Ida Carr Found
Says a Baptist Minister Caused Her
Disgrace and He Has Fled
From Oldtown

Middlesboro, Ky., Oct. 31. - [Special] - After a three-month's search, Ida Carr, who so mysteriously disappeared from her home at Old Town, Tenn., has at last been found, having been located by the Chief of Police at Asheville, N.C., who brought her back home. With her is a young baby, and this has caused a sensation, as she claims its father to be a prominent Baptist minister. On learning of the return home of the girl he is said to have left the country suddenly. After investigating the case, his church has stipped him of his ministerial robes. The affair has caused a big sensation. David Carr, the aged father of the girl, has broken down with grief over her ruin.
(Louisville Courier-Journal, November 3, 1899)

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Found the following in Wikipedia: "Roy Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tennessee to Ida Carr and Simon E. Neil Acuff (a Baptist preacher, judge and tenant farmer)."

Maynardville, TN, is 36 miles from Middlesboro, KY (the dateline for the C-J article). Could this be the same Ida Carr who had a child out of wedlock with an unnamed Baptist minister? Hmmmm

Acuff, by the way, was born in 1903. Ida Carr's first child was born in 1899.