Charles H. Renoud, farmer, sec. 32; P. O. Pearl; was born in Fairfield, Conn., in 1820. His parents were Stephen P. and Lydia (Donaldson) Renoud, natives of that State, who came to this county in 1837, purchased land and returned. Their final settlement was made in 1843, in Detroit township, where he lived until ‘55, when he sold out and went to Ohio. The following year he settled in Henry Co., Ill., and on the homestead in this county in 1864, where he died in 1866. She is still living in the 86th year of her age. The subject of this sketch was married in 1844 to Mary Wickam, a native of Kent, England, who died March 5, 1865, and 9 children have been born to them: George F., Caroline, Mary, Eliza, Marsha, Robert E., Richard G., Charles H. and Stephen. His present wife, Kary, daughter of Hiram Duff, is a native of Kentucky, who settled near Milton in 1825. The family can be numbered among the early pilgrims of Montezuma tp.

Source: History of Pike County by Charles M. CHapman 1880