Charles Walter Heyl Sr. ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: G91T-HW4.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1870 in Columbus, Franklin, OH. ² Charles Heyl, 48, was living with wife Eliza, 44; Eliza, 23; Anna, 18; Levenia, 13; Eliza, 10; Charles, 8; Margaret, 5; Samuel A., 2. Also in the home is Charles' father Christian, 82; and Elizabeth Pilgrim, 63. Everyone is born in Ohio, except the mother Eliza in Pennsylvania, and Christina in a German village spelled on the census list, but in handwriting we cannot make out.

Charles married Elizabeth Louisa Beecher, daughter of John G. Bicher and Sarah Elizabeth Sands, on 25 Jun 1844 in Columbus: St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Franklin, OH. (Elizabeth Louisa Beecher was born on 10 Jul 1826 in East Cocalico Twp., Lancaster, PA,^{2 3} died on 26 Jan 1889 in Columbus, Franklin, OH ³ and was buried in Columbus: Green Lawn Cemetery, Franklin, OH ³.)