Charity Venable

Charity was born in 1856 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Charity's father was Daniel Venable and her mother was Mary Lawson.  Her maternal grandparents were Martin Lawson and Nancy. She had six brothers and seven sisters, named John, William, George, James, Joseph, Andrew, Zora, Nancy, Catherine, Priscilla, Mary, Martha and Mary Margaret.  She was the fifth youngest of the fourteen children.