Amanda J. Dunford^{[1, 2, 3]}

1845 - 1925  (79 years)

• Name	Amanda J. Dunford
  Birth	12 May 1845	Virginia,,,
  Gender	Female
  Death	02 May 1925
  Person ID	I3867	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 May 2023

  
  

  Father	William F. Dunford,   b. Abt 1797, Cumberland County,,,Virginia d. Aft 1860 (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Rosannah Dickenson,   b. 1825, Russell County,,,Virginia d. Between 1855 and 1860 (Age 30 years)
  Marriage	14 Feb 1855	Russell County,,,Virginia
  Family ID	F1509	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Franklin Mcilhenney Carty,   b. 12 Jun 1845, Russell County,,,Virginia d. 02 Jun 1925, Russell County,,,Virginia (Age 79 years)
  Children	1. Thomas Frazier Carty\Mccarty,   b. 02 Dec 1861, Abingdon,,Russell County,Virginia d. 06 Dec 1941, Electra,,Wichita County,Texas (Age 80 years)   2. Isaac Melvin Carty,   b. Abt 1865, Russell County,,,Virginia d. Yes, date unknown   3. David Eldridge Carty,   b. 06 Mar 1868   d. 28 May 1932, Wise County,,,Virginia (Age 64 years)   4. F. Harriet Carty,   b. Abt 1869   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Casby Carty,   b. Abt 1871   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Jerry C. Carty,   b. Abt 1874   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Martha Carty,   b. 1874   d. 1964 (Age 90 years)   8. Robert Floyd Carty,   b. 09 May 1875   d. 17 Dec 1965 (Age 90 years)   9. William A. Carty,   b. Jul 1877, Russell County,,,Virginia d. 06 Aug 1881, Russell County,,,Virginia (Age 4 years)   10. William Carty,   b. May 1878, Russell County,,,Virginia d. 04 Jun 1882, Russell County,,,Virginia (Age 4 years)   11. James W. C. Carty,   b. Abt 1879, Russell County,,,Virginia d. Yes, date unknown   12. Maiden Ella Carty,   b. 12 Jan 1886, Russell County,,,Virginia d. Dec 1980, North Carolina,,, (Age 94 years)   13. Lucy Neal Carty,   b. 17 Feb 1888, Russell County,,,Virginia d. 17 Jul 1962 (Age 74 years)   14. Aston Alderson Carty,   b. 09 Oct 1888, Russell County,,,Virginia d. 12 Apr 1967 (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F1373	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2005

  
  

• Notes

  Email from Max Ervin dated August 19, 2000: Don, The background on Amanda, wife of JFM Carty, is rather complicated. She is first found in the Russell Co 1850 census in the household of William Akers (HH #1056) at age 2, and listed as Amanda J. Dickenson. There is also a Henry Dickenson, age 1. In working with some Dickenson researchers, particularly with a descendant of this young Henry, we have come to the conclusion that this is Amanda Dunford, born out of wedlock to Rosannah Dickenson and William F. Dunford. The first clue came from the following from a descendant of this Henry: "In 1988, I went to a Dickenson family gathering in Kingsport and talked to 12 old folks, all granchildren of Henry Dickenson, and none of them could shed any light on the subject, except to confirm that Henry had a sister named Amanda. However, one 81 year old lady in a wheel chair told me the following: When Henry was one year old his father had left home and his mother in desperation placed Henry at a table with food and then went out and jumped off a "lover's leap" killing herself. That his true name was Dunford and not Dickenson, and that it was all recorded in a Bible her mother had." This was disregarded at the time, because her daughters said she was imagining it, that there was no Bible. But, she and her daughters went on to say they had visited Amanda several years previously on Copper Creek, that she had married a "Carter" or something like that, and that one of Amanda's daughters had married a Ring. The specifics are off a bit, in that Rosannah and Wm Dunford did marry in 1855, and Rosannah's suicide may have been around 1857, after the birth of Robert, not Henry. I am attaching my notes on Rosannah and her father Edmund Dickenson. As you can see, some of it is speculation, but the pieces seem to fit. It's somewhat messy, resulting from converting it to .txt, but it should be readable if you apply "Word wrap". Regards, Max

  
  

• Sources

  [S132] Don McCarty, Manor, TX, McCarty-Smith GEDCOM file. [S187] Death Certificate for Thomas Frazier McCarty. [S188] Deloris Carty, John P. Carty of Molls Creek, VA.