Charles Malcolm, son of John and Martha (Axling) Bliss, was born May 12, 1884 at Clay Center, Kansas. In 1894, at the age of 10, he came to Oklahoma by covered wagon with his family; they settled on a farm north of Avard. In 1908, Charles filed on a claim near the Schrock Post Office and proved it up. On December 28, 1910, he and Iva W. Hendricks were married in the Goshen County Church parsonage by the Methodist minister. Iva, daughter of John and Ellen Hendricks, was born October 16, 1893 near Decatur, Illinois and came with her family to Oklahoma in 1902 at the age of 9; they settled on a farm 12 miles west of Alva and later moved to the Avard Community. Charles and Iva first lived in a one-room house that he had built on his claim. In 1912 they bought land west and south of his clamed and moved to a dugout there. Later they bought more land to the south and built a permanent home there. This land is in the Lookout Community; and it was home to Charles and Iva until their deaths, hers on March 15, 1958 and his on May 4, 1961. Both are buried at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Coldwater, Kansas.

Obituary:
Charles M. Bliss –

Charles M., son of John and Martha Bliss, was born at Clay Center, Kansas May 12, 1884 and departed this life May 4, 1951, at the age of 76 years, 11 months and 22 days.

With his parents, brothers and sisters, he came to Oklahoma at the age of ten and spent the remainder of his life in Wood County, establishing a home at the Lookout Community 53 years ago.

He was united in marriage to Iva Henricks December 28, 1910 at the Methodist parsonage of Goshen Church in Avard, Oklahoma.

To this union were born nine children, two sons and seven daughters: Mildred Aldrich, who passed away in 1946; Howard of Sharon Springs, Kansas; Mrs. Alfred (Viola) Davidson of Eureka Kansas; Mrs. Everett (Ethel) Bennett, Coldwater, Kansas; Chester of the home; Mrs. Albert (Harriett) Markham, Ashland, Oregon; Mrs. Dick (Irene) Welty, Freedom, Oklahoma; Dorothy, who passed away in 1934 and Mrs. Virgil (Betty) Hoffman, Coldwater, Kansas.

He was preceded in death by his faithful, devoted wife on March 15, 1958, by two daughters, his parents, two brothers and three sisters.

He was a kind, loving and generous husband and father, a very dear grandfather and will be grievously missed by his seven children, twenty-seven grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren, all of who loved him dearly.

Also surviving are five brothers: James of Lookout, Oklahoma; Harry and Roy of Alva, Oklahoma; Floyd of Avard and Lee of Eugene, Oregon; two sisters: Mrs. Mamie Meeker of Wichita, Kansas and Mable Converse of Kansas City, Missouri, also many nieces and nephews and a host of friends, numbered only by his many acquaintances, fore everyone he met was a friend.

Card of Thanks
We wish to thank Dr. Traverse and the hospital staff for their good care. Also friends, neighbors and relatives for their visits, flowers, cards, food and other acts of kindness during the illness and flowing the death of our father. – The family of Charles Bliss.