Eighth Generation

24. Charles David "Charlie" ARITY was born in April 1856 in Wisconsin.^{11,12,15,42,44,45} (He was listed as age 3 in the 1860 Census and as age 13 in 1870, indicating a birth year of 1856 or 1857. Jean Arity Lessor's research lists it as 1856. There are no dates on his gravestone.) He appeared in the census in 1860 in Jefferson Township, Jefferson County, WI.¹¹ He appeared in the census in 1870 in Jefferson Township, Jefferson County, WI.¹² He and his sister Ida were living with their mother and her second husband (listed as "Sayers" in the census).

(He cannot be located in the 1880 Census in Wisconsin.) Charlie appeared in the census in 1900 in Lincoln Township, Monroe County, WI.¹³ He was living in the household of Willard Goff and his family. He appeared in the census in 1920 in La Grange Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁸ He was living with his son Leeds and his family He died in 1924 at the age of 68.^15,46

From a "Reflections" article by a granddaughter, Jean Arity Lessor, in the Tomah Journal: "When I was a little girl, I had a grandpa--a grandpa with thin, whispy, almost white hair and a beard--a grandpa who sometimes smoked a plain, ordinary corncob pipe or maybe a meerscham one with a curved stem--a grandpa who would sit in his rocking chair and hold me on his lap while singing about Lil Liza Jane and the street cars in Baltimore--a grandpa who might be gone for two or three days visiting friends or cousins, and once when he came back he brought a big egg (a goose egg) that he cooked and shared with me--a grandpa who let me tag along to the melon patch where he selected a good one for us to eat, carried it in the bib of his overalls until we got to a shady 'sitting' spot by the road, pulled out his jackknife and cut the melon for us to enjoy right then and there.

Yes, I had a grandpa and one day he got sick and in a couple of weeks he was gone, and I didn't have Gramp anymore."

. Charlie was buried in 1924 in Lincoln Township, Monroe County, WI.^15,47 in the Lincoln-Peterson-Kirby Cemetery.

Charles David "Charlie" ARITY and Christina GRESCHEIMER were married on 26 March 1885 in Jefferson County, WI.^{15,16,17,44,48} Christina GRESCHEIMER was born on 22 August 1864 in Wunsiedel, Bayern (Bavaria) Province, Germany.^15,16,42,47 She died on 1 February 1891 at the age of 26 in Kirby, Lincoln Township, Monroe County, WI.^44,47,48,49

Obituary Notes: "The funeral of Mrs. Chas. Arity took place at the school house, on Tuesday, Feb. 3rd. There was a large attendance of sympathizing and sorrowing friends. She died on Sunday morning, Feb. 1st. Her death was very sudden and quite unexpected to many. She left three small boys, one only two weeks old, which we understand Mr. Wilney Goff and wife have taken as their own." She was buried on 3 February 1891 in Lincoln Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴⁹

Charles David "Charlie" ARITY and Christina GRESCHEIMER had the following children: