Waldo, Charles B.

Born: 1800-1810 Connecticut

Died: 1885 Union County, Illinois

Flourished: Menard County, Illinois

Soon after 1830, Waldo emigrated from Virginia to settle in Menard County, Illinois. He taught the first school in Petersburg, beginning in 1837 through at least 1840. He later moved to southern Illinois.

U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Menard County, IL, 302; The History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1889), 286, 288, 299; Gravestone, Jonesboro Cemetery, Jonesboro, IL.