Extracted from The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA)
Wilburn McCarty
Funeral services were conducted for Wilburn McCarty, 82, at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Oak Grove Baptist church. Mr. McCarty, who leaves 119 descendants, died at his home Friday.
Interment was in the White Swan Cemetery at Fort Necessity. The Rev. Tom Ratcliff officiated at the final rites.
Mr. McCarty is survived by four sons, Jessie and George McCarty, both of Winnsboro, Elmer McCarty of Dumas, Tex. and H. B. McCarty of Sulphur; six daughters, Mrs. Estelle Carter of Beaumont, Tex., Mrs. Lillie Jones, Mrs. R. O. Day and Mrs. Raymond Thomas, all of Winnsboro, Mrs. Alma Horne, Kerman, Calif.,Mrs. Lucy Dickey, South Carolina; 42 grandchildren, 65 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren
Thursday, March 28, 1957