William married Harriet Sweet in La Porte County, Indiana 5 June 1849.
They had twelve children:
Nancy C. b. about 1851
Sarah A. 1852
George David. 1855
Hannah M. 1856
Charlotte E. 1857
William Abraham b. December, 1859
Harriet 1862
Martha 1863
John A. 1865
Andrew 1867
Ira Edwin b.
Sept. 1869
Unknown 12th child
William and Harriet were divorced sometime between the 1870 census and the 1880 census when Harriet states she is divorced. Harriet then remarried William W. Bugbee (Bugby) in La Porte County, Indiana on 11 May 1885.
Harriet is buried in Rolling Prairie Cemetery as are a few of the other McGarity kin.
Children of George David and Levina Havens McGarity:
Levina states
that she had 7 children and 4 are still living in 1910.
Lena Adeline b. Dec 7, 1879 and d. Apr 2, 1891 burial in Lows Cemetery,
this county.
Ruphus P., born 28 October 1885
Melvin, born 24 April 1896
William Lester b. 1900
William A. McGarity, married Anna Frances Hunt 28 August 1883
in Berrien County, MI
She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Hunt. Anna was born March 1864 in La Porte Co. and died 18 April 1936 in La Porte.
Children of Wm Abraham. and Anna Frances (Hunt) McGarity:
Blanche
Lillie B.
Margaret Elizabeth
Mary Alice
Estella Belle
Lucy Ethel
Gladis
Ira Edwin and Kathryn (Williams) McGarity m1.. La Porte Co., IN 27 March 1895
Kathryn later married Joseph Maxson in La Porte County on 17 July 1909. They had at least one child, a daughter.
Children by: Ira Edwin were:
Robert Elmer b. June 1898
Katherine Cecil b. March 1900
Dorothy
August
Margaret McGarity (daughter of Wm. and Anna) married Ide Carl
Bell, son of George and Maria DeWitt Bell
Children:
Ethelyn
George Lyndon
Andrew McGarity went to Illinois and lived in Cook County. He married Margaret A. Curran 4 June 1893 in Cook County, IL. He appears on census records on and after 1900 in Cook County, ILL
They had 1 child also named Margaret.
John A. McGarity son of William and Harriet m. Lucy Ludpher? 12 Dec 1894