Charles Lester Rager and Charity L. Martin

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Husband Charles Lester Rager ^{1 2}

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           Born: 11 Nov 1873 - Enon Valley, Lawrence Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: James C. Rager (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Cynthia Murbarger (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 15 Oct 1902 3

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Wife Charity L. Martin ^{3 4}

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           Born: 24 Jun 1873 4
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           Died: 11 Mar 1922 2
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         Father: Algernon L. Martin (1844-      ) 4 5
         Mother: Martha E. Taylor (1844-1921) 6 7

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Children

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1 M Algernon Rager ²

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           Born: 7 Jun 1909 2
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2 F Cynthia Eleanor Rager ²

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           Born: 10 Nov 1912 2
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General Notes: Husband - Charles Lester Rager

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He spent his boyhood days in Enon Valley, attended the public schools there and at New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and the Piersoll Academy at West Bridgewater. At the age of thirteen years he struck out for himself, being employed at setting up machinery by the Plano Machine Company, for a couple of years. He then learned the trade of a boilermaker in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Allegheny, continuing there for five years. He then entered the railroad mail service, in the employ of the Government, and during the three years he served as such, worked in every state south of the Ohio River, except three. He next was employed three years as assistant postmaster of the village of Enon Valley, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, which he relinquished at the time he moved to a farm. This farm was settled by the Sproatts as early as 1789, being the first settled in that part of the county, and the log house originally built on the place stood until the summer of 1904, when it was torn down. The west branch of the Little Beaver passed through the place, giving an excellent water supply for stock, and it is otherwise well improved. He followed general farming and was very successful in that as in other business employments.
He was a Republican, and three times served as judge of elections. He was a member of the Republican County Committee, and was a very active worker for party success.

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 619.

2 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 37.

3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 620.

4 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 16.

5 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 952, 966.

6 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 460.

7 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 6.