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- The 1880 census says that his parents were both born in Germany. Patrick Foley reports that Charles Henry Yagle's mother never learned to speak English and was referred to by her descendants as "Grossmudder Yagle."
He appears in a muster roll of the 123rd Pennsylvania Infantry, age 20, enlisted at Pittsburgh 7 Aug 1862. An index card record exists for his widow's 27 Nov 1896 application for a pension based on his Civil War service; she is called on the card "Yagle, Lide. E." The Civil War Service Index (CMSR) - Union - Pennsylvania on fold3.com adds the information that he served in Company E. We have not found any further details of his service, including the date of his discharge. Two 1864 letters to his future wife, Eliza Ellen Boggs, reproduced in Patrick Foley's research notes, would seem to indicate that his service ended before 5 Sep 1864.
According to Patrick Foley's research draft, he and his wife and their four children "moved to the Santa Clara Valley in California, where they purchased 19½ acres of land on Hostetter Road in the Berryessa district, northeast of San Jose." "In addition to the peaches, pears, apricots, and prunes in his orchard, he grew potatoes, squash, melons, tomatoes, corn, and carrots. A jar of his summer squash, preserved in solution, was exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition as part of the Santa Clara County exhibit."
The ancestry.com database "California, Death and Burial Records from Select Counties, 1873-1987" includes an index card that lists two newspaper obituaries for Charles Henry Yagle:
Yagle, Charles Henry
DAILY HERALD
June 13, 1896, p. 4, col. 4
Even. News
June 12, 1896, p. 4, col. 4
We have not been able to directly view these obituaries, but from this index card we can conclude with reasonable safety that he died in Santa Clara County, which had both a Daily Herald and an Evening News in 1896.
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