The following biography has helped to develop a record of the life of my gr grandfather, Charles W. WELLS, and I post it with the hope that some other researcher might be able to add to it. He was a carriage maker by trade and traveled extensively. His first family was 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. 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. 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.>