Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

CHARLES EAVES was born January 20, 1825, at his father's home,
nine miles west of Greenville, Ky.  His father was John S. Eaves,
who was born in Virginia, in 1783; removed to Kentucky in 1805;
was a farmer; a man of sterling integrity, thrifty,  intelligent,
sagacious; serving his county as justice of the peace, as
sherriff, and twice as representative in the legislature; dying
at the age of eighty-five, honored and respected by all who knew
him.  His mother, Lurena Eaves, nee Ingram, was remarkable for
domesticity and admirable household ways, for hospitality
dispensed without ostentation, yet with a heartsome welcome, so
that no one ever visited the house who did not wish to repeat or
prolong the visit.  Charles, the subject of this sketch, the
youngest of five sons (he had three sisters), was educated
chiefly at home.  In early boyhood he became a voracious reader.
He gathered books and spun his own web of knowledge.  On his
father's farm, his habit was to read half the night, after
working on the farm all day.  At the age of eighteen he took up
the study of law on the farm, reading Blackstone, Kent, Story,
Chitty, Steven, Starkie, Greenleaf, and numerous other text
books, and, after three years' reading, obtained license to
practice law.  He was admitted to the Greenville bar in
September, 1846.  Since then he has devoted his life to the study
and practice of the law, and to a pretty thorough study of
literature.  He is now a ripe, thorough lawyer, ranking high in
his profession.  His knowledge is encyclopedic.  As a pleader, he
is skillful, accurate, thorough; as a speaker, never rhetorical,
but plain, direct, compact and clear; always fair and honorable
in the conduct of a case, and generally successful.  If eloquence
he has, it is the eloquence of conviction and clearness.  He wins
his cases by careful preparation, clearness of statement and
fairness of argument.  He served his county (Muhlenburgh [sic]) one year
as county attorney; one year as school commissioner, and one term
as representative in the legislature.  In 1865, he removed to
Henderson, Ky., and after a residence there of twelve years,
returned to Greenville, where he now resides in his quiet
tree-embowered suburban home.  At Henderson he was city attorney
three years.  The office was unsought, and he held it until he
resigned it.  From having frequently presided as special judge in
the circuit courts, he is generally known as Judge Eaves.  Not
old at sixty; six feet high, and, though not obese, weighing 200
pounds, healthy and strong, with a memory like a chronicle, with
a love of books unabated - opening a book with a swift glance
whether it has a message for him - reading a new law book with as
much zest as a novel, drinking its meaning up as a sponge absorbs
water - Judge Eaves is likely to survive the present century as
an active member of this profession, honored and respected by the
bench and the bar, as well as by the people, and after his death,
his ghost may possibly be seen by his confreres about the
purlieus of the courts, with a law book or a bundle of papers
under its arm.  Judge Eaves married, March 24, 1852, at
Greenville, Ky., Miss Martha G. Beach, daughter of Rufus and
Rhoda Beach, who was born at Rochester, N.Y.  Her maternal
grandmother, whose maiden name was Olive Ann Stoddard, was a
descendant of Anthony Stoddard, who came to Massachusetts Colony
from England in 1638, among whose descendants - President
Edwards, and his grandson, Aaron Burr, of a generation passed
away, and Gen. W. T. Sherman and John Sherman of the present day,
may be named.  Judge Eaves and his wife are members of the
Protestant Episcopal Church.  They have four children.  Judge
Eaves is a member of the I.O.O.F.

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