Extracted from ``Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi''
Edward McCarty, father of Michael McCarty of Shubuta, Clarke county, Miss.,
was born in Edgefield district, S. C., in the latter part of the last
century. He was married to Sarah Lorrimore before the year 1800 in
South Carolina, and came to Mississippi in 1820 and settled in Wayne
county, where he died. Michael McCarty, the fifth son in a family of
twelve children, was born in Edgefield district, S. C., November 4, 1806,
and came to Mississippi with his parents. His early educational
advantages were poor, but by dint of energy he acquired a knowledge of
business which has served him satisfactorily. He remained with
his parents until he was twenty-two years old, when he began life on
his own account. In 1828 he was married to Miss Maria Hailes, of
Wayne county, Miss., a daughter of Judge Henry Hailes, probate judge
of Clarke county for many years. He has had three children:
Cythia, Miranda and Visa. The first and last survive. Cynthia is
married to Burrell Rington [sic Arrington] of Wayne Co., Miss.,
and the latter, Visa, to Britton Rogers. Mr. McCarty has been
engaged in farming all his life. He owns about seven hundred acres
of the average land of Clarke county, located two miles north of
Shubuta. The soil is sandy and his chief crops are corn, oats, potatoes,
etc. He plants some cotton but restricts himself to a few acres,
farming on the intensive scale and using some fertilizer. He raises some
stock and has some pine land. He is a member of the Baptist church of
forty-six years' standing. Mrs. McCarty, who died in May, 1890, was
also a Baptist. Mr. McCarty was a member of the board of supervisors
for four years, and a justice of the peace for many years. Favoring
education and other interests tending to develop the country, he is in
every sense a useful citizen. Mr. McCarty has never had a suit in court
and only one difference in which he was concerned was ever settled by
arbitration, and that was decided in his favor, which speaks volumes
for the honor and fairness which have ever characterized his commercial
relations.
The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Vol. #3 (1891)