Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2026 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== USGenNet Data Repository Notice: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ============================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ============================================================================= The Shelby Independent Saturday, 29 May, 1880 DOCT. C. C. WELLS, formerly of this place, died very suddenly in Greenwood township in this county, on Tuesday of this week. His age was 43 years. He had labored quite hard during the forenoon of the day he died, and after eating a hearty dinner laid down to rest. A noise was soon heard in his rooms, and upon going in there he was found on the floor, and only a slight struggle was noticed and he was dead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Shelby Independent Saturday, 5 June, 1880 CHARLES C. WELLS, born at Fort Ann, Washington county, N.Y., April 4th, 1837, died in Grant town- ship, Oceana county, Mich., May 25, 1880, aged 43 years. His boyhood was spent in New York near his birth place. About the year 1850, he removed to LaPorte, Ind., with his mother, brother and sis- ters. He remained there several years and spent his time in going to school, earning his own sup- port and helping his mother. He was remarkable for his industrious and studious habits. He attended a High school at Union Hill, Ind., before going west, here he commenced the study of book-keeping, and several of the higher branches. He taught school before leaving Indiana, and was engaged in teaching in southern Illinois, before and about the commencement of the rebellion. He also taught in White Side county, Ill., and was engaged in various kinds of employment at dif- ferent times to defray his expenses through col- lege; farming, clerking, commission business, &c. He attended school about eight years at the Western Union college, Fulton City, Ill. He took a medical and law coarse and was admitted to the bar in Osco- loosa, Iowa, on the 25th of October, 1864. He gradu- ated in book-keeping at the Commercial college, Chicago, Ill. He enlisted a company for the war and drilled them for service, of which he was a captain. He also patented a riding corn culti- vator, April 26, 1864. He led a very active and busy life; sometimes engaged in the practice of medicine, and sometimes the law. At one time manufacturing carriages and wagons. Fortune smiled and frowned by times upon him. He married Miss FRANCIS BAKER, of Buchanan, Mich., April 25th, 1867. In 1872 he came to Shelby, in the fall of 1878, removed to Grant township, and the following spring he was elected superintendent of schools, which office he held during the year. He held commissons of Notary Public from GOV. BAGLEY, also from GOV. CROSWELL. He was taken sick the first of November, 1879, and was a great sufferer up to the time of his death, which terminated in consumption. He was first attacked with Sciatic Neuralgia and Rheuma- tism. The pain which he endured no tongue can tell. He welcomed death as a messenger of peace and relief. ===============================================================================