He was a farmer but later became a Methodist minister.
Residences & events:
1847 Piatt Co, IL. Charles, being the oldest child when his fatherdi ed, assumed the responsibility of the family, carrying through withhis p arents' plan to move the family to IL. Unfortunately, theirmother die d the next year and the family had to be split amongfriends
and relatives. Charles and his new bride kept two of the youngerboys, D aniel Felix and Joseph.
11/28/1850 West side of Sangamon Twp, Piatt Co, IL. Listed as Chasin t he census, he was 34, wife Rachel was 24 and little William was10 mont hs. Also living there were brothers"Phelix", 12, and Joseph,6. There w as a Mary Ann Van Gundy as head of the house in the OkawRiver Twp of t he same county.
1850 Monticello Twp, Piatt Co, IL, where Charles bought the first POB ox. That box is now in the Monticello museum.
4/16/1851 & 5/29/1851 He bought two parcels of land, a total of 80acr es, on the high ridge 2 miles north of Monticello. His residenceat th e time was listed as unknown.
That same year he was licensed by the Methodist Church, BloomingtonDis t, to preach and appointed to the Middletown Mission. Some of theplac es he preached were Dresden; Chillicothe, OH; Paris, MO; Attica,Warren C o, IN; and finally Harristown, IL, near Decatur.
After the death of his first wife, he remarried and had another familyb ut the children by the first wife were raised by her family.
He died suddenly of apoplexy.
There is a problem with his death date as 3 children were born after18 60.
