Wills with Garvin County Ties - McCarty Submitted by Brenda Choate bcchoate@yahoo.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Wills with Garvin County Ties McCarty State of Missouri, ss County of Johnson Be it remembered that on this 11th day of December 1871, Before the undersigned a Notary Public within and for the County of Johnson, and State of Missouri, personally came Chittendon C. McCarty and Mattie McCarty, his wife, who are personally known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing deed as parties thereto, this day appeared before me and acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned: and the said Mattie McCarty being by me first made acquainted with the contents of said instrument, acknowledged on an examination separate and apart from her said husband, that she executed the same and relinquished her power in the real estate therein mentioned, freely and without compulsion, fear or undue influence of her said husband. Given under my hand and official seal the day and year written above (L.S.) H. Martin William, Notary Public State of Missouri ss County of Johnson I, Leeper McCarty, make oath and say that I am a son of Henry McCarty, deceased, that Joseph McCarty, another son named in said Henry McCarty's will as a devisee died some time prior to 1864, intestate, leaving surviving him his widow, Elizabeth McCarty and no children, that his said widow has since died; that John V. McCarty, another son of said Henry McCarty, in whose will said James V. McCarty is also named as a divisee, died after the death of Joseph, viz sometime in the year 1864, intestate, unmarried and without issue, and leaving as his only heirs at law, his mother Charlotte McCarty, and his four brothers James H., William M., Chittendon C. and my self Leeper McCarty. That said Chittenden McCarty died some time in the year 1879 leaving his widow Mattie McCarty, who is still living, and three children, namely, Conway McCarty, L.L. McCarty, and Henry McCarty, all minors. That said Charlotte McCarty, my mother died some time in the year 1879 intestate, leaving as her only heirs at law, Henrietta McCarty, daughter of her son James H. McCarty, deceased, William M. McCarty, and Leeper McCarty, sons and her three grand children, the above named children of her said son Chittenden C McCarty, deceased. His Mark X - Leeper McCarty Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of April 1886, I certify that my commission will expire June 30, 1889. Witness my hand and notarial seal. Wm. C Taylor The above is a copy of affidavit appearing in Vol. 40 Page 853 Crissey & Lemmon Abstracts