Located at the intersection of McCarty Church Road and Hwy. 11-E, Jonesborough, Tennessee.<\/p>\n
GPS location:\u00a0 36.17.31N\u00a0 82.3051W<\/p>\n
In 1821 Philip McCardle (whose granddaughter, Eliza, married Andrew Johnson, future President of the United States) deeded one acre of ground to Henry Ruble, Isaac Hair, John G. Ruble, and Robert Paine, trustees, to be used for a Methodist Episcopal church and cemetery; subsequently a log structure was built on the site. The log church building was also used as a school for many years. Originally, the church was known as McCardle\u2019s Meeting House, but over the years the name became \u201cMcCarty.\u201d In 1866, a frame church building was erected. During the early years, ministers held services at the church on the first Sunday of each month. Trustees of McCarty Methodist Church in the late 1890\u2019s were William R. Murr, George W. Murr, John Cloyd, L.W. Simpson, Aaron Croyle and Charley Stayer. Surnames found on the church roll during the 1880\u2019s and 1890\u2019s include: Armentrout, Brown, Moore, Marsh, Ling, Longmire, Long, Lovegrove, Jones Croyle, Cloyd, Miller, Murr, Patton, Stayer, Simpson, Rogers, Pritchard, Mongold, Collins, Self and Simmerman.<\/span><\/p>\n Reference: History of Washington County Tennessee 1988<\/i>, by the Watauga Association, p.80.<\/span><\/p>\n In front of the church is a large monument with the following inscription:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n McCARDLE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n THE BIRTHPLACE OF<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n ELIZA McCARDLE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n 1810 \u2013 1876<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n WIFE OF<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n PRESIDENT<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n ANDREW JOHNSON<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n PHILLIP McCARDLE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n FAMILY GAVE THE LAND<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n FOR THE CHURCH<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n AND CEMETERY 1821<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n MARKER PRESENTED BY<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n McCARTY UNITED METHODIST CH.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n LEESBURG RURITAN CLUB<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n SARAH HAWKINS CHAPTER OF DAR<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n 1976<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Cemetery Old Section <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Cemetery New Section<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Unmarked Graves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Return to Index<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Located at the intersection of McCarty Church Road and Hwy. 11-E, Jonesborough, Tennessee. GPS location:\u00a0 36.17.31N\u00a0 82.3051W In 1821 Philip McCardle (whose granddaughter, Eliza, married Andrew Johnson, future President of Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":2863,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5572","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7829,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5572\/revisions\/7829"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}