ROANE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA 
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@aol.com
November 28, 1999
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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