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27. Charles Cornelius (1826 - 1886)Born May 12,1826 - Lancashire EnglandDied October 13, 1895 - Atlanta, GeorgiaBuried City of Neillsville Cemetery
City of Neillsville CemeterySelf-Guided Cemetery Tour
Before Chas. Cornelius RanAn AutoNobody in Clark County has ever tickled more kids with sticks of candy than has our genial banker, Charles Cornelius. You know Charlie used to be the Maple Works grocer. Like all men of this clan Charles began using fair and favorable means to develop a good trade. At that time he and Frank Eyerly were chums for he said “Xmas of 1878 there was a great masquerade over at Heathville. Frank was teaching school at Granton, then in what was known as the Windfall School and I being strange and bashful Frank agree to masquerade as a girl and go with me to the dance. The road over as far as Kinzeles’ was a holy terror, full of stumps and between us we managed to steer the old horse over them all. I am sure that we did not miss one. Jos. Marsh had a saw mill up there then and employed a couple hundred men in the woods. We had a gay old time. You seethat I went up to get acquainted with the folks and sorter work up a little trade.”