1943 Birthday of Joe Ann Caroline Howell McCarty, a native of Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Shawn Martin, 6/2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1943 Birthday of Joe Ann Caroline Howell McCarty, a native of Union Parish Louisiana The Dallas Morning Star, Jan. 12, 1943 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== After All, Sherman Made His Epigram On That Other War Times may be tough during World War II, but they will have to go far even to approach Civil War days. Mrs. Joe Ann Caroline Howell McCarty celebrated her eighty-eighth birthday Monday by recalling that during the War Between the States her father and brother died of a fever that swept their plantation in Union Parish, Louisiana. Building materials were so scarce that they had to tear a porch away from their home to make caskets. There was only one doctor available. The patient had to be taken to his home or to a member of the family had to go, in case the illness was too serious, and described the nature of the case the best he could. He was too busy for a visit. Mrs. McCarty, born Jan. 11, 1855, resides at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. E. Kingston, 838 North Clinton. Open house was held there to celebrate the birthday. An aunt of the late Wiley Post, world-famous flier who died in an Alaskan air crash with Humorist Will Rogers, Mrs. McCarty has lived in Texas sixty years. She has been a Dallas resident for thirty-five years. ###############################################################################