Taylor County WV Archives Biographies.....Roach, Charles Madison 1841 - 
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Author: George Richmond

Men of West Virginia
Biographical Publishing Company,
George Richmond, Pres.; C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas.
Chicago, ILL 1903

Volume I, Pages 180-181

CHARLES MADISON ROACH, who is engaged in a mercantile business at Grafton,
Taylor County, West Virginia, where he has been a resident for 36 years, and is
a well known and esteemed citizen, was born in 1841 in Culpeper County,
Virginia, and came with his parents to Webster, Virginia, now West Virginia, in
boyhood. Mr. Roach is a son of Page B. and Martha (Kelby) Roach, the former of
whom was born in Warrington, Fauquier County, Virginia, and died in 1869, at the
age of 65 years. He had followed an agricultural life and was a man worthy of
respect and esteem. In politics he was first a Whig and later a Republican. The
mother of our subject was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and died in 1872 at
the age of 67 years. Both she and her husband were members of the Baptist
Church. A family of 10 children was born to them, and eight of these were reared
to maturity. 

Mr. Roach was educated in the common schools of Taylor County, and reared on his
father's farm. Upon leaving the latter, he went on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
as a fireman, later went to braking and then for 12 years was conductor on a
freight train. In 1897 he left railroading and accepted the office of city
collector. In 1900 he became a merchant of Grafton, and is now engaged in a
prosperous business in that line. In politics Mr. Roach is a Republican, and in
1891 was elected mayor of West Grafton, and during 1897 and 1898, as referred to
above, was the efficient city collector. 

On August 3, 1865, Mr. Roach was married to Sarah E. Talbott, who was born in
Preston County, Virginia, now West Virginia, and who died December 28, 1874, in
her 29th year. The one daughter of this marriage, Ethel L., is an expert
bookkeeper. On September 2, 1878, Mr. Roach was married to Lucinda A. Stalnaker,
who was born in Beverly, Virginia, now West Virginia, in 1842. Mrs. Roach is a
devout member of the Methodist Church. Fraternally, Mr. Roach is a member of
Grafton Lodge, No. 31, I. O. O. F., and is past grand master of West Virginia,
and also belongs to Reno Post, No. 7, Grand Army of the Republic. 


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