The Raleigh Herald Beckley, West Virginia Thursday June 23, 1910 OBITUARY Rebecca Jane Clay, daughter of Charles L. and Awry Clay, was born in Pike county, Kentucky, June 25, 1828. When but a baby her parents left their Kentucky home, and came to Wyoming county, W. Va., to make a new home in the Mountain State, and as this home was being built, one by one, sisters and brothers were added to the family until there were four boys and six girls. During this home life in Wyoming county, the subject of this sketch, then a little girl of twelve years, at a camp meeting held in their community, heard and heeded the call of Jesus Christ to "Follow Me" and then and there accepted and publicly confessed Him as her Savior, and united with the Methodists church and began the christian life. After living in Wyoming county some eighteen years, her parents sought a new home, coming into Raleigh county and locating at Brackenridge. While living there another sister and brother came into the home. Brackenridge was their home but four years when they moved to Sand Lick where they made their home until death, August 1, 1852. While living at Brackenridge, the subject of this sketch, Rebecca, the oldest daughter, was married to James Cantley, and they spent the first two years of their married life at the Cottle place, now better known as Saxon. While here their first child, Nettie J. was born. They next for a part of one year at what is now known as the old flats, and during their brief stay there they were blessed with the second baby, Nancy Jane. >From that place they removed to the present home, where Mrs. Cantley spent the rest of her days. Two other children came to live in this little family, Ellen and James. Ellen, however, after fours years, went to live with him, Him who said, "Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me." When Lincoln issued the call for 75,000 volunteers in 1861, James Cantley responded to that call, left his faithful wife and beloved little ones to go out never to return, for in the battle of Cross Keys, Shenandoah Valley, Va., he received a wound that soon proved fatal. He was taken to the Harrisburg hospital, and after ten days started for home, getting as far as Cumberland, Md., where his strength failed, and he departed this life and was buried at that place. Mrs. Cantley, now a widow with the three little ones, took up the battle of life, and its toils, and bravely met the responsibilities, doing as best she could - trusting always in Him to whom she had yielded her life as a child. Her friends and neighbors pay her the splendid tribute of calling her a good, kind christian woman. She departed this life "looking unto Jesus, the Beginner and Finisher of her faith," on May 26, 1910, aged 81 years, 11 months and 1 day, leaving to mourn their loss, two daughters, one son, sisters, brothers, twenty grand-children, thirty-one great-grand-children, and many other relatives as well as a great host of friends. G. A. Reaug.