Charles Leo McGarvey

Record: Records of Birth, Probate Court

Place: Lawrence County, Ohio, USA

Date of birth: July 7, 1890

Name: Clarence McGarvey [spelling in record appears irregular / difficult to read]

Sex: Female [as recorded; believed incorrect]

Father: Isaac McGarvey

Mother: Mary McGarvey

Interpretation: Clarence McGarvey does not appear in the 1900 census because he died in 1899. This birth record helps restore him to the family structure and gives a direct vital-record source for the oldest sibling in Charles Leo McGarvey's family line.

The female sex entry conflicts with the family identification of Clarence as Isaac and Mary's son. The site preserves the error as recorded while interpreting Clarence as male based on the broader family evidence.

Record: Record of Deaths, Probate Court, Jackson County, Ohio

Name in full: McGarvey, Clarence

Sex: M

Date of death: February 26, 1899

Condition: Single

Age: 8 years, 10 days

Place of death: Wellston, O.

Place of birth: Wellston, O.

Occupation: None

Cause of death: Blood poisoning

Place of residence: Wellston, O.

By whom reported: Assessor

Interpretation: The official death register and the family story appear to describe different parts of the same tragedy. The family remembered the cricket bat accident, while the probate record captured the medical cause recorded for mortality statistics: blood poisoning.

Before antibiotics, an injury that broke the skin could become infected and spread through the bloodstream. In modern terms, "blood poisoning" often points toward septicemia or sepsis. This card therefore preserves both the remembered accident and the official cause of death without treating them as contradictory.

Collection: Ohio, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973

Name: William McGarvey

Gender: Male

Race: White

Birth date: October 28, 1896

Birth place: Wellston, Jackson, Ohio

Father: Isaac McGarvey

Mother: Mary Patton

FHL film number: 301033

Associated facts: William "Beezer" McGarvey; alternate family/tree birth date August 26, 1896; married Mabel Mowery on September 20, 1920, Jackson County, Ohio; married Nellie Levis on October 19, 1940, Gallia County, Ohio; died December 26, 1975, Ross County, Ohio; buried in Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio.

Family events: Brother Clarence died February 26, 1899; sister Susan Anna born November 2, 1899; sister Mary Ellen born February 6, 1903; sister Margaret born March 2, 1907; brother Charles Leo born July 17, 1913; brother Daniel died July 5, 1914; mother Mary Patton died April 15, 1931; father Isaac McGarvey died May 14, 1941.

Residence and military facts: Wellston Ward 2 / Wellston, Ohio, appears repeatedly in 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1935, 1940, and 1950; Jackson County residence in 1917-1918; military fact attached for 1918.

Interpretation: William appears in the 1900 census as one of Isaac and Mary McGarvey's living children after Clarence's death. This birth-index entry supplies his parentage and birth place independently of the census.

The index gives October 28, 1896, while the family/tree date supplied for William is August 26, 1896. Both dates should be retained until the original birth register or another direct vital record resolves the discrepancy. The later residence, marriage, military, children, death, and burial facts are helpful for the life timeline, but each should be supported by its own source if those records are added later.

Collection: Ohio, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973

Name: Susan McGarvey

Gender: Female

Race: White

Birth date: November 2, 1899

Birth place: Wellston, Jackson, Ohio

Father: Jap McGarvey

Mother: Mary Patten

FHL film number: 301033

Associated facts: Susan Anna McGarvey; female; alternate birth entry November 9, 1899, Jackson County, Ohio; married May 26, 1917, Jackson County, Ohio; died March 11, 1981, Port Charlotte, Charlotte County, Florida; buried in New Albany, Franklin County, Ohio.

Residence facts: Wellston Ward 2, Jackson County, Ohio, in 1900 and 1910; Wellston Ward 2 in 1920 as a married wife; Columbus, Ohio, in 1928; Mifflin, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1930, 1935, and 1940; Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1950; Ohio before 1951.

Interpretation: The index gives the father as "Jap McGarvey," which does not match the rest of the family record. Because the mother is Mary Patten, the place is Wellston, and Susan fits the Isaac and Mary McGarvey household, this is best treated as an index transcription or reading issue unless the underlying register proves otherwise.

This card should be read alongside the 1900 census, where Susan appears as a young child in Isaac and Mary McGarvey's household. The later residence, marriage, death, and burial facts help trace Susan Anna's life after she left the childhood household, but each should be supported by its own record if those sources are added later.

Collection: Ohio, Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973

Name: Mary Ellen McGarvey

Gender: Female

Race: White

Birth date: February 6, 1903

Birth place: Wellston, Jackson, Ohio

Father: Isaac McGarvey

Mother: Mary Patton

FHL film number: 301033

Interpretation: The birth index gives a direct parent-child link for Mary Ellen McGarvey, identifying Isaac McGarvey and Mary Patton as her parents. This strengthens the early household reconstruction that also includes Clarence, Daniel, William, Susan, Margaret, and Charles Leo.

The nickname "Chow Mama" / "Charles mama" is preserved here as a family-memory note because it helps explain Fred McGarvey's oral-history reference, but it should not be treated as part of the birth-index citation itself.

Collection: Ohio, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973

Name: Margaret McGarvey

Gender: Female

Race: White

Birth date: March 2, 1907

Birth place: Wellston, Jackson, Ohio

Father: Isaac McGarvey

Mother: Mary Patton

FHL film number: 301033

Interpretation: The birth index directly links Margaret McGarvey to Isaac McGarvey and Mary Patton in Wellston. It supports the sibling reconstruction seen in the census records and in the family photograph of Mary Ellen, Sue, and Margaret McGarvey.

The later notes about Lancaster, widowhood, burial, and living with "Chow Mama" are useful family-history context, but they should be supported with separate document cards if those records are added later.

Record: Twelfth Census of the United States, Schedule No. 1, Population

State: Ohio

County: Jackson

Township or division: Wellston Township

Incorporated place: Wellston

Ward: Second

Enumeration district: 58

Sheet: 20

Enumerated: June 14, 1900

Isaac McGarvey: head, white male, born January 1869 [as read], age 31, married 10 years, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, furnaceman

Mary McGarvey: wife, white female, born February 1873 [as read], age 27, married 10 years, mother of 5 children, 3 living, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Pennsylvania [as read]

Daniel McGarvey: son, white male, born February 1893, age 7, born Ohio, at school

William McGarvey: son, white male, born August 1895 [as read], age 4, born Ohio

Susan McGarvey: daughter, white female, born April 1899 [as read], age 1, born Ohio

Sibling context: Charles Leo McGarvey's known sibling set includes Clarence McGarvey, 1890-1899; Daniel McGarvey, 1893-1914; William "Beezer" McGarvey, 1896-1975; Susan Anna McGarvey, 1899-1981; Mary Ellen McGarvey, 1903-1978; Margaret McGarvey, 1907-1984; and Charles Leo McGarvey, 1913-1997.

The 1900 census is especially important because it preserves the family shortly after Clarence's death and before Mary Ellen, Margaret, and Charles were born. The "5 children / 3 living" entry should be treated as a research clue to compare against the known sibling list, where Clarence is the documented child absent because of his 1899 death.

Record: Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, Population

State: Ohio

County: Jackson

Township or division: Wellston Township

Incorporated place: Wellston City

Ward: Ward 2

Enumeration district: 11

Sheet: 8B

Enumerated: April 21, 1910

Isaac McGarvey: head, white male, age 40, married, born Ohio, foreman, cement mill

Mary McGarvey: wife, white female, age 37, married, mother of 7 children, 5 living [as read], born Ohio

Daniel McGarvey: son, white male, age 17, single, born Ohio, laborer, furnace

William McGarvey: son, white male, age 14, single, born Ohio

Susan McGarvey: daughter, white female, age 11, born Ohio

Mary Ellen McGarvey: daughter, white female, age 7, born Ohio

Margaret McGarvey: daughter, white female, age 3, born Ohio

Sibling context: Clarence McGarvey had died in 1899 before this census, and Charles Leo McGarvey would not be born until 1913. Daniel appears as a 17-year-old furnace laborer in this household and died four years later, in 1914, in a fire.

Read with the 1900 and 1920 census cards, this record shows the household changing across time: from Isaac and Mary's young family, to the 1910 household of older children, to the 1920 household after Daniel's death and after Charles Leo's birth.

Record: State of Ohio Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Death Index

Page number: 5544

Place of death code: 40

County: Jackson

Name of deceased: McGravey, Dan

State file number: Volume 1425, certificate 42455

Date of death: July 5, 1914

Interpretation: The death index preserves the official date, county, and certificate reference for Daniel McGarvey's death. The family account adds that Daniel died in a fire, which is not visible as the cause on this index page.

Read with the 1910 census, this source shows Daniel as part of Isaac and Mary's household shortly before his death. Read with the 1920 census, it helps explain why Charles Leo's older brother Daniel no longer appears in the family household.

Record: Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, Population

State: Ohio

County: Jackson

Township or division: Wellston

Incorporated place: Wellston City

Ward: Ward 2

Enumeration district: 89

Sheet: 8B

Enumerated: January 9, 1920

Street: West C St.

Household: Isaac McGarvey household

Isaac McGarvey: head, age 49, born Ohio

Mary McGarvey: wife, age 45, born Ohio

Willie McGarvey: son, age 22, born Ohio

Mary Ellen McGarvey: daughter, age 17, born Ohio

Margaret McGarvey: daughter, age 12, born Ohio

Charles Leo McGarvey: son, age 6, born Ohio, attended school, no occupation

Charles's father: born Ohio

Charles's mother: born Ohio

Interpretation: This census establishes Charles Leo McGarvey's childhood setting in Wellston before the athletic records begin. It places him on West C Street with both parents and older siblings, confirms his approximate birth year, and shows that he was already attending school by January 1920.

The record also creates continuity with later documents. The West C Street neighborhood remains important in Charles's documentary trail, and Wellston continues to anchor his school, football, employment, and draft records. Read alongside the later 1940 draft card, the census shows a long Wellston connection rather than a brief or incidental residence.

Record: State of Ohio Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Death Index

Name of deceased: McGarvey, Mary

County: Jackson

Date of death: April 15, 1931

Source citation: Ohio Department of Health, Columbus, Ohio; Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007.

Interpretation: The death index adds an important family event to Charles Leo McGarvey's early adult timeline. The 1920 census shows Mary in the household with Charles as a child; this 1931 index records her death before the later 1940 and 1950 census households.

Because this source is an index page, it should be paired later with a full death certificate or obituary if one is located.

Marker: McGarvey

Isaac: 1869-1941

Mary: 1873-1931

Find a Grave name: Mary McGarvey

Maiden name: Patton

Find a Grave birth date: January 4, 1874

Birth place: Ohio, United States of America

Death date: April 15, 1931

Death place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, United States of America

Cemetery: Ridgewood Cemetery

Burial or cremation place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, United States of America

Has bio: Yes

Spouse: Isaac McGarvey

Children: Daniel McGarvey; William McGarvey

URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133719813/mary-mcgarvey

Interpretation: This cemetery record completes the evidence chain around Mary Patton McGarvey's death. The death index establishes the April 15, 1931 death date, while the shared marker places Mary with Isaac in Ridgewood Cemetery in Wellston.

The marker gives Mary's year as 1873, while the Find a Grave index gives January 4, 1874. Both should be kept in the research file until a birth record or full death certificate resolves the discrepancy.

Image type: Family photograph

Identified subjects: Mary Patton McGarvey; Sue McGarvey

Date: Undated

Date boundary: Before April 15, 1931, the date of Mary Patton McGarvey's death

Local image file: images/MaryPatton_Sue.jpg

Interpretation: The photograph fits best with the family-history section because it documents Charles Leo McGarvey's mother and sister rather than Charles directly. It helps connect the named census household to a preserved visual memory of the McGarvey family.

The exact date and location are not yet known. If another copy or inscription appears, this card should be updated with that provenance.

Image type: Family photograph

Identified subjects: Mary Ellen McGarvey; Sue McGarvey; Margaret McGarvey

Date: Undated

Relationship to Charles Leo McGarvey: Older sisters

Local image file: images/MarryEllen_Sue_Margaret_McGarvey.jpg

Interpretation: This photograph works with the 1900, 1910, and 1920 census cards by giving faces to Charles Leo McGarvey's older sisters. It strengthens the family reconstruction without adding a precise date or location that the image does not yet prove.

The source filename spells Mary as "MarryEllen"; the rendered card uses Mary Ellen McGarvey for readability while keeping the original local filename unchanged.

Record: Marriage License, Wood County, West Virginia

License issued to: Charles Leo McGarvey and Mary Ann Hughes

Clerk: Clerk of the County Court of Wood County [signature]

Clerk's certificate: Preliminary inquiries and answers relative to Mr. Charles Leo McGarvey of Wood County, State of W. Va., and Miss Mary Ann Hughes of Wood County, State of W. Va.

His full name: Charles Leo McGarvey

Her full name: Mary Ann Hughes

His age: 23 years

Her age: 22 years

His birthplace: Jackson County, W. Va. [as written]

Her birthplace: Jackson County, W. Va. [as written]

His residence: Parkersburg, W. Va.

Her residence: Parkersburg, W. Va.

Parties giving information: Charles Leo McGarvey and Mary Ann Hughes, of Wood County, State of W. Va.

Marriage return: The officiant certified that the marriage took place at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.

Interpretation: This record anchors Charles Leo McGarvey's marriage to Mary Ann Hughes in Wood County, West Virginia. It explains why Mary Ann appears as his wife in the 1940 census, as the person who would always know his address on the 1940 draft card, and as his wife in the 1950 census.

The birthplace field should be treated carefully. The license appears to list both Charles and Mary Ann as born in Jackson County, West Virginia, while Charles's draft card, census records, and other materials place him in Ohio. That conflict may reflect clerk error, informant error, or a jurisdictional shortcut in the marriage register. For now, the safest use of this source is to document the marriage, ages, residence in Parkersburg, and Wood County ceremony, while flagging the birthplace entry for later comparison.

Record: State of Ohio, Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Birth

County: Jackson

City or village: Jackson

Full name of child: Charles Frederick McGarvey

Date of birth: June 12, 1934

Father's full name: Charles Leo McGarvey

Mother's full maiden name: Mary Ann Hughes

Father's occupation: Laborer [field partially difficult to read]

Mother's occupation: Housework

Children of this mother: One born alive and one now living, as recorded on the certificate

Filing date: July 10, 1934

Copy certification: Certified as a photostatic copy of the original certificate by the Ohio Department of Health on April 21, 1952.

Interpretation: Fred's birth certificate is a direct vital-record source for Charles Leo McGarvey's early family life. It places Charles and Mary Ann in Jackson, Ohio, at the time of Fred's birth and confirms Fred's full birth name and date.

Record: Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, Population Schedule

State: Ohio

County: Jackson

Incorporated place: Wellston

Ward: 2

Enumeration district: 40-202

Sheet: 8B

Enumerated: April 13, 1940

Street and house number: 503 C Street

Household: Isaac McGarney / McGarvey household

Isaac McGarney: head, age 70, male, white, widowed, born Ohio

William McGarney: son, age 43, male, white, married, born Ohio; laborer, furnace; 40 hours worked; 52 weeks worked in 1939; $1000 income

Charles McGarney: son, age 26, male, white, married, born Ohio; lived in Wellston in 1935; not attending school; highest grade completed: college, 5th or subsequent year

Charles's work: presser, pants factory; wage or salary worker in private work; 42 hours worked during the week prior to the census; 28 weeks worked in 1939; $400 income; no other income

Mary Ann McGarney: wife, age 23, female, white, married, born Ohio; lived in Wellston in 1935; not attending school; highest grade completed: high school, 4th year

Mary Ann's work: presser, pants factory; wage or salary worker in private work; 42 hours worked during the week prior to the census; 18 weeks worked in 1939; $400 income; no other income

Freddie McGarney: grandson, age 5, male, white, single, born Ohio; lived in Wellston in 1935

Interpretation: The 1940 census gives a detailed snapshot of Charles Leo McGarvey's adult life just before the draft registration card. He was back in the same Wellston household address that appears in the WWII draft card, married to Mary Ann, father to five-year-old Freddie, and working as a presser in a pants factory.

The work columns are especially important for the life narrative. Charles worked 42 hours in the week before enumeration, but only 28 weeks in 1939, with $400 in reported wage income and no other income. That combination suggests steady work in the census week but an uneven or partial work year in 1939. The record also supports the family story that his Rio Grande attendance was unusual: the census credits him with college beyond four years, even though other evidence suggests his college life may have been intermittent and strongly tied to football seasons.

Serial number: 951

Order number: 1721

1. Name: Charles L. McGarvey

2. Address: 503 W. C. St., Wellston, Jackson, Ohio

3. Telephone: no clear telephone number recorded / illegible mark

4. Age in years / date of birth: 27; July 17, 1913

5. Place of birth: Wellston, Ohio

6. Country of citizenship: U.S.A.

7. Name of person who will always know your address: Mrs. Mary Ann McGarvey

8. Relationship of that person: Wife

9. Address of that person: 503 W. C. St., Wellston, Jackson, Ohio

10. Employer's name: Mrs. Nate Gold [uncertain reading]

11. Place of employment or business: E. 2nd St., Wellston, Jackson, Ohio

Registrant's signature: Charles L. McGarvey

Form: Registration Card, D.S.S. Form 1

Registrar's report, race: White

Height: approximately 6 ft. 1 in.

Weight: approximately 185 pounds

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Brown

Complexion: Dark

Other obvious physical characteristics: none recorded

Registrar: W. H. Simmons

Registrar for: Precinct 9, Ward 2, Wellston, Ohio

Date of registration: October 16, 1940

Local board stamp: Local Board No. 1 for Jackson County, Court House, Jackson, Ohio

Interpretation: The draft card proves that Charles Leo McGarvey registered for the WWII draft while living in Wellston with Mary Ann and working locally. It does not say whether he passed or failed a physical, and it should not be used by itself to conclude that he never served.

Fred McGarvey's firsthand memory is that his father did not leave the household for wartime service in the 1940s. Fred also retold the family story that when Charles Leo was drafted or called for his medical examination, he failed the exam and then left the family or went on a bender for three days. The draft card should therefore be used only as evidence of registration, residence, employment, and physical description, while the failed medical exam and three-day absence should be treated as family oral history unless a draft classification or medical-exam record is found.

Caption evidence: One version of the image is captioned, "Where Wellston began with a furnace in '73, now the Hercules Factory, Wellston, Ohio." The clearer companion image is captioned "East Second Street, Wellston, Ohio."

KERAMIDA site sequence: KERAMIDA's environmental assessment project page describes the former Kuppenheimer Pants Factory property as a 3.9-acre parcel southwest of downtown Wellston. It gives the site's sequence as Milton Furnace and Coal by at least 1888, Wellston Iron and Steel Company, Milton Iron Co., Hercules Trouser Company, later partial bakery/chocolate packaging use, vacancy, and a destructive fire on April 5, 2011.

Jackson County industrial context: The Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce's "Change of the Guard" article discusses mid-century industrial change across Jackson County and notes that Hercules Trouser Company also operated a separate Jackson production facility on South Bennett Avenue. Jackson City Council approved bond financing in 1950, the factory began operations in 1951 with a primarily female workforce, and operations moved to Arkansas in 1960. That source is useful for countywide Hercules context, but it should not be confused with this Wellston East Second Street factory photograph.

Family migration note: The company move to Arkansas helps explain the family timeline: according to family memory, Charles Leo McGarvey moved with Hercules when the trouser-company operation shifted out of Jackson County.

Research note: The Wellston site and the Jackson facility appear to be related parts of the regional Hercules/Kuppenheimer clothing-manufacturing story, but the surviving sources should be read carefully because they describe different factory locations. The Wellston evidence connects most directly to Charles Leo McGarvey's 1940 pants-factory employment; the Jackson article provides broader county industrial and post-1950 company context.

Card bibliography:

• KERAMIDA Inc. "Environmental Site Assessment of Kuppenheimer Pants Factory." https://www.keramida.com/projects/environmental-site-assessment-of-kuppenheimer-pants-factory.
• Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce. "Change of the Guard." https://jacksonohiochamber.com/change-of-the-guard/.

Record: 1950 Census of Population and Housing

State: Ohio

County: Jackson

Incorporated place: Wellston

Enumeration district: 40-31

Sheet: 71

Enumerated: April 8, 1950

Street and house number: 503 W. C.

Dwelling number: 110

Farm: No

Charles McGarvey: head, age 36, male, white, married, born Ohio

Residence one year earlier: same house / Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio

Work status: working; 50 hours worked last week

Occupation and industry: foreman, parts factory

Class of worker: private

Supplemental questions: father born U.S.; mother born U.S.; highest school completed C3; did not finish that grade; no school attendance because age 30 or over; 53 weeks worked; $4,175 wage or salary income; no business, professional, or farm income; no other money income; relatives' income none; no World War II service; no World War I service; no other military service.

Mary Ann McGarvey: wife, age 33, female, white, married, born Ohio

Charles Frederick McGarvey: son, age 15, male, white, never married, born Ohio

Interpretation: The 1950 census is one of the clearest records of Charles Leo McGarvey's transition from wage factory work into supervision. In 1940 he was listed as a presser in a pants factory with $400 income for 28 weeks of work; by 1950 he was a foreman in a parts factory, working 50 hours and reporting $4,175 in income.

The supplemental veteran-status answers are also important. The household reported no World War II service, no World War I service, and no other military service for Charles. That aligns with Fred McGarvey's firsthand memory that his father did not leave the household for wartime service in the 1940s.

The Hercules Trouser Company of Columbus, Ohio, established a branch plant in Wellston in 1937. A modern factory building, with 12,000 feet of floor space, was erected on East Second Street, by the city and this was equipped with latest type machinery for a sewing industry. A training school, conducted in the Harper Building, while the factory was under construction, made it possible to start the plant with a force of 150 workers. The business was successful from the start and soon outgrew the quarters. A wing containing 6,000 feet of floor space was added. This wing had a basement, giving the company a total of 24,000 square feet of space.

All work is handled on mass production basis. About sixty operations are required to make a pair of trousers, each operator doing one operation only. The present capacity of the plant is 13,500 pairs of trousers per week. 250 workers are employed, 85% of whom are women. I. I. Levine is general superintendent and Joseph Christner is plant superintendent.

In 1952, a like plant was established in Jackson. This plant, located on Route 139 on the southwest outskirts of the city is about the same size as the Wellston plant and is modern in every respect.

Interpretation: This excerpt helps place Charles Leo McGarvey's work life within Wellston's mid-twentieth-century industrial economy. Hercules was not a small local shop but a large mass-production garment factory with hundreds of employees, specialized operations, and enough production capacity to make thousands of pairs of trousers each week.

The reference to the 1952 Jackson plant is also important because family memories connect Charles's later work to factory management and movement between plants. This source provides background for why a Hercules employee or manager from Wellston might later be connected to Jackson or other factory locations.

Image type: Family photograph

Identified subject: Charles Leo McGarvey

Date: 1955

Context: His son Fred McGarvey's graduation

Local image file: images/1955_CharlesLeoMcGarvey.jpg

Interpretation: This photograph gives the life narrative a visual anchor after the 1950 census, when Charles was listed as a factory foreman and living with Mary Ann and Fred at 503 W. C. in Wellston.

Because the image is identified through family context rather than a written caption, the card preserves the attribution while leaving room for later notes if a fuller original photograph or inscription is found.

Collection: U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1

Name: Charles L. McGarvey [Charles McGarvey]

Residence date: 1987

Address: RR 3 POB 744

Residence: Moody, AL

Postal code: 35125

Second residence date: 1993

Second address: 2723 Lee Meadows Dr.

Second residence: Moody, AL

Second postal code: 35004-3442

Interpretation: This index provides the earliest late-life Alabama residence currently represented on the page. It shows Charles L. McGarvey in Moody by 1987 and then at Lee Meadows Drive in 1993, matching the later phone-directory card.

Because public-records indexes compile data from voter lists, filings, and household databases, this card should be used as residence evidence rather than as a full biographical source. It is strongest when read alongside the 1993-1999 directory, obituary index, SSDI entry, and Cedar Grove Cemetery marker.

Collection: U.S., Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002

Name: Charles L. McGarvey

Gender: Male

Residence years: 1993-1999

Address: 2723 Lee Meadows Dr.

Residence place: Moody, Alabama, USA

Zip code: 35004-3442

Source citation: City: Moody; State: Alabama; Year(s): 1993-1999

Interpretation: This directory entry turns the broad late-life Alabama connection into a specific address. Read with the SSDI card, it shows that Charles Leo McGarvey was associated with Moody, Alabama, for several years before his death in 1997.

The entry does not explain when Charles first moved to Alabama or whether this address reflects retirement, family proximity, or work history. It should be used as residence evidence and paired with family memory, obituary, cemetery, property, or city-directory records for the larger later-life narrative.

Collection: U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current

Name: Charles Leo McGarvey

Gender: Male

Death age: 84

Birth date: abt 1913

Residence place: Moody, St Clair, Alabama, USA

Death date: 16 Nov 1997

Obituary date: 19 Nov 1997

Obituary place: Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Newspaper title: Birmingham Post-Herald

Spouse: Mary Arm McGanrey [as indexed]

Source citation: Birmingham Post-Herald; Publication Date: 19 Nov 1997; Publication Place: Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Interpretation: This index confirms that Charles Leo McGarvey's death was reported in a Birmingham newspaper three days after his death. It also gives the more specific residence place of Moody, St. Clair County, Alabama, matching the retirement-era directory card and the SSDI last-residence entry.

The spouse field appears garbled in the index as "Mary Arm McGanrey." Because other records identify Charles's wife as Mary Ann McGarvey, this card preserves the indexed text while treating it as a likely indexing or OCR error.

Marker: McGarvey

Charles L.: July 17, 1913; Nov. 16, 1997

Mary Ann: Oct. 30, 1916; May 22, 2007

Find a Grave index name: Charles L. McGarvey

Birth date: 17 Jul 1913

Birth place: Alabama, United States of America [as indexed]

Death date: 16 Nov 1997

Death place: Alabama, United States of America

Cemetery: Cedar Grove Cemetery

Burial or cremation place: Leeds, St. Clair County, Alabama, United States of America

Has bio: No

Spouse: Mary Ann McGarvey

URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80680819/charles-l.-mcgarvey

Interpretation: The tombstone confirms Charles L. McGarvey's exact birth and death dates and places him with Mary Ann McGarvey in Cedar Grove Cemetery at Leeds, Alabama. This completes the late-life chain from Moody directory listing, to Birmingham obituary index, to cemetery record.

The Find a Grave index lists Charles's birthplace as Alabama, but earlier records on this site identify him as born in Wellston, Ohio. The Alabama birthplace should therefore be treated as an index error or unverified cemetery-index data unless a stronger source supports it.

Index record for: Charles L. McGarvey

Collection: U.S., Social Security Death Index

Full name: Charles L. McGarvey

Birth date: 17 Jul 1913

Death date: 16 Nov 1997

Last residence: Moody, AL

Social Security card issued: Unknown Code (PE)

Social Security number: ***-**-6889

Interpretation: The Social Security Death Index confirms Charles L. McGarvey's death date as November 16, 1997 and preserves the same July 17, 1913 birth date seen in the WWII draft record. It therefore works as a late-life identity anchor rather than a detailed biography source.

The last residence, Moody, Alabama, also fits the broader family-history thread that Charles's work life eventually moved beyond Wellston and Ohio. The index does not explain when or why he moved to Alabama, so it should be paired later with obituary, cemetery, residence, employment, or family-memory sources to build the final chapter of the narrative.

Excerpt transcript, 0:00 to about 3:17

Fred: But over a period of time, you get promotions, and it can be more money in different places to work. But still, in that type of business, they didn't make that lot of money. But, you know, he's one of the people. He just worked his way up.

John: Yeah. So, from I guess probably his forties or so, when he got his first real job.

Fred: Managing the factory.

John: Managing the factory.

Fred: Yeah. And then he worked different factories down south, all over. St. Louis, St. Louis area, Little Rock.

John: Arkansas.

Fred: Arkansas.

John: Because I saw an article that said that Hercules, that they closed one of the Hercules factories in Wellston because they opened one in Arkansas. And I thought, well, I know Grandpa went to Arkansas, so I was wondering if that was the same time that he did that, and if he got that job.

Fred: I don't think so. But, you know, some places he would go to work and he'd run two factories.

John: Yeah.

Fred: And it would be one. And then the last place was in Alabama. He'd run two factories there. And then when he was in Alabama, he was probably fifty-seven, fifty-eight, something like that. Back in Ohio, where he started as a supervisor, they had six factories. They hired him to run all six factories.

Mikayla: Wow.

Fred: So over his lifetime, he was a supervisor. Coming back, he's over, what, 1,200 people.

Mikayla: Wow. That's amazing. He really worked his way up.

Fred: Yeah. He did.

John: That was amazing. In school, two years, he went to Rio Grande College. And my cousin Lois, his daughter, got her doctor's degree there, nursing. And they were able to get his grades and his records for me.

Mikayla: Oh my gosh.

John: And basically, it looked like he went one year for...

Fred: One semester.

John: One semester. For football. That worked. He came back, and it showed one semester.

Fred: Yeah. That was the end of it.

John: So he basically would go in the fall and play football.

Mikayla: I see.

John: And take classes and then...

Fred: Just to play football.

John: Apparently pass classes or not pass them.

Fred: Yeah.

John: And then he would go work, and then he'd come back the next fall and go play football. He did a couple years.

Fred: Yeah.

Mikayla: How many siblings did he have?

Fred: How many what?

Mikayla: Siblings. How big was his family? How many brothers and sisters?

John: How many aunts and uncles did you have from his side?

Fred: He had three sisters. He had a brother. Let's see what he was... And then he had two brothers that died.

Mikayla: When they were young?

Fred: Young. I think one was awful. Somehow he got on fire, his body.

Mikayla: Oh. That is awful.

John: Like a freak accident.

Fred: Yeah. I can't remember how the other died.

John: It's like your grandpa's, some of his siblings died really tragically.

Fred: That was it.

John: Four, seven. Seven total.

Mikayla: So their names were... do you remember their names?

Fred: Beezer. I don't know the young kids who died. The rest was Tom, [Chow Mommie / Charles's Mommie], Margaret, and Sue.

Family clarification: The brothers Fred could not name were Clarence McGarvey, 1890-1899, who died in a cricket bat accident, and Daniel McGarvey, 1893-1914, who died in a fire. "Chow Mommie" or "Charles's Mommie" refers to Charles Leo McGarvey's nephew Charles, Fred's cousin.

John: Yeah.

Fred: Yeah.

Rewritten notes: On Friday, May 1, 2026, John McGarvey spoke by phone with his father, Fred McGarvey, about Fred's memories of Charles Leo McGarvey during the World War II draft period and about Charles's brief semi-professional football career in Ashland, Kentucky.

Fred said that his father was never away from the family during the war. He remembered the period when Charles failed his draft physical; Fred would have been about six years old at the time. According to Fred, after Charles failed the physical he disappeared from home, or went on a bender, for three days. Mary Ann McGarvey was worried while he was gone.

Fred also remembered knowing that Charles Leo played semi-professional football in Ashland. One of Fred's earliest memories, or possibly a memory formed around a surviving photograph, was of a picture taken when Fred was about three years old with his father and mother in Ashland, Kentucky, while Charles was still playing football there.

Fred said Charles had been promised a good salary for the Ashland football work but was not paid what he had been promised, which frustrated him. Fred also remembered that Charles sustained a leg injury during that year. In the family telling, that leg injury became the reason Charles failed his later draft medical examination.

Interpretive note: This card preserves family memory rather than an official draft classification record. The draft registration card confirms that Charles registered on October 16, 1940, but it does not itself prove the later medical result. The family account points to a failed physical and a three-day absence after the exam; that claim should be checked against Selective Service classification or medical records if they can be located.

The connection between the Ashland leg injury, the failed draft physical, and Charles appearing in only six games is a plausible interpretation based on Fred's recollection and the athletic record, but it should remain framed as interpretation until supported by additional newspaper, team, medical, or Selective Service evidence.