Editing Langdon Cheves (section)

===Family===
Cheves met his wife, Mary Elizabeth Dulles, on a return trip from [[Montréal]]. She was a young Charleston resident at boarding school in Philadelphia, rooming with Cheves's law partner's sister-in-law. Cheves's party agreed to escort the two girls home to Charleston. They were engaged to be married by December 1805.{{sfn|Huff|1977|p=36}}

They were married on May 6, 1806, at the Dulles home in Charleston.{{sfn|Huff|1977|p=37}} The couple had fourteen children including proslavery essayist [[Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord|Louisa McCord]]. Their eldest son, Joseph, attended Yale before transferring to Harvard, where he was a member of the [[Porcellian Club]]. Joseph graduated in 1826 and read law in New York City. Alexander Cheves attended the [[United States Military Academy]] at West Point before studying and practicing law in Baltimore.{{sfn|Huff|1977|pp=133–34}} He later succumbed to [[alcoholism]] and became estranged from his father.

Mary died on April 5, 1836, at the age of forty-six.