Obituary of Amanda Purvis McCarty ********************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 From: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000008 ********************************** Amanda Purvis McCarty Bath County News-Outlook, Thursday, March 7, 1940 Mrs. Isaac McCarty Claimed By Death Mrs. Amanda McCarty, 64 years old, wife of Isaac McCarty, died at her home on Roe's Run Monday, March 4, after a long illness. Mrs. McCarty was a native of this county and a daughter of the late Allen and Mary Robinson Purvis, born December 25, 1875. She and her husband had recently moved back to Bath county, to the farm recently purchased from Clifford Hunt on Roes Run, after having lived in Montgomery for many years. Funeral services were held at the residence Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Henry S. Ficklin. Interment was in the family lot in the Owingsville Cemetery. Besides her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lee Crouch, Owingsville, and Miss Mary McCarty, at home, and two sons, Clark and Donnan McCarty, both of Montgomery county; six sisters, Mrs. Neal Manley, Ashland; Mrs. William Sexton, Olympia; Mrs. W. D. Manley, Versailles; Mrs. Charles Vanlandingham, Wabash, Ind.; Mrs. John Wyble, Dunkirk, Ind.; Mrs. Russell Turner, Owingsville, and two half brothers, Squire Alex Jones, Sharpsburg, and John Snedegar, Salt Lick.