Louisa Brewer CARR

Louisa Brewer CARR

Female 1877 - 1944  (67 years)

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  • Name Louisa Brewer CARR 
    Born 5 Mar 1877  California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 1 Sep 1944  Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1714  ChristensenJames
    Last Modified 12 Sep 2018 

    Father Larkin W CARR,   b. 31 Aug 1837, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Dec 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Artha Linda ARMSTRONG,   b. Abt 1851, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jun 1927  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Married 31 Dec 1873  Santa Clara, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F771  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Henry Haynes KOONS,   b. 14 Jan 1867, New Columbus, Pennslyvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Oct 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married 2 Dec 1916  Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 12 Sep 2018 
    Family ID F772  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 5 Mar 1877 - California, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Histories
    Carr History
    Carr History
    History of Jesse D. Carr (1814-1903) and his descendants

  • Notes 
    • Louise Brewer Carr seems to have been the loose inspiration for a 1964 movie called "Lady in a Cage" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058283/).

      There are a few parallels, if only the slimmest, between the fictional widow of 1132 South Lake Street and the actual widow who lived there for nearly 40 years. Louise Carr was living in the house with her parents, the Larkin W. Carrs, by 1907, soon after the house was built on lot 11 in the new Palm Place tract. Marrying prominent Los Angeles physician (and later, oil operator) Henry Haynes Koons in 1916 as she neared 40 and was listed on voter rolls as a "prof traveler", the couple lived not far away in their own digs for a few years before returning to Lake Street in 1921 shortly before her father died. The long parade to the graveyard continued: Louise's mother in 1927, her brother Jesse in 1928, and Dr. Koons, 10 years his wife's senior, in 1929. While Mrs. Koons was the daughter of California pioneers and the wife of another man of affairs, she, like Mrs. Hilyard, had an artistic bent?she sang. Unlike Mrs. Hilyard, she also worked tirelessly at civic affairs, for women's suffrage, and for walnuts, owning her own 45-acre walnut farm in Orange County and serving at one time on the board of the California Walnut Growers Association. The Koonses appear to never have had children, but Louise's endeavors kept her active despite being alone for years at 1132 South Lake Street. She died in Los Angeles on September 1, 1944.

      See:

      http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2013_06_02_archive.html