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Charles E. Eades
Charles E. Eades was born August 28, 1853 in Muhlenberg County, and is the seventh of eight children born to Robert and Mary A. (Coleman) Eades, natives of Muhlenberg County, Ky., and North Carolina, respectively. Robert W. Eades was the son of Barnett Eades, who married Elizabeth Williams, natives of Virginia and of English origin. The mother of our subject was the daughter of Beverly Coleman, a native of North Carolina, and of Irish origin.
Charles E. was reared on the farm and educated at the common schools; at the age of eighteen he entered a general store at Greenville, as salesman. In 1877, he engaged in the grocery business, which he followed thirty months; then engaged in the clothng business eighteen months. In 1881, sold out and engaged in the gent's furnishing goods business in Owensboro, Ky., for over a year, when he returned to Greenville, and engaged in the clothing business which he still continues with good success.
He was married October 6, 1880, to Annie Howard, of Greenville, a native of Morgantown, Butler County and a daughter of J.C. Howard, of Greenville. Two children bless this union, Miriam and Robert H. Mrs. Eades is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Eades is a member of the F.&A.M. and I.O.O.F. and K. of P.
Source: Battle, J.H., W.H. Perrin, and G.C. Kniffen. Kentucky: A History of the State. Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, 1885. Page 902-903.
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