Back row: left to right..Ralph Cox, William Bovey, Charles Stauffer

Middle Row:Bernice Stauffer Cox, Anna Jones Bovey, Goldie Stauffer

Front Row: Max and Farnwell Stauffer

This picture was taken in Hoisington, Kansas. Max was a boy that Chalres and Goldie took in for awhile. Bernice met her husband Ralph while living in Hoisington.

House at 309 Summit, Dixon, IL. The line going across the picture is Grandmas clothes line. I can see here there in the yard, pulling her clothes through the wringer, the excess water dripping into the tub, shaking them out and hanging them on the line to dry. I have many fond memories of this house. The smells...Thanksgiving dinner sitting on the table in the dining room...chicken and dumplings...the old basement with the walls lined with shelves full of canned goods...hide and go seek in the long clothes closet upstairs....our clubhouse in the chicken coup, the benches made of crates and gunny sacks....my first bike...a blue schwinn....

Charles Lee Stauffer     Born: December 31, 1883    
Died: March 19, 1966 Lee County, Dixon, IL
Buried:  Chapel Hill Cemetery, Lee County, Dixon, IL
Age at Death: 82
Married:  December 7, 1904
Goldie M. Bovey            Born:   1886                           
Died: Dec. 29, 1967 Lee County, Dixon, IL
Buried:  Chapel Hill Cemetery, Lee County, Dixon, IL
Age at Death: 82
Children:
Bernice Stauffer     Born: Feb 9, 1912      Died:  Jan 22, 2000
Buried: Chapel Hill Cemetery, Lee County, Dixon, IL
Farnwell E. Stauffer  Born: Jun 24, 1922 Dixon, IL Present Age: 85

Charles Lee was born here