My Genealogy Hound

Charles Roedder, blacksmith and farmer, is a native of Prussia, born in 1838, and the son of William and Kate (Kauffman) Roedder, who spent their entire lives in their native country. Our subject received a fair education, and at the age of seventeen learned the blacksmith’s trade and from twenty-one to twenty-four served in the army. In 1864 he came to the United States, and immediately proceeded to Franklin County, where he has a brother living. He remained the first two years at Beaufort, then located where he now lives, eight miles southwest of New Haven, where he has a good home. A few years prior to his leaving his native country he was married to Miss Louisa, daughter of Fred and Louisa Scheffels, and eleven children, nine of whom are living, were born to this union: Charles, Dora, Gusta, William, Louis, August, Louisa, Eddie and Adolph. Mr. Roedder took his first citizen’s papers in 1865, and his second two years later. He holds a policy on his life from the German Life Insurance Company, of New York. He is a Republican in politics, and cast his first vote for Gen. Grant. He and wife are both members of the Lutheran Church.