Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. 
William Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

CHARLES MAYES, farmer; P.O. Arenzville; was born in England,
Nov. 5, 1836, and on attaining his majority, embarked for 
the United States in the fall of 1857, and after a three 
months' voyage, landed in New Orleans, La. Thence he went to 
Meredosia, Morgan County, Ill., and remained in that county 
seven years, engaged in farming on a rented farm. In 1867 he 
purchased a tract of land in Indian Creek Precinct, this 
county, where he has since pursued farming. The farm 
consists of eighty acres of prairie and ten of timber land, 
and is valued at forty dollars per acre. He married March 9, 
1859, Mary, daughter of William Sims, of Rutland, England, 
where she was born Nov. 23, 1838. By this union they have 
been blessed with seven children: Charles, born Sept. 2, 
1859, died in infancy; Anna E., July 26, 1861; Eliza Jane, 
July 17, 1864; Richard William, Sept. 4, 1865, died Sept. 
10, 1866; Charles William, Oct. 17, 1867, died March 27, 
1869; George M., Dec. 16, 1869, and James F., June 25, 1877. 
In August, 1861, Mr. Mayes enlisted in Company I, One 
Hundred and Fifteen Illinois Volunteers, and served until 
April, 1862, when he was discharged on account of injuries 
received at Louisville, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Mayes are members 
of McKendree M.E. Church, which is situated one and a half 
miles southwest of their residence; he is a Democrat.

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England LA Morgan-IL KY