Hi T.F., Your McCarty connections sound interesting and we would like to hear about them. We think that the McCarty families in Fulton Co., Ozark Co. MO and Howell Co. are all connected. Two McCarty's, William and Nicholas were in the area in 1840 and 1850 but we have been unable get our Larkin McCarty attached to either. Larkin McCarty b. c. 1829 was listed in the 1850 Fulton Co. Bennetts Bayou twp in the household of Ruther McCarty. (Ruther McCarty is Ruth Ann McCarty Barker Shrable) Larkin is listed in the 1860 Ozark Co. MO Falling Springs twp. married to Malinda (Marriott) and 4 children including my g-grandfather William C. McCarty. Malinda Marriott is the dau of the Marriott family which lived in the "Ott" area, and according to the article by Pauline Hodges in the Fulton Co. Chronicle, The Marriotts sold land which became the first Ott Post office in 1909. In Pauline's article about OTT, she lists school teachers, and then says: "Some of the teachers boarded with Jim and Nannie (Campbell) Barrett, known as Uncle Jim and Aunt Nannie. Uncle Jim helped around the school and when it snowed in the winter, he would hitch his horses to his homemade sled and deliver all the school children to their homes" This article lists Nannie's maiden name, which may help. We can scan the article about OTT from the Fulton Co. Chronicle, if you can't get a copy. Jim and Wanda