Osceola County MI Archives Biographies.....Carmell, Charles December 31, 1836 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers, Chicago

Charles Carmell, farmer, section 3, Sylvan Towsnhip, was born Dec. 31, 1836, 
in Marine City, St. Clair Co., Mich.  His 

father, Moses Carmell, was born in the Dominion of Canada, and descended from 
French ancestors.  He was a carpenter and 

joiner, and pursued his vocation at Marien City until his death in 1867.  
Julia (Cushway) Carmell, his mother, was born, 

married, and passed the entire course of her life at Marine City.  She was of 
French descent, and died about 1848, 

leaving seven children.  Two of her children's deaths preceded hers.

Mr. Carmell remained in the protecting care of his father until 17 years old.  
At that age he became a saw-mill 

assistant in the lumber mills of his native county and acquired superior skill 
in the position of sawyer.  He pursued 

that business during the winter seasons and through the summers of several 
years he was a sailor on the lakes, operating 

at first as a common seaman, and later as first mate.  In 1856 he went to 
Saginaw City, where he was a sawyer in the 

extensive lumber mills for some years.  Meanwhile he purchased a home in South 
Saginaw and resided there until 1872, 

working at his trade, and as foreman for a boom company.  He went thence to 
Lowell, Kent County, where he remained 11 

months, going from that place to Evart, Osceola County.  In the spring of 1877 
he purchased 40 acres in Sylvam Township, 

all in timber and situated on the line of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, 
where he established a permanent home, 

went vigorously to work to reclaim his land from its wild state, and he now 
has 20 acres under cultivation, with 

comfortable buildings.

Mr. Carmell was married April 24, 1859, in East Saginaw to Mary A. McNally.  
She was born Aug. 26, 1838, in County Down 

Ireland.  Her parents, Thomas and Mary A. (forley) McNally, came from Ireland 
to America in 1852, and located primarily 

in albany Co., N.Y., where the entire household were employed in the cotton 
factories situated at Cohoes.  After a stay 

there of four years, they came to Michigan and settled in the forest on the 
Flint River, 16 miles from East Saginaw, and 

at so early a period that it was still an unbroken wilderness and inhabited by 
Indians.  Later, the daughter went to 

East Saginaw, where she was soon after married.  Three children have been born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Carmell:  Lizzie (Mrs. 

Birdsall), Josephine and Willie; the latter died in infancy.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Osceola Co.

Chapman Brothers, Chicago 

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