He was the son of Robert H and Eliza (Boyles) Bagley and married Margaret Ann Warren. His birthday celebration story and obituary follows:

Charles Bagley, Sr. Observes Bithday --

One of the sages of Lincoln County passed another milestone in his career last Wednesday when he celebrated his ninety-second birthday at his home here in Fayetteville.

He is Charles Bagley, Sr., a native of this county and long one of the minor influences in the greater development of this community.

His children and grandchildren and others close to the family gathered for the occasion and to pay due homage to this venerable head of the Bagley clan.

Hundreds throughout the county know Mr. Bagley from his younger days as one of the county road commissioners. It was while serving in this capacity that he exerted much influence toward scouring a better system of bridges as well as county roads.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bagley, of Nashville, Mrs. John Wright, of Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bagley, Jr., and children, of Chattanooga, and Mr. Davis Thornton, of Atlanta, were here to enjoy the day with their father.

Source:

The Fayetteville Observer

Fayetteville, Tennessee

Thursday, May 2, 1936

OLD AND HONORED CITIZEN OF FAYETTEVILLE PASSES AWAY --

A death which was daily expected but none the less deplored occurred when Mr. Charles Boyles Bagley passed away at his residence on East College Street at 1:15 o'clock Sunday morning, December 1, 1935. He was married to Miss Margaret Warren, daughter of Re. J. B. Warren, December 2, 1872, at the residence in Petersburg. He was the residenic in Petersburg. He was a son of Robert H. C. Bagley and Mrs. Ellen Boyles Bagley.

When the South was invaded by an armed foe he enlisted under the Confederate flag and was wounded at the battle of Chattanooga. No man delighted more than he in the record the South made in those four years of sanguinary conflict and he attended the annual reunion of his comrades in arms until failing health kept him at home.

Having appealed to the arbitrament of arms he accepted the result in good faith and the same fidelity to duty which marked his conduct as a soldier was in evidence in his every day affairs.

In 1867 he entered the general merchandising business with his brother, the late T. O. Bagley. The firm being knows as Bagley Bros., and they continued in business until 1901.

Mr. Bagley was a constant reader and gifted with a mind far above the average; he gathered a store of information which made him a leader in every gathering.

For years he had been a member of the Presbyterian Church and contributed of his means and influence to the lengthening of the cords and the strenghtening of the stays of the Master. In every way he was a model citizen, a true friend, steadfast in his friendships, a loyal husband, an indulgent father, and an unquestioning Christian.

The funeral service was conducted at the residence where all his married life had been spent Monday afternoon by Revs. W. M. Crawford, M. T. Ellis, B. G. Pressley, W. T. Clarke, and E. M. Steele, burial at Rose Hill Cemetery.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Ann Warren Bagley; three sons, Col. Warren Bagley, now stationed at Washington, where he is undergoing treatment at Walter Reed Hospital, Tom Bagley of Nashville, and Charles Bagley, Jr. of Chattanooga; five daughters, Mrs. Ed Feeney of Fayetteville, Mrs. Davis Thornton and Mrs. Mary Bagley Wright, both of Atlanta, Mrs. Leda Bagley Peyton and Mrs. Elizabeth Bagley Caldwell, both of Fayetteville; seventeen grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Source:

The Fayetteville Observer

Fayetteville, Tennessee

Thursday, December 5, 1935