Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Menaugh, Charles Robert 1846 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

CHARLES ROBERT MENAUGH.

   Among the citizens of a past generation in Carroll county who impressed their
personalities on the citizenship of Deer Creek township was the late Charles
Robert Menaugh, who, although he labored long and unceasingly for his own
personal advantage, never forgot his obligations to the public. He supported all
worthy public enterprises and took a most praiseworthy part in promoting all
useful public movements.

   Charles Robert Menaugh was born on October 15, 1846, in Delphi, Indiana, and
was the son of Thomas and Ellen (Manary) Menaugh, the former of whom was born in
Washington county, Indiana, on September 19, 1818, and who removed to Carroll
county at an early date. As a mere lad he was thrown upon his own resources and,
after mastering all the difficulties which beset his path, he was married, in
1843, to Ellen Manary, who died early in life leaving him four children, Charles
Robert, Alice, Li Hie and Jennie. Charles Robert, the subject of this sketch,
was the eldest; Alice, the wife of Joshua Bickell, lives in Terre Haute,
Indiana; her husband died in 1914. Rosella, who was born on January 18, 1851,
died on May 25, 1853. Lillie, the wife of Emsley Whistler, lives in San
Francisco. Jennie, the wife of William Whistler, lives in Hayward, Wisconsin.

   When he was eight years old, Charles Robert Menaugh removed to a farm of one
hundred and sixteen acres, inherited from his father, three miles south of
Delphi, where he resided until the time of, his death, which occurred in
January, 1912, when he was sixty-six years old.

   On September 14, 1878, Mr. Menaugh was married to Edna Gillam the daughter of
William and Susan (McCord) Gillam. Mrs. Menaugh is one of three children born to
her parents, Francis, Martha and Edna. Francis died at the age of nine years;
Martha is the wife of Frank Arnott, of Spokane, Washington; Edna is the widow of
Mr. Menaugh. William and Susan (McCord) Gillam, Mrs. Menaugh's parents, resided
in Carroll county. Her father was born, December 18, 1827, in Fountain county,
Indiana, and was brought to Carroll county at the age of four years and here
spent the remainder of his life. He was married in Carroll county on September
2, 1851, to Susan McCord; who was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, and who
came to Carroll county in 1838 with her parents. Mrs. Menaugh's father died on
May 1, 1904, and her mother on February 3, 1887.

   To the late Charles Robert and Edna (Gillam) Menaugh were born two sons,
Floyd E. and Charles Paul. Floyd E. was bom on May 16, 1880, and is now a
resident of Moran, Wyoming, where he is employed in the government reclamation
service. He was married on June 20, 1911, to Eva Cornelia Musson, the daughter
of William T. and Margaret E. Musson, of Sparta, Missouri. She died in 1914.
Charles Paul, born on July 12, 1882, married Cora Dobbins and he operates the
homestead farm.

   Mr. Menaugh was a stanch member of the Masonic lodge. For thirty-five years
Mrs. Menaugh has lived on the old homestead farm; she is a woman of most
gracious personality and is extremely popular in the neighborhood where she has
lived for so many years.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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