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- Charles and Betsey Straley had nine children, their names and sex are not known. Charles married Elizabeth McComas in Cabell Co. WV on July 16, 1818 andher age was given as 15 years old. The Census of 1820 lists two families, Isaac McComas and William McComas in Cabell County, WV.
Elizabeth may be the daughter of either. (1)
Charles' second wife, a Miss Warneck was married in IL and a son of this marriage was named Hugh. Charles later went to Texas. (2)
Charles' Death Record indicates that he was 54 years old at time death, born in Virginia and the cause was "sudden-unknown". (3)
(1) Marriage Register, # 1, page 15, Cabell Co., Huntington, WV
(2) Johnston, David Edmunds, A STORY OF THE MIDDLE NEW RIVER SETTLEMENTS
AND CONTIGIOUS TERRITORY, Huntington, WV, 1906, PP 456-458
(3) Jones McLane, Bobbie & Capitola B. Glazner, 1850 Arkansas Mortality
Schedule, Hot Springs, AR, published by authors, 1968, B 41.-
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