--part1_81985376.247b9542_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_81985376.247b9542_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Texasdog@aol.com From: Texasdog@aol.com Full-name: Texasdog Message-ID: <81985376.247b8a67@aol.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 01:08:55 EDT Subject: Re: ROBERTS-ROSENBAUM-SHORT-SPANGLER-TELLES- CLEVELAND-EDWARDS-FINCH To: wyly1@juno.com CC: TXErath@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 Charles, There are several reasons that my father (not grandfather) may have been named Wyly McCarty. (He was nearly 71 when I was born however.) In the 1880 census his name is given as Felix W. as the order of names may or may not have been reversed after he was older. He was three at the time. The initials F.W. were consistent with that of Flavius William McCarty, a first cousin of his father, who lived nearby at the time he was born. Later in life, my Dad usually went by "W.F." when dealing with the public. One did not see the name written often by him but when he received correspondence from family members or friends, the name was most often spelled "Wiley", or "Wylie" or "Wyley" but when he did spell it, he used "Wyly". He had a cattle brand registered in Dickens County, Texas as WYLY. (Note the Italic slant to the brand.) Now then, his uncle in one case was John Marshall "Marsh" Wylie, the son of Samuel Wylie and Nancy Lee. His Uncle Marsh and Aunt Nancy (McCarty) Wylie lived near his parents when he was born. He had a cousin, born about three years before him, who was named James Wylie McCarty, although I have seen this man's middle name also spelled Wiley. James W. McCarty is buried at Hurst Ranch Cemetery in Hamilton County. Now then, James W. McCarty's father was John W. McCarty who was born in 1840 in Tippah County, Mississippi. John W. McCarty was known as "Uncle Bud" to my father. My Dad would tell stories about his "Uncle Bud" and he never called him anything else. It is believed that the middle name of "Uncle Bud" was either Wiley or Wylie which would predate any family connection with Uncle Marsh Wylie. Now "Uncle Bud" had an uncle named John W. McCarty (1805-1860) who he was likely named for thus the reason that he was known as Bud even as a boy. Chances are that this John W. McCarty who by the way was the father of Flavius McCarty-----also had the middle name Wiley/Wyly/ Wylie. Now then, my Dad's brother, Alvin McCarty, named his oldest boy Wylie Darwin McCarty. This nephew was born in 1890 and was killed in a flash flood near Sacramento in 1940. The California death records spell the name "Wylie". I suspect that he was named for Uncle Marsh Wylie. Now then, his son, W.D. McCarty Jr. was listed in the Madera, California, phone book as Wiley D. McCarty at the time of his mother's death in 1978. Go figure ?! Now then....being a pragmatist and a politician as my Dad was two term county commissioner and two term tax assessor-collector of Dickens County, he nearly always just used "W.F.". I suspect WYLY made a neater cattle brand than WYLIE or WILEY. He had the cattle brand registered long before he became a politician or he might have used WF. In short, I don't know why he was named as he never came to give an explanation to me. Erath County marriage records in the cursive writing of 1895 corrupted the name to "Willie" on his marriage license with Annie Fretwell. I don't know how it was spelled on the 1925 Erath license to my mother, Ollie Carr. Probably W.F.----he was older and wiser by then. Regards, Bill McCarty --part1_81985376.247b9542_boundary--