BIRTH:
-1840 census gives age as 22, therefore b. 1818
-date of 2nd enlistment in military in 1845 gives age as 30, therefore b. 1815
-date of discharge from military in 1848 gives age also as 30, therefore b. 1818
-1850 census gives age as 32, therefore b. 1818
-marriage license in 1850 gives age as 32, therefore b. 1818
-1860 census gives age as 46, therefore b. 1814
-1870 census gives age as 56, therefore b. 1814
-1880 census gives age as 57, therefore b. 1823
-death record in 1882, age 79, therefore b. 1803
-gravestone (installed in 1900's) gives age as 69, therefore b. 1813.

MARRIAGE: Marriage abstract

DEATH: Death Certificate
Cemetery Record, Wayne Co. Cemeteries, G929.877788

BURIAL: Bethlehem Cemetery, Wayne Co., Iowa

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b+/-1818 Philadelphia, PA (death certificate and 50 census says New Jersey)
age 18-21 Seminole War 1836-39
22 Louisiana Census 1840
27 Mexican War 1845 April
30 discharged, Mississippi 1848 Nov
31 Farmington, IA 1849 Oct
32 m. Judith (Van Buren, IA) 1850 Feb
32 1850 census 1850 Sept
39 moved to Bethlehem, IA 1857
46 1860 census 1860 June
47 m. Mary 1865
56 1870 1870 July
56 Justice of Peace 1874
57 1880 census 1880 July
64 died 1882

1850 census lists birthplace as New Jersey

BIRTH:
-1840 census gives age as 22, therefore b. 1818
-date of 2nd enlistment in military in 1845 gives age as 30, therefore b. 1815
-date of discharge from military in 1848 gives age also as 30, therefore b. 1818
-1850 census gives age as 32, therefore b. 1818
-marriage license in 1850 gives age as 32, therefore b. 1818
-1860 census gives age as 46, therefore b. 1814
-1870 census gives age as 56, therefore b. 1814
-1880 census gives age as 57, therefore b. 1823
-death record in 1882, age 79, therefore b. 1803
-gravestone (installed in 1900's) gives age as 69, therefore b. 1813.

Know Ye, that William McCarty, a private of Captain Bob Majors, H. H. Sibley's Company (I) Second Regiment of Dragoons who was enlisted on the third day of April, 1845 to serve five years, is hereby honorably discharged from the Army of the United States, this tenth day of November 1848, at Gen'l Hospital, Camp Lawson, East Pascagoula, Miss. by reason of a Surgeon's Certificate of Pension.

Said William McCarty was born in Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania is 30 years of age, five feet, eleven inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, and by occupation, when enlisted, a laborer.

See notes for military enlistment

In Sept. 1837, the Secretary of War issued a requisition on Governor Boggs, of Missouri, for 600 volunteers for service in Florida against the Seminole Indians. The first regiment was chiefly raised in Boone County, Missouri.

Company I, 2nd Dragoons

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