Charles Frederick Cales was born in Sandstone, Summers County, West Virginia on 28 April 1891 to John Alexander and Medora Price Willis Cales. He had an older brother Oscar F and a younger brother Orville E. He registered for the draft in Peru, Miami County Indiana. He was employed by Chesapeake & Ohio Railway of Indiana as a brakeman  On 21 September 1917, he left for training at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. He was discharged on 19 April 1919 as a Private of Battery "B", 115th FA. By 1920 he continued to work as a brakeman while living in Peru, Indiana on West Third Street as a roomer in the home of Lena McDonald. In the 1930 census in Peru, Indiana we find Charles with his wife Ruth E and 6 year old daughter Edith E who was born in Ohio. In 1930 he is listed as a Railway Conductor. I did not find a marriage record. In 1940 Charles was living at the US Veterans Administration Facility in Grant County, Indiana. According to this census he is divorced. By 1942 he had gone back home to Sandstone, Summers County, West Virginia where he had signed up for the draft for World War Two. On 28 Oct 1945, Charles died in the Elko General Hospital at Carlin, Elko County, Nevada where he had been a resident of two years. On the death certificate, he was listed as "single'. He was interred in Cales Cemetery, Hinton, Summers County, West Virginia.