Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Ensign, Charles H. 1920
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Payette Enterprise 12-23-1920
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, December 23, 1920

PROMINENT CITIZENS CALLED

CHARLES H. ENSIGN

Last Monday, December 20th we carried to the last resting place the remains of 
a man who has helped to make very much of the city of Payette.

Charles H. Ensign came here from Cando, North Dakota, in 1900, and since that 
time he and his wife, Mrs. Adeline Rose (English) have maintained a home, and 
helped sustain schools, and churches for their five children: Ethel Lisle (Now 
Mrs. A. J. Hansel); Leslie English, (Died Sept. 25th, 1917); Claude Frederic, 
(who got three days out toward France); Vivian Juanita; Hazel Bell, (now Mrs. 
Clarence C. Larson), all of whom are well and favorably known by Payette 
citizens universally.

Mr. Ensign was born in South Warsaw, New York, December 1st, 1851. At the age 
of seven he was brot by his parents to Wisconsin, and when he was a man of 35, 
he came to North Dakota, where he found his wife, and where they lived 
fourteen years and ? the part of a trusted citizen, county townsman, School 
Commissioner, Deputy County Auditor, Deputy County Clerk, Post Master and vice 
president of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Society. Since coming to Payette he 
has been a Contractor and Builder, and his hand print is on many of the best 
houses in our city.

One thing he has left as a remembrance that is duplicated in but few cases. He 
has preserved the line of his ancestry and posterity from 24 years after the 
landing of the Pilgrim Fathers to the birth of Frederic Hansel (of Fruitland) 
the last grandson, born July 9, 1919.

Mr. Ensign's death was a surprise and shock to most of us. We knew he had not 
been rugged for several months, but when his death sickness seized him, it 
progressed so rapidly that we could scarcely believe the word "he is dead." 
The funeral service was at the Presbyterian church conducted by the pastor, 
and completed at the cemetery by the Modern Woodmen of America, in which he 
held a membership, as well as in the Order of Yeomen. 

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