From "Genealogy Trails", Giles County, Virginia (edited slightly): [1]
Judge David McComas was born in 1792 in Giles County, Virginia, the son of Elisha McComas & Anne French. He married his first cousin, Cynthia French. Her father, David French, and his mother were brother and sister.
David McComas was appointed Judge of the General Court of the State of Virginia on January 8, 1844 and was Judge of the 18th Circuit Court which included Cabell County. He served until 1851 and was reappointed to serve the unexpired term of Judge George W. Summers who resigned. That term expired in 1861.
He was full of humor, good natured and was a distinguished judge. He was a learned man, ever held in high esteem, and acted as a judge of correct principle.
He and his wife went to Cabell County, West Virginia to visit his relations and made a visit to them all, except one unfortunate brother. He told his wife that they must go and see this brother and she inquired whether he was not at the poor-house. "Yes," said the Judge, "but there is no difference between him and myself; he is on the county and I am on the state."
It has been said that he made one of the first outright secessionist speeches in Virginia while he was in the state senate.
David McComas spent his declining days in Giles County, Virginia, where he died in 1863. He was buried in the Mason French Cemetery in Pearisburg, Giles County, Virginia.
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