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CHARLES WELFAL, butcher, post office Turtle Creek, was born July 2, 1840, in Allegheny City, Pa., a son of Lawrence and Catharine (Hoey) Welfal, of German origin. The father was a blacksmith and locksmith, came to this country in 1832, and found employment as sheet-ironworker in Pittsburgh, but resided in Allegheny. He died in 1886, aged seventy-four years. Catharine Welfal died in 1848, leaving five children: Henry, who died in Baltimore; Amelia (Vogel), a resident of Bloomfield, this county; Charles, Frederick and William. Mr. Welfal afterward married Kate Beckert, who bore him five children, viz.: George, John, Lawrence, Clara and Jessie. Charles Welfal was reared in Allegheny, when fourteen years old began work at his trade, and in 1860 opened a butcher-shop in Pittsburgh. For eight years he was employed in the steelworks at Bessemer, where his eyesight was severely impaired. He came to Turtle Creek in 1885, established a good meat trade, and is now erecting his second dwelling, near the Catholic church. Mr. Welfal is an enthusiastic republican. In 1860 he married Elizabeth Brady, who died four years later, leaving two children: Charles and Emma; the former died when five years old. In 1866 Mr. Welfal married Grace R. Osterman, who has one daughter, Agnes Bertha.