Son of Moses & Lucy (Napier) McComas from Cabell County WV who migrated into Platte County MO in 1839. Sanders W. McComas had married 28 Jan 1834 in Cabell Co WV Laura Mary Heath, the daughter of Israel Heath and Elizabeth Blue who were friends and neighbors in Cabell Co WV. This was one of five marriages between the children of Moses McComas and those of Israel Heath. Laura Mary 'Laurie' Heath was born 1815 in Cabell County VA (now WV) and died circa 1847 most likely in childbirth or soon after childbirth as she left an infant. Sanders W. McComas born 20 Jan 1814 died 26 June 1876. He was 'the elder' Sanders W. McComas, son of Moses McComas and Lucy Napier from Cabell Co. WV, a brother to William Burke McComas. Her marriage bond had her listed as 'Laurie/Louara' Heath. Witness to the bond were her brother Rev. Stephen Preston Heath and Sanders McComas.

On the Sims index, in 1838 in Cabell Co WV, Sanders McComas owned 25 acres in Fall Creek before moving into Missouri.

Sanders W. McComas remarried in 1847 Nancy C. Boydston, the daughter of Thomas Boydston and Elizabeth Gregg from TN. Nancy C. Boydston was born 15 Oct 1813 in Cocke Co. TN. She herself was a widow at the time they married. She had first married 28 Aug 1834 in Clay Co MO Jessie McPike and had one child with him: William H. McPike. Sanders W. McComas was a very pro-Union man and had 'trouble' in Platte Co Missouri which caused he and 2nd wife Nancy C. (Boydston) (McPike) McComas to move in 1856, along with her brother Nathaniel Christian Boydston--to very early Jefferson Township, Jackson Co. MO. Nancy's son William H. McPike was of the southern persuasion and stayed behind in Platte Co and lived with his grandparents Thomas and Elizabeth Boydston. He served two terms for the Confederacy. Sanders W. McComas, it is believed moved to Kansas because of the 'free soil' vote to be taken up by Kansas on whether or not it would be a slave state. Nancy's brother Nathaniel C Boydston donated the land for the early Circleville Cemetery, Jackson Co KS where much of the family was buried. Sanders and Nancy McComas led a very full life in Jackson Co KS and Nancy became stepmother to the children from Laura Mary Heath. She and Sanders McComas went on to have many children of their own.

CHILDREN OF LAURA MARY HEATH AND SANDERS W. McCOMAS:
Benjamin J. McComas born 25 Apr 1835 Cabell Co. VA d. 12 Jan 1875 KS
David R. McComas born 14 Feb 1837 Cabell Co VA died 5 Apr 1867 KS
Israel McComas born 19 June 1839 Cabell Co VA died 12 May 1914 Circleville, Jackson Co KS
Chloe McComas born (?) 1840 d. 30 Aug 1903 Dallas Co TX as Chloe Wilson
(age varied every census but position in family did not.) Chloe married 1st 10 Sept 1873 in Louisville, Pottawatomie Co KS, James O'Daniel or O'Daniels b. 1813 (marriage cert said he was 60 and she 29!) She married 2nd 4 Dec 1878 in Louisville, KS James Wilson Jr. b. 22 Feb 1852 Collingwood, Simcoe, Clearwater, Canada. They moved to Dallas, TX by 1900.
Cynthia Hereford McComas born 6 Oct 1842 d. 29 Jan 1905 KS
Lucy A McComas born 23 July 1847 d. 1 Feb 1897

CHILDREN OF SANDERS W. McCOMAS AND SECOND WIFE Nancy C. Boydston:
Sarah Elizabeth McComas born 1 June 1850 Platte Co MO died 21 July 1906 KS
Thomas McComas born circa 1851 d. Sept 1886 KS
Louara A. McComas born circa 1855 d. 22 Apr 1881 KS
Nancy Burke McComas born 1857 d. 19 July 1936 KS

We have only one clue concerning Sanders W. McComas's first wife, Laura Mary Heath. Her grave was never found. Sanders W. McComas himself in later years, answered the question on the whereabouts of Laura Mary Heath: In a piece in the Holton Recorder, Thurs March 14, 1935 by Arthur G. Hurst, entitled "Early Cemetery is South of Circleville" we learn: "The first death in the community (of Circleville) was a Mrs. Brown, who lived on the place now occupied by Jim Cole. Sanders McComas picked out the cemetery and his brother-in-law Nat Boydston, gave the land. Mr. McComas' first wife's (that would be Laura Mary Heath) grave washed away in Missouri, hence I suppose he chose the hill overlooking what is now Circleville Jackson Co KS, and how appropriate it is."

From newspaper:
S. W. McComas, one of the old pioneer settlers of Jackson
county, died at his residence, near Circleville, Monday the 26th
inst., of consumption of the stomach, and was buried at Circleville,
by the Masonic Fraternity, on the 27th ... The Holton Recorder and
Express, June 29, 1876.

He was one of the early settlers of Kansas, having resided in
this county. about twenty years .... The Holton Recorder and Express,
July 6, 1876.

The Hay Free Press May 21, 1910 Sanders son Israel McComas stated they came to Kansas Aug 15, 1855.