Charles is listed in the Most Blessed Sacrament Church baptism records as Charles Eck but all other records have his surname as Rohrbach. He is mentioned in the will of his grandfather, John Eck, the only grandchild to receive special mention and was bequeathed forty dollars from his mother's share of the estate.
Burial place is at Most Blessed Sacrament Church, Bally, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Sources
Goshenhoppen Register (Catholic Church Records)
Will of John Eck dated 15 Oct 1855, Will Book 10, p. 382; Berks County Courthouse, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, Rohrbach Genealogy Vol. 2, pp. 83, 123-124, 126, 131, 173; Rockland, Maine, Maine Coast Printers, 1977
Lehigh Register newspaper dated 18 May 1892; Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
U. S. Decennial Census, Berks County, Pennsylvania 1850, 1860
Eck Families Primarily Listing Descendants of Jacob Egg/Eck and Anna Maria Margaret Kilcher p. 120; Helen E. Arkey, Allentown, PA, 1992
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