talbut 1881-1948
Mrs. Eva C.
Carr, Retired School Teacher, Dies
Hartwick---Eva
C. Carr died at 12:30 a. m. Monday in Leonardsville after a short
illness. Funeral will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday in Leonardsville
at the home of Mrs. Ebenezer C. Talbot, a sister with whom she had
lived for 18 years. Burial will be in Hartwick Cemetery.
Eva Talbut Carr, the daughter of Dorrence C. and Mary (Mack)
Talbut, was born June 25, 1881, on a farm in the town of New Lisbon.
She was graduated from Cooperstown High School teachers training
class in 1900, and later took exension courses at Toledo, Ohio
University and Syracuse University.
Early in her teaching career she and her sister, Mrs. G. M. Augur
of Hartwick, were appointed English teachers in San Juan, Porto Rico.
Mrs. Carr also taught 13 years in the primary department of Hartwick
School and 14 years in Leornardsville Central School.
After her retirement in 1941, she had followed her favorite sport,
harness horse racing and collected antiques. For the past four years
she had operated an antique shop in Leonardsville.
She is survived by her mother of Hartwick and Leonardsville; two
sisters, Mrs. George Milton Augur, Hartwick, and Mrs. Talbot; two
brothers, Dr. Blaine Talbut and Dr. Benjamin Talbut of Toledo, Ohio;
two nephews, Richard Talbut of Leonardsville and Dorrence C. Talbut
of Toledo; a niece, Mary E. Talbut of Toledo and a cousin, Dean Mack
of Hartwick.
Mrs. Carr was a member of the Chrisian Science Mother Church of
Boston, Mass., the Hartwick WCTU, the Sunday School and Women's
Society of the Methodist Church, Leonardsville, and Leonardsville
Garden Club.
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