Stephen Teays. the youngest son..of Capt. Thomas, about 1795 or perhaps earlier, went to the west and located on his fathers land. Stephen Teays in the year 1796 was married to Miss Mary Carroll, in Kanawha, by the Rev. Jas. Johnson.
Miss Carroll was a niece of Catherine Carroll, who had married
Major William Morris, and settled at the mouth of Coal river, on
the lower side thereof and erected a two-story, double-log house on
the lands of his father. Stephen cleared up a farm and established a ferry and kept the weary travelers that desired to stay with him.
Stephen was born in IT 74, and died March 20, 1S23. Mary Carroll was from Maryland, and was of the same family of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, who signed the Declaration of Independence in such way
that there would be no mistake as to which of the Carroils it was- when King George offered the reward for the heads of the signers.
Mary Carroll was born in the year 17T7, and died January 2, 1834.
The children of Stephen and Mary Carroll Teays were:
(1) Katherin, born IT 98; married Henry Thomas in 1821. and
she died August 11, 1830.
(2) John, born 1800 ; died 181-3 in Missouri; never married.
(3) Mary, bom September 14, 1802; married John Capehart,
October £6, 1826. She died May 18, 1838. He died August 5, 1846.
(4.) Parthenia, born September 15, 1803; married Sam B. Wil�son, December 23, 1830. She died July 10. 1878.
(5) James T., born in 1805 or 6 ; married Elizabeth Everett, 1831.
Died in 1807 in Missouri,
(6) Elizabeth, bom December 25, 1809; married John Hansfard,
1828. Died, 1829.
(?) Martha, born 1811 : married Joe Capehart, 1822, Died, 1832
in Missouri.
(8) William, horn 1813; died 1818
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