Celia's parents were Silas Carney and Lucinda Margaret FISHER, and Pleasant's parents were William G. and Mary PERSINGER Smith.

Pleasant and Celia both were born in the Poca Dist. and died there also, being buried at Emma Chapel Putnam Co. near Liberty W.

Pleasant was a teacher and taught one term in Putnam Co. and three terms in Kanawha. After marriage he engaged in farming first on the Allen Left Branch, moved eight years later to his farm in Union Dist. which he greatly improved his farming. They raised their own stock and cattle and occasionally had some to put on the market.

The had eleven children:
Leni Leoti m- 1897 Kan. to Benjamin Vasco Gilmore.
Geneiva
Lawrence Barton m- Arnie Pearl Slater, daughter of William Prior and Josephine E. JONES Smith.
Clara Estella m- in 1909 to Virgil L. Pitchford, son of Charles and Marcella CLENDENIN Pitchford.
Howard Stanley had two marriages, Thresa M. Medley and Helen Logue
Virgil Oscar married Blossom ( ? )
Bertha Claudella
Ora Mae m- in 1915 Kan. to Myron V. Fisher, son of Mordica Van Fisher and Cora Isabelle JONES
Reginald Bryon m-Ester Bowles
Doyle Watson m-Ann Heming
Pleasant's line goes back to Robert McCoy Smith and Belinda GOOD (not Melinda) as I have picture of tombstone. Robert and Belinda coming from Botetourt Co. Va

Celia's line goes back to Thomas Carney and Mary PARSONS that were of the Ripley area.