James C. McCarty^{[1, 2]}

1847 - 1918  (70 years)

• Name	James C. McCarty
  Birth	23 Dec 1847	Russell County,,,Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Sep 1918	Nasbie,,Dickenson County,Virginia
  Burial	Chaney Ridge Farm,,Dickenson County,Virginia
  Person ID	I4294	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2005

  
  

  Father	Thomas J. Carty,   b. 26 Dec 1819, Russell County,,,Virginia d. 02 Nov 1891, Russell County,,,Virginia (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Caroline Porter
  Marriage	Abt 1842
  Family ID	F2708	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Ellen Chapman,   b. 26 Mar 1852   d. 27 Mar 1924 (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	08 Jun 1869
  Family ID	F1446	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 May 2023

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S188] Deloris Carty, John P. Carty of Molls Creek, VA. [S132] Don McCarty, Manor, TX, McCarty-Smith GEDCOM file.