Did Josiah really have a 1st wife named Mary V. and a 2nd wife named Nancy V?
SV-417 is a transcription of birth records directly from Smyth co., VA courthouse
books and those records show Eliza J. born 1858 to Josiah & Mary V. Cress but they show John L. Cress born in 1854 to Josiah & Nancy V. Cress.
Not listed on 1880 VA Soundex census. (SV-314)