HENRY YEAGER.   Among the men of this county who shouldered their guns when Fort Sumter was fired upon and who followed the flag through many bloody campaigns and harassing marches during the Civil war, none bore a more honorable part than the subject of this memoir.  He is a native of Mifflin township, where he was born Dec. 2, 1840.  His birth occurred on the farm now occupied by John A. McCleary.  He is the son of John Yeager, a native of Schuylkill county, Penn.  The latter in early manhood married Miss Mary A. Pepple, and to them were born nine children, of whom two were sons who both served their country in the Rebellion.  John Yeager moved from the Keystone state to Wyandot county about the year 1835, settling in Marseilles township and taking up a tract of government land.  Here he remained for a short time and then returned for a short time and then returned to Pennsylvania.  After staying there for some time he again came to this county and settled in Mifflin township, where he bought eighty acres of woodland.  There was no house of any sort on the place, and he was obliged to pitch his tent between two big logs and live in the same until he could build a rude log cabin.  This was rough experience but necessary in a new country, where neighbors were few and houses many miles apart.  The cabin contained but one room, which served as parlor, kitchen and bedroom combined.  Here himself and wife continued to reside, rearing their family and leading useful lives, until 1870, when Mr. Yeager died while he was in attendance at the Salem church.  He was seventy-two years old at the time of his death.  His widow survived him until 1878, when she, too, passed away at the ripe old age of eighty years.  Both were people of the highest respectability, filled with that kindliness which greets all mankind as brothers and sisters and decks life with the blossoms of benevolence and love.  They left behind them many who regretted their departure and who may well imitate their many virtues.
     The subject of this sketch was reared on the old farm of his father.  When the war broke out in 1861 he enlisted, when the first rush was over, in the Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry in company with his brother, and soon afterward took the field with his regiment.  From this time till the close of the war Mr. Yeager saw almost continuous service in arduous marches, pitched battles and the distressing privations of camp life.  During his army service Mr. Yeager succeeded, by improving his leisure time, in securing a fair education.  His first engagement was at Bull Hill pasture, where he bore an honorable and conspicuous part.  He participated in all the stirring marches and battles of the Shenandoah campaign, and still further distinguished himself.  He fought at the second Bull Run. was engaged at the dreadful battle of Gettysburg, one of the great decisive struggles of the world, participated in the splendid storming of Lookout Mountain, was hotly engaged at the memorable siege of Atlanta, and marched with Sherman down through the heart of the Confederacy in one of the momentous military movements of all history.  While out with others on a foraging expedition near Goldsboro, he was captured by the Confederates and taken to the famous, or rather infamous, Libby prison.  The regiment veteranized at Lookout Mountain, and Mr. Yeager received his honorable discharge in 1865.  His military record should be a crown of glory and renown, not only to his descendants, but to every citizen of our common country.  Flushed with victory, he came home to again take up the other struggle for existence—of making a living by the arts of peace.  His brother, Amos, died soon after being honorably mustered out of his country's service.  The subject came back with the honors of war and resumed farming in Mifflin township, where he remained until 1869, when he came to the place where he now resides.  He owns one hundred and fifty acres, and has made nearly all of the improvements himself.  In politics he is a Democrat.  On Dec. 19, 1807, he was united in marriage with Miss Lorinda Fox, and by her has one child.  Daisy E., now the wife of Christian Sammet.  Three little grandchildren, Homer F., Franklin R. and Ralph L., often come out to see the old soldier, Mr. Yeager.
Source:  Biographical Memoirs of Wyandot Co., Ohio - Published 1902 - Page 432