Sketch of Charles Denney, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Charles Denney, of Germany, settled within the limits of the State
of Missouri while the country belonged to Spain.  He married Rachel
Clark, and they had eight children: Christine, Magdalene, Mary,
Adeline, Ann, Charles, John and Raphael.  Mr. Denney was an herb
doctor, and treated the simpler classes of diseases.  He was also
something of a dentist, and pulled teeth for people when they came 
to him for that purpose.  He lived on Dardenne Creek, where he built
a water mill, which supplied the people of the vicinity with meal and
flour for many years.  He finally grew tired of milling and erected a
distillery, but this did not pay so well, and he went back to his 
former occupation.  In the meantime his wife had lost her sight, but
could still recognize her old acquaintances by their voices.  She
could give the history of every person in the county, and it was 
quite interesting to hear her converse about early times in Missouri.
Denney finally sold his mill, and removed to the Fever River lead
mines, where he was unfortunate, and lost all his property.  He then
returned to Dardenne, and with the assistance of his old neighbors
re-purchased his mill.	

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