He never married. (SV-404 pg 450 & SV-1320)
1860 TN census: Aged 4, living in Johnson co., TN with parents and 3 siblings (SV-240 & SV-1338)
1870 Johnson co., TN census: Aged 14, living with grandmother, Uree Cress and probably father (SV-243)
1900 TN Census: Aged 49, boarder living in Johnson co. TN with birth date shown as May 1851, single. (SV-241 & SV-1338)
According to Tom Gentry of Mountain City, TN, Mary Evelyn Cress had a brother who moved west and made substantial amounts of oil money and left it to her when he died.
1910 TN census: Single, aged 58, boarder living with James W. Johnson in Johnson Co., TN. (SV-1338.5)
1920 TN census: Widowed, aged 66, boarder living in Johnson Co., TN with family of John K. Wilson. (SV-1338.5)
1926 Death record says he was single.