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Son of Parris Witcher Wagner, 1856-1953 & Patria Ann Perdue 1856- 1943

Known as "Boss" or "C. M." Wagner by all of the kin at Mudfork/Falls Mills, Tazewell Co., VA.

FHC Film #0034214 Film, Mormon Family History Center. 1998-1999, Tucson, AZ
Marriage, Page 185 # 221
Tazewell Co VA, 25 Sep 1907
C. M. Wagner 24 single b. Taz Co VA s/o P. W. & Patria Wagner.
Lottie L.Tabor* 24 single b. Taz Co VA d/o E. W. & Octia (sic) Tabor.
Married by E. L. Addington.

* Nancy Gail (Tabor) Smothers has a Bluefield Daily Teleghraph clipping that gave her name as Charlotte "Lottie" Tiller (Tabor) Wagner. (Per Karen EAGLE Moman: Yes, that type of error happens in various forms...especially in small towns as people don't refer to records as they think they know everything by heart. They most likely had Octavia Zane Tiller (wife of Elgin Whitley Tabor and mother of this Margaret Lavania Tabor, ) mixed up with the daughter, Charlotte Lavania Tabor.

There are also many family history compilers that get the TWO Margaret Lavania Tabor's mixed-up.
1. Margaret Lavania Tabor, 1846-1921 -daughter of Richard Adam Tabor & Mildred Permelia Shrader. THis Margaret Lavenia Tabor married Phillip Kinzer.

2. Margaret Lavenia/Levenia/Louvenia Tabor, 1866-1945 married Adam Stafford Wagner, 1864-1959

Tyuped from microfiche and annotated by Karen EAGLE moman
"Clinch Valley News,"
Friday, April 20, 1906,
Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA
FALLS MILLS

MISS LETTIE TABOR (sic) , of Upper Mud Fork, was in the village Friday afternoon.
[It is my opinion that this should have been Lottie Tabor, who was Charlotte Lavinia ‘Lottie' Tabor, b. Elgin Whitley Tabor & Octavia Zane Tiller. Lottie Tabor married Charles Mc Clelland Wagner, Sr., in 1907 who was the s/o Paris Witcher Wagner & Patria Ann Perdue].

1910 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS
Dist 0096, Visit 0121
CHARLES WAGOMER (sic), 27, b. VA
.....Lottie L., ..... (B. 1908)............24, wife, b. VA
.....Edwin E., no age posted on web, son (b. 1908)

1920 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS
# 99 Falls Mills sec of Clearfork Dist
CHARLES M. WAGNER, 37, farming, he and his parents b.VA
.....Lottie L. .................35, wife, she and her parents b. VA
.....Edwin E. ................11 son (All children b. VA)
.....Alma Z. ...................9 dau
.....Dupuy M. ................7 son
.....CHARLES M.............. 8/12 son= 8 months

1930 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS
# 686, Clearfork Dist.,
CHARLES M. WAGNER, 47, he and parents b. VA, married at 25, Commissioner
Lottie L., ....................44, wife, she and parents b. VA, married at 22
Alma Z., .....................19, b. dau., b. VA,
Dupey M., ...................17, son. b. VA
Charles, M., Jr., ...........11, son. b. VA.,
Eunice M.,................... 2, dau b. VA
In 1930: Living near # 685 James Robert Dudley 58 & Carra W. (French) Dudley, 53 and five children. At # 687 lived William T (Tracie) Bailey 28, and his wife, Viola M. (Mae) (Chandler), 25 and their two children
Per Hettie Marie (Shrader) Eagle, b. 1918, via U. S. Mail letter on January 7, 2003

Per Hettie Marie (Shrader) Eagle, b. 1918-d 2006, via U. S. Mail letter on January 7, 2003:
Boss Wagner was a fine man, a Sunday School teacher, Counsler, Adviser and a County Acessor. Boss , in the early years of the 1900's, always rode a beautiful bay horse.

Hettie stated that Boss had "reahed out" to her, as had her grandmother, Margaret Rebecca, ‘Granny Becky' (Sluss) Tabor, the widow of Hugh Edward Tabor, and gave her help when, in her youth, she had most needed a friend and help to get through one of the darkest times of her young life.

Hettie Marie (Shrader) Eagle, stated that the first time she had strawberry shortcake was at the table of her Aunt Charlotte Lavinia ‘Lottie' (Tabor) Wagner (not really mom's aunt ....Hettie declared that Lottie was so loved that many of the local young people called her "Aunt Lottie". Ruth Virginia Tabor, who was a niece of Lottie, Ruth had lost her mother, who was the first wife of Lottie's brother, Berkley Kelly Tabor. The first wife of Berkley Tabor was Dora Elizabeth Harry. Aunt Lottie was a loving person to all the children. Since Ruth and Hettie were the best of friends Ruth and Hettie shared lots of meals with Aunt Lottie.

Per Cousin Nancy Gale (Tabor) Smothers
September 30, 2002:
My granddaddy "Boss" Wagner's correct name is: Charles McClelland Wagner, Sr.

Granddaughter Nancy TABOR Smothers remembers her Wagner grandparent's home:

Other things that I thought were beautiful in the house were the picture
railings around the ceilings in the living room, and two pictures hung
down from rope hangings, and the pictures were gold-framed, and were
also "REVERSE" painted on the glass inside and had a curved glass on the
front of them, with "Mother-of-Pearl" actually in the painting. I now
own one of those pictures and they were purchased from Chicago House
Furnishings in Bluefield, VA, where PaPa's (C. M. Wagner) brother, Jim
Ed Wagner worked. That picture would now be about 50+ years old. Aunt
Christine took the other one, and when she took the back off to clean
it, the paint on the glass inside was so brittle that when she wiped it,
it took off the paint...and she was so sad about that. When she gave me
the other one, she cautioned me not to try to clean the "coal soot" from
the inside!!!!!

To the immediate left was the dining room, and I can remember as we
entered that room, the entrance was a big square and on each side hung a
decoration that looked like a wrought-iron fixture from which hung glass
grapes. I thought that was beautiful. From the dining room, you could
enter the kitchen, and going to the right was a half-bath, and to the
right of that, a bedroom, and further on to the right, you would
re-enter the living room. Except for the kitchen, the house had all
hardwood flooring with a beautiful shine.

My childhood home then was no-where near as beautiful but it was
"home". Between the living room and dining room, there were stairs that
went to the second story where there was a bathroom at the head of the
stairs and two bedrooms, and an open space big enough for, say a
half-bed. And, then there was the attic portion on that same floor!!!
What a treasure trove this was, filled with Aunt Eunice's dolls...I
loved to "nose" around in there!

Great-grandfather, Paris Witcher Wagner, bedded down in the bedroom on
the first floor. He had an old-fashioned table radio that he listened
to, and he sat and chewed his tobacco, and looked out a window at the
garden, and also at his honey- bee hives. He raised honey bees for
years. He lived to be about 98 yrs. old. I remember his snow white
hair and his snow white (sometimes tobacco-stained) "handle-bar"
moustache. During the last year or so of his life, he was bedridden and
I remember there was a sheepskin blanket put underneath him to keep him
from getting bedsores. It's strange how you can remember things as a
child, and for me today, at 63, I can't remember what I ate for
breakfast!! haha!

I also remember spending nights in the upstairs bedroom, where the
mattresses were "feather- tick. They may have all been "feather-tick", but
I just know the one that I slept in had the feathers. You would just
sink right down into them, like a "nest"! I thought that was great!
.....

January 12, 2003
Nancy (Tabor) Smothers
Dean says the photo of the C. M. Wagner Kin on the Porch is of the old
"Boss" Wagner homeplace home, where my mother was raised and, where she
was living there at the time she started going with my dad, Solomon P.
Tabor, Sr. Dean says those big white columns are still on that house
which is now occupied by George and Ann Bailey (Paul Bailey's daughter)
Lester. Most of the interior structure is as of the "days of old".

I also think that the property on which the brick house up the road was
built , as Sam does, (across the road from the NEW Macedonia United
Methodist Church), was the old frame house of Paris Witcher and Patria
Wagner (my great grandfather and great grandmother). I also think that
after the death of Paris Wagner's wife, Patria, that he moved in at some
point with C. M. and Lottie Wagner (my grandfather and grandmother) at
their old white frame house not far from where the brick house was
built. I also think that they all lived in the old frame house of C. M.
Wagner while the Paris Witcher Wagner house was torn down and the new
brick one was built. After the brick house was built, the old homeplace
(where James & Elizabeth Lester lived when Shirl, Karen & Jan , lived at
Falls Mills- the mother of James 'Peanut' Lester, Nannie Belle Howard
Lester, wife of James Edward Lester, gave Shirl the "Sally Fudge'
Recipe-Karen) was sold to James and Nannie Lester (parents of James
'Peanut-Karen), who later sold it to their son, George. (George Allen
Lester, brother of James 'Peanut,' who married Barbara Ann Bailey-d/o
Paul Alexandr bailey & Florence Janet Jones who was a sister of Thelma
(Jones0 Compton who was our Graham High School Librarian-Karen)

Regarding the building of the brick house of C. M. Wagner:
There was an oldframe house on that property until PaPa
(Nancy's grandfather, C. M. Wagner) had an architect out of Bluefield,
WV, by the name of AlexMahood, build the new house.
I'm sure he made pretty good wages then as Commissioner of the Revenue
for Tazewell County and could afford the new brick one. I was very young then, say about 6, maybe 7 or so, when that house was built. I remember going there about the time my grandparents moved in (about 1945-46?), and as you enter the front, there was a big
grate from which the heat came from an old coal furnace in the basement,
and that was in the living room, which had a big fireplace.

If memory serves me well, after Aunt Eunice Wagner was moved into a
nursing home (in the mid-1970's) and the brick house was much later
placed on the market, my Aunt Christine Wagner (Uncle Dupey's wife) and
I went through the house and I believe she is the one that told me that
Alex Mahood had built the house, and she was talking about how
particular "Boss" was about it being well-built, and built to "his"
standards as well. Alex Mahood (now deceased) was a well-known
Architect of many structures found in Mercer County, and probably
Tazewell County as well. When it was evident that Aunt Eunice would not
be coming back to live alone in the brick house, it was sold to a James
and Brenda Bass (who still live there) to pay for Aunt Eunice's Nursing
Home care. Come this May, Aunt Eunice will be 76 and still in a nursing
home in Abingdon, VA.

As with all of the stones in this cemetery Phyllis Ann TABOR Tabor, 1941-2004 sent me the readings to use to help our families locate their loved ones

Tombstone:Our Beloved Husband and Father
Charles McClellan Wagner, Sr
Oct 10, 1882
Dec 20, 1960
Blessed Are They That Die In the Lord
CMW