CHARLES MADISON

MADISON

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 17:44:48

CHARLES MADISON, another one of the pioneers of Adams county, took up his abode in Carl township in 1870. He is well known here, and mention of him is appropriate in this place.

Charles Madison was born in Hamilton county, Indiana, April 11, 1839, a son of John F. Madison, now in Pennsylvania in 1816. His mother, whose maiden name was Jane Roberts, died about twenty years ago. Young Madison was reared on a "Hoosier" farm and was early inured to hard work, learning to chop wood, plow and grub. At the age of sixteen he entered upon a three years' apprenticeship to the blacksmith trade at Whitestown, Boone county, Indiana, and at nineteen, having completed his term, he came west and located in Polk county, Iowa, where he lived one year. He then moved to Madison county, this state, and made his home near Winterset till 1870. That year he came to Adams county and bought forty acres of land from James Blackwell. Later he purchased eighty acres of wild land, which he brought under good cultivation, now having a fine farm of 120 acres. For twenty years he has worked at his trade and is a number one workman.

April 4, 1857, he was married in Boone county, Indiana, to Susan E. Good, a native of that place and a daughter of Isaac and Polly (Kenser) Good, the former born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Virginia. Isaac Good died in Bloomington, Illinois, at the age of seventy, and his wife passed away in Boone county, Indiana, aged forty years. To Mr. and Mrs. Madison nine children have been born, six of whom are living. Their names are as follows: Missouri Jane, Charles W., Samuel Jesse, Vincent Henry, and Arthur and Luther, twins. Their daughter, Mary McGinnes, who died at the age of thirty-one years, was a woman of high intellectual attainments and was before her marriage a successful teacher, loved and respected by all who knew her. She was a member of the Christian Church. She left one son, Charles Guy. David Francis, their second child, died at the age of two and a half years. An infant daughter lived only three days. Isaac Malvern, their fourth born, died when two years old.

Mr. Madison, his wife, daughter and son Charles are members of the Christian Church, and he is clerk of the church. Politically he is a Republican, however, holding independent views.