By the time Charles turns 19 in 1900 his family is living in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri on West Main Street. He is working in the sign painting business with his father. He has blue eyes, dark hair, a fair complexion and is 5'9" tall. In 1898 Charles enlists in the Army. He is shipped to the Philippines where he is engaged in the Spanish American War. In December of 1934 Charles sent a photograph of himself in Cebu City, Philippines to his father. He is discharged 17 August 1903 in Washington having made the rank of Corporal.
On 19 November 1903 in Alameda, California Charles is marrying the lovely Effie Allthea Loughridge.
Charles and Effie make their home in Alameda where he is a Postal Clerk on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Effie lived with her Aunt and Uncle who was an Engineer for the Railroad. He may have gotten Charles the Postal Clerk job with Southern Pacific Railroad. Charles is a registered voter in California and affiliates with the Republican party. However in 1914 Charles registers as a Socialist.
Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon is where Charles and Effie are living when he signs a World War I Draft Registration card on 12 September 1918. He lists his job as an Insurance Solicitor working for Metropolitan Life Insurance of New York. Charles is once again in the sign painting business in 1930 and in 1940. Grants Pass is incorporated as a city in 1887 while its Post Office was established in 1865. The town is named to honor of Ulysses S. Grant.
Sometime between 1918 and 1942 Charles gets a tattoo on his left shoulder. It is a heart and dagger. It is noted as a mark on his body on the World War II draft registration card.
On 2 December 1948 Charles Henry Ernst Passes.
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