Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 942
CHARLES G. SCOFIELD

Charles G. SCOFIELD wended his to Harrison County during the month of October 1856, and settled at Six-Mile Grove, where he remained until 1861, when he and his two oldest sons, William and Moses, enlisted in Company A, Fifth Iowa Cavalry. Charles G., he of whom we write this biographical notice, wore the loyal blue for three years and was honorably discharged at Atlanta, GA, September 14, 1864.

Mr. SCOFIELD was born in Warren Couty, Ohio, February 22, 1816, and is the son of William and Lydia (ABBOTT) SCOFIELD, and when he was eight years of age, he was bereft of his father who died, and was then bound out to John JACOBY, of Greene County, Ohio, at whose place our subject remained until sixteen years of age. He then went to work by the month, following that until the time of his marriage, the date of which was September 17, 1840. He married Matilda FRASIER, daughter of Israel FRASIER, who was a native of Virginia, and was the mother of seven chidren -- William, Moses, Adelia, Stephen, Solomon, Diana, and George, who died aged nine months.

In November, 1860, our subject's wife died at Six-Mile Grove, and soon after he entered the army as above referred to. After the close of the war and on March 5, 1865, he married Mary A. RICHARDSON, widow of Marvin F. RICHARDSON, and settled on the site of his present (1891) home on section 18, Jefferson Township.

By his last marriage five children have been born -- Emma J., Charles Sherman, who died at the age of none months; Oda I., Myra C., and Katie.

Mr. SCOFIELD's sons, William and Moses, after coming out of the army, went to California in 1874, and now live in Colorado. In reviewing so much of this man's life it must now be recorded that since 1875, or for a period of sixteen years, the light of day has been shut out from the "windows of his soul," as he was stricken with blindness, as a result of his exposure and hardships while serving as a Union Soldier in the War of the Rebellion.

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