CORDER:

John Corder was born in Barbour or Lewis County, western Virginia, 1821, son of Joseph and Jane Corder, grew up there and married Miss Rebecca Thompson; they came to Sand Creek and settled not far east of Sandyville, where Joseph A., the son, was born on July 4, 1854. At the same time or within a few months at least Rebecca died.

In the year 1856, for a second wife, John Corder, 35, married Miss Mary Roach, 26, daughter of William and Delilah (Carney) Roach of Reedy; they acquired a tract pf land on head waters of Elk Fork of Mill Creek about what is now the boundary line between Jackson and Roane Counties, and f~led the forest trees and made a home in which were born their following named five children: Charles, Edward, born November 16, 1859 (of City of Spencer later), Malinda ("Linnie"), born 1861; Eliza, married Albert Parsons of Spencer, and Delilah usually called "Lilah." The wife, Mary (Roach) Corder, died on November 5, 1868. On January 16, 1874, John Corder, for a third wife, married Mrs. Sarah Ann Chancey (nee Rhodes) at that time widow of Alexander Chancey, deceased, of Reedy. John Corder died in the month of December following. Of this marriage a daughter was born but we do not have her name; she was brought up by her mother or her half-sister, Mrs. Leroy Eagle, long a resident of Parkersburg.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 483-484
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999