Parents Marriage
Name Martha C Purviance
Gender Female
Bond date 5 Oct 1838
Bond Place Cabarrus, North Carolina, USA
Spouse John Gingles
Spouse Gender Male
Event Type Bond
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Charles McCamey Gingles was born March 18, 1842 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina the son of John Gingles Jr. and Martha Clementine Purviance. He was first married to Elizabeth M. Bolin on February 17, 1873 and three children were born from this marriage: Harry Lee Gingles, Clara Clementine Gingles and Raymond Francis Gingles. After the death of his first wife, Charles Gingles remarried on January 9, 1879 to Mary Ella Cobb who was the daughter of Alexander Cobb and Eliza Baxter Harris. To this union were born eight more children: an unnamed infant son, Charles Robert Gingles, Alexander Cobb Gingles, Sallie Florene Gingles, Ephrium Ross Gingles, Henry Grady Gingles, Annie Pearl Gingles and Walter Erwin Gingles.

After the Civil War Charles Gingles made his living by farming and hauling freight to and from Jefferson, Texas. He became a prominent leader in Titus County and died February 6, 1918.

Obituary:

Mr. C.M. Gingles died in his home in Marshall Springs neighborhood, on Wednesday, Feb. 6 after an illness of forty-two days.

Mr. Gingles was born in North Carolina, in 1842. He came to Texas when 19 years old and at the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted and served for four years. After the war he returned to Titus county and settled on the place where he died. Deceased was a kind and good man and liked by every one. Mr. Gingles is survived by nine children, six boys and three girls.

The funeral took place Thursday afternoon at Green Hill cemetery with services conducted by Rev. W.E. Hathorn.