FIFTH GENERATION

39. CHARLIE ROACH ⁽⁵⁾ died on 2 Sep 1927. ⁽⁷⁾ #969 VOL LXXVII #36 PG 1 COL A

He was married to OSSIE BELL REID UN. OSSIE BELL REID was born UN. CHARLIE ROACH and OSSIE BELL REID had the following children:

80 i. ALICE PAULINE ROACH (Private).
81 ii. EUGENE ROACH was born UN. DIED AT AGE 4 He died UN.

He was married to LOTHEL (LATHA) MCCALL (daughter of JOHN JACKSON MCCALL and NANCY ROSETTE WATKINS) on 11 Mar 1907.
Keowee Courier Sept. 7, 1927

CHARLIE ROACH INSTANTLY KILLED

By Lightning Last Friday Afternoon—–Mules He Drove Also Killed—–Was on Way Home

Charlie Roach, well known to the people of Walhalla and vicinity, and especially in the upper section of the county where he was born and raised, met death in a tragic manner last Friday

Afternoon about 5 o’clock while on his way from Seneca to the Return section of the county, where he had lived for the past two or three years.

Mr. Roach was driving a double team of mules, and had just taken note of a cloud overhead which gave promise of a storm in that locality. He urged his mules to a faster speed, and a man pulling fodder in a nearby field stated that he noticed the man in the wagon look up into the sky and almost instantly there was an awful crash of thunder and a flash of lightning-it was but an instant. Where Mr. Roach and his team had been moving with animation there was nothing but stillness and death. The bolt appears to have made a direct stroke on the wagon, the driver and the team. Mr. Roach was prostrate, and it is certain that he never knew what had happened. The mules lay in the road, each falling away from the tongue that separated them in their work. It is said that Mr. Roach’s shoes were both split open, and that his skull was fractured. His hat was slit open, it is said, as with a sharp knife. Neighbors soon took the prostrate form of the unfortunate man to the nearest house, where it was held until relatives could be notified. The accident occurred in the road almost in front of the home of Molly Powell.

Mr. Roach was a son of Baxter Roach and was a native of this county, resident for many years in the Holly Springs section. He is survived by his second wife and five or six children, who have the sympathy of many friends in their sorrow.

The remains were interred on Sunday morning.
LOTHEL (LATHA) MCCALL was born in 1884 in MACON CO NORTH CAROLINA. She died 7 OR12 Apr 1922.⁽⁷⁾ #959 VOL LXXII #15 PG5 COL A CHARLIE ROACH and LOTHEL (LATHA) MCCALL had the following children:

+82 i. ROY ROACH.
+83 ii. ETHEL ROACH.
+84 iii. LOUIE ROACH.
85 iv. LAWRENCE BUCK ROACH died in Jul 1968 in ANDERSON SC.
+86 v. SAMUEL CLYDE ROACH.
+87 vi. ANN (ANNIE) ROACH.
88 vii. HATTIE ROACH was born UN. TWIN TO MATTIE DIED VERY YOUNG She died UN.
89 viii. MATTIE ROACH was born UN. TWIN TO HATTIE DIED VERY YOUNG She died UN.