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Chase County Kansas Historical Sketches
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Bailey, William
William Bailey appears to have been born July 1832 in Wayne Co., Indiana.
The Indiana Quaker Records Abstracts by Heiss show this entry: 5 February 1842 - Mary (Bailey) received on certificate at White River MM, Randolph Co. from Chester MM Wayne Co. John, Benjamin, and William, minors, were received on the same date. This is the first mention of William in the Quaker Records. Month and year of birth are derived from later census schedules.
He married his second cousin, Elva Davis, in Howard Co., Indiana in 1852. They were 17 and 15 years old when they married. After the birth of their first child, Silas, they moved from Indiana to Iowa with Elvie's father, Simon, and several other members of her family. Among them were Elvie's sister, Nancy, and her husband, Stanton Bailey, William's first cousin. William and Elvie's second child, Benjamin, was born in Iowa in 1854.
Elvie was disowned by Honey Creek MM, Howard Co, IN, 18 August 1852, for joining the Separatists, and marriage contrary to discipline because she and William were married in a civil ceremoney instead of a Quaker ceremony. William was disowned by the Jericho Preparative Meeting, Wayne Co, for non-attendance and marrying contrary to discipline 5 May 1855. (Heiss Indiana Quaker Records Abstracts)
William and his sons are on the 1860 census in Bazaar Township, Chase Co, Kansas living with Elvie's father. Elvie isn't listed and it's assumed she had died. Nancy, Stanton, and their sons, William Riley and Simon E., were living near by.
By 1865 William had returned to Iowa and married Mary Bertha Davis , a daughter of his second cousin, John Davis. John was also a second cousin to Nancy and Elva. Mary might have been the Mary Brazington living next door to the Simon Davis household on the 1860 Chase Co, Kansas census with husband David and son William. She was born and raised in Henry Co, Iowa. There is no marriage record in Henry Co. or neighboring Lee Co. for a William Bailey and Mary Davis but there is a marriage recorded in Henry Co. for William Bailey and Mary Brazington in 1861.
Two sons, Joseph (Dode) and Thomas (Verlie) were born in Iowa before 1870 and a third son, John, was born in Missouri in 1872. By 1875 they were, again, in Chase Co, Kansas where Nettie, Rose Etta, and Linney were born.
William is listed on the 1875 Kansas State Census with three sons; J. C., age 10, J. B. (T. V.) age 6, and John D., age 2. Mary isn't listed.
William and Silas are on the 1880 Federal Census, Bazaar Township, Chase Co, Kansas. Also living in Bazaar Township were Stanton and Nancy Davis Bailey's sons, William Riley and Simon, and their families. Benjamin was living in Oswego Township, Labette Co, Kansas. (REF: Bailey Documents)
Silas married Sylvia Elizabeth (last name unknown) in 1878. They left Kansas after son, Frank, was born in 1884, moving to Tennessee where their daughter Elsa was born in 1892. They were in Indian Territory in 1897.
Benjamin married Millie Banks in Chase Co, Kansas in 1875. They had three children when they moved to Dade Co, Missouri where a daughter was born, then moved to Fall City, King Co, Washington about 1884. He ventured to Del Norte, Colorado where another daughter was born in 1892, then back to Fall City, Washington by 1895.
Simon Bailey married Millie's sister, Louisa in 1879. They had one child when they moved to Fall City about 1884. Simon patented land at Fall City and was the postal carrier for many years, acquiring the nickname "Time" as he was always on time with the mail and to meet arriving trains. He and Louisa are buried in Fall City Cemetery along with his second wife, Mary, and their son, William Clyde.
William Riley married Louesa McGehee in Barry Co, Missouri in 1876 and returned to Kansas. They left Kansas in 1884, going first to Indian Territory, then to Arkansas and settled in Boone county. William and Louisa are buried in Alpena Cemetery.
Dode married Emma Hilsabeck and their first two children were born in Kansas in 1887 and 1889.
William lived in Kansas until 1889 when a portion of the Indian Territory south of Kansas (later to become Oklahoma) was opened to white settlers and William, Dode, and Verlie made "the Run" to claim a homestead in what is now Cherokee Township, Payne County on 22 April 1889. (Source: Oklahoma Homesteaders of 1890)
Submitted by Chelle Williams
by Lorna Marvin
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