"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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CHARLES M. GRAVIS is the eldest son and third child born to Sebastian and
Minerva (Barker) Gravis, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively, and
married in Williamsburg, Ohio in 1839. In 1863, they removed to
Indianapolis, where the father at present resides. The mother died in July,
1849. Charles M. Gravis was reared and educated in Ohio. When seventeen
years of age, he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteers, under
Capt. William A. Townsend. He served for three years, during which time he
participated in the battles at Hoover's Gap and Chickamauga. At the latter,
he was captured, and put in the prison on Belle Island, but was soon after
transferred to "Libby," where he remained for about two years. From there
he was sent to Danville, Va., and incarcerated for five months, when he was
transferred to Andersonville. He remained there for seven months when he
was paroled, and soon after exchanged, immediately returning to his company.
He participated in the battle at Bentonville and a number of skirmishes. At
the close of the war, he returned to Clermont County, Ohio, soon after
coming to Indiana, where he learned the brickmason trade with his father.
He afterward studied medicine with Dr. D. Wiley, for three years. In March,
1871, he graduated at the Indian Medical College, at Indianapolis. In
September, 1870, he was married to Sarah C. Smock, a native of Indiana.
They had six children--Walter, Charles, William, Ursula, all of whom are
dead; Gracie B. and Frederick L. are living. In 1871, he began the
practice of his profession in Southport, Ind., and from there, eighteen
months later, removed to Indianapolis. He there entered into practice, and
in the drug business, which he continued for three years, returning thence
to Southport, where he remained until September, 1880. He was in
partnership with Dr. George Spees, in Glenn's Valley, where he remained
eighteen months, when he came to Martinsville, where he is at present
engaged in the practice of his profession. He has filled all the chairs in
the I. O. O. F., Southport Lodge, No. 394, and of the Grand Lodge. He is
also a member of the G. A. R., and is a Republican. Himself and wife are
members of the Baptist Church.
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