History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 922-923, Vermont Township
Wm. McCarty, farmer, sec. 27; P. O., Vermont; was born in
Frederick Co., Va., near Winchester, in 1811. His father, John McC.,
was born in Frederick Co., Md., a farmer, and married Hannah Nevitt, of
Va., by whom he had 8 children. Wm., the eldest, settled in Belmont
Co., O., in an early day and followed farming; in 1838 he married
Susannah Derry, in Coshocton Co., daughter of Wm. Derry, of Va., and
had 11 children, only 5 of whom now survive, - Elizabeth, Sarah, Wm.
P., Isaac and David. This family resided in Mason Co., Ill., from 1844
to 1867, then moved to this tp.
