CONLEY: Of Harper District.
Jeremiah Conley and his wife, Delilah (Davis) Conley, whom he had married in Harrison County, came here in the year, 1859, and made their home in a good part of upper Flat Fork Valley, next that of Stephen Starcher. The Conleys continued to beat back the forest and buy more lands near or adjoining, until at one time they owned some five hundred acres, the half of which was in cleared fields. The children of Jeremiah and Delilah Conley whom we can name here, are Irven F., John Marshall, and Beni. F. Conley, and Esta M., who married John B. Wright, September 10, 1896, his age 27, her's 27.
Irven Fletcher Conley, born in the year 1859, married Annie, daughter of Joseph F. and Rosanna Caldwell, of the Caidwell place above the mouth of Flat Fork, on the 15th day of January, 1896; Irven F. and Annie C. have brought up two daughters, Gladys and Reva. Gladys married Dr. Cloyd E. Cox, a practicing physician now located in McDowell County, West Virginia; Reva became the wife of Orville Reed, and they now reside in Charleston, West Virginia. Irven F. yet owns a large part of the old home place.
John Marshall Conley, son of Jeremiah and Delilah Davis Conley, sold his possession here some fifteen years ago, 1910, or thereabout, and went to Boulder, Colorado, where he now resides.
Benjamin F. Conley, son of Jeremiah and Delilah (Davis) Conley, married Annie, daughter of William Riley, pioneer, of Flat Fork; Penjamin F. died about the year 1896, leaving surviving him nine children, all yet living though the lapse of time since the father's death is now thirty years; their names are James W., residing near Reedy; George Ferdinand, Elsie, wife of Louis 0. Steinbeck, of Charleston; John Isaac, who married Icy, a daughter of Dr. L. A. Rader, of Gandeeville; Robert, a farmer near Cincinnati; Stella, wife of Alonzo Bowyer, of Harper District; Okey Columbus, not yet married; Ord, married a daughter of Jacob Gandee; Coy Calvin, married Velma, daughter of John M. Looney, of Johnson Creek, Walton; and Hetty. wife of Rex Key, of Countsville, Harper District.
Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 481-482
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999
