Charles Pettus was born about 1763, in Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Dabney Pettus, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Rodes, was 32. He had at least 1 son with Martha Pettus. He died in 1797, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 34.
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