James C. McCarty ^78,183

  General Notes:

There is a map to Uncle Jim's place on page 13 of "John P. Carty of Molls Creek." According to "John P. Carty of Molls Creek":

James C. Carty's will stated that he left a mansion house when he died. Of course this statement aroused our curiosity and the search for the-rest-or-the-story was on! The following is what people who knew James and Mollie had to say about them and the mansion house.

The house was located in the Caney Ridge Section of Dickenson County, Virginia which is now Coeburn Route #2. The mansion house was built of logs in an L shape. It had three very large rooms. The outside of the house was covered with boards for siding. It had good windows. The doors were hand made. A front porch filled in the L shape of the house. There was also a back porch. There was a large fireplace in the living room. The chimney was sandstone and mud. The top was rived boards. The floor was punchon, one log in the middle of the front room was loose on both ends. It would be removed to get under the house to store potatoes, apples, and so on for winter use. The house was papered with newspapers and catalog leaves. This house was one of the best at that time. It stood the test of time. The mansion house is no more; it burnt down in the early 1950's.

Uncle Jim (as he was called) was a farmer. He had apples, peaches, and cherry trees on his farm; and a grape arbor in front of the house. He grew lots of vegetables. He peddled his produce, eggs, milk, and butter in Coeburn. He used the money he got to buy things that he and Mollie, his wife, needed. He made brooms out of hickory sticks. These were called scrub brooms.

Uncle Jim and Mollie did not have any children of their own, but they reared a girl named Rose Powers who went by the name of Rosie Carty.

James is buried on Caney Ridge at his homeplace. His headstone reads: Gone to dwell with the happy and blest.

After James died Mollie married 15-June-1923 at Toms Creek, Wise County, Virginia, to Green Berry "G. B." Adkins. We have not done any research as to what happened to her after this marriage.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census: #1059, Russell County, Virginia, 1850.

2. Census: #1199, Russell County, Virginia, 1860.

3. Census: #66, Russell County, Virginia, 1870.

4. Residence: 115 acre farm, Copper Creek Township, Russell County, Virginia, 1870.

James married Mary Ellen Chapman on 8 Jun 1869. (Mary Ellen Chapman was born on 26 Mar 1852, died on 27 Mar 1924 and was buried in Honaker Cemetery, Near Honaker Chapel Church, Russell County, Virginia.)