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Charles John Woodhurst was born 1861 in Missouri to parents William (12) Woodhurst and his wife Mary Adaline Rogers. Cemetery records for North Platte, Nebraska give his date of birth as March 24th 1861.
The US 1870 Census finds him at age 9 living with his parents at North Platte township in Lincoln County, Nebraska.
The US 1880 Census finds him living with his parents as a student aged 19, at Pacific Junction, Mills County, Iowa, just a few weeks after his family had moved there from Nebraska.
Around 1882 he married Sarah Agnes (nee) Barnum and by the late 1880s they were living in Colorado, producing there the two children listed below. His wife appears to have been known familiarly as "Agnes".
In 1887 he was living at 1730, Pearl Street in Denver, Colorado and occupied as a rodman [Denver Directory, Vol. 2, p.126].
In April 1899 he, with about eleven others, entered into a leasing agreement in relation to land on the Wind River (Shoshone) Indian Reservation in Wyoming. This led subsequently to a series of court cases, eventually determined at appeal in 1930, long after his death, by the District Court of the US for Wyoming in the case "Clark et al versus Boysen et al".
The US 1900 Census finds Agnes and these two children living in Stont Street, Denver City. In that record Agnes is described as married but her husband is absent from the household. His birthplace - cited in the entries for the children - is given as Missouri.
He died on June 24th 1917. In his father's biography he is described as having been a civil engineer and as having died in Billings, Montana. According to the North Platte Cemetery records he was buried aged "56" on June 30th next to his father. His grave reference is Section AD, Lot 907, Space 3. These records also note that he had been residing in Silver Bow County, Montana.
The US 1920 Census finds his widow Agnes and daughter Inez Lucile living at Tolona (or Tolono) township in Champaign Co., Illinois, in the household of Ellen A. Jordan, the married sister of Agnes. Agnes was occupied as the housekeeper whilst Inez was unoccupied.
Ellen A. Jordan died a few months after this census, on April 12th 1920. Agnes was cited with other Jordan family members as parties to an ensuing case in the Champaign County Probate Court, Illinois [Case 5698 (1920)] concerning the estate papers of the deceased.
The US 1930 Census finds Agnes aged "69" living in Tolono with a widowed niece Mary G. "Enig" [actual surname uncertain] and having no occupation.
The US 1940 Census finds her living in Tolono with the same niece.
She died on May 22nd 1943. Her obituary was printed on page 2 of the May 23rd 1943 edition of The News-Gazette and gives her date of birth as June 17th 1860. She was buried at the Prairie View Cemetery, Tolono on May 24th.