Charles Lemart Junkins was born in Weston Township, September 25, 1863, his parents being Thomas and Elizabeth Nancy Long Junkins. He received a common school education, and spent his boyhood days on his father's farm. At the age of 22 he was married in Weston Township, July 2, 1885, to Inez Lucretia Wright, who was born May 19, 1864, and is a daughter of Oliver Hazard Perry and Mary Jane Marks Wright, both natives of Ohio. Their daughter, however, was born in Jay County, Indiana, and during her early girlhood was brought by her parents to Wood County. Two children grace this union – Thomas Perry and Ethel Lotta.