Person:Charles McCarty (4)

The following contributed by Dr. Anthony Troha: Using this date of death [from find-a-grave site], I was able to track down his obituary in The Iron Era, but it is very difficult to read in certain places, and it mainly concerns his career. For reference, here is the pertinent pieces of information:

Obituary for Charles Augustus McCarty from "The Iron Era" Newspaper, Friday, December 24, 1887 (Volume XVII, Number 4, Page 5, Column 6) [Note that this is a "Holiday Issue" of "The Iron Era" that had a two-page supplement preceding the herald page, so the supplement section is counted as the first two pages of this issue.]

"DEATH OF C. A. McCARTY.

Charles Augustus McCarty died at his home near Rockaway on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. He was a member of a well-known family of this section, and his life, with the exception of a few years, was spent in this vicinity. His father, the late John M. McCarty---or Morris McCarty, as he was more familiarly known, was one of the well remembered men of the past generation. ... [Details of his career and that of his father are omitted for brevity, but the obituary does mention that he was one of the '49ers, who ventured out to California during the Gold Rush] ... Mr. McCarty was in his 62d year of his age, and was well known among all the old residents of this section. ... His wife survives him, but no children. ..."

Note that this information contradicts the name of his father as given on the FindAGrave.com listing.

1. ↑ Find A Grave.

   Date only

2. ↑ Rootsweb chart of Cecile Carpenter wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi op GET db saver1.

   Location only

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Find A Grave.
4.   Crayon, J. Percy. Rockaway records of Morris County, N.J., families: cemetery records, church history, military records, local history, genealogies of old families, nearly 20,000 data. (Rockaway, N.J.: Rockaway Pub. Co., 1902).
5.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   17.
6.   Doty, Ethan Allen. The Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620. (Brooklyn, New York: E.A. Doty, 1897)
   378.