FOURTH GENERATION

82. Charles M.⁴ HILLARD (James Madison³ HILLARD, Thomas Jefferson² HILLARD, Richmond A.¹ HILLARD) was born on 26 AUG 1883 in Michigan, USA. He appeared on the 1900 U.S. Census in a boarding house in Surrey Twp., Clare Co., Michigan. In that census he was reported to be a saw mill laborer. He died in OCT 1916 in Ashland, Ashland Co., Wisconsin, USA. Family records report that he was a lumberjack and that he drowned while floating logs down a river to Lake Superior. His death record reports that he "accidentally drowned by falling from the scow" in October 1916 and that his body was not found until 15 July 1917.
Reference: Lynn E. Garn, "The Descendants of Richmond A. Hillard, A John Alden Line," in the Mayflower Descendant, Summer 2008, vol. 57, pages 140-141.

He was married to Marie Rose LUDACKA (daughter of James LUDACKA and Catherine MARZ) on 7 SEP 1915 in Bessemer, Gogebic Co., Michigan, USA. Marie Rose LUDACKA was born about 1888 in Bohemia.