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Carson Reed Orr died at his home, at Aspen Hill, Tenn., on March 18, 1916, after an illness of only three days. He was buried at Pulaski, Tenn., by the Masons, of which fraternity he had long been a member. At the time of his death he was in his seventy-seventh year, having been born July 20, 1839, at Cornersville, Tenn. He enlisted in the Confederate service as a member of Company H, 3d Tennessee Regiment, commanded by Col. C. H. Walker, in 1861, and served throughout the war.

He was married on August 14, 1867, near Athens, Tenn., to Miss Mary Beverly McWilliams. Of the five children born to them, three survive with their mother.

As a soldier his record stands as does his private life-honorable, brave, and always ready for duty. While in camp at Dalton, Ga., h professed religion, and the passage of Scripture read at his funeral is a significant evidence of his Christian life, his walk before his God and his fellow man, and no tribute more beautiful and true could be paid to his life and memory: "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace." As a matter of course, many a good man has died; but to the writer it is impossible to see how a batter man than he could have ever lived. As a husband he was conscientious, true, and kind; as a father he was noble. No midnight hour was ever too dark or too cold for him to rise to a call of duty that would add comfort to his family of a kindness to his neighbor or his fellow man.