Charles was educated in the public schools of Union County. He rented for awhile after his marriage and when financially able purchased 50 acres of land. He operated a threshing machine and sawmill.

He married Mary Jane Van Hyning on 18 February 1886 in Logan County, Ohio and they had 10 children.

Obituary: "Charles Allen Baxley was born on a farm near Raymond, Ohio on September 27, 1865, and died June 15, 1918. He had lived with us 53 years and he had made for himself an important place in the life of our community, a place that no one else could fill. Charles Baxley was a very human man, always eager to help anyone who needed help and generous to a fault. Many of us know of instances when he had gone very much out of his way to help a person whom he felt had no special friend to care. He had followed the occupation of farming and in addition he was widely known and will be missed as an operator of threshing machinery and other enterprises of like kind. He filled many positions of trust in the community. He was a member of the order of K of P and delighted in the spirit of friendship, charity and brotherly love. The best testimony of a man's life is his family. Someone has said, 'The finest symbol of eternity is when men and women send children out into the world equipped with the right idea of life to carry on the work they leave unfinished.' And what a splendid family he has left behind: Six sons, Nelson, Merle, Marion, Dale, David and Clyde; four daughters, Kathryn Yoder, Lelah Grubbs, Sadie and Blanche. Ever since I have known the Baxleys I have felt the deep undercurrent of love that was between father, mother and children. The father of Charles Baxley, George W. Baxley, came to this country from Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, Catherine Newman-Baxley, came from New Jersey. Of his mother's family two half-brothers, Norman and Marion Dillon, and two half-sisters, Mrs. Elmer Lockwood and Mrs. Harvey Cook, survive him. His father and mother were pioneers in the development of our country and held a high place in their community. Charles Baxley and Mary Jane Van Hyning were married February 7, 1886 and had given their lives to the rearing of their family. They always stood for progress in the community and especially have they been zealous in offering the comforts of their home to those who had no home. Today our hearts are heavy for the loss of this husband and father so needed by his family, for the loss of this neighbor who was a true friend in time of need. His body, the house he lived in this world, goes down into the grave but his spirit, the real self, goes on."