The following is information found regarding James Carn, son of Hugh Kaighin/Carn and Eleanor Cannon:

James was born in December, 1830 and moved to Eldora, Iowa by 1861 where he enlisted into the Union Army:

Name: James Carn
Residence: Eldora, Iowa
Enlistment Date: 4 Jul 1861
Side Served: Union
State Served: Iowa
Service Record:
Enlisted as a Private on 04 July 1861 at the age of 26
Enlisted in Company C, 6th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 17 July 1861.
Promoted to Full Corporal on 01 March 1862
Mustered out Company C, 6th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 16 July 1864 in Roswell, GA

The next I can find him, is the 1880 census in Geneva Twp, Iowa, about 30 miles north of Eldora where he is married to Harmony ?. She was born in Ohio, so they may have met and married there. They have no children in 1880. Harmony died 2 March 1882 in Geneva. James next moved to Faulkton, South Dakota, where in 1884 he is shown as a charter member of the Phil. H. Sheridan Post No. 72, Grand Army of the Republic post. James was a homesteader in SD. He purchased with cash two 160 acre plots of land there in 1889 and 1892. By the 1900 census he is a homeowner in Faulkton. That is the last I can find of him.