Charles Augustus Koos and Lillian May Ashbaugh

---

---

Husband Charles Augustus Koos ¹

---

           Born: 17 Aug 1876 - Foxburg, Clarion Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

         Father: Philip Koos (1839-1877) 1
         Mother: Hannah Fredericka Everly (1845-      ) 1

---

       Marriage: 18 May 1898 2

---

---

Wife Lillian May Ashbaugh ²

---

           Born: 18 Dec 1876 - Beaver Twp, Clarion Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

         Father: Daniel Ashbaugh (1839-      ) 2
         Mother: Etta Steiner (      -      ) 2

---

---

Children

---

1 M Philip D. Koos ²

---

           Born: 29 Nov 1899 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

2 M Charles F. Koos ²

---

           Born: 15 Feb 1902 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

3 M [Unk] Koos ²

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

---

General Notes: Husband - Charles Augustus Koos

---

He was the son of a poor man, who died when Charles A. was but a year old. His mother again married and his early life was spent at Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania. When but a child of five years he began working in a glass factory, continuing for two years, earning in that time two hundred dollars. At the age of seven years he left home and lived with an old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Augustus Frederick, who lived east of Foxburg. They were kind to the boy and the little education he received in youth was during the seven years he lived with this old couple. When he was fourteen years of age he began learning the butcher's trade, working under his stepfather for two years. One of his brothers had established a drug store in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and for one year he worked with him. In 1896, being then twenty years of age, he located in Monterey, Pennsylvania, opening a meat market, which he sold out after operating it successfully one year. He then returned to Parkers Landing where he kept a retail meat market one year, then located in the same business in Foxburg, remaining for three years. For one year he was in the drug business in Franklin, Pennsylvania, then again for two years in the meat business in Foxburg. In 1967 he moved to St. Petersburg and operated a meat market there and one in Foxburg. He also had an interest in four oil leases, two of which operated seven wells each that were profitable producers. He wisely invested his profits in real estate, having holdings in Clarion, Venango and Butler counties. He was a Democrat in politics and served as councilman in St. Petersburg; was a member of the Modern Woodmen and belonged to the Lutheran church; his wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church.
He was hardy, strong and athletic, and in younger days was a famous football and baseball player, that being his chief recreation and pleasure. He was of such local repute as a baseball player that he attracted Major League scouts and had flattering offers to become a pro-fessional, but yielding to his mother's wishes, declined them all. As a football player he made his reputation with the "All Stars" of Franklin, Pennsylvania, and (under another name) with the Marietta (Ohio) College team. [GPHAV, 1023]

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1023.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1024.