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From: Peggy Kopp <>
Subject: [MIJACKSO] Charles W. WELLS, b. 1830, VA
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:57:57 -0400


Following is a biography on my gr grandfather, Charles W. WELLS, placing
him in MI in 1851 and returning to MI after the Civil War.

He married Elizabeth (Lizzie) SHAIBLE (SCHIBBLE on the marriage record)
on Oct. 22, 1869 in Lodi, MI. They are shown on the 1880 Jackson Co.,
Jackson, MI census with daughter Loda, age 9.

He had a previous family with Sarah Ann GREGG/GRIEG/GRAGE (no marriage
record found yet). In 1856 their first child, Dema, was born in MN, in
1858 Edwin (my grandfather) was born in Cass Co., IL and Martha in 1860,
MO. This family is shown on the 1860 Dunklin Co., MO census.

If anyone is researching this line I would be glad to share information.
To date I've not found a death record for Charles, nor have I found
his parents, Nicholas and Elizabeth WELLS, on any census in OH. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Peggy Riggs Kopp

< History and Biography of Jackson County Michigan, Pub. in Chicago:
Inter-State Pub. Co., 1881 Pages 748 and 751
Charles WELLS, carriage-maker, was born in Berkeley county, Va.,
Sept. 4, 1830. When a small child his parents, Nicholas and Elizabeth
WELLS, emigrated to Hocking county, Ohio, in 1831, took up Government
land and made a farm, where he resided until his death, which occurred
in 1869. The subject of this sketch apprenticed to a man by the name of
Michael MOORE, and remained four years. He then worked as a "jour." and
traveled over the Western States. In 1849 he crossed the plains to
California, but his health failing, he returned to Ohio. In the spring
of 1851 he came to Ann Arbor and followed his trade a short time. In
1861 he enlisted in the 16th Ohio Vol. Cav., Co. K, and served three
years, was in all the engagements of the regiment up to the battle of
Gettysburg, where he was injured by a cannon ball coming so close to his
head that it knocked him down, and it was supposed a horse ran over him.
After the war he came back to Ann Arbor and remained there until 1878,
then came to Jackson and has remained since. He married Miss Elizabeth
SHAIBLE, a native of Germany; she was born in 1847. They have 1
child--Loda. In polities Mr. W. is a Republican.>




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