Individual Details

Census

John Sarten, [Certen?] age 24 born Ohio,
Matilda age 18 born Ohio,
William age 1 born Ohio
Charles Gahene age 30 married within year, cooper born Pennsylvania
Mary age 20 born Ohio

Marriage

Name Charles Goheen
Spouse's Name Mary Certain
Event Date 04 Jul 1850
Event Place Hamilton, Ohio

Census

5 members of household

Census

Charles Gohein age 41, cooper, real estate $600, personal $250, born Pennsylvania
Mary age 22 born Ohio
Lydia age 15 born Pennsylvania
Sarah age 7 born Illinois
Joseph age 5 born Illinois
John N age 3 born Illinois
Charles age 1 born Illinois

Military

enlisted in Illinois Regiment

Census

Charles Gohee age 50, Cooper, born Pennsylvania
Mary age 38, born Ohio
Sarah age 16 born Illinois
Joe age 14 born Illinois
Willie age 3 born Illinois
Lydia Allen age 24 male? born Illinois [ actually the daughter by the first marriage. widow of Fletcher Allen]

Miscellaneous

Charles Besneth Goheen, father of William L., was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1822. He learned the trade of cooper, followed it in Bucks County, where he married his first wife, and in young manhood moved to Cincinnati, working at his trade in that city, and finally to Whitehall, Illinois, where he spent the rest of his life and where he died in 1872. His wife was visiting at Moweaqua when their son William L. was born. Charles B. Goheen enlisted in 1861 in an Illinois regiment, and was on active duty practically from the beginning to the end of that great war. Politically he was a democrat, was a member of the Methodist Church, the Masonic fraternity and the Sous of Temperance. By his first marriage he had one daughter Lydia. She is now living at Lambertville, New Jersey. Her first husband was Fletcher Allen, who died at Whitehall, Illinois, but had previously been a farmer in Kansas. The second husband of Lydia was George Coryell, who was a contractor and builder and died at Lambertville, New Jersey. Charles B. Gohsen married for his second wife Mary Certin. They were married at Cincinnati. She was born in Warren County, Ohio, October 10, 1839, and is now living at St. Louis, Missouri. Her two oldest children were Sarah Caroline and Joseph Stockton. Sarah C., living at Shelbyville, Illinois, is the widow of George W. Smith, a farmer and merchant who died at Shelbyville in 1917. Joseph Stockton was a printer by trade and died in Chicago in 1909. After Joseph S. six children were born, all of whom died young. The ninth and youngest of the family and the only surviving son of his father is William L.