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Caleb HEADLEY, M.D. has for nearly fifty years been a practicing physician. He
was born in Pennsylvania in 1808, and his parents Thomas and Sarah (Asher) Headley, are both deceased. Caleb
Headley has been twice married, his fist wife, Nancy Wright, a Pennsylvanian, left him eight children:
Elizabeth J., born June 2, 1829; Thomas J., November 23, 1831; Sarah A., December 8, 1833; Caleb S., March 30,
1838; George W., May 21, 1839; Benjamin F., May 31, 1841; Anthony, June 3, 1844; Elisha, born August 1, 1850.
Mr. Headley was again married in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, to Sarah A. Farley, and the children of this union
number six, born as follows: John T., April 20, 1867; Ida C., March 23, 1869: Caleb D., February 22, 1872;
William F., August 25, 1875; Margaret, March 28, 187~; Ballard C., April 14, 1880. Mrs. Headley was born in
Logan county, (now) West Virginia, May 26, 1849, and her parents, William and Elizabeth (Clark) Farley,
settled in Lincoln county in 1844. Caleb Headley came to Lincoln county in 1866, and is now a prosperous
farmer, owning 600 acres of good land on Fourteen-mile creek, a portion of which is heavily timbered with oak,
poplar and pine; coal and iron ore in abundance. There is a fine sulphur spring upon the land, on the creek
three miles from Guyan river, which has been. visited by people from many parts of the United States, and it
is pronounced of excellent medicinal quality by all. Dr. Headley was commissioner of revenue one term, and was
justice of the peace sixteen years in Wetzel county, West Virginia. He was in the late war, and ranked as
captain of a company. Dr. Headley was a member of the Methodist Church for forty years, but on coming to
Lincoln county, there was no church of that denomination, and he united with the Christian Church. His father
was also a physician for many years. Direct mail to Fourteen, Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Extracted from West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, a reprint of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Lincoln County, WV, Biographies List, 1884.