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There was a daughter of the marriage, Arena. She married Elisha McComas, and is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, WV. If I am not mistaken, this was at one time the Holderby family plot, and she was one of the first, if not the first burial. Elisha McComas was quite famous, and there is plentiful information about him. This Website is particularly helpful: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cabell/d160.html#P9998
Here is a transcript of an article in the Herald Advertiser, Huntington, WV 9-22-25:
Of History's Forest
by Eunice Proctor Perkins
...One may gather some idea of the dangers that the traders underwent on such voyages. Among those who came down the river to settle in the lower valley were two families of the name Lane.
Carr W. Lane went to Point Pleasant in the early settlement period. He was said to be from Pennsylvania. In deed book E., page 278, Mason county records, is found his will. It mentions the following children: Penelope Lewis, wife of William, Areana Lane; Elinder; Lucy; Eliza; Edwin; Presley, Westley, and Carr, Jr.
The above children of Carr W. Lane spent some of their time in Cabell county, several of them moving on to the extreme south.
Areana Lane, mentioned in the above will, married December 19, in Cabell county, James Holderby, who had come to Cabell from the eastern part of Virginia. He was the son of William Holderby, Reverend soldier who died "morning of the 10th of October, A. D., 1812."
In the old cemetery at Guyandotte, which has been reclaimed by patriotic societies, may be seen the grave of Areana Holderby, "born March 12, 1792--died April 24, 1826."
She was the mother of one child, Arena Holderby, born January 29, 1823, who married Elisha W. McComas, son of William McComas and Mildred Ward. Elisha W. McComas was captain of the 11th Virginia Infantry in the War with Mexico, serving throughout the war, member of the Virginia assembly and lieutenant governor of Virginia, with Governor Wise, 1855. Later was editor of the Chicago Times, delivering the welcome address to the Prince of Wales when he visited Chicago. He died march 11, 1890, aged 70 years.
The Huntington Advertiser, Sunday Morning, September 22, 1935
There is an oft repeated error here about the status of William Holderby. He was a Revolutionary War soldier, and the abbreviation has been repeatedly transcribed as "reverend."
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