Elisha W. McComas
The eldest son born to Judge William McComas and his wife Mildred in 1822, he received an education appropriate to his class.His brothers included William Wirt McComas (who fought with the Giles Artillery of the Confederate States Army), Judge Hamilton Calhoun McComas (who enlisted as a Lt. Col. for the Union in Illinois but resigned on February 6, 1863 and later served two terms as a judge in Monticello, Illinois as well as married U.S.[1] By 1850, this Elisha W. McComas probably[weasel words] owned slaves[citation needed] in Kanawha County.Cabell County had several related men sharing the same name, one of whom served as a private with the 3rd Regiment of West Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War.His father was a Cabell County delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 and voted against secession, though his brother William W. McComas would volunteer for the Confederate States Army and die in 1862, and another brother Hamilton Calhoun McComas would briefly fight for the Union Army before resigning his commission and moving to Fort Scott, Kansas, where Elisha W. McComas and his family also moved after the war.