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Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:13:49 EDT

This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it
just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not
researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these
families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional
mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this
book. I am typing the biographies from it.

Typed by Lora Radiches:



Other surnames mentioned in the biography of ETTA CHARLES are: Charles, Hill,
Saint, Anderson, Newby, Nixon, Arnold, Pritchard, Smith, Hunnicut, Symonds,
Bundy, White, Morris, Jackson, Puckett, Holt, Taylor,

ETTA Charles, M. D., has had a professional career that places her among the
distinguished women in the field of medicine in Indiana. She had a number of
years experience in general practice, but now limits her work almost entirely
to anesthesia and is anesthetist at St. John’s Hospital of the City of
Anderson, one of the leading institutions in this section of the state. Doctor Charles
was born in a log house on a farm near Jonesboro, Grant County, Indiana. Her
ancestors were of the sterling Quaker stock that had such a prominent part in
the settlement and development of Eastern Indiana. Many of the ancestral lines
run back into the early days of the Colonial period. Most of her ancestors
came to Indiana from the Carolinas. A genealogy of the Charles family in America
begins with Samuel Charles, who was a native of Yorkshire, England, and came
to America in Colonial times and settled in North Carolina. Dr. Etta Charles
is a daughter of Dr. Henry Charles, who was born on a farm, now included in the
City of Richmond, Indiana, August 9, 1822, and died July 17, 1884. He was a
son of Samuel and Sarah (Hill) Charles and a grandson of Samuel and Gulielma
(Saint) Charles, and great great grandson of Samuel and Abigail (Anderson)
Charles. Gulielma Saint was a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Newby) Saint
Abigail Anderson was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Nixon) Anderson and a
granddaughter of John and Jane (Arnold) Anderson. Sarah Hill, the paternal
grandmother of Dr. Etta Charles, was a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Pritchard) Hill,
granddaughter of William and Sarah (Smith) Hill, and great-granddaughter of
Aaron and Margaret (Hunnicut) Hill. Sarah Smith was a daughter of John Smith.
Sarah Pritchard was a daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Symonds) Pritchard. Sarah
Symonds was a daughter of Thomas and Ann (Bundy) Symonds, and granddaughter of
John and Demaris (White) Symonds, and great-grand-daughter of Thomas and Rebecca
(White) Symonds. Demaris White was a daughter of Henry and Demaris White. Ann
Bundy was a daughter of Caleb and Jane (Morris) Bundy. All of these names are
honored ones in early Indiana and Carolina records. Samuel Charles came to
Eastern Indiana at a time when it was possible to secure Government land at
prices averaging $1.25 an acre. The land he secured and made into a farm has since
been incorporated into the City of Richmond and part of it is now the Glenn
Miller Park. On his farm he built one of the early brick houses and was a man
of substantial prosperity and fine character. He and his wife lived there until
they died at a good old age. Dr. Henry Charles attended rural schools and was
a student at the Carey Academy at Cincinnati, a school taught by the brother
of America’s best-loved poetesses, Phoebe and Alice Carey. After returning to
Wayne County he taught school, and began the study of medicine in the office
of Dr. William Lomax at Marion. In 1872 he was graduated from the Indiana
Medical College and began his practice in Grant County, locating in the country
near Jonesboro. He was a fine type of the old time country physician, and his
practice extended for miles in all directions. He rode horseback, carrying his
medicine in a saddlebag. He continued the heavy work of his professional routine
until his death. He was honored with the office of president of the Grant
County Medical Society. He was a birthright Quaker and he reared his own children
in that faith. Dr. Henry Charles married Olive Ann Jackson, who was born in
Wayne County, daughter of Elijah and Anna (Puckett) Jackson, Anna Puckett being
a daughter of Isom and Elizabeth (Holt) Puckett. Isom Puckett was a son of
Thomas and Mary (Taylor) Puckett, and Thomas Puckett was a son of Isom and
Martha Puckett. Mary Taylor was a daughter of Daniel and Betsy Taylor. The
Jacksons, Pucketts, Taylors, as well as the Charles Newby families, were all from
North Carolina, coming from Randolph County, a seat of the Quaker colonies in that
state, and were pioneers of Wayne County, Indiana. Dr. Henry Charles and wife
had a large family of children: Sarah Ann, Samuel Rhoades, John H., William
H., Nina J., Mary Alice, Henrietta (always known as Etta, the subject of this
sketch), Olive Ann, Laura Ellen and Gulielma. Dr. Etta Charles’ twin sister,
Olive Ann, is also a physician and is practicing in Paragould, Arkansas. Dr.
Etta Charles attended public schools, completing her early education at
Fairmount. She felt a serious call to a professional career and determined that her
life work should be the practice of medicine. She began the study in the Woman’s
Medical College at St. Louis, where she was graduated with the M.D. degree.
She first practiced at Summitville in Madison County, Indiana, and the success
she had there caused her to seek a larger field and in 1918 she removed to
Anderson. Here she carried on a general practice for several years, after which
she specialized in anesthesia, completing her special training in the famous
Lakeside Hospital at Cleveland, Ohio. For the past ten years she has been in
charge of anesthesia and the chief anesthetist at St. John’s Hospital in Anderson
and is a member of the teaching staff. Doctor Charles has taken post graduate
work in general medicine at the Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital,
Chicago, has also done a great deal of special laboratory investigation, and has
completed courses in physical diagnosis of heart and lungs in the New York
Post Graduate Medical School. That she enjoys a very high place in her profession
is proved by the fact that the Madison County Society elected her to the
offices of secretary and president. She is a member of the Indiana State and
American Medical Associations, the International Anesthesia Research Society.
Doctor Charles is a woman of thorough culture and many interests outside her chosen
line of work. She is a member of the Anderson Art Club, is president of the
Anderson Altrusa Club, is an honorary member of the Priscilla Club of
Summitville, and is an honorary member of the Riley Club of Alexandria, Indiana.

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