Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Charles B. HARDEN ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Charles B. Harden died at his home in this city, Friday morning, Aug. 11, 1911, of troubles incident to old age, after a brief illness which only partly confined him to his bed. The funeral was held Monday at the M. E. church, the services being conducted by Rev. C. E. Coon and the interment being in Maple Hill cemetery. He was born in Verona, Oneida County New York, Oct. 6, 1819 and spent his early years in navigating canal boats on the famous Erie canal. In 1842 he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Sedgwick, to whom one child was born. He was called upon to lose his bride in a little over one year. In 1845, he maried Miss Celinda Sedgwick, and in 1855 came to Wisconsin and settled on a farm near Edgerton, where he continued to make his home for twenty-four years. Thirty-two years ago he came to Evansville and worked as a builder and carpenter until forced to retire on account of infirmities of age. He united with the Methodist church at the age of twenty and has been a faithful member and one of the most ardent workers. For more than nineteen years he was a class leader in the local church where he will be greatly missed. A man of genial disposition and kindly heart he enjoyed the respect and confidence of all who knew him, while the friends who have been closely associated with him thro the years more fully appreciate his worth. Mrs. Harden preceded him to the better land a little less than a year ago. Of a family of nine children, seven are living, Mrs. Marion Van Patten, Iowa City, Iowa, Mrs. Emma Van Patten, Mrs. M. P. Walton and Mrs. Lettie Lee, of this city, Orville Harden of Belvidere, Ill., George of Rockford, Ill., and Levi of Seattle, Wash. And he also leaves nineteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. August 17, 1911, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin