HistoryOf Rush County Indiana Brant& Fuller Chicago 1888 Page 602 and 603 Surnames mentioned in this biography are:  McCarty, Siler, Stinger   JACOB F. MCCARTY, proprietor of a meat market in Carthage, was born March 17, 1842,being the son of John and Eliza (Siler) McCarty, a history of whom is given elsewhere. He was born in Ripley Township, and reared upon his father's farm.He entered the service of the Union Army at the age of twenty, or in August1862, and served in Company G, Sixteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for eight months. He was captured at Richmond, Ky., shortly after his muster in, but was immediately paroled. On leaving the service he returned home and resumed work on his father's farm. He was married October 12, 1863, to Miss Vandalena Stinger, who was born in Ripley Township, September 20, 1842, being the son of Samuel and Christena Stinger. After their marriage they settled upon a farm in Ripley Township, but in 1868, they moved to Carthage, where the former conducted a hardware business for a period of eleven months. Mr. McCarty then resumed farming, but in November, I887, he opened a meat market in Carthage, to which his attentionis now directed. He and wife have had two children: a daughter that died ininfancy, and Samuel O., who was born May 30, 1870, and who is now Assistant Postmaster at Carthage. Our subject and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and, in politics, the former is a Democrat.