A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
NameAdeliza Elsie McCarty 
Birth15 Feb 1864, Cedar Twp, Boone Co, Missouri13
Death5 May 1925, Jefferson City, Cole Co, Missouri Age: 61
FatherJames William McCarty (1828-1904)
MotherDulcinia Gorton Martin (1834-1916)
Spouses
Birth23 Mar 1864, Cedar Twp, Boone Co, Missouri13
Death20 Jul 1926, Jefferson City, Cole Co, Missouri13 Age: 62
BurialNew Liberty Cemetery, Ashland, Boone Co, Missouri1698
FatherWilliam George Brown (1816-1879)
MotherMary Jane Martin (1824-1900)
ChildrenLouella Adeline (1888-1956)
Eugenia Perry (1893-1960)
Thomas Wells (1894-1933)
Julia Dovey (1895-1975)
Alpha Omega (1899-1984)
Delphia Oberia (1899-1959)
Notes for Adeliza Elsie McCarty
ADELIZA ELSIE McCARTY BROWN
After brainstorming about my maternal grandmother, I realized that I know very little about her. I know my mother was very devoted to her and talked about her often.
She was a schoolteacher which probably indicates that she was one of the best students in a rural school. The older students that were good “in books” as they stated at that time in history usually were used as teachers. Just before she died, she was at my mother’s house, and my dad would read to her. She enjoyed this, so no doubt she enjoyed learning.
My mother told the story about her parents selecting a name for her, which I enjoyed, since I am her namesake. Addie’s parents owned slaves. One slave had taken care of all the McCarty’s babies and thought she had earned the right to name this one. She wanted to name it Lizzie. Great Grandfather wanted to name her Elsie, and my great grandmother had her heart set on Addie. So they considered naming her Addie Lizzie Elsie. I have always felt lucky; I could have been named Lizzie. But her tombstone has the name is Adeline Elsie.
Addie was reared with several brothers and sisters. The McCartys were well thought of. Their ancestors are scattered in Boone and Callaway counties.
When she married she moved in with Toby’s family. My mother said Addie’s mother-in-law was mean to her.
I understand that after the twins were born her health broke. She was a diabetic, which affected her sight. She was heavy with thin hair that she pulled back in a bun at the back of her head. After my mother married, Grandma Brown stayed with different daughters. She was an invalid. The diabetic condition resulted in a sore that would not heal. I don’t know if she lost her leg, or if it just rotted away. She was at our house, when my mother became pregnant with me. They move her to Aunt Alpha’s. I always wondered how she was moved eight or nine miles in a wagon when she was in such bad condition. When my mother was the only one left at home, before she married, she went to Jefferson City to work in a shoe factory. She was worried about her mother, so she quit her job and went back home and took her of her.
When Addie became blind, they took her to sign up for the blind pension. The person that gave her the test sat a chair in her pathway, when she came to the chair she sat the chair aside and continued on her way. She didn’t get the pension. She was able to walk at that time. This incident shows that she was an honest person.
She quilted. I have a quilt that she quilted and pieced when she was blind. My mother would string the pieces in order on a thread for her so that the colors would be right. I am sure she was a person full of compassion and love. She lost her last child in a still birth. Lois. She worried about the creek that her children had to cross to go to a rural school.
I would have enjoyed talking to Grandma Brown about her experiences as a schoolteacher.
Elsie Baker Jones
Notes on the burial of Adeliza Elsie McCarty Brown
Posted 04 Oct 2019 by Kathryn Counts
Final Resting Place of Adeliza Elsie McCarty Brown: Liberty (New Liberty) Church, Primitive Baptist, Sec. 16, Town. 46, Range 12, 1-mile SW of Ashland, Cedar Township, Boone County, Missouri 1 Sources:
1.Title: Tombstone Transcriptions of Boone County, Missouri. Volume II. Author: Strader, Floyd H., comp. Publication: Columbia, MO: Privately Printed, 1982.
Note: New Liberty Church; Winterbower Cemetery, Oakland Cemetery, New Salem Cemetery. 73 pages, indexed. Repository: Note: LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah Media: Book Page: 4
After brainstorming about my maternal grandmother, I realized that I know very little about her. I know my mother was very devoted to her and talked about her often.
She was a schoolteacher which probably indicates that she was one of the best students in a rural school. The older students that were good “in books” as they stated at that time in history usually were used as teachers. Just before she died, she was at my mother’s house, and my dad would read to her. She enjoyed this, so no doubt she enjoyed learning.
My mother told the story about her parents selecting a name for her, which I enjoyed, since I am her namesake. Addie’s parents owned slaves. One slave had taken care of all the McCarty’s babies and thought she had earned the right to name this one. She wanted to name it Lizzie. Great Grandfather wanted to name her Elsie, and my great grandmother had her heart set on Addie. So they considered naming her Addie Lizzie Elsie. I have always felt lucky; I could have been named Lizzie. But her tombstone has the name is Adeline Elsie.
Addie was reared with several brothers and sisters. The McCartys were well thought of. Their ancestors are scattered in Boone and Callaway counties.
When she married she moved in with Toby’s family. My mother said Addie’s mother-in-law was mean to her.
I understand that after the twins were born her health broke. She was a diabetic, which affected her sight. She was heavy with thin hair that she pulled back in a bun at the back of her head. After my mother married, Grandma Brown stayed with different daughters. She was an invalid. The diabetic condition resulted in a sore that would not heal. I don’t know if she lost her leg, or if it just rotted away. She was at our house, when my mother became pregnant with me. They move her to Aunt Alpha’s. I always wondered how she was moved eight or nine miles in a wagon when she was in such bad condition. When my mother was the only one left at home, before she married, she went to Jefferson City to work in a shoe factory. She was worried about her mother, so she quit her job and went back home and took her of her.
When Addie became blind, they took her to sign up for the blind pension. The person that gave her the test sat a chair in her pathway, when she came to the chair she sat the chair aside and continued on her way. She didn’t get the pension. She was able to walk at that time. This incident shows that she was an honest person.
She quilted. I have a quilt that she quilted and pieced when she was blind. My mother would string the pieces in order on a thread for her so that the colors would be right. I am sure she was a person full of compassion and love. She lost her last child in a still birth. Lois. She worried about the creek that her children had to cross to go to a rural school.
I would have enjoyed talking to Grandma Brown about her experiences as a schoolteacher.
Elsie Baker Jones
Notes on the burial of Adeliza Elsie McCarty Brown
Posted 04 Oct 2019 by Kathryn Counts
Final Resting Place of Adeliza Elsie McCarty Brown: Liberty (New Liberty) Church, Primitive Baptist, Sec. 16, Town. 46, Range 12, 1-mile SW of Ashland, Cedar Township, Boone County, Missouri 1 Sources:
1.Title: Tombstone Transcriptions of Boone County, Missouri. Volume II. Author: Strader, Floyd H., comp. Publication: Columbia, MO: Privately Printed, 1982.
Note: New Liberty Church; Winterbower Cemetery, Oakland Cemetery, New Salem Cemetery. 73 pages, indexed. Repository: Note: LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah Media: Book Page: 4