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- Second wife of James A. Pierce and the youngest daughter of the Reverend John W. Davis Carty and Catherine Kelly .One of a set of twins born 3 May 1833, her twin brother being Joseph Elliot Carty. Her father was a pioneer Baptist preacher who began his ministry in the historic Sinking Creek Church. Her mother was the daughter of Richard Kelly and Catherine Howell- Richard being one of Carter County's Revolutionary War veterans. James and Mary were married 27 July 1852 in Elizabethton. The marriage produced ten children : Joseph Hall , Loretta , William Carty , Elizabeth Ann , Stanton J. , Laura , Caroline Narcissus , John Franklin , Barbara Adeline and Virginia Cordelia Pierce , all born between 1854 and 1875.Mary was preceded in death by her husband, who passed away 29 Oct 1883 and is buried in the Holston plot in the Rogersville Methodist Cemetery.
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1833 - 1909 (75 years)
