Charles Board Roe

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="0a5d05a3.jpg"> <div> Orange County, New York</div> <div> American History and Genealogy Project</div> <div> Charles Board Roe</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="0a6d2123.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/orange/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/or"><U>Orange County AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/"><U>New York AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://ahgp.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://ahgp.org"><U>AHGP</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://alhn.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://alhn.org"><U>ALHN</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="623" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 746 WIDTH="617"><div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Old English Text MT" ><IMG SRC="063d4260.jpg" border=0 width="212" height="294" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Old English Text MT" >M</FONT>R. ROE was one of a family of six children born to Nathaniel and Sarah Board Roe.  Their house was located on a rugged, sightly hillside near Oxford Depot, N. Y., where he was born March 25th, 1844.</div> <div>      Here he grew to manhood with his four brothers, Gabriel Seely, Thomas Beach, Nathaniel, Henry Martyn, and one sister, Hannah Elizabeth, who died November 29th, 1884.  The old homestead still remains in the family, and is enjoyed by his brother, Thomas Beach.</div> <div>      The little school-house at Oxford Depot was a great factor in the small boys life in his day, and Charles was a faithful student, not only here, but at the Chester academy, where he was prepared for college by Prof. Edward Orton, the then famous teacher in the village of Chester.</div> <div>      Amherst seems to have been the popular college among the young men of his community in the sixties, from which institution we find him graduating with great credit in 1866.</div> <div>      He began teaching the next Fall in Ohio. But the locality so affected his health, and especially his eyes, that he was compelled to return to Orange County, N. Y.  Having had exceptional privileges and training in one of the most staunch Christian homes of the community, it is not surprising that we find him making a confession of faith and uniting with the Church at the early age of thirteen.</div> <div>      The Rev. James W. Wood, D.D., having been the beloved Pastor of the Presbyterian Church for many years, was much gratified to receive this young disciple, with many others, during the revival of 1857-1858.</div> <div>      It is worthy of note that he acknowledges, in addition to the parental and pastoral instruction, the influence of a faithful public school teacher in leading him to accept Christ.  He was married December 30th, 1886, to Miss Allie Stephens, of Salem, N. Y., and has established himself amid the rugged hills of his birth in a beautiful modern home, adjacent to the old homestead, near Oxford Depot, N. Y.  His farm is a spacious one, and lies in the line of the Chester water pipes from Walton lake.  He may at any time have all the benefits of a suburban residence, with steam heat and hot and cold water in all parts of the house.  His home is a happy one, though it has in it only the prattle of one little adopted daughter-Helen. </div> <div>      He has served two terms as the Trustee of his school district, and five years the Superintendent of the Chester Presbyterian Sunday School, and has been for many years an active worker in the religious society of Oxford Depot.  He was chosen an Elder in the Presbyterian Church of Chester-first in 1889, and again in 1895, in which office he still continues to serve with great acceptance to the people.</div> <div>      Scholarly, earnest, strong in his open testimony for Christ, he is the faithful, devoted, benevolent, genial disciple, friend and brother that you would expect to find as the result of such a training.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="pg34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Thomas Beach Roe"><U>Next Page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pg1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Table of Contents"><U>Table of Contents</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>