This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCarthy Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VW.2ADE/1061.1.2 Message Board Post: Jim...Your post on J.D. jogged my memory..While searching a few months back I found an obit on J.D. Sr..plus a Court Note mentioning J.D Jr..I had intentions of sending them to you, but time went by and I simply forgot..I can't remember if you found the death date for J. D. Sr. Here's what I found.. Alma Merced Express, Merced, CA...Friday Feb. 28, 1896 Death of J.D. McCarthy J.D. McCarthy, one of the most respected and best known residents of the West Side, died at his home three miles southwest of Los Banos, Saturday morning at fifteen minutes past ten o'clock, from progressive paralysis. He had been ailing for several years, during which time he doctored continually and visited health resorts which seemed to do him no good. J.D. McCarthy was a native of Ireland 60 years of age. He has lived at the ranch on which he died, since 1869, and has always borne the name of an honest honorable and upright man. He leaves a son, John D. McCarthy, who is now in Guatamala City, Central America, engaged in railroading. He also leaves two sisters and several nieces in San Francisco. The remains were sent to San Francisco Monday morning and interred in the Holy Cross cemetery. Thus, one by one the old residents pass away by their memory is cherished forever.--- Los Banos Enterprise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Merced Express, Merced, CA...Friday, March 27, 1896 Court Notes. J.K. Law -- Judge. Judge Law, presiding. Monday March 23rd. In the matter of the estate of John D. McCarthy, deceased. The son of said decedent is appointed special and general administrator of the estate of said deceased, upon his qualifying in the sum of $1000.