Charles Gering married Pansy Scott, daughter of the Fremont Scotts', who came to Western Nebraska from Aurora, Co in 1890. Three of the Scott's girls were born in Aurora. Fremont had grocery store there.

Pansy first met Charles Gering when she was visiting his sisters at their home in Gering. The girls were friends in high school. Pansy was 15 at the time and Charles was 17. Carles was her beau for two years before they were married. She didn't have a big wedding but she did have a beautiful wedding dress. Charles and Pansy were married in Gering by a judge with one of her sisters and her beau as attendants. Her mother had the wedding supper at their home and this is where Charlie and Pansy spent a week, their honeymoon. After being at the Scott's farm, Charles decided that he would like to be a farmer.

Their first home was in the large brick building that Martin Gering (Charles' grandfather) had at 10th and M streets in Gering. Charlie and Harry, his brother, who had also been recently married, made apartments on the second floor above the Past Time Theatre. They ran the first motion picture house in Scotts Bluff County. Tickets were .25 cents for adults, .15 cents for children.

Martin Gering gave Charles one of the lots on land that he owned in Gering and this is where they built their first house. Charles later filed on 160 acres near Dome Rock but the government decided that the land wasn't for sale. Pansy kept the first papers and ten years later they were able to file and prove up the claim on the land. They had no equipment for farming so had to borrow what they used, even the horses for plowing. They dug a basement that was their first home until they were able to move a building from Fremond Scott's place to put over the basement. This house was later damaged by fire and soon after they built the present house on the farm, which is called "Valley View Farm." After Charles retired, he continued to help his eldest son, Cleo, farm the land.