Personal
McCarty was born in Wayne County, Mississippi and moved to Hattiesburg as a child.
In the sixth grade, her aunt (who had no children of her own) was hospitalized and later needed homecare, so McCarty quit school, never to return. She later became a washerwoman, like her grandmother, a trade she continued until arthritis forced her to quit in 1994.
McCarty's grandmother died in 1944, her mother in 1964, and her aunt in 1967. McCarty never married or had children.
McCarty died from cancer in 1999.
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