Clinton Missouri, Jan 30 1904 - The death of Mrs. Mary E. McCarty occurred at her home in Field's Creek township 5 miles northeast of Clinton Saturday at 9:30 a.m. January 23, from pneumonia. She had been able to come to the breakfast table Tuesday before her death; retained all her faculties to a remarkable degree; was 87 the 29th of July; was born in Orange county, Va. in 1816; lived there until 12 years when she came with her parents to Saline county at 12 years, united with the Southern Methodist Church. She married E. C. McCarty October 24, 1833; went to Lexington, 1846; then to Kansas City and was living there when the war broke out and her husband sent the first wagon load across the plains to Santa Fe, then left Kansas City with family and only a change of clothing under war orders to St. Louis. The family settled on the home place in Fields' Creek township in 1868 and the husband and father died in 1888. 12 children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The ten children living are: B. C. McCarty, Chas. I. McCarty, J. E. McCarty and Patrick Henry McCarty, who all reside at home, as do Miss Bettie McCarty and Miss Nannie B. McCarty; Mrs. E. Allison, Miss Babe McCarty and Mrs. O. D. Evans reside in Clinton, and Mrs. Elnora B. McCarty, four miles from Urich. The funeral was conducted from the South Methodist Church. Friends of the family cut the stem of every greenhouse treasure to put on the dear remains. A pillow of flowers showed the word "Mother"; another floral design, "Gates Ajar" and the beautiful lilies were emblematic of the purity of the sainted mother, who always took such unselfish interest in the loved ones on earth.
