Charles Henry Nead
4B Charles (Charley) Henry Nead
Charley was born in Granville, North Dakota on July 22, 1897. He was baptized at the Methodist Church on February 4, 1902 by Rev. W. A. E. Maddock. According to Charley’s cousin Dudley Cowan [Dudley is a son of Lizzie’s brother Robert and he was 7 years younger than Charley.], Charley was married for a short while to a girl in Granville and then took off to Kansas with a girlfriend. This story isn’t quite correct and I relate it as an impression that a younger cousin had of him. The more correct story follows.
According to Charley’s son Paul, Charley married Ida Ophelia Morrison in Granville on May 6th of 1918. He was then almost 21 years old. A photograph of Charley and Ida taken at their doorway in Granville shows that Charley was a tall and handsome fellow. In some photographs he looked a little like the actor Paul Newman in his younger years. Ida also was a good looking girl and, in the above mentioned photograph, Charley has his arm over her shoulder and she is holding his hand - - Ida appears contented and in love.
For the next three years Charley and Ida lived at Granville (and possibly at Deering just a couple of miles north of Granville) and they had two sons; Charles Robert, born in 1918 at Deering; and Lloyd Eldo, born 1920 at Granville. A photograph in the posession of Paul Nead shows Charlie Nead standing side by side with a young girl named Nina Roysum and behind them are Nina’s brother Oscar and Charlie’s wife Ida. The photograph looks like one that might have been taken at a wedding. When Charlie left Granville in 1922, the young girl Nina Roysum also disappeared and it is possible that they left together.
From the stories I hear, Charley’s dad Ira was hard working, talented, and well liked in the community. Charley, however, it appears didn’t learn a trade but hired out to work on farms in the area helping with the threshing and harvesting and such. Paul Nead wrote to me in 1996,
“About the last of July in 1921 Ida took her two boys and left
Charley and moved to Butler, Missouri. Her third son Paul Edgar
was born there in Butlerhardly a month afterward on September 4.
Ida never saw or heard of Charley again. A few years ago I found
proof that he left with a threshing crew in 1922. From then on,
your guess is as good as mine.”
According to Paul, Charley had a reputation of being a “ladies man.” and that’s at least part of the reason that they separated. My guess is that Charley left, not because he didn’t care about Ida and his family, but because he cared for those around him more than he let on and couldn’t bear for Ida and the children to think of him as a failure - - being tall and handsome, like many men he had an ego to support and had to maintain an image of success. So apparently he found himself a girlfriend, abandoned his family and took off for parts unknown. Sadly, Charley’s mother Lizzie died that same year that he took off with the threshing crew.
Paul says that Charley followed the threshing machines along the Red River Valley and up into Canada. He heard that Charley may have gone up into Alaska looking for work and that his sister Grace and her husband Don Hollo were in contact with him while living in Anchorage, but Grace wouldn’t say anything about it to the family. Although the family has much information about Charley’s parents and grandparents (The Nead family from Ohio), there is little information about Charley specifically. His son Paul has reason to believe that he died in 1988. The following are the three sons of Charles Henry Nead. May Charley be remembered with gentleness.
On the afternoon of February 27, 1996 Paul Nead called me from Independence, MO and told me about having located a farm south of Granville which was in the name of his father, Charley Nead. The farm was sold for back taxes in 1942 and so he was excited to think that it’s possible that his father had a farm there up to that time. If so, Paul may be able to find some information on his father and is looking forward to traveling to North Dakotawhen the weather improves to search that out.
The information shows that in 1915 Charley’s dad Ira purchased a piece of land about five miles to the south of Granville and, in 1917 when Charley was 20 years old, transferred the land to Charley. According to a McHenry County atlas, Charley owned the land from 1917 through 1942. There had been an $800 mortgage on the land and Ira had been paying on it over the years and when Ira got sick in 1935 the payments stopped. In 1942 the land was taken over by the State to pay back taxes. How long Charley was actually there on the land isn’t known.
4B-1 Charles Robert Nead
b. Dec. 5, 1918 12:30 AM Thursday night at Deering, N.D.(About 5 miles north of Granville). Charles grew up at Butler, MO and married on Dec. 5, 1951 to Irene Becker b. Nov. 18, 1923. Charles and Irene live at ______.
4B-1a Robert Lloyd Nead
b. Nov. 3, 1952 d. Jan. 30, 1995. Robert married on Jan. 22, 1983 to Carolyn Weidinger b. Aug. 17, 1948. Robert died at age 43.
4B-1b Barbara Sue Nead
b. Mar. 27, 1955. Barbara married on July 3, 1993 to Timothy (Tim) Rote b. Feb. 15, 1961.
4B-2 Lloyd Eldo Nead
b. July 10, 1920 at 2:00 AM Saturday morning at Granville, N.D. Lloyd grew up at Butler, MO and married ca. 1943 to Elizabeth Jane Kipper and they have two children. Lloyd and Elizabeth live at ____?
4B-2a Jesse Lloyd Nead
b. Dec. 5, 1942. Jesse married in to Rebecca . Two children
4B-2a-1 Jackson Nead b. Feb 4, 1963. Jackson married on Nov. 22, 1993 to Joyce Ezekiel b. Jan 27, 1968.
4B-2a-1a John Jesse Nead b. Ap. 3, 1994
4B-2a-2 Scott Nead b. One daughter.
4B-2a-2a Jordan Nead b.
4B-2b Elizabeth Jane Nead
(Betty) b. . Married on to William Gentry. Betty was named after her grandmother Elizabeth Jane Cowan Nead.
4B-2b-1 Jessica Gentry b. Ap.1, 1981.
4B-3 Paul Edgar Nead
b. Sept. 4, 1921 at 8:00 PM Sunday night at Butler, Missouri, son of Charles Nead and his wife, Ida Ophelia Morrison Nead. Ida left Charlie and moved from Granville to Butler during the summer of 1921, two months before Paul was born. Paul never saw his father. Because Ida wasn’t able to care for all three of the boys alone while they were little, Paul was taken to be cared for by Ida’s aunt. Paul says that what then was supposed to be a short stay turned into 18 years and that he did not grow up with his brothers. I first contacted Paul in the summer of 1995 at his age of 73 and Paul states there has been little contact with his two brothers over the recent many years. Paul married Nellie Marie Hupman of Independence on September 4, 1946. They were married at Kansas City. Paul and Marie live at 1827 Osage Street, Independence, MO 64055. Their four children are:
4B-3a Charles Edward Nead
B. Jan. 23, 1948. Independence, Missouri
4B-3b Joyce Elaine Nead
B. May 5, 1951 Married on Sept. 30, 1967 to Douglas Phillips, b. Sept. 15, 1950. Independence, Missouri. They have two children.
4B-3b-1 Scott Raymond Phillips. b. April 17, 1969. Lives at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
4B-3b-2 Michelle Renee Phillips b. May 16, 1972. Married Jason Osborn b. Feb 134, 1973. One daughter. Independence, Missouri
4B-3b-2a Hailey Osborn. b. Sept. 18, 1992.
4B-3c Kenneth Eldon Nead Sr.
b. Sept. 1, 1954. Married first to Paula Jean Larson and they have one son. Later, Kenneth married Karen Sue Mason, b. May 21, 1958 and they have one son. Kenneth Jr. is a son of Ken by marriage to Paula, Edward is a son of Karen by a previous marriage and Amy is the son of Ken and Karen (His - Hers - and Ours). Ken and Eddy have been adopted to be children of Ken Sr. and Karen. Independence, Missouri
4B-3c-1 Kenneth Eldon Nead, Jr. (Ken) b. Jan. 29, 1975. Independence, MO
4B-3c-2 Edward Eugene Nead (Eddy). b. July 22, 1976. Independence, MO
4B-3c-3 Amy Renee Nead. b. Sept 8, 1980. Independence, Missouri
4b-3d Ruth Ellen Nead
b. May 23, 1957. Married on Feb. 26, 1984 to Ronald Reynolds (Ronnie) b. June 15, 1954. Independence, Missouri
Charley was born in Granville, North Dakota on July 22, 1897. He was baptized at the Methodist Church on February 4, 1902 by Rev. W. A. E. Maddock. According to Charley’s cousin Dudley Cowan [Dudley is a son of Lizzie’s brother Robert and he was 7 years younger than Charley.], Charley was married for a short while to a girl in Granville and then took off to Kansas with a girlfriend. This story isn’t quite correct and I relate it as an impression that a younger cousin had of him. The more correct story follows.
According to Charley’s son Paul, Charley married Ida Ophelia Morrison in Granville on May 6th of 1918. He was then almost 21 years old. A photograph of Charley and Ida taken at their doorway in Granville shows that Charley was a tall and handsome fellow. In some photographs he looked a little like the actor Paul Newman in his younger years. Ida also was a good looking girl and, in the above mentioned photograph, Charley has his arm over her shoulder and she is holding his hand - - Ida appears contented and in love.
For the next three years Charley and Ida lived at Granville (and possibly at Deering just a couple of miles north of Granville) and they had two sons; Charles Robert, born in 1918 at Deering; and Lloyd Eldo, born 1920 at Granville. A photograph in the posession of Paul Nead shows Charlie Nead standing side by side with a young girl named Nina Roysum and behind them are Nina’s brother Oscar and Charlie’s wife Ida. The photograph looks like one that might have been taken at a wedding. When Charlie left Granville in 1922, the young girl Nina Roysum also disappeared and it is possible that they left together.
From the stories I hear, Charley’s dad Ira was hard working, talented, and well liked in the community. Charley, however, it appears didn’t learn a trade but hired out to work on farms in the area helping with the threshing and harvesting and such. Paul Nead wrote to me in 1996,
“About the last of July in 1921 Ida took her two boys and left
Charley and moved to Butler, Missouri. Her third son Paul Edgar
was born there in Butlerhardly a month afterward on September 4.
Ida never saw or heard of Charley again. A few years ago I found
proof that he left with a threshing crew in 1922. From then on,
your guess is as good as mine.”
According to Paul, Charley had a reputation of being a “ladies man.” and that’s at least part of the reason that they separated. My guess is that Charley left, not because he didn’t care about Ida and his family, but because he cared for those around him more than he let on and couldn’t bear for Ida and the children to think of him as a failure - - being tall and handsome, like many men he had an ego to support and had to maintain an image of success. So apparently he found himself a girlfriend, abandoned his family and took off for parts unknown. Sadly, Charley’s mother Lizzie died that same year that he took off with the threshing crew.
Paul says that Charley followed the threshing machines along the Red River Valley and up into Canada. He heard that Charley may have gone up into Alaska looking for work and that his sister Grace and her husband Don Hollo were in contact with him while living in Anchorage, but Grace wouldn’t say anything about it to the family. Although the family has much information about Charley’s parents and grandparents (The Nead family from Ohio), there is little information about Charley specifically. His son Paul has reason to believe that he died in 1988. The following are the three sons of Charles Henry Nead. May Charley be remembered with gentleness.
On the afternoon of February 27, 1996 Paul Nead called me from Independence, MO and told me about having located a farm south of Granville which was in the name of his father, Charley Nead. The farm was sold for back taxes in 1942 and so he was excited to think that it’s possible that his father had a farm there up to that time. If so, Paul may be able to find some information on his father and is looking forward to traveling to North Dakotawhen the weather improves to search that out.
The information shows that in 1915 Charley’s dad Ira purchased a piece of land about five miles to the south of Granville and, in 1917 when Charley was 20 years old, transferred the land to Charley. According to a McHenry County atlas, Charley owned the land from 1917 through 1942. There had been an $800 mortgage on the land and Ira had been paying on it over the years and when Ira got sick in 1935 the payments stopped. In 1942 the land was taken over by the State to pay back taxes. How long Charley was actually there on the land isn’t known.
4B-1 Charles Robert Nead
b. Dec. 5, 1918 12:30 AM Thursday night at Deering, N.D.(About 5 miles north of Granville). Charles grew up at Butler, MO and married on Dec. 5, 1951 to Irene Becker b. Nov. 18, 1923. Charles and Irene live at ______.
4B-1a Robert Lloyd Nead
b. Nov. 3, 1952 d. Jan. 30, 1995. Robert married on Jan. 22, 1983 to Carolyn Weidinger b. Aug. 17, 1948. Robert died at age 43.
4B-1b Barbara Sue Nead
b. Mar. 27, 1955. Barbara married on July 3, 1993 to Timothy (Tim) Rote b. Feb. 15, 1961.
4B-2 Lloyd Eldo Nead
b. July 10, 1920 at 2:00 AM Saturday morning at Granville, N.D. Lloyd grew up at Butler, MO and married ca. 1943 to Elizabeth Jane Kipper and they have two children. Lloyd and Elizabeth live at ____?
4B-2a Jesse Lloyd Nead
b. Dec. 5, 1942. Jesse married in to Rebecca . Two children
4B-2a-1 Jackson Nead b. Feb 4, 1963. Jackson married on Nov. 22, 1993 to Joyce Ezekiel b. Jan 27, 1968.
4B-2a-1a John Jesse Nead b. Ap. 3, 1994
4B-2a-2 Scott Nead b. One daughter.
4B-2a-2a Jordan Nead b.
4B-2b Elizabeth Jane Nead
(Betty) b. . Married on to William Gentry. Betty was named after her grandmother Elizabeth Jane Cowan Nead.
4B-2b-1 Jessica Gentry b. Ap.1, 1981.
4B-3 Paul Edgar Nead
b. Sept. 4, 1921 at 8:00 PM Sunday night at Butler, Missouri, son of Charles Nead and his wife, Ida Ophelia Morrison Nead. Ida left Charlie and moved from Granville to Butler during the summer of 1921, two months before Paul was born. Paul never saw his father. Because Ida wasn’t able to care for all three of the boys alone while they were little, Paul was taken to be cared for by Ida’s aunt. Paul says that what then was supposed to be a short stay turned into 18 years and that he did not grow up with his brothers. I first contacted Paul in the summer of 1995 at his age of 73 and Paul states there has been little contact with his two brothers over the recent many years. Paul married Nellie Marie Hupman of Independence on September 4, 1946. They were married at Kansas City. Paul and Marie live at 1827 Osage Street, Independence, MO 64055. Their four children are:
4B-3a Charles Edward Nead
B. Jan. 23, 1948. Independence, Missouri
4B-3b Joyce Elaine Nead
B. May 5, 1951 Married on Sept. 30, 1967 to Douglas Phillips, b. Sept. 15, 1950. Independence, Missouri. They have two children.
4B-3b-1 Scott Raymond Phillips. b. April 17, 1969. Lives at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
4B-3b-2 Michelle Renee Phillips b. May 16, 1972. Married Jason Osborn b. Feb 134, 1973. One daughter. Independence, Missouri
4B-3b-2a Hailey Osborn. b. Sept. 18, 1992.
4B-3c Kenneth Eldon Nead Sr.
b. Sept. 1, 1954. Married first to Paula Jean Larson and they have one son. Later, Kenneth married Karen Sue Mason, b. May 21, 1958 and they have one son. Kenneth Jr. is a son of Ken by marriage to Paula, Edward is a son of Karen by a previous marriage and Amy is the son of Ken and Karen (His - Hers - and Ours). Ken and Eddy have been adopted to be children of Ken Sr. and Karen. Independence, Missouri
4B-3c-1 Kenneth Eldon Nead, Jr. (Ken) b. Jan. 29, 1975. Independence, MO
4B-3c-2 Edward Eugene Nead (Eddy). b. July 22, 1976. Independence, MO
4B-3c-3 Amy Renee Nead. b. Sept 8, 1980. Independence, Missouri
4b-3d Ruth Ellen Nead
b. May 23, 1957. Married on Feb. 26, 1984 to Ronald Reynolds (Ronnie) b. June 15, 1954. Independence, Missouri