Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameCharlotte Elizabeth Sockman
Birth2 Jul 1848, Ohio
Census1880, Wayne Twp, Knox Co, OH
Memoroll#1038, pg 26
Death9 Dec 1919, Knox Co, OH
BurialGreen Valley Cem, Mt Vernon, Knox Co, OH
Misc. Notes
Dau of Washington Sockman and Esther Porter.
Willie (5) and Bell (2) are living with their mother Elizabeth Scarbrough (31 OH) in Wayne Twp, next to two SOCKMAN families in 1880. This would indicate that they were divorced and that Charlotte was going by her middle name, Elizabeth.
Spouses
Birth13 Jan 1848, Liberty Twp, Knox Co, OH
Death12 Dec 1923, Knox Co, OH
BurialBloomfield Cem, Bloomfield, Morrow Co, OH
FatherJames Scarbrough Jr (1807-1896)
MotherElizabeth Breckenridge (1816-1904)
Misc. Notes
Carolyn Dauner said his first wife, Charlotte, was supposedly a first cousin. His two children by the first marriage: Dr. William W. Scarbrough and Belle Phillips (wife of Charles M.)
He is listed with his parents, age 34 in the 1880 census.
He married (2nd) Mary Wells on 30 Dec 1888 and lived in Knox Co, OH.
He is listed with his mother in 1900, as a day laborer, with his wife Mary and son Stanley (9).
Esther Calvin says he was caretaker for a large cemetery and lived in Bloomfield, Morrow Co, OH, where he is listed in 1910 as superintendent of the cemetery (62, OH) in South Bloomfield, with his wife Mary W. (48, PA) and son Stanley Wells Scarbrough (19, OH). They had been married 21 years, and it was his second marriage but her first.
Still living in Bloomfield in 1920 where he was a cemetery sexton (72, OH) with just his wife Mary W. (58, PA).
Marriage1873
Divorceabt 1879, Knox Co, OH
ChildrenWilliam Washington (1875-1948)
 Mary “Belle” (1878-1962)
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