Claiborne County, Tennessee

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Claiborne County is located in the northeastern region of Tennessee. It is bordered by the following Tennessee counties: Campbell, Grainger, Hancock and Union. It is also adjacent to Bell and Whitley counties in Kentucky and Lee County, Virginia.

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Carr Family

The Carr family of Claiborne County was related to the Clouds and Fulkersons by marriage. James Carr was married to Jane Cloud, who was born in Claiborne County in 1823, who appears to have been the a grand-daughter of Benjamin Cloud, Sr. the 2nd County Clerk. They were the parents of Robert F. Carr and John C. Carr, who were both engaged in the mercantile business at the town of Tazewell in an early day. Robert F. Carr married Catherine S. Fulkerson, a daughter of A. H. and Henrietta Fulkerson, and by her he had three sons. Source: Worth Stickley Ray, Tennessee Cousins: A History of Tennessee People (Austin, Texas, Worth S. Ray, 1950), 198.