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From: Paul Guttman <>
Subject: Re: [OHGALLIA-L] The McCarthys In Early American History by Michael J. O'Brien
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:36:46 -0500
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Only that he married Elizabeth Ann Brown and they had 6 children. Thanks! Paul

wrote:

> In a message dated 3/15/02 5:59:57 PM Central Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> > Hi, Kath. Anything on Samuel D. McCarty b. around 1800 in Va., possibly
> > Culpeper Co. ? Thanks, Paul
> >
> >
>
> Paul,
>
> This is the only Samuel in the book that would fit that VA profile. Do you
> have any additional information on Samuel?
>
> 101
>
> nearly all their descendants have adhered to the Metho-
> dist religion. I am informed that "he was a man of
> some importance in West Virginia about a hundred
> years ago, a large landowner and brick manufacturer
> and a well-known sportsman in his time." Some time
> before the Civil War his aged widow took up his land
> grant and was given lands near Iroquois, Illinois, where
> she located with her son, James.
>
> Peter McCarty's children were George, Joseph S.,
> John, James, Andrew, Rebecca Ann and Elizabeth Ann.
> George left a large family and his grandchildren are
> now scattered through Virginia and Ohio. Joseph S.,
> is described as "a man of great force of character, a
> Justice at Winchester for many years," and although
> nearly fifty years of age at the time of the outbreak
> of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate army
> and was captured and sent to Fort McHenry by Sheri-
> dan's troops in 1864. He was the father of seven sons
> and one daughter, and three of his sons, William H.,
> Cornelius M. and Samuel E. McCarty, served in the
> Confederate army and were imprisoned for a time at
> Fort McHenry. William N. was a purchasing agent for
> the army, until captured and imprisoned, and after the
> ware he became a Methodist preacher on the Rockbridge,
> Va. Circuit. Of Peter's other sons, John died about
> 1835; James married Nancy Hall, and with their eleven
> children they removed to Illinois, and Andrew removed
> to Xenia, Ohio. Rebecca Ann married Charles Blake
> of New Hampshire and had ten children, and Elizabeth
> Ann married a Mr. Stewart of Virginia and had seven
> children. All told, Peter McCarty had fifty-four grand-
> children and thirty-nine great-grandchildren, many of
> whom now live at Iroquois and Sheldon, Illinois, at
> Lafayette and Brook, Indiana, and at Xenia, Ohio.
>
>
> Kathy "Kath" (Burden) Shaffer
> Omaha, NE
>
> Dear Lord, How Great Thou Art
>
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