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The McCarty family came to Dickens in 1898, and settled in the Afton community. They came from Erath County in covered wagons we brought a herd of cattle with us. There were eleven children, Henry, Lewis, Willis, Huey, Alvin and Wylie, Gypsy, Daisy, Annie and Rosa. We all had good times together. All the boys could play musical instruments, many times we would put the organ in the wagon, and go seranading our neighbors. Lewis played the guitar, Henry the violin, Huey the Mandolin, Wylie the organ and the rest of us would sing. Our houses were dug-outs.
We had to buy our supplies from Quanah. Several neighbors would go together and form a wagon train. All would camp and cook together. Sometimes it would take ten days or more to make the round trip, depending on the weather and how much rain we had. We would buy sugar by the barrels and several hundred pounds of flour. We had to get enough supplies to last a long time.
My daddy said that he was going out to West Texas where his children would not have to pick cotton. He planted cotton the next year. No cotton had ever been planted, sopeople came from miles around to see it. We kids picked it and it was hauled to Paducah to be ginner. From then on, we kids picked cotton.
The first school we went to was Lower Cottonwood, but it was named Prairie Chapel by Mrs. F.B. Whitaker, the first teacher in 1893. Our teacher was named Mrs. Nellie Harris. Our first church was a Upper Cottonwood. Mr. W.G. Bolenger was our pastor. Later we built a church at Gravel Hill; it was the Primitive Baptist Church and the first ordained pastor was Bro. Lewis. We had "old time revivals" and people came from many states and camped and stayed for weeks. What a glorious time we would have. People got so happy that they shouted.
We used coal oil lanters and lamps and cooked on wood stoves and fireplaces, washed on rub boards and hung our clothes on barbed wire fences and mesquite trees. Our clothes looked so pretty and white hanging on the trees. We all had more time to visit the sick and our neighbors than we do now.
Some of which neighbors were the Joe Jackson, Whitakers, Arringtons, Harveys, Staks, Hales, Zinna, Borbis, Allens, Staffords, and many more.
My mother was a mid wife, and she brought many children into this world. Most of the time the neighbors would come for her and she would stay all night and longer if needed.
by Rosa YoungSource: History of Dickens County; Ranches and Rolling Plains, Fred Arrington, ©1971, page 299
Joseph Jackson "Joe"4 McCARTY (James Madison"Jim"3, JACOB2, DANIEL (?)1) was born March 22, 1846 in near Palestine, Anderson Co., TX, and died March 21, 1906 in Paducah, Cottle Co., TX. He married Mary Eveline OGDEN Abt. 1867 in Hico, Hamilton Co., TX, daughter of James OGDEN and Elmira GARRETT. She was born April 17, 1848 in Hancock Co., IL, and died March 06, 1925 in Afton, Dickens Co., TX. Children of Joseph McCARTY and Mary OGDEN are: 1. Alvin Franklin5 McCARTY, born June 22, 1868 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died June 18, 1943 in Knox City, Knox Co., TX. 2. James Henry McCARTY, born October 19, 1870 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died May 26, 1932 in Lamb Co., TX. 3. Willis Graham McCARTY, born March 11, 1872 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died August 23, 1911 in Spur, Dickens Co., TX. 4. Gypsie Eveline McCARTY, born June 07, 1874 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died March 24, 1919 in Electra, Wichita Co., TX. 5. Wyly Felix "W.F." McCARTY, born November 26, 1876 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died January 05, 1967 in San Angelo, Tom Green Co., TX. 6. Hugh Jackson McCARTY, born October 15, 1878 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died March 20, 1937 in Sudan, Lamb Co., TX. 7. Daisy Emma McCARTY, born November 01, 1880 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died May 01, 1967 in Dickens Co., TX. 8. Louis Jacob McCARTY, born August 25, 1882 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died August 11, 1939 in Crawford, Delta Co., CO. 9. Sara Rosa Lee McCARTY, born April 08, 1885 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died February 01, 1973 in El Paso, El Paso Co., TX. She married John Francis YOUNG. 10. Annie Irene McCARTY, born February 09, 1887 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died February 12, 1962 in Hollis, Harmon Co., OK. 11. Carl Jefferson McCARTY, born August 25, 1889 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX; died August 28, 1889 in Duffau, Erath Co., TX.
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