WALTER JENNINGS CARNES 
b11/2/1877 – d7/12/1954 buried Shiloh Cemetery
Spanish American War
Pvt Co H 3rd Reg. TN Infantry 

He was a carpenter by trade. 

On 3/3/1901 he married Rhote Vany Wear (daughter of
Thomas Jefferson Wear and Mary Crowsen) 
Rhote Vany Wear b1/28/1880 – d12/2/1959 buried
Shiloh Cemetery 

Walter and Rhote lived in Wears Valley at Waldens
Creek on the land she inherited from her mother, Mary
Crowsen Wear. The first seven children of Walter and
Rhote were born at their Henderson Springs Farm. They
later sold the land and lived at Knob Creek in Seymour
and also South Knoxville.
Walter Jennings and Rhote Vany Wear had 10 children: 
Herman Carnes (never married)
Samuel Carnes (m Christine Kelly)
Mary Adra Carnes Reed (m Robert Reed)
Robert Massey Carnes (m Edna Ogle) 5 children
Warren Bird Carnes (m Nelle Thomas)1 child
Johnnie Joan Carnes Henry (m Henry E. Thomas)
Henry Albert Carnes (m Eva (Mae) Gail Page) 2
children
Ruth Margaret Carnes Duke (m John Helekunihi Duke) 6
children
Paul Coolidge Carnes (m Dorothy Carmichael) 2 children

WALTER JENNINGS CARNES was the son of John H. Carnes
b7/2/1833 – d2/26/1915 buried Shiloh) and Mary Fox
(b10/17/1839 – d3/7/81 buried Shiloh). John H. Carnes,
along with his 3 brothers, served in the Civil War Co.
K 2 TN Cav Union Pvt. John Carnes was a farmer.

WALTER JENNINGS CARNES was from a family of 9
children: 
Caloway H. Carnes
Dicy Jane Carnes Henderson
Catharine Angeline Carnes Catlett
James Brownlow Carnes
Martha Rambo Carnes Holt
John Leonro Carnes
Mary Malissa (Mollie) Carnes Shultz
Walter Jennings Carnes
Elbert Clark Carnes 


WALTER JENNINGS CARNES was the grandson of Hubbard
Carnes b3/8/1797 VA-d2/28/1864 buried Red Bank
Cemetery) and Dicy Robertson b12/2/1800 SC - d1/1/1878
buried Shiloh) Hubbard Carnes was a miller in the Red
Bank Community. 

WALTER JENNINGS CARNES was also the grandson of
Emanuel Fox (b1809) and Catherine Bird (b 1811-1813)