William and Elizabeth Sleggs' Youngest Son: Charles A. Sleggs
Charles A. Sleggs was born in 1862, and was William and Elizabeth Sleggs' youngest son. He was listed as age 7 on the 1870 Census in his father's household. In the 1880 Census, he was 17 years old and still living at home with his widowed mother. By the 1910 Census, he was 47 years old and living with his wife Matilda and 80 year old mother. According to the 1917 Livingston Farm Directory, he was a farmer of corn, beans, wheat and oats. I am unsure what happened in the intervening years, or whether he had children. I am also unsure of his year of death, although the 1930 Federal Census shows Matilda Sleggs as "sister-in-law" to the Head of Household James S. Armstrong. (She is 55, he is 64. They live in Rochester, and his occupation is "doorman" and industry is "railway signal" and hers is "none".
As of 8/28/04, Georgia has found an obituary for Charles Sleggs amongst George Sleggs' diaries: "Geneseo, July 30 -- Charles Sleggs, 66, a lifelong resident of the town of Geneseo, died at his home in the Conesus Lake Road late to-day, following a shock which he suffered this morning. Mr. Sleggs had not been in the best of health for the past year, but until within a few hours of his death, he seemed to be comparatively well. Mr. Sleggs had been a successful farmer, was a member of Livonia Grange, and was a trustee of the Lakeville Presbyterian Church. Besides his widow he leaves one brother, George T. Sleggs, and one sister, Mrs. Chester Armstrong, both of this town." Note that the obituary still does not give us Charles' year of death.
