Charles was born at "Mildendo" and died there 71 years later. He was educated at Hampden-Sydney College where he graduated in 1839, studied under the Hon. Thomas Stanhope Flournoy and became a practicing lawyer in Halifax County and Richmond. As such, he was elected the President of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company in March 1867 to which position he devoted much of his time and fortune for the next 10 years. During the southern states war for independence he was appointed a Major with the responsibility to secure loans from the citizens on behalf of the county so that the county might equip and clothe its soldiers. He and his wife, Susan McDowell, whom he married in 12/8/1852, had 5 children only one of which, Sarah, bore children. Charles tribulations regarding the failure of the canal company, the purchase of his siblings shares of "Mildendo" and war loans left him with enormous debts towards the end of his life. He resigned as president of the canal company in 1876 and returned to "Mildendo" where his brother, Dr. William Fontaine Carrington, was managing the property. Dr. Carrington left in 1882 with his second wife to start anew in Hot Springs, AK while Charles stayed on struggling to save their ancestral home. On Christmas Day 1891, mired in debt and legal wrangling, Charles died intestate and was buried in an unmarked grave next to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth and her sister, Sarah Venable, in the "Mildendo" Coles/Carrington Cemetery.
Charles was born at "Mildendo" and died there 71 years later. He was educated at Hampden-Sydney College where he graduated in 1839, studied under the Hon. Thomas Stanhope Flournoy and became a practicing lawyer in Halifax County and Richmond. As such, he was elected the President of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company in March 1867 to which position he devoted much of his time and fortune for the next 10 years. During the southern states war for independence he was appointed a Major with the responsibility to secure loans from the citizens on behalf of the county so that the county might equip and clothe its soldiers. He and his wife, Susan McDowell, whom he married in 12/8/1852, had 5 children only one of which, Sarah, bore children. Charles tribulations regarding the failure of the canal company, the purchase of his siblings shares of "Mildendo" and war loans left him with enormous debts towards the end of his life. He resigned as president of the canal company in 1876 and returned to "Mildendo" where his brother, Dr. William Fontaine Carrington, was managing the property. Dr. Carrington left in 1882 with his second wife to start anew in Hot Springs, AK while Charles stayed on struggling to save their ancestral home. On Christmas Day 1891, mired in debt and legal wrangling, Charles died intestate and was buried in an unmarked grave next to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth and her sister, Sarah Venable, in the "Mildendo" Coles/Carrington Cemetery.
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There is no marker. Mr Kell who visited Charles as a boy and later owned the home recorded that Charles was buried "next to the ladies" (Elizabeth V Carrington and Sarah Venable)
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