A family-history research hub for Charles Leo McGarvey, bringing together athletic records,
family memories, photographs, newspaper clippings, and documentary evidence.
This landing page now serves as the top-level home for the Charles Leo McGarvey materials.
The early-life section builds the family and childhood setting from the document gallery, and
the athlete study follows McGarvey from Wellston High School football through Rio Grande
College, semi-professional football, and later-life tennis. A separate athlete page holds
the detailed athletic-career document cards, source images, and season evidence.
Charles Leo McGarvey's early life is best reconstructed through the documents that surround him:
his parents' census households before his birth, the vital records of his older siblings, his own
first census appearance as a child, and later records that preserve his birth date and continuing
connection to Wellston.
Charles Leo McGarvey was born in Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, on July 17, 1913, a date and
place preserved most clearly on his World War II draft registration card
[1940 draft card].
He was the youngest known child in the household of Isaac McGarvey and Mary Patton McGarvey.
The document gallery shows that this was already a long-established Wellston family before Charles
appeared in the records. In 1900, Isaac and Mary were living in Wellston Ward 2 with Daniel, William,
and Susan, while the census also helps explain the absence of their oldest son Clarence, who had
died the previous year
[1900 census][Clarence death record].
By 1910, before Charles was born, the family household had grown to include Daniel, William, Susan,
Mary Ellen, and Margaret, with Isaac listed as a foreman at a cement mill and Daniel already working
as a furnace laborer
[1910 census].
Those earlier household records matter because they show the family world Charles entered. His
older siblings connected him to a wide span of family memory: Clarence, whose brief life is
documented through birth and death records; William, later remembered as Beezer; Susan Anna; Mary
Ellen; Margaret; and Daniel
[Clarence birth record][William birth index][Susan birth index][Mary Ellen birth index][Margaret birth index].
Charles was still an infant when another early family loss occurred: Daniel McGarvey died in
Jackson County on July 5, 1914, according to the Ohio death index, with family memory identifying
the cause as a fire
[Daniel death index].
These records suggest that Charles grew up as the youngest child in a household shaped by older
siblings, industrial work, and two sibling deaths that remained part of the family's remembered past.
Charles first appears directly in the federal census in 1920, when he was six years old and living
with his parents on West C Street in Wellston Ward 2
[1920 census].
That record places him in the same town that would later anchor his schooling, football reputation,
early work life, and draft registration. It also shows the household after Daniel's death and after
several older siblings had begun moving toward adult lives of their own: Isaac and Mary were still
in the home, along with Willie, Mary Ellen, Margaret, and young Charles. The West C Street setting is
more than a childhood address. It becomes a through-line in the evidence, reappearing in later adult
records when Charles was living at 503 C Street with his father, his brother William, his wife Mary
Ann, and his son Freddie
[1940 census].
The early-life record also points toward the transition from childhood into the athletic story that
follows. By the late 1920s, Charles was still rooted in Wellston, where his high school football
career would begin. Before those athletic clippings take over the narrative, the life documents show
a younger Charles growing up in a working household with deep Wellston ties, surrounded by older
siblings and family stories of loss, labor, and endurance. The death of his mother, Mary Patton
McGarvey, in 1931, occurred just as Charles was moving from high school into the Rio Grande years
[Mary death index].
Read together, the document gallery presents Charles Leo not only as an athlete, but as the youngest
son of a Wellston family whose history was already layered long before his football career made him
visible in newspapers and yearbooks.
Charles Leo McGarvey in a three-point stance during his football years. This image introduces the
athlete section and links to the fuller athletic-career research page.
Charles Leo McGarvey's surviving football record begins at Wellston High School, where
he reached the varsity team as a sophomore in 1928 and played on a championship squad
that finished 6-1-1 and won the Southeastern title. The high school materials show that
he was already a significant presence on the line at an early age. The 1929 Wellston
yearbook identifies him as a left tackle, describes him as one of the largest men on
the team, and notes that he earned All-South-eastern second-team recognition, suggesting
that his value rested not only in size but also in his ability to hold a major varsity
role against older competition. Even though the surviving evidence for 1929 and 1930 is
thinner, the team record cards show that he remained part of the varsity program through
those final high school seasons.
By the time McGarvey reached Rio Grande, the surviving newspaper coverage presents him
as much more than a steady lineman. In 1931 he appears as a physical, game-changing
player capable of affecting momentum on both defense and offense. The clearest example
comes in Rio Grande's 18-7 win over Cedarville, where he blocked and recovered a punt
deep in enemy territory and later scored a touchdown himself. That same season coverage
also places him on a Rio Grande team that was rapidly gaining regional attention, with
articles emphasizing the strength of Coach Spooner's squad and the way former high
school stars from towns like Wellston helped power the program's rise. Together, these
clippings show McGarvey emerging as a tough and versatile player whose impact could be
felt in decisive moments.
The fullest portrait of McGarvey's athletic ability comes in the transition from 1931 to
1932, when the record shifts from describing him as an important contributor to
identifying him as one of the team's central figures. The season summaries on the page
portray him as a player who could block kicks, run with power, fill in effectively at
fullback, and help carry the offense in crucial stretches. By the end of 1931 he had
been elected captain of the 1932 team, and the 1932 coverage presents him as a star
fullback and leader whose running, toughness, and late-game determination were central
to Rio Grande's identity. Taken together, the surviving high school and college sources
present Charles Leo McGarvey as a strong, durable, and adaptable football player whose
athletic reputation grew from early varsity promise at Wellston into leadership and
prominence at Rio Grande.
Charles McGarvey's football career did not end with college. Family stories had long
held that "Chuck" went on to play semi-pro football, and surviving roster evidence now
confirms that tradition. In 1937, McGarvey appeared on the roster of the Ashland Armcos
of the Mid-West Football League, where he was listed as a right tackle from Rio Grande,
weighing 177 pounds. The team finished 5-3-1 and placed third in the league under Head
Coach Fayne Grone, giving documentary proof that McGarvey extended his playing career
beyond high school and college into the semi-pro ranks.
The family records move Charles Leo McGarvey out of the athletic record and into the
household story: son of Isaac and Mary Patton McGarvey, husband of Mary Ann Hughes
McGarvey, and father of Charles Frederick "Fred" McGarvey.
Charles's childhood household was rooted in Wellston before he was born. The 1900 and
1910 census records document Isaac and Mary McGarvey with Charles's older siblings, while
sibling birth and death records preserve the broader family structure and the losses of
Clarence and Daniel before Charles reached adulthood
[1900 census][1910 census][Clarence death record][Daniel death index].
The family photographs of Mary Patton McGarvey with Sue, and of Mary Ellen, Sue, and
Margaret, add a visual record of the women in the McGarvey family whose lives surrounded
Charles's early years
[Mary and Sue photograph][sisters photograph].
Charles and Mary Ann Hughes formed their own household before the 1940 census. Their
marriage record places the couple in Parkersburg, West Virginia, while Fred McGarvey's
birth certificate confirms Charles Leo McGarvey and Mary Ann Hughes as Fred's parents
[marriage record][Fred birth certificate].
By 1940, the family was back in the McGarvey household at 503 C Street in Wellston with
Isaac, William, Charles, Mary Ann, and young Freddie listed together
[1940 census].
The same address reappears in 1950, now with Charles as head of household, Mary Ann as
his wife, and Charles Frederick as their teenage son
[1950 census].
Fred McGarvey's oral-history interviews are central to the later family story because they
preserve memories not yet matched to courthouse or employment records. Fred remembered his
father as someone who worked his way up, moved through factory-management assignments, and
remained connected to the West C Street house during the transition from Wellston to later
factory locations
[2024 interview][Manchester/Arkansas notes].
Those interviews should be read as living family testimony from Charles Leo's son, and then
paired with deed records, city directories, school records, and company records as those
sources are located.
Charles Leo McGarvey's work record begins in the documents as factory labor and becomes,
through census evidence and oral history, a story of promotion into supervision and
management across Hercules-related factory locations.
In 1940, Charles was recorded as a presser in a pants factory, working forty-two hours in
the census week and reporting twenty-eight weeks of work in 1939
[1940 census].
His draft registration card later that year placed him at 503 W. C. Street, identified
Mary Ann as the person who would always know his address, and listed his place of
employment on East Second Street in Wellston
[1940 draft card].
The Hercules Trouser Company photograph and book excerpt identify the Wellston factory
context for that work: a Columbus-based company with a Wellston branch plant, expanding
clothing production, and later ties to the Jackson County industrial story
[Hercules photograph][Hercules excerpt].
By 1950, Charles's work status had changed sharply. The census listed him as a foreman,
working fifty hours and reporting $4,175 in wage income
[1950 census].
That record gives documentary support to the family story that he moved from production
work into supervision. A 1955 family photograph, associated with Fred McGarvey's
graduation, places Charles in the middle of this transition period, after the 1950 census
and before the later moves described in family memory
[1955 photograph].
Fred McGarvey's May 7, 2026 phone interview updates the later timeline. Fred remembered
that in the spring of 1957 Charles got a job managing the Hercules pant factory in
Manchester, Ohio, near the Ohio River, and received a new company house there. When
Charles moved out of the Wellston house, Fred and Sandy McGarvey moved in. Fred had
graduated from Heidelberg College in Tiffin in 1956, married Sandy that summer, and was
attending Ohio University for his electrical engineering degree while Sandy taught at
Central Elementary School in Wellston
[Manchester interview].
Fred also said Charles worked at the Manchester plant for about three to five years before
moving to Arkansas to manage a factory there. The oral-history timeline now runs from the
spring 1957 Manchester move, to Fred and Sandy living in the Wellston house after Charles
moved out, to Charles's later Arkansas factory-management assignment
[Manchester interview].
The account points toward Adams County or Manchester directories, Hercules employment
records, Wellston property records, Ohio University records, school employment records, and
Fordyce or Dallas County, Arkansas company-housing records.
The late-work story continues through family interview testimony. Fred recalled Charles
managing factories in multiple places, including Manchester, Arkansas, and Alabama,
sometimes running two factories at once, and later being hired back in Ohio to oversee
several factories
[2024 interview][Manchester interview].
The online Hercules history helps support the setting: the Jackson factory operated from
the early 1950s until operations moved to Arkansas in 1960, and later federal labor
records identify a Hercules Trouser Co. plant in Fordyce, Arkansas. That Jackson evidence
is useful regional context, but Fred's May 7, 2026 interview points specifically to Manchester as
Charles's 1957 management assignment before Arkansas. A Times-Gazette history of the
Hillsboro pants-factory site adds another piece of context for how broad the Hercules
factory footprint became in southern Ohio
[Hillsboro factory history].
A 2026 People's Defender article on demolition of the former Manchester pants
factory similarly documents Manchester as another Hercules Trouser Company site and
preserves the later afterlife of that building
[Manchester demolition].
A regional synthesis card now gathers the Wellston, Jackson, Hillsboro, and Manchester
factory evidence in one place
[regional factories].
A 1959 strike clipping is especially useful because it names the Hillsboro, Wellston,
Jackson, and Manchester plants together during the same labor action
[1959 strike].
The exact Arkansas plant that Charles managed remains a research target.
The final records place Charles Leo McGarvey in the Leeds and Moody, Alabama area, connect
his death to a Birmingham newspaper notice, and preserve his shared grave marker with Mary
Ann McGarvey at Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Shared McGarvey grave marker for Charles L. McGarvey and Mary Ann McGarvey at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Leeds, Alabama.
The late-life residence trail currently begins with public-records and directory entries
that place Charles L. McGarvey in Moody, Alabama, by 1987 and at Lee Meadows Drive in the
1993-1999 period
[1987 public records index][1993-1999 directory].
These records do not prove when Charles first arrived in Alabama, but they provide a
documented retirement-era location that matches the later obituary index and Social
Security Death Index
[obituary index][SSDI].
Charles died on November 16, 1997. The obituary index identifies him as a Moody, St. Clair
County, Alabama resident whose notice appeared in the Birmingham Post-Herald on
November 19, 1997, while the Social Security Death Index preserves the same death date and
last residence. The Find a Grave index and tombstone photograph place Charles L. McGarvey
with Mary Ann McGarvey at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Leeds, Alabama
[Cedar Grove marker].
The marker gives Charles's dates as July 17, 1913 to November 16, 1997, and Mary Ann's as
October 30, 1916 to May 22, 2007.
Family oral history adds the chapter after Charles's death. Fred McGarvey moved his mother,
Mary Ann, to a retirement mobile home in Oceanside, California. During the move to
California, the moving van was broken into and the family Bible was stolen. That loss matters
as part of the research history itself: a private family source that might have preserved
names, dates, and relationships was lost before it could be added to the documentary record.
This account should be cited as Fred McGarvey family testimony and kept separate from the
cemetery and public-index evidence until supporting moving, residence, or police records are
found.
This gallery is for sources that describe Charles Leo McGarvey's broader life beyond the
athlete section, including work, family memory, interviews, and later-life evidence.
Birth Record
1890 Birth Record: Clarence McGarvey
This Lawrence County, Ohio probate birth-register excerpt records the birth of Clarence
McGarvey, the oldest known child of Isaac and Mary McGarvey. The record is useful
because Clarence died before the 1900 census and is otherwise easy to lose from the
household timeline.
Lawrence County, Ohio probate birth-register row for Clarence McGarvey, July 7, 1890.
Birth date: July 7, 1890
Birth place: Lawrence County, Ohio, USA
Child: Clarence McGarvey
Father: Isaac McGarvey
Mother: Mary McGarvey
Record type: Record of Birth, Probate Court
Indexing / record issue: The record appears to list Clarence as female. Other family evidence identifies Clarence as a son, so this should be treated as a sex-field error in the probate record or index.
Historical significance: Adds Clarence to the documented sibling timeline before his death in 1899 from a cricket bat accident.
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.
This Jackson County, Ohio probate death-register entry records the death of Clarence
McGarvey, Isaac and Mary McGarvey's oldest known son, on February 26, 1899. The
official cause of death is blood poisoning, which can be reconciled with the family
story that Clarence died after a cricket bat accident.
Jackson County, Ohio probate death-register row for Clarence McGarvey, February 26, 1899.
Death date: February 26, 1899
Place of death: Wellston, Ohio
Place of birth: Wellston, Ohio
Name: Clarence McGarvey
Sex: Male
Condition: Single
Age: 8 years, 10 days
Official cause of death: Blood poisoning
Reported by: Assessor
Family account: Clarence died after a cricket bat accident. The accident is best understood as the remembered event that likely led to the infection recorded as blood poisoning.
Historical significance: Documents why Clarence is absent from the 1900 census and supports the family memory preserved in Fred McGarvey's interview.
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.
This Ohio births and christenings index identifies William McGarvey, later known in
the family as "Beezer," as a son of Isaac McGarvey and Mary Patton. The indexed birth
place is Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, placing another of Charles Leo McGarvey's
older siblings in the same Wellston family setting.
Ohio births and christenings index entry for William McGarvey, son of Isaac McGarvey and Mary Patton.
Name in index: William McGarvey
Family name: William "Beezer" McGarvey
Gender / race: Male; White
Birth date in index: October 28, 1896
Family/tree birth date: August 26, 1896
Birth place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Father: Isaac McGarvey
Mother: Mary Patton
FHL film number: 301033
Residence trail: Wellston Ward 2 / Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, in 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1935, 1940, and 1950; additional attached residence facts include Jackson County, Vinton County, and Wellston, Ohio
Military context: Residence in Jackson County, Ohio, 1917-1918; military fact attached for 1918
Marriage: September 20, 1920, Jackson County, Ohio, to Mabel Mowery; later marriage October 19, 1940, Gallia County, Ohio, to Nellie Levis
Children in attached facts: Catherine J. McGarvey, Clarence Eugene McGarvey, Helen Jean Gabriel, and Virginia Strong
Death date / place: December 26, 1975, Ross County, Ohio
Burial: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Historical significance: Adds a vital-record source for Charles Leo McGarvey's older brother and supports the sibling structure seen in the 1900 and 1910 census records.
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.
This Ohio births and christenings index records Susan McGarvey's birth in Wellston on
November 2, 1899. Susan Anna McGarvey was one of Charles Leo McGarvey's older sisters
and appears in the family structure shown by the 1900 and 1910 census records.
Ohio births and christenings index entry for Susan McGarvey, born in Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio.
Name in index: Susan McGarvey
Full family name: Susan Anna McGarvey
Gender / race: Female; White
Birth date: November 2, 1899
Alternate birth date in attached facts: November 9, 1899, Jackson County, Ohio
Birth place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Father in index: Jap McGarvey [likely an indexing or reading error for Isaac McGarvey in family context]
Mother in index: Mary Patten [Mary Patton]
FHL film number: 301033
Marriage: May 26, 1917, Jackson County, Ohio
Residence trail: Wellston, Ohio, in 1900, 1910, and 1920; Columbus, Ohio, in 1928; Mifflin, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1930, 1935, and 1940; Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1950
Death date / place: March 11, 1981, Port Charlotte, Charlotte County, Florida
Burial: New Albany, Franklin County, Ohio
Historical significance: Adds a birth-index source for Charles Leo McGarvey's older sister and helps account for the children listed in Isaac and Mary McGarvey's early census households.
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.
This Ohio births and christenings index records Mary Ellen McGarvey's birth in
Wellston on February 6, 1903. Mary Ellen was one of Charles Leo McGarvey's older
sisters and later appears in the family's census trail as the household grows through
the 1910 and 1920 records.
Ohio births and christenings index entry for Mary Ellen McGarvey, born in Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio.
Name in index: Mary Ellen McGarvey
Gender / race: Female; White
Birth date: February 6, 1903
Birth place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Father: Isaac McGarvey
Mother: Mary Patton
FHL film number: 301033
Associated family nickname: "Chow Mama" / "Charles mama" [family memory, not from the birth index]
Marriage: January 30, 1926, Jackson County, Ohio
Death date / place: June 5, 1978, Gallia County, Ohio
Burial: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Historical significance: Adds a vital-record source for another of Charles Leo McGarvey's older sisters and supports the sibling set reconstructed from the census and family photograph cards.
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.
This Ohio births and christenings index records Margaret McGarvey's birth in Wellston
on March 2, 1907. Margaret was one of Charles Leo McGarvey's older sisters and appears
in the family household in the 1910 and 1920 census records.
Ohio births and christenings index entry for Margaret McGarvey, born in Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio.
Name in index: Margaret McGarvey
Gender / race: Female; White
Birth date: March 2, 1907
Birth place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Father: Isaac McGarvey
Mother: Mary Patton
FHL film number: 301033
Later residence context: Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, in the 1930 and 1940 census trail
Family memory: Later lived with "Chow Mama" after her husband died [family memory, not from the birth index]
Death date / place: February 6, 1984, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
Burial: Delaware, Ohio
Historical significance: Adds a birth-index source for Charles Leo McGarvey's older sister Margaret and completes the documented birth-index cluster for the known McGarvey sisters.
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.
1900 Census: Isaac and Mary McGarvey Before Charles Leo
This 1900 federal census record documents Isaac and Mary McGarvey's young household in
Wellston before Charles Leo McGarvey was born. It places the family in Wellston Ward 2
and shows Isaac working as a furnaceman, while also recording the surviving children in
the household after the death of oldest son Clarence McGarvey in 1899.
1900 United States census page for Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, listing the Isaac McGarvey household.
Enumeration date: June 14, 1900
Place: Wellston Township, Wellston, Ward 2, Jackson County, Ohio
Household head: Isaac McGarvey, born January 1869 [as read], age 31, married, born Ohio
Wife: Mary McGarvey, born February 1873 [as read], age 27, married, born Ohio
Children in household: Daniel, William, and Susan McGarvey
Family context: Clarence McGarvey, born 1890 and died 1899, does not appear because he had died before this census. Daniel McGarvey appears here as a child and later died in a fire in 1914.
Historical significance: Establishes Charles Leo McGarvey's parents and older siblings in Wellston during the furnace and coal-mining world that shaped the family before Charles's birth.
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.
1910 Census: Isaac McGarvey Household Before Charles Leo's Birth
This 1910 federal census record places Isaac and Mary McGarvey in Wellston Ward 2 with
Daniel, William, Susan, Mary Ellen, and Margaret. Charles Leo had not yet been born,
but the record documents the household and siblings he would later join, including
Daniel McGarvey before his 1914 death in a fire.
1910 United States census page for Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, listing the Isaac McGarvey household.
Enumeration date: April 21, 1910
Place: Wellston Township, Wellston City, Ward 2, Jackson County, Ohio
Household head: Isaac McGarvey, age 40, born Ohio
Wife: Mary McGarvey, age 37, born Ohio
Children in household: Daniel, William, Susan, Mary Ellen, and Margaret McGarvey
Work context: Isaac is listed as a foreman at a cement mill; Daniel is listed as a laborer at a furnace.
Historical significance: Shows the McGarvey household immediately before Charles Leo's birth and preserves the older siblings who shaped his early family world.
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.
This Ohio Department of Health death-index page records Daniel McGarvey's death in
Jackson County on July 5, 1914. Daniel was one of Charles Leo McGarvey's older
brothers and appears in the 1900 and 1910 census records before his death.
Ohio Department of Health death-index page listing Dan McGravey, Jackson County, July 5, 1914.
Name in index: McGravey, Dan
Identified person: Daniel McGarvey
Death date: July 5, 1914
Age: 21
Place of death: Jackson County, Ohio
State file: Volume 1425, certificate 42455
Family account: Daniel died in a fire.
Historical significance: Explains Daniel's absence from the 1920 census and preserves another early sibling death in Charles Leo McGarvey's family background.
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.
This 1920 federal census record places six-year-old Charles Leo McGarvey in his
parents' household on West C Street in Wellston Ward 2, Jackson County, Ohio. The
record establishes his childhood home, household structure, school attendance, and
Ohio-born parents before the later athletic, work, and wartime records.
1920 United States census page for Wellston Ward 2, Jackson County, Ohio, listing the Isaac McGarvey household.
Enumeration date: January 9, 1920
Place: Wellston Ward 2, Jackson County, Ohio
Street: West C St.
Person: Charles Leo McGarvey, age 6, son, single, attended school
Parents: Isaac McGarvey and Mary McGarvey, both born in Ohio
Household members: Isaac, Mary, Willie, Mary Ellen, Margaret, and Charles Leo McGarvey
Historical significance: Documents Charles Leo McGarvey as a child in the Wellston household that anchors his later school, athletic, and work-life records.
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.
This Ohio death-index entry records the death of Mary Patton McGarvey, Charles Leo
McGarvey's mother, on April 15, 1931. Her death falls during the period when Charles
Leo was moving between Wellston, Rio Grande College football, and early adulthood.
Ohio Department of Health death-index page listing Mary McGarvey, Jackson County, April 15, 1931.
Name in index: McGarvey, Mary
Identified person: Mary Patton McGarvey
Relationship: Mother of Charles Leo McGarvey; wife of Isaac McGarvey
Death date: April 15, 1931
Place of death: Jackson County, Ohio
Source collection: Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007 / Ohio death records database
Historical significance: Marks the death of Charles Leo McGarvey's mother before his 1931 Rio Grande football season and before his later household with Mary Ann Hughes.
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.
Find a Grave: Isaac and Mary McGarvey at Ridgewood Cemetery
This shared grave marker and Find a Grave memorial place Mary Patton McGarvey,
Charles Leo McGarvey's mother, with Isaac McGarvey at Ridgewood Cemetery in
Wellston. The marker anchors Charles's parents in the same Wellston community
documented by the census and death-index records.
Shared grave marker for Isaac McGarvey and Mary McGarvey at Ridgewood Cemetery, Wellston, Ohio.
Marker surname: McGarvey
Isaac McGarvey: 1869-1941
Mary McGarvey: 1873-1931 on marker; Find a Grave lists Mary Patton McGarvey as born January 4, 1874
Mary's death date: April 15, 1931
Mary's death place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Cemetery: Ridgewood Cemetery
Burial place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, United States of America
Family relationships in Find a Grave: Spouse Isaac McGarvey; children Daniel McGarvey and William McGarvey
Historical significance: Confirms the burial setting for Charles Leo McGarvey's parents and ties the 1931 death-index entry to a family cemetery marker.
Citation:
Find a Grave, memorial no. 133719813, Mary McGarvey,
Ridgewood Cemetery, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio.
Open memorial.
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
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.
Undated Photograph: Mary Patton McGarvey with Sue McGarvey
This family photograph shows Mary Patton McGarvey with her daughter Sue McGarvey.
The image is undated, but it must predate Mary's death on April 15, 1931. It gives
the documentary record a human face, connecting the census household and cemetery
evidence to a surviving family image.
Mary Patton McGarvey with her daughter Sue McGarvey, undated family photograph.
People shown: Mary Patton McGarvey and her daughter Sue McGarvey
Date: Undated; before April 15, 1931
Family relationship: Mary was Charles Leo McGarvey's mother; Sue was Charles Leo's older sister
Historical significance: Adds a visual family source for Mary Patton McGarvey and Sue McGarvey alongside the census, death-index, and cemetery records.
Citation:
McGarvey family photograph, Mary Patton McGarvey with Sue McGarvey, undated.
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.
Undated Photograph: Mary Ellen, Sue, and Margaret McGarvey
This family photograph shows three of Charles Leo McGarvey's older sisters: Mary
Ellen McGarvey, Sue McGarvey, and Margaret McGarvey. The image adds a visual record
for the sisters who appear in the family census records before Charles reached
adulthood.
Mary Ellen McGarvey, Sue McGarvey, and Margaret McGarvey, undated family photograph.
People shown: Mary Ellen McGarvey, Sue McGarvey, and Margaret McGarvey
Date: Undated
Family relationship: Older sisters of Charles Leo McGarvey
Historical significance: Preserves a visual source for three McGarvey sisters whose names help reconstruct Isaac and Mary McGarvey's household across the early census records.
Citation:
McGarvey family photograph, Mary Ellen McGarvey, Sue McGarvey, and Margaret McGarvey, undated.
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.
Marriage License: Charles Leo McGarvey and Mary Ann Hughes
This Wood County, West Virginia marriage license records the marriage of Charles Leo
McGarvey and Mary Ann Hughes. The license is an important bridge between Charles's
college and early work years and the later census and draft records that show Mary Ann
as his wife and household contact.
Groom: Charles Leo McGarvey
Bride: Mary Ann Hughes
Marriage place: Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia
Charles's age / residence: 23; Parkersburg, West Virginia
Mary Ann's age / residence: 22; Parkersburg, West Virginia
Birthplaces: Charles and Mary Ann both listed as born in Jackson County, West Virginia [as written in the record; compare with other Ohio records]
Officiant: Rev. L. J. Miller, D.D. [reading uncertain]
Historical significance: Documents the formation of Charles Leo McGarvey and Mary Ann Hughes's household before the 1940 census, draft card, and later family records.
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.
Vital Record
Birth Certificate: Charles Frederick McGarvey
This family copy of Fred McGarvey's Ohio birth certificate documents the birth
of Charles Frederick McGarvey, the only son of Charles Leo McGarvey and Mary Ann
Hughes McGarvey. Its basic birth and parentage information helps reconstruct Charles
Leo McGarvey's household timeline.
Child: Charles Frederick McGarvey
Birth date: June 12, 1934
Birth place: Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio
Sex: Male
Father: Charles Leo McGarvey
Father's residence: Jackson, Ohio
Father's age: 21
Father's birthplace: Ohio
Mother: Mary Ann Hughes
Mother's residence: Jackson, Ohio
Mother's age: 17
Mother's birthplace: Jackson, Ohio
Certified copy: Photostatic copy certified by the Ohio Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, April 21, 1952
Historical significance: Establishes Fred McGarvey's birth date and confirms Charles Leo McGarvey and Mary Ann Hughes as his parents before the 1940 census household.
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.
Federal Census
1940 Census: Charles McGarvey at 503 C Street
This 1940 federal census record places Charles McGarvey at 503 C Street in Wellston,
Jackson County, Ohio, living with his father Isaac, brother William, wife Mary Ann,
and son Freddie. It is especially valuable because it records Charles's occupation as
presser, his work schedule, his 1939 work history, his income, and his education.
1940 United States census page for Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, listing the Isaac McGarvey household at 503 C Street.
Enumeration date: April 13, 1940
Place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Address: 503 C Street
Person: Charles McGarney / McGarvey, age 26, son, married, born Ohio
Residence in 1935: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Education: College, 5th or subsequent year
Occupation: Presser, pants factory
Work: 42 hours worked during the week prior to the census; wage or salary worker in private work
1939 work and income: 28 weeks worked; $400 income; no income from other sources
Household members: Isaac McGarney, William McGarney, Charles McGarney, Mary Ann McGarney, and Freddie McGarney
Historical significance: Connects Charles Leo McGarvey's adult household, work life, education, income, and continued Wellston residence immediately before his WWII draft registration.
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.
This World War II draft registration card places Charles Leo McGarvey in Wellston,
Jackson County, Ohio, as a 27-year-old married man working in town when he registered
for the draft. It connects his wartime record to his home address, his wife Mary Ann
McGarvey, his Wellston birth, his local employment, and the registrar's physical
description of him.
Front of Charles Leo McGarvey's World War II draft registration card.
Registrar's report for Charles Leo McGarvey's World War II draft registration, including physical description.
Record date: 1940, likely October 16, 1940 registration period
Name: Charles L. McGarvey
Residence: 503 W. C. St., Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Age / birth: 27; born July 17, 1913, Wellston, Ohio
Contact person: Mrs. Mary Ann McGarvey, wife, same address
Employer: Mrs. Nate Gold [reading uncertain]
Place of employment: E. 2nd St., Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Physical description: White; approximately 6 ft. 1 in.; 185 pounds; brown eyes; brown hair; dark complexion
Registrar: W. H. Simmons, Precinct 9, Ward 2, Wellston, Ohio
Historical significance: Establishes Charles Leo McGarvey's WWII draft registration, residence, family contact, and work setting at the beginning of the wartime draft system.
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
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.
Hercules Trouser Company: East Second Street, Wellston
This 1940s-era view of the Hercules Trouser Company on East Second Street gives visual
context for the pants-factory work recorded in Charles Leo McGarvey's 1940 census and
draft records. A related caption identifies the site as the place "where Wellston began
with a furnace in '73," linking the factory landscape to the older furnace and iron
history of Wellston. The photograph also helps place the Wellston factory within the
broader Hercules Trouser Company story in Jackson County, where clothing manufacturing
became part of the county's mid-century industrial transition.
East Second Street, Wellston, Ohio. The clearer of the two local images is used here; a second version carries the caption tying the site to Wellston's furnace beginnings.
Estimated date: 1940s
Place: East Second Street, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Site: Hercules Trouser Company; later associated with Kuppenheimer Pants
Industry: Men's trousers and related clothing production
Earlier site history: The surviving caption says Wellston began here with a furnace in 1873. KERAMIDA's later environmental summary identifies the first documented use of the site as Milton Furnace and Coal by at least 1888, followed by Wellston Iron and Steel Company and Milton Iron Co.
Later site history: KERAMIDA reports that the property later took on the building footprint associated with Hercules Trouser Company, was used after the trouser company by a bakery/chocolate packaging business, became vacant, and was largely destroyed by fire on April 5, 2011.
Regional context: Hercules Trouser Company was a significant Jackson County employer. A separate Jackson, Ohio, production facility began after a 1950 bond issue, opened in 1951, and operated until 1960, when the site closed and company operations moved to Arkansas.
Family context: Family memory holds that Charles Leo McGarvey, known as Grandpa Chuck, moved with the company when Hercules shifted operations to Arkansas.
Historical significance: Provides a visual anchor for the Wellston pants-factory workplace connected to Charles and Mary Ann McGarvey in the 1940 census and to Charles's East Second Street place of employment on his WWII draft registration.
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.
1950 Census: Charles McGarvey, Foreman at 503 W. C.
This 1950 census record finds Charles McGarvey still living at 503 W. C. in Wellston,
now as head of household with Mary Ann and Charles Frederick. It records a major
change in his work life: Charles was no longer listed as a presser, but as a foreman
in a parts factory, working 50 hours and reporting $4,175 in wage income.
1950 United States census page for Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, listing Charles McGarvey at 503 W. C.
Enumeration date: April 8, 1950
Place: Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Address: 503 W. C.
Person: Charles McGarvey, age 36, head, married, born Ohio
Previous residence: Same house / Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio
Occupation: Foreman, parts factory
Work: 50 hours worked; private worker; working
Income: 53 weeks worked; $4,175 income; no other income
Education: C3, interpreted as third year of college completed
Veteran status: Census reports not a World War II veteran, not a World War I veteran, not a veteran
Household members: Charles McGarvey, Mary Ann McGarvey, and Charles Frederick McGarvey
Historical significance: Documents Charles Leo McGarvey's postwar household, reported non-veteran status, continued residence at 503 W. C., and advancement into factory supervision.
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.
This book excerpt describes the growth of the Hercules Trouser Company in Wellston, Ohio.
It explains that the Columbus-based company established a branch plant in Wellston in 1937,
built a modern factory on East Second Street, trained workers in the Harper Building, and
expanded after early success.
Book excerpt on the Hercules Trouser Company, describing the Wellston branch plant, its
expansion, production capacity, workforce, and the later Jackson plant.
Company: Hercules Trouser Company of Columbus, Ohio
Wellston branch established: 1937
Location: East Second Street, Wellston, Ohio
Original factory size: 12,000 square feet
Expanded factory size: 24,000 square feet total
Training site: Harper Building, Wellston
Initial workforce: 150 workers
Later workforce: 250 workers, 85% women
Production capacity: 13,500 pairs of trousers per week
General superintendent: I. I. Levine
Plant superintendent: Joseph Christner
Jackson plant: Established in 1952 on Route 139, southwest outskirts of Jackson
Historical significance: Provides industrial and employment context for Charles Leo McGarvey's later work history connected to Hercules and factory management.
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.
This Times-Gazette article is used as contextual evidence for the wider Hercules
Trouser Company factory network. It concerns the pants-factory history in Hillsboro,
Ohio, and helps show that Hercules was not limited to the Wellston and Jackson sites
most directly connected to Charles Leo McGarvey's documented records and family
interviews.
Company context: Hercules Trouser Company / pants-factory history
Historical significance: Adds evidence for the geographic spread of Hercules-related pants factories in Ohio and supports the broader work-history setting around Charles's factory-management career.
Research use: This source should be used for company and industry context only. It does not prove that Charles Leo McGarvey worked at the Hillsboro factory.
Interpretation: Read with the Wellston Hercules book excerpt, the Jackson County industrial-history sources, and federal labor records identifying later Hercules locations, the Hillsboro article helps show that Hercules operated as a multi-plant garment manufacturer. That wider footprint makes the family account of Charles moving through factory-management assignments more plausible, while still leaving each specific assignment to be documented separately.
Follow-up records: Search Hillsboro and Highland County newspapers, city directories, and worker notices for Hercules Trouser Company references; compare those locations with Fred McGarvey's oral-history references to Charles managing multiple factories.
1937 Family Photograph: Charles Leo, Mary Ann, and Fred McGarvey
This family photograph is tentatively identified as Charles Leo McGarvey with Mary Ann
McGarvey and their son Fred, possibly taken in Ashland, Kentucky, during the period when
Charles was playing semi-professional football with the Ashland Armcos. The place and
occasion still need confirmation from Fred McGarvey.
Tentatively identified as Charles Leo McGarvey, Mary Ann McGarvey, and Fred McGarvey, possibly in Ashland, Kentucky, circa 1937.
People tentatively identified: Charles Leo McGarvey, Mary Ann McGarvey, and Charles Frederick "Fred" McGarvey
Estimated date: circa 1937
Possible place: Ashland, Kentucky
Possible context: Charles Leo McGarvey's semi-professional football period with the Ashland Armcos
Confirmation status: Pending confirmation from Fred McGarvey
Historical significance: If confirmed, this photograph would visually connect Charles's young family to his Ashland semi-professional football period.
Image type: Family photograph
Local image file: images/1937_Charles_MaryAnn_Fred.jpg
Research note: The 1937 Ashland Armcos roster card confirms Charles Leo McGarvey's semi-professional football connection to Ashland, but this photograph needs separate family confirmation before the place and event are treated as established facts.
Questions for Fred McGarvey: Are the adults Charles Leo and Mary Ann McGarvey? Is the child Fred? Was the photograph taken in Ashland, Kentucky, while Charles was playing for the Ashland Armcos? Does Fred remember the setting or who took the photograph?
Interpretation: This card preserves the tentative family identification without overstating it. The image fits the family story of a young Fred being photographed with his parents around Charles's Ashland football period, but the card should remain provisional until Fred McGarvey confirms the people, place, and context.
1955 Photograph: Charles Leo McGarvey at His Son's Graduation
This 1955 family photograph shows Charles Leo McGarvey during the year of his son
Fred McGarvey's graduation. It extends the visual record of Charles beyond the early
football and factory years into his middle adulthood as a father.
Charles Leo McGarvey in 1955, connected by family memory to his son Fred's graduation.
Person shown: Charles Leo McGarvey
Date: 1955
Family context: Photograph associated with Fred McGarvey's graduation
Historical significance: Preserves a midlife image of Charles Leo McGarvey after the 1950 census and before the later Alabama retirement records.
Citation:
McGarvey family photograph, Charles Leo McGarvey, 1955, associated with Fred McGarvey's graduation.
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.
1987 Public Records Index: Charles L. McGarvey in Moody, Alabama
This U.S. Public Records Index entry places Charles L. McGarvey in Moody, Alabama,
in 1987 at RR 3 POB 744 and then links him to the later 1993 address at 2723 Lee
Meadows Drive. It pushes the documented Alabama residence trail earlier than the
1993-1999 phone-directory entry and helps connect Charles's retirement-era life in
the Moody and Leeds area.
U.S. Public Records Index entry for Charles L. McGarvey, Moody, Alabama, showing 1987 and 1993 residence listings.
Name: Charles L. McGarvey / Charles McGarvey
Residence date: 1987
Address: RR 3 POB 744
Residence: Moody, Alabama
Postal code: 35125
Second residence date: 1993
Second address: 2723 Lee Meadows Dr.
Second residence: Moody, Alabama
Second postal code: 35004-3442
Historical significance: Extends Charles Leo McGarvey's documented Alabama residence back to 1987 and connects the earlier rural route / post office box listing to the later Lee Meadows Drive address.
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.
1993-1999 Directory: Charles L. McGarvey in Moody, Alabama
This phone and address directory entry places Charles L. McGarvey at 2723 Lee
Meadows Drive in Moody, Alabama, during the years 1993-1999. It helps document
Charles's retirement-era residence in the Birmingham-area community of Moody, near
Leeds, and gives a late-life address that pairs with the Social Security Death Index
listing of Moody as his last residence.
U.S. phone and address directory entry for Charles L. McGarvey, Moody, Alabama, residence years 1993-1999.
Name: Charles L. McGarvey
Gender: Male
Residence years: 1993-1999
Address: 2723 Lee Meadows Dr.
Residence place: Moody, Alabama, USA
Nearby community context: Leeds / Moody, Alabama area
Zip code: 35004-3442
Historical significance: Provides a specific retirement-era address for Charles Leo McGarvey and supports the late-life Alabama residence shown in the Social Security Death Index.
Collection: U.S., Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002
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.
This Newspapers.com obituary index entry identifies Charles Leo McGarvey of Moody,
St. Clair County, Alabama, and records his death date as November 16, 1997. The
obituary appeared in the Birmingham Post-Herald on November 19, 1997. It
strengthens the late-life Alabama evidence by connecting the Moody residence, the
Birmingham newspaper notice, and the death date preserved in the Social Security
Death Index.
Obituary index entry for Charles Leo McGarvey, Birmingham Post-Herald, November 19, 1997.
Name: Charles Leo McGarvey
Gender: Male
Death age: 84
Birth date: about 1913
Residence place: Moody, St. Clair County, Alabama, USA
Death date: November 16, 1997
Obituary date: November 19, 1997
Obituary place: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Newspaper:Birmingham Post-Herald
Spouse field: Mary Arm McGanrey [as indexed; likely Mary Ann McGarvey]
Historical significance: Confirms Charles Leo McGarvey's death notice in a Birmingham newspaper and ties his final documented residence to Moody, Alabama.
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.
Find a Grave: Charles Leo McGarvey at Cedar Grove Cemetery
This Find a Grave index entry and tombstone photograph document the burial place of
Charles L. McGarvey at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Leeds, St. Clair County, Alabama. The
marker also records Mary Ann McGarvey on the same stone, tying Charles's final
Alabama residence to his burial and spouse evidence.
Tombstone for Charles L. McGarvey and Mary Ann McGarvey at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Leeds, Alabama.
Name: Charles L. McGarvey
Birth date on marker: July 17, 1913
Death date on marker: November 16, 1997
Find a Grave birth place: Alabama, United States of America [as indexed; conflicts with Wellston, Ohio records]
Find a Grave death place: Alabama, United States of America
Cemetery: Cedar Grove Cemetery
Burial place: Leeds, St. Clair County, Alabama, United States of America
Spouse: Mary Ann McGarvey
Find a Grave memorial: 80680819
Historical significance: Confirms the burial location and preserves the shared marker for Charles L. and Mary Ann McGarvey.
Citation:
Find a Grave, memorial no. 80680819, Charles L. McGarvey,
Cedar Grove Cemetery, Leeds, St. Clair County, Alabama.
Open memorial.
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
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.
This Social Security Death Index entry records Charles L. McGarvey's birth date,
death date, last residence, and masked Social Security number. It provides a late-life
anchor for the Charles Leo McGarvey timeline and connects the Wellston-born Charles
L. McGarvey of earlier records to a last residence in Moody, Alabama.
Social Security Death Index record for Charles L. McGarvey.
Full name: Charles L. McGarvey
Birth date: July 17, 1913
Death date: November 16, 1997
Last residence: Moody, Alabama
Social Security card issued: Unknown Code (PE)
Social Security number: ***-**-6889
Historical significance: Provides a death-date anchor and late-life residence for Charles Leo McGarvey's life timeline.
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.
People's Defender: Manchester Pants Factory Demolition
This People's Defender article documents the demolition of the former Manchester pants
factory on 7th Street in Manchester, Ohio. The article identifies the building as a
former Hercules Trouser Company site and describes its role as a major local employer,
its decline after garment production shifted, and the brownfield cleanup that prepared
the property for possible reuse.
Article: "Pants Factory demolition underway in Manchester"
Author: Ryan Applegate
Publication:People's Defender
Publication date: January 7, 2026
Place context: 7th Street, Manchester, Adams County, Ohio
Company context: Former Hercules Trouser Company / Manchester pants factory
Historical significance: Documents another Hercules Trouser Company factory location and the later demolition and cleanup of a garment-industry site in southern Ohio.
Research use: This card is evidence for the extent and later history of Hercules-related pants factories, not proof that Charles Leo McGarvey worked at the Manchester factory.
Summary: The article describes the Manchester pants factory as a long-standing industrial landmark and former Hercules Trouser Company site that produced men's trousers and similar clothing for national brands. It also describes the factory's decline as garment production shifted, and the demolition and environmental cleanup funded through state brownfield and unsafe-structure programs.
Interpretation: Read with the Wellston, Jackson, Hillsboro, and federal-labor sources, the Manchester article strengthens the picture of Hercules as a multi-plant garment manufacturer in southern Ohio. It is useful background for Fred McGarvey's family testimony that Charles Leo McGarvey moved through factory-management assignments, while each specific Charles-to-plant connection still needs separate evidence.
This June 15, 1959 newspaper clipping reports the end of a Hercules Trouser Company
strike that affected the Hillsboro plant and three other southern Ohio plants in
Wellston, Jackson, and Manchester. It is valuable regional context for the Hercules
factory network, labor organization, and plant relationships during the period when
family memory places Charles Leo McGarvey in factory-management work.
Press-Gazette clipping, June 15, 1959, reporting the end of a Hercules Trouser Company strike.
Article title: "Hercules Strike Ends Saturday"
Subtitle: "Workers Return To Jobs Here Monday"
Publication:The Press-Gazette
Publication date: June 15, 1959
Primary place context: Hillsboro, Ohio
Plants named: Hillsboro, Wellston, Jackson, and Manchester, Ohio; Columbus parent plant / cutting and shipping center
Union context: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; Hillsboro Local 646
Historical significance: Confirms that multiple southern Ohio Hercules plants were tied together in one 1959 labor action and that the southern Ohio plants were described as production centers.
Summary: Workers at the Hercules Trouser Company plant in Hillsboro returned to work on Monday after a strike that had continued since Tuesday, June 9. The article says workers at the firm's other plants in Wellston, Jackson, and Manchester also returned to work after a Saturday settlement between union representatives and company officials.
Settlement context: Officers from locals of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in the five plants gathered at Wellston to work out the settlement. Joe Roades, president of Hillsboro Local 646, said the settlement was reached by telephone conferences with Hercules officials in Columbus, where the parent plant was located, and that differences were reconciled. Workers were to receive a raise, though the article did not disclose the amount or effective date.
Strike context: The article says all four southern Ohio plants went on strike on June 9, with Wellston first and the others following. It notes that the strike was initially considered wildcat because Chicago union headquarters was reportedly unaware of it at first. The current contracts between the locals and the company were not set to expire until September.
Production context: The clipping reports that approximately 145 workers at the local Hillsboro plant belonged to Local 646. It also states that the Columbus plant was a cutting and shipping center, while the southern Ohio plants were production centers.
Charles-specific caution: This source does not name Charles Leo McGarvey and does not prove he was a manager at Hillsboro, Wellston, Jackson, Manchester, or Columbus in June 1959. It should be used as company-network and labor-context evidence unless a Charles-specific employment record is found.
Regional Hercules Trouser Company Factories in Southern Ohio
This synthesis card brings together the current Hercules-related document cards and
research notes to show the regional footprint of Hercules Trouser Company factories in
southern Ohio. It focuses on Wellston, Jackson, Hillsboro, and Manchester as company
or pants-factory locations that help explain the scale of the factory network around
Charles Leo McGarvey's work history.
Primary locations summarized: Wellston, Jackson, Hillsboro, and Manchester, Ohio
Research date: May 7, 2026
Research use: Regional factory-network context
Charles-specific caution: This card does not prove Charles Leo McGarvey worked at every listed plant.
Historical significance: Shows that Hercules Trouser Company operated as a multi-plant garment manufacturer, which supports the setting for Fred McGarvey's testimony that Charles moved through factory-management assignments.
Wellston: The Wellston evidence is the strongest connection to Charles's own documented work life. The 1940 census lists him as a presser in a pants factory, and his draft card places his employment on East Second Street in Wellston. The Hercules book excerpt describes a Wellston branch plant established in 1937, with a modern East Second Street factory, production expansion, and a large workforce.
Jackson: Local industrial-history sources describe a Jackson production facility built after a 1950 bond issue, opened in 1951, and closed in 1960 when operations moved to Arkansas. This remains useful regional Hercules context, but Fred's May 7, 2026 interview makes Manchester, not Jackson, the specific 1957 management move.
Hillsboro: The Times-Gazette pants-factory history provides contextual evidence for a Hillsboro Hercules / pants-factory site. It should be used as evidence of the wider company footprint, not as proof that Charles worked in Hillsboro.
Manchester: The People's Defender article on the 2026 demolition of the Manchester pants factory identifies that site as a former Hercules Trouser Company building and preserves its later history as a long-standing industrial landmark. Fred McGarvey's May 7, 2026 phone interview adds Charles-specific oral-history testimony that Charles managed the Manchester plant beginning in spring 1957.
Interpretation: Together, these four locations make the family account of Charles Leo McGarvey moving through factory-management work more historically plausible. The current evidence directly anchors Charles to Wellston, and the May 7 interview specifically links him to Manchester before Arkansas. Jackson and Hillsboro remain important company-network context unless Charles-specific directories, payroll records, newspaper notices, or employment records are found.
Fred McGarvey Interview: Charles Leo McGarvey and Hercules
This June 1, 2024 oral-history excerpt comes from an interview with Fred McGarvey
after his 90th birthday celebration. In the excerpt, Fred discusses his father Charles
Leo McGarvey's work life, including Hercules factory work in Wellston, Ohio, later
factory management, moves through other factory locations, Charles's fall-semester
attendance at Rio Grande connected to football, and Charles's siblings.
Date recorded: June 1, 2024
Interviewee: Fred McGarvey
Other voices: John McGarvey and Mikayla
Audio excerpt: Beginning of interview through about 3:17
Subject: Charles Leo McGarvey's work life, Hercules factory context, Rio Grande attendance, and family background
Historical significance: Preserves family testimony about Charles Leo McGarvey's transition from factory work to management and his pattern of attending Rio Grande during football seasons.
Family clarification: Fred's reference that sounded like "Chow Mommie" or "Charles's Mommie" refers to Charles Leo McGarvey's nephew Charles, Fred's cousin, not to Charles Leo himself or to Charles Leo's mother.
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.
Fred McGarvey Interview Notes: West C Street, Manchester Move, and Arkansas Move
These notes preserve family-history testimony from Fred McGarvey, Charles Leo
McGarvey's son, about the period when Charles moved from Wellston factory work into
broader Hercules factory management. Fred's account connects the West C Street family
home, Charles's spring 1957 Manchester management move, the later Arkansas management
move, and Fred and Sandy McGarvey's temporary residence in the Wellston house.
Compilation date: May 7, 2026
Interviewee: Fred McGarvey
Interviewer / compiler: John McGarvey
Format: Family oral-history interview notes and follow-up summary
Subjects: West C Street home, Manchester factory management, Arkansas factory management, company housing, Fred and Sandy McGarvey, Ohio University, Wellston teaching, and the family house
Historical significance: Provides direct testimony from Charles Leo McGarvey's living son for a key transition in Charles's work and residence timeline.
Oral-history summary: According to Fred McGarvey's May 7, 2026 phone interview, Charles Leo McGarvey moved from the Wellston house in the spring of 1957 after getting a job managing the Hercules pant factory in Manchester, Ohio, near the Ohio River. Fred remembered that Charles received a new company house in Manchester as part of that position.
Fred also recalled that after Charles moved out of the West C Street house, Fred and his wife Sandy lived in the Wellston family home. Fred had graduated from Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, in 1956, married Sandy that summer, and was attending Ohio University for his electrical engineering degree while Sandy taught at Central Elementary School in Wellston.
Fred said Charles worked at the Manchester plant for about three to five years before moving to Arkansas to manage a factory there.
Interpretive note: This card preserves firsthand family testimony from Charles Leo McGarvey's son. It should be treated as oral-history evidence rather than as a recorded deed, employment file, or city-directory entry.
Records to seek: Adams County or Manchester, Ohio city directories for Charles L. McGarvey around 1957-1962; Hercules employment or housing records for Manchester and Arkansas; Jackson County, Ohio deed indexes for Charles L. McGarvey and Mary Ann McGarvey as grantors; Wellston city directories or tax duplicates for the West C Street address; Ohio University records for Fred McGarvey's electrical engineering degree; Wellston school employment records for Sandy McGarvey; and Dallas County, Arkansas or Fordyce records for Hercules company housing.
Current documentary anchors: The 1940 and 1950 census records place Charles Leo McGarvey at 503 C Street / 503 W. C. Street in Wellston. Regional Hercules evidence documents Wellston, Jackson, Hillsboro, and Manchester plants in southern Ohio, and later Arkansas operations, including a Fordyce, Arkansas plant documented in federal labor records.
Oral History Notes
Fred McGarvey Phone Interview: Draft Physical and Ashland Football
These notes summarize a phone conversation between Fred McGarvey and his son John
McGarvey on Friday, May 1, 2026. Written from memory the next morning, they preserve
Fred's recollection that Charles Leo McGarvey remained with his family during the war,
failed his draft physical, and carried memories of his semi-professional football period
in Ashland, Kentucky.
Conversation date: Friday, May 1, 2026
Interviewee: Fred McGarvey
Interviewer: John McGarvey
Format: Phone conversation; notes written from memory the following morning
Subjects: World War II draft physical, family memory, Ashland semi-professional football, injury, and pay dispute
Historical significance: Adds direct family testimony that Charles Leo McGarvey did not leave home for wartime service and links his failed draft physical to a remembered football leg injury.
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.
Oral History Notes
Fred McGarvey Phone Interview: Manchester Hercules Job and Wellston House
These notes summarize a phone conversation with Fred McGarvey on Thursday, May 7,
2026, at 9:00 p.m. Fred described Charles Leo McGarvey's spring 1957 move to manage
the Hercules pant factory in Manchester, Ohio, his later move to Arkansas to manage a
factory there, and how the Manchester move opened the Wellston house for Fred and
Sandy McGarvey during their first years of marriage.
Conversation date: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 9:00 p.m.
Interviewee: Fred McGarvey
Interviewer: John McGarvey
Format: Phone conversation; notes written from memory
Subjects: Hercules pant factory in Manchester, Ohio, company housing, later Arkansas factory management, Fred and Sandy McGarvey's early marriage, Heidelberg College, Ohio University, Central Elementary School, and the Wellston house
Historical significance: Connects Charles Leo McGarvey's Hercules management work to a specific 1957 relocation, preserves Fred's memory that Charles worked three to five years at the Manchester plant before moving to Arkansas to manage another factory, and explains how Fred and Sandy came to live in the Wellston house.
Rewritten notes: On Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 9:00 p.m., John McGarvey spoke by phone with Fred McGarvey about Charles Leo McGarvey's move from Wellston to Manchester, Ohio, and about Fred and Sandy McGarvey's early married life in Wellston.
Fred said that in the spring of 1957, Charles got a job managing the Hercules pant factory in Manchester, Ohio, near the Ohio River. As part of the position, Charles was provided a new company house to live in.
Fred said Charles worked at the Manchester plant for about three to five years before moving to Arkansas to manage a factory there.
Fred said he had graduated from Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, in 1956 and married Sandy that summer. Sandy got a job teaching at Central Elementary School in Wellston, while Fred attended Ohio University for his electrical engineering degree.
When Charles Leo moved out of the Wellston house, Sandy and Fred moved in. Fred remembered that during that winter, the neighbors were very worried about Sandy because she was from the city, Cleveland, and they were concerned about whether she would be able to keep the coal heaters running in the house.
Interpretive note: This card preserves Fred McGarvey's family memory of the timing and consequences of Charles Leo McGarvey's Manchester Hercules assignment and later Arkansas move. The 1957 date, the three-to-five-year Manchester estimate, the company-house detail, the Arkansas management move, and the exact factory-management roles should be compared with employment records, city directories, newspaper notices, or Hercules corporate material if those sources can be located.
The Wellston house memory is also useful social history. It records how Charles's employment move shaped Fred and Sandy's household and preserves a neighborhood memory of domestic coal heating during their first winter in the house.
Bibliography
Selected Sources
Lawrence County, Ohio Probate Court. Record of Birth for Clarence McGarvey, July 7, 1890, Lawrence County, Ohio. The record appears to list Clarence as female; this is treated as a record or indexing error in light of other family evidence identifying him as Isaac and Mary McGarvey's son. Local image file, docs/1890_ClarenceMcGarvey_BirthRecord_LawrenceCountyOhio.jpg.
Jackson County, Ohio Probate Court. Record of Deaths entry for Clarence McGarvey, February 26, 1899, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio; cause of death recorded as blood poisoning. Local image file, docs/1899_ClarenceMcGarvey_DeathRecord_JacksonCountyOhio.jpg.
Ancestry.com. Ohio, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973. Entry for William McGarvey, born October 28, 1896, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio; father Isaac McGarvey; mother Mary Patton; FHL film no. 301033. Database online. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Ohio Births and Christenings, 1821-1962," FamilySearch index, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009 and 2011. Local image file, docs/1896_William_Beezer_McGarvey_BirthIndex.png.
Ancestry.com. Ohio, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973. Entry for Susan McGarvey, born November 2, 1899, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio; father indexed as Jap McGarvey; mother Mary Patten; FHL film no. 301033. Database online. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Ohio Births and Christenings, 1821-1962," FamilySearch index, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009 and 2011. Local image file, docs/1899_SusanAnnaMcGarvey_BirthIndex.png.
Ancestry.com. Ohio, Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973. Entry for Mary Ellen McGarvey, born February 6, 1903, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio; father Isaac McGarvey; mother Mary Patton; FHL film no. 301033. Database online. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Repository: Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com. Local image file, docs/1903_MaryEllenMcGarvey_BirthIndex.png.
Ancestry.com. Ohio, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973. Entry for Margaret McGarvey, born March 2, 1907, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio; father Isaac McGarvey; mother Mary Patton; FHL film no. 301033. Database online. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Ohio Births and Christenings, 1821-1962," FamilySearch index, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009 and 2011. Local image file, docs/1907_MargaretMcGarvey_BirthIndex.png.
United States Bureau of the Census. 1900 U.S. census, Jackson County, Ohio, population schedule, Wellston Township, Wellston, Ward 2, enumeration district 58, sheet 20, Isaac McGarvey household. Local image file, docs/1900_Census_IsaacMcGarvey.jpg.
United States Bureau of the Census. 1910 U.S. census, Jackson County, Ohio, population schedule, Wellston Township, Wellston City, Ward 2, enumeration district 11, sheet 8B, Isaac McGarvey household. Local image file, docs/1910_IsaacMcGarvey.jpg.
Ohio Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics. Death Index entry for Dan McGravey / Daniel McGarvey, Jackson County, Ohio, July 5, 1914; state file volume 1425, certificate 42455. Local image file, docs/1914_DanielMcGarvey_DeathIndex_Ohio.jpg.
United States Bureau of the Census. 1920 U.S. census, Jackson County, Ohio, population schedule, Wellston Ward 2, enumeration district 89, sheet 8B, Isaac McGarvey household; Charles Leo McGarvey, age 6. Local image file, docs/1920_Census_CharlesMcGarvey.jpg.
Ancestry.com and Ohio Department of Health. Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2022. Entry for Mary McGarvey / Mary Patton McGarvey, Jackson County, Ohio, April 15, 1931. Database online. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2010. Original data: Ohio Department of Health, Columbus, Ohio; Ohio Division of Vital Statistics, Death Certificates and Index, State Archives Series 3094. Local image file, docs/1931_MaryPattonMcGarvey_DeathIndex_Ohio.jpg.
Find a Grave. Memorial page for Mary McGarvey, memorial no. 133719813, Ridgewood Cemetery, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio; maiden name Patton; birth January 4, 1874; death April 15, 1931; spouse Isaac McGarvey. Memorial page: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133719813/mary-mcgarvey. Local grave-marker image file, images/IsaacAndMaryGrave.jpeg.
McGarvey family photograph. Mary Patton McGarvey with her daughter Sue McGarvey, undated; before Mary Patton McGarvey's death on April 15, 1931. Local image file, images/MaryPatton_Sue.jpg.
McGarvey family photograph. Mary Ellen McGarvey, Sue McGarvey, and Margaret McGarvey, undated. Local image file, images/MarryEllen_Sue_Margaret_McGarvey.jpg.
Wood County, West Virginia. Marriage License for Charles Leo McGarvey and Mary Ann Hughes, Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.
Ohio Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics. Certificate of Birth for Charles Frederick McGarvey, born June 12, 1934, Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio. Family copy.
United States Bureau of the Census. 1940 U.S. census, Jackson County, Ohio, population schedule, Wellston, enumeration district 40-202, sheet 8B, 503 C Street, Isaac McGarney household; Charles McGarney, age 26. Local image file, docs/1940Census_CharlesMcGarvey.jpg.
United States Selective Service System. World War II Draft Registration Card for Charles L. McGarvey, serial no. 951, order no. 1721, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, October 16, 1940. Includes registrar's report and physical description. Local image files, docs/WWII_DraftCard_CharlesLeoMcGarvey.jpg and docs/1940_Charles_McGarveyP2Draft.png.
Historical photograph. Hercules Trouser Company, East Second Street, Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, estimated 1940s. Local image files, images/HerculesTrouserCompanyWellston2.jpg and images/HerculesTrouserCompanyWellston.jpg.
KERAMIDA Inc. "Environmental Site Assessment of Kuppenheimer Pants Factory." Project page describing the former Kuppenheimer Pants Factory property in Wellston, Ohio, including earlier Milton Furnace and Coal, Wellston Iron and Steel Company, Milton Iron Co., Hercules Trouser Company, later use, and the April 5, 2011 fire. https://www.keramida.com/projects/environmental-site-assessment-of-kuppenheimer-pants-factory.
Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce. "Change of the Guard." Jackson County history article describing mid-century industrial changes and related Hercules Trouser Company activity in Jackson County. https://jacksonohiochamber.com/change-of-the-guard/.
Hollingshead, Adam, and Emily Brammer. "Jackson Plastics Corporation." Clio: Your Guide to History, July 4, 2018. Accessed May 2, 2026. Describes the 1951 Hercules Trouser Company building in Jackson, Ohio, the 1960 closure and move to Arkansas, and the later Jackson Plastics Corporation use. https://theclio.com/entry/60181.
The Times-Gazette. "Diverse pants factory history." Article on Hillsboro, Ohio pants-factory history and Hercules Trouser Company context. https://www.timesgazette.com/1970/01/01/diverse-pants-factory-history/.
The Press-Gazette. "Hercules Strike Ends Saturday." June 15, 1959. Newspaper clipping describing a Hercules Trouser Company strike involving Hillsboro, Wellston, Jackson, and Manchester plants, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America locals, and Columbus company officials. Local files, docs/1959_6_15_ThePressGazette_Hillsboro_HerculesStrike.pdf and docs/1959_6_15_ThePressGazette_Hillsboro_HerculesStrike.jpg.
Applegate, Ryan. "Pants Factory demolition underway in Manchester." People's Defender, January 7, 2026. Archived January 11, 2026. https://web.archive.org/web/20260111170548/https://www.peoplesdefender.com/2026/01/07/pants-factory-demolition-underway-in-manchester/. Local image files in images/manchester/.
McGarvey, John. Research synthesis of regional Hercules Trouser Company factory evidence for Wellston, Jackson, Hillsboro, and Manchester, Ohio, compiled May 7, 2026 from the site document cards, local-history sources, newspaper articles, and family oral-history notes.
McGarvey family photograph, tentatively identified as Charles Leo McGarvey, Mary Ann McGarvey, and Charles Frederick "Fred" McGarvey, possibly Ashland, Kentucky, circa 1937; identification pending confirmation from Fred McGarvey. Local image file, images/1937_Charles_MaryAnn_Fred.jpg.
United States Bureau of the Census. 1950 U.S. census, Jackson County, Ohio, population and housing schedule, Wellston, enumeration district 40-31, sheet 71, dwelling 110, 503 W. C., Charles McGarvey household; Charles McGarvey, age 36. Local image file, docs/1950CensusRecord_CharlesMcGarvey.jpg.
McGarvey family photograph. Charles Leo McGarvey, 1955, associated with Fred McGarvey's graduation. Local image file, images/1955_CharlesLeoMcGarvey.jpg.
Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1. Entry for Charles L. McGarvey / Charles McGarvey, Moody, Alabama, 1987 and 1993 residences. Database online. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: voter registration lists, public record filings, historical residential records, and other household database listings. Local image file, docs/1987_Charles_McGarvey_residence_Moody_AL.png.
Ancestry.com. U.S., Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002. Entry for Charles L. McGarvey, 2723 Lee Meadows Dr., Moody, Alabama, residence years 1993-1999. Database online. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005. Original data: 1993-2002 White Pages, Acxiom Corporation, Little Rock, Arkansas. Local image file, docs/1993-99_CharlesMcGarvey_Moody_Alabama.png.
Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current. Entry for Charles Leo McGarvey, obituary in Birmingham Post-Herald, Birmingham, Alabama, November 19, 1997; death date November 16, 1997; residence Moody, St. Clair County, Alabama. Database online. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2019. Newspapers.com image URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/796157912/?article=4b03aa42-eee6-40cb-b664-1a3f06356733. Local image file, docs/1997_11_16_Obituary_CharlesMcGarvey.png.
Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current. Entry for Charles L. McGarvey, memorial no. 80680819, Cedar Grove Cemetery, Leeds, St. Clair County, Alabama; birth July 17, 1913; death November 16, 1997; spouse Mary Ann McGarvey. Database online. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find a Grave. Memorial page: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80680819/charles-l.-mcgarvey. Local marker image file, images/CharlesLeoMaryAnnGrave.jpg.
Social Security Administration. U.S., Social Security Death Index. Entry for Charles L. McGarvey, born July 17, 1913, died November 16, 1997, last residence Moody, Alabama. Local image file, docs/1997-11-16_SocialSecurityDeathIndex_ChalresMcGarvey.png.
McGarvey, Fred. Interview by John McGarvey and Mikayla. Oral history excerpt, June 1, 2024.
McGarvey, Fred. Family oral-history interviews and follow-up summary by John McGarvey, compiled May 7, 2026; West C Street residence, Manchester factory-management move in spring 1957, later Arkansas factory-management move, company housing, Fred and Sandy McGarvey, Ohio University, Wellston teaching, and the family house.
McGarvey, Fred. Phone interview by John McGarvey. Oral history notes written from memory the following morning, May 1, 2026.
McGarvey, Fred. Phone interview by John McGarvey. Oral history notes on Charles Leo McGarvey's Manchester Hercules assignment, estimated three-to-five-year tenure there, later Arkansas factory-management move, and Fred and Sandy McGarvey's move into the Wellston house, May 7, 2026, 9:00 p.m.
