Rev. Charles Wesley Karns

Abt 1859 - Yes, date unknown

• Prefix	Rev.
  Born	Abt 1859	Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I13105	Johnson Hindin Tree
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2014

  
  

  Father	William E. Karns,   b. Feb 1828, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Sarah CHAMBERLIN,   b. Abt 1828, Providence Township, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5468	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Ida May Wolfe,   b. Abt 1865, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	17 Nov 1890
  Children	1. Carl Edmund Karns,   b. May 1893, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Charles Donald Karns,   b. 6 Nov 1894, Pennsylvania ,   d. 25 Dec 1985, Miami, Dade Co., Florida
  Family ID	F5469	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  The following anniversary announcement was transcribed and available on www.pa-rootsweb.org in 2013: Loysburg Couple Celebrated Their Golden Wedding. The fiftieth wedding anniversary of Rev. and Mrs. Charles W. KARNS of Loysburg was fittingly observed by open house over the week-end. Two hundred guests were received at their lovely home in Loysburg Gap, friends from Altoona, Bedford, Everett and Hopewell being entertained, as well as many from his own community. Rev. Karns is a member of the School Board there and the teachers called in a body to offer their congratulations and many members of former congregations were also present. The home was filled with flowers, golden chrysanthemums predominating in the color scheme, and many gifts were received by the much-loved couple. Rev. Charles W. Karns and Miss Ida May WOLFE were united in marriage Nov. 17, 1890, at the home of the latter's sister, Mrs. Martin Miller, on West Main Street in Everett, Dr. I. M. Morehead performing the ceremony, assisted by Rev. J. Harper Black. The late Prof. Max Bechhoefer played the wedding march. Rev. Karns at that time was pastor of the Methodist Church at Clearville, having acted his first charge in the spring of 1890. He is a native of Loysburg, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Karns. Mrs. Karns resided in Everett and had been a music teacher in the Bedford County Schools. Rev. Karns is now serving the Hopewell charge, where he taught school 55 years ago, many of his congregation being former pupils. Mrs. William Pettigrew of Everett was the only one present who had attended the wedding. Mrs. Max Bechhoefer of Everett and her daughter, Mrs. John Young of Hollidaysburg, were also present. (Nov. 22, 1940?) (Source: Margaret (Aaron) Spielman Scrapbook, Vol. 1, 1947, p. 6.) The following obituary was transcribed and available on www.pa-rootsweb.org in 2013: Rev. C. W. Karns Dead Veteran Minister Ended Earthly Career at Rockford Heights Wednesday Night, July 2 (1941) Rev. Charles Wesley Karns, pastor of the Hopewell Methodist church and a leader in the Central Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist Church for half a century, died last Wednesday night July 2, 1941, at 10.45 o'clock at his summer home, Rockford Heights, near Loysburg, this county, following an illness of about three weeks. Rev. Karns was stricken ill with ptonaine poisoning while attending the graduation exercises at Carlisle for his only grandson, Charles Wesley Karns, II, three weeks ago, and was brought to his home at Loysburg where complications developed. He was the son of William and Sarah Karns, pioneer resident of Bedford county, and was born in Loysburg on August 9, 1858. He grew to young manhood there and was educated for the ministry. He was united in marriage with Miss Ida May Worlfe on November 17, 1890, at Everett. She survives, with two sons, Carl Edmond Karns, of Loysburg, andf Charles Donald Karns, of Miami, Florida, and one grandson, Charles Wesley Karns, II, of Carlisle. Rev. Karns was educated for the ministry in Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport and entered upon his ministerial work in March, 1891, thus having completed fifty years of service as pastor, church builder, secretary of conference annuity fund and superintendent of the children's home. Rev. Karns was active in the work of the church in Altoona for a period of twenty years, during which he built or superintended the building of three churches, the Grace Methodist, Mardorf and Jaggard Memorial. While pastor of the Coalport-Irvona charge he erected a fine church edifice at Coalport and whie pastor at Concord erected the McCabe chapel. His work in the ministry of the ... The body was laid to rest in the family plot in Everett Cemetery with Masonic rites. (Source: Margaret (Aaron) Spielman Scrapbook, Vol. 1, p. 28. )