Biographical Sketch of Charles D. Boisseau, Johnson County, Missouri
Jackson Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

CHARLES D. BOISSEAU,

was born in Johnson county, Missouri, April 18, 1845.  He has always
lived in Johnson county, and is a farmer and stock raiser.  He was
married to Miss Jane Gilliland on January 13, 1867.  His wife is also a
native of Missouri.  By this union three children were born: Benjamin
W., Jessie and Mary.  At the commencement of the war of the rebellion,
he enlisted in company A, of the first Battalion of the 7th M.S.M., of
which Emery S. Foster was Major.  Mr. Benjamin W. Boisseau, the father
of the subject of this sketch, was born in Simpson county, Kentucky, in
1802.  He was married in 1828 to Miss Sarah A. Fuquey, a native of Logan
county, Kentucky.  The names of children by this union were as follows:
John, who died when two years of age, Mary A., Nancy C., Susan and
Judith.  Soon after his marriage he moved to Johnson county, Missouri
and settled near Columbus, the oldest post office in the county.  His
principal occupation while there was farming.  He then moved five miles
farther west, where he lived until his death.  Here his first wife died,
and he again married, this time, Miss Syble Duncan was the object of his
choice.  By this union their household was blessed with six children:
Sarah J., John Oscar, Charlie D., Lucy M., Daniel T. and Robert.  The
last dying in infancy, and John Oscar, when 17 years of age, in 1861.
He died in the spring of 1863, being 61 years of age.   Mrs. Boisseau,
the second, and mother of Charlie D., was born in 1809, in Virginia, and
moved with her parents to Kentucky, and lived there several years, then
came to Johnson county, Missouri, where she married Mr. Boisseau.  She
still lives in Johnson county, Jackson township, at the advanced age of
72 years.

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