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 STHE McCABTY FAMILY
STHB first of this family t6 came to Florida and to Tampa
was Mitchell McCarty, who was born in Rochester, New York,
Sin September, 1818. In consequence of a disagreement with
Shis father inrelation to the distribution of property he
Left home when quite young and came! south, settling at Mo-
Sbile, Alabama. There he became acquainted with Sliaabeth
Simmons, whom he married April 21, 1844.
 Mrs. McCarty was born in Savannah, Georgia, and spent
 some years of her girlhood in this section of Florida, her
 father, Rev. Daniel Simmons, a Baptist preacher, having at
 one time purchased a section of land from the United States
 government lying between where the towns of Seffner and Th-
 notosassa now stand and covering what was afterwards called
 "Simmons Hammock,"
 On account of Indian depredations, Mr. Simmons, who
 was a man of considerable wealth, and had made his property;
 valuable by the improvements that he had placed upon it,
 abandoned it and, with his family, fled to Mobile, Alabama.
 Here they became acquainted with Mitchell McCarty, then liva
 ing there, and at the time stated above, his daughter, EliZ-.
 abeth Ayliffe, was married to Mitchell McCarty.
 The McKay family was also at the same time living in
 Mobile, and in 1846 the three families of Simmons, McCarty
 and McKay took passage in the same steamer for Chassewiska,
 Florida. Only a few months after this the McKays left for
 Tampa, but the Simmonses and MeCartys remained in Hernando
 County till 1849, when the M'cCartys also removed to Tampa.
 Soon after reaching Tampa Mr. McCarty bought from Captain
 Leroy G. Lesley property situated on Washington street be-
 Stween Morgan and Marion. Here Mr. McCarty made his home
 and also erected a store building, where he engaged in the
 general merchandise business.
 He was a charter member of the first lodge of Odd Fe-
 lows organized in Tampa. Mr. MoCarty died at the canparative-
 ly early age of forty years, passing away in November, 1858
 leaving behind him his widow and three dAughters-Mary Jane
 SMargaret and Ada.
 Mrsq McCarty was an active and influential member of
 the First Baptist Church, and during her lifetime did mieh
 towards its support. She died February 21, 1869.
 Of the daughters of Mitchell and !lizabeth Ayliffe
 (Simmons) MoCarty, the eldest) Mary Jane, married John Angsp
 McKay, a san of James and Matilda (Cail) McKay, with whom
 they had come from Mobile to Florida. (See McKay family.)
 The second daughter, Margaret, married Hi W. Sherritt
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