Kendall  Coles,  who  married  Ann  Budd,  was  the
second  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Coles  and  grand-
son of  the  emigrants,  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Coles,
and  the  great-grandfather  of  Chas.  B.  Coles,  who  is
thegreat-great-great-grandsoa  of  Samuel  Coles,  the
emigrant.  Joseph  Coles,  the  grandfather  of
Charles  B.  Coles,  was  married  to  Sarah  Healings.
Their  son  Charles  was  born  July  7,  1807,  and  died
February  25,  1837 ;  married  Rachel  Burrough,
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Martha  (Davis)  Burrough,
and  had  two  children, — Joseph,  who  died  in  child-
hood, and  Charles  B.  Coles,  who  was  born  on
August  7,  1836,  at  the  homestead  now  owned  by
himself,  and  known  as  the  Coles  Mill  Farm,  in
Chester  township,  Burlington  County,  near  the
Camden  line,  to  which  place  his  father  moved
upon  his  marriage  with  Rachel  Burrough,  whose
ancestors  for  six  generations  had  owned  the  same
property.  His  mother  died  in  the  Eleventh  Month
29,  1869,  aged  sixty-five  years.
Charles  B.  Coles'  father  died  when  he  was  less
than  a  year  and  a  half  old.  When  eight  years  of
age  he  went  to  reside  with  an  uncle  on  a  farm,  and
in  early  life  followed  the  occupation  of  farming.
In  1864  he  engaged  in  the  active  business  of  life  and
has  since  followed  it  with  unabated  prosperity.
