Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Roth, Charles E. June 26, 1848 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 26, 2006, 9:16 am Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Centre Township p. 359 Charles E. Roth, the second son of Peter and Harriet Roth, was born in Wayne County, Ind., June 26, 1848. He learned the carpenter's trade of his father, at which he still works. He is a skillful workman, and has contracted and built some of the best houses in the township. He was married July 6, 1882, to Sallie T., daughter of William Reading, of Illinois. Mr. Roth's father was born in Bucks County, Pa., in 1821, and died in Wayne County in February, 1883. He came to Wayne County when a young man, and was married in 1846, to Harriet, daughter of John and Rebecca Hoover. She was born in Bucks County, Pa., June 7, 1826, and came to Wayne County with her parents when fifteen years of age. Her father died in Penhook in 1877, and her mother in 1880. Mr. Roth was a master mechanic, a skilled workman, and many of the houses in Wayne Township are monuments of his industry and ability. He was a member of the Odd Fellows' order. Mrs. Roth is still a resident of Penhook. She has had six children---Henry A., Charles E., Mary (died in infancy), John F., Dora R. and Ellen H. John F. was killed in the railroad shops in Richmond. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/roth277gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb