Charles Henry Diuguid was born a free man to his mother Marsha Saunders in October 1817. Charles grew up around Clover Hill and eventually operated a blacksmith shop on property he owned just across from what would become the McLean house. Knowing she would be safer as a slave than as a free woman, by 1860 Charles had "purchased" his wife Sarah Ann Porter. Even as a Free Black man, Charles was forced to work on Confederate fortifications around Richmond duriung the Civil War. After the war, Charles founded, along with other neighbors, Galilee Baptist Church - the county's first African American church. Eventually Charles, Sarah, and their children moved along with other Black Appomattox emigrants to Columbus, Ohio.