This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLS, SHAIBLE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/1231.1461.1 Message Board Post: Does anyone connect with the following WELLS? From: 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--Lada. In politics Mr. W. is a Republican. He may have been my gr grandfather.