Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Tuesday, April 17, 1973

J. B. McCarty

MORTON -- James Belton McCarty, 73, retired farmer, died on Thursday at Baptist Hospital in Jackson. Funeral: Friday, 2 p.m., Morton Ott & Lee Funeral Home Chapel. Burial: Floral Hills Cemetery in Rankin Co.

Survivors: his wife, Mrs. Ruth McCarty of Route 4, Jackson; three daughters, Mrs. W. H. (Avis) Westberry, Mrs. Bobby (Tump) Palmer and Mrs. Valena Dubose, all of Route 4, Jackson; two brothers, Benny McCarty of Forest, Berlie McCarty of Jackson; two sisters, Mrs. Jim Garvin of Baskin, La and Miss Bell McCarty of Forest; four grandchildren, one great-grandchild.