Jacob Pyatt McCauley, (CSA)

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Jacob traveled to Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, in 1862 and enlisted in Company C. 17th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States of America. While recruiting behind enemy lines, he was arrested by Union troops in Roane County, Virginia, in October 1863 and was sent to Military Prison at Wheeling, Virginia (Atheneum Prison), then to Camp Chase at Columbus, Ohio, and then to Fort Delaware, Delaware. he was released after taking the Oath of Allegiance on June 20, 1865. Note: Jacob used the spelling McCally, McCalley, and McCauley at different times.

Jacob McCauley Jacob McCauley, the pioneering McCauley in the Orlando area, was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War and lost a hand during that conflict. Prior to acquiring the lands of W. M. Riffle in 1866, which consisted originally of 221 acres on what would later become McCauley Run, but was first known as the “First right fork of Oil Creek,” Jacob farmed in the Roanoke area. Jacob and his wife, the former Cynthia Rohrbough, were the parents of at least ten children: Cora who married Draper Riffle; John J. who died in infancy; Thomas Marion who married Mary Taggart; William who married Lucy Hinkle; Samuel who married Cecilia Murphy; Jonathan Hedges who married Minnie Taggart; Amos who married Anna Crawford; Idena who married John Solomon Heater; Luella who married Benjamin Hinkle; and Clara who died in infancy.

The Jacob McCauley lands at his death were divided between his children William, Amos, Luella, Hedge, and grand-daughter Eva, each of whom received approximately 65 acres on McCauley Run.

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