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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Lawrence and Monroe
Counties, Indiana;
their people, industries and institutions.
Publ. Indianapolis, Ind. - B. F. Bowen & Co.,
1914
 JOHN
S. BAILEY. The venerable gentleman whose career
is briefly sketched in the following lines is one of the older
residents of Bedford and his life has been such as to gain the
confidence and good will of the people of his community and to
make him well and favorably known throughout the county of
which he has so long been an honored citizen. In the
highest sense of the term he is a self-made man and as such
has met with success in material things such as few attain and
made a record which may be studied with profit by the young
men of the rising generation.
John S. Bailey was born on September 10, 1831,
on his father's farm six miles north of Bedford, Indiana, and
has therefore been a participant in and an eye witness of the
wonderful development which has characterized this section of
the state during the last few decades. He is the son of
Levi and Catherine (Holman) Bailey, the father a native
of Indiana and the mother of Woodford county, Kentucky.
The subject's paternal grandfather, Charles Bailey, was
a native of Hagerstown, Pennsylvania. In boyhood he was
bound out, but ran away and came to Louisville. At this
time there were only seven houses there. He was a great
hunter and woodsman and in order to find available locations
he settled on Lost River, in Orange county, Indiana, where he
remained several years. Later he located six miles north
of Bedford where he took up government land and lived until
1847, when he moved to Sullivan county, this state. He
married a Miss Smith, a native of Kentucky, who died in
Sullivan county, and eventually he went to Linn county, Iowa,
where his death occurred. He was the father of the
following children: John, Levi; Gideon,
who was a doctor, and after he moved to Iowa was appointed a
marshal; Harrison, Joseph, Lena, Rebecca, Sallie
and Ann. Levi Bailey had few opportunities
for securing an education and his early years were devoted to
agricultural pursuits and stock raising. These lines of
effort developed a large business and he eventually became
noted as a shipper, having sent twenty-one boat loads of pork
and wheat on flat boats to New Orleans. He built his own
boats and was successful in all his undertakings, at one time
owning fourteen hundred acres of land six miles north of
Bedford. He was a Democrat in politics and was well
known throughout the community where he lived. His death
occurred in 1854 and his wife died in 1844.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the common
schools of his home neighborhood, remaining under the parental
roof until he had attained his majority. He lived on the
home farm north of Bedford until about the time of the
breaking out of the Civil war, when he went to Sullivan
county, Indiana, where he remained until about a year after
the war closed. He then bought ninety acres of land
located two and one-half miles east of Bedford, where he
remained two years and then traded that for a farm in Guthrie
township. He was very successful in his farming
operations, acquiring several other farms located at different
places in the county and he devoted his attention to
agricultural pursuits until 1912, when he retired from active
business life and moved to Bedford, where he now resides.
Persistent industry and second business methods characterized
his career and in all his relations with his fellow men his
dealings were marked by the strictest integrity and fairness,
so that at all times he enjoyed the confidence of all who were
associated with him in any way.
On July 9, 1862, Mr. Bailey enlisted at Madison,
Indiana, in Company A, Sixty-seventh Regiment, Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, with which he took part in the battles of
Munfordville, Kentucky; Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi; Arkansas
Post, Arkansas; Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion's
Hill, Big Black River Bridge, siege and capture of Vicksburg,
and Jackson, Mississippi; Apelousas and Grand Coteau,
Louisiana; Matagorda Bay, Texas; Grand Ecore, Saline Cross
Roads, Moresfille, Cane River Crossing, Cane River,
Alexandria, Hunt's Plantation, Dunn's Bayou, Bayou DeLamora,
Avayletes Prairie, Yellow Bayou, Old River and Anhapologa
Bayou, Louisiana; Ft. Gains, Fort Morgan, Pollard and Ft.
Blakely, Alabama. He was honorably discharged in August,
1865. He is now a member of the Grand Army Post No. 247,
at Bedford.
Mr. Bailey has been married three times, first
in the spring of 1852 to Mary Ramsey, of Bedford,
Indiana, who died in 1862. In August, 1866, he married
Margaret Malotte, of Bedford, Indiana, whose death
occurred in February, 1906, and on November 19, 1908, he
married Mary E. Scott, the widow of Reuben B. Scott,
of Bedford, a farmer whose death had occurred in 1906.
Mr. Scott was a prominent man in hsi community and had
served as representative in the Legislature from Lawrence
county. Mrs. Bailey is the daughter of John W.
Miller, who married Susan J. Udderback, both of whom
were natives of Kentucky, who came to Lawrence county and
settled four and a quarter miles northeast of Bedford, where
he conducted farming operations and also worked at his trade
as a cabinet-maker. He died on February 3, 1857, and his
wife died on July 16, 1881. They were members of the
Christian church and were the parents of two children:
Elijah H., who died in 1896, was a farmer, and Mary
E., the wife of the subject. To Mr. Bailey's
first union were born two children, Oscar, who is a
carpenter and farmer at Woodmond, Oklahoma, and Austin,
a carpenter who died in 1887. To the subject's second
union were born the following children: Frank, a
member of the hardware firm of Bailey & Pittman of
Bedford. He married Hester Dodd, and they have
two children, Roy and Mary; Homer,
who was a soldier in the Spanish-American war, died of typhoid
fever during that war; Fred C., in the transfer
business at Bedford, married Mabel Julian, and they
have two children, Joy and John S.; Lillian
is the wife of Fay Hamilton, of Greencastle, Indiana,
and they have five children, Glen, Gene, Louisa, Lowell
and Francis; Emma C. is the wife of Wesley Ramsey,
of Seattle, Washington, and they have four children, Ivan,
Irene, Mary and John; Lee, a shoe and clothing
merchant at Bedford, married Grace Owen; Robert M.,
who is a druggist at Martinsville, Indiana, married Mable
Dill, and they have one child, Margaret A.
Fraternally, Mr. Bailey is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Bedford, while his
religious connections are with the Christian church, of which
he is a faithful and earnest member. He enjoys a wide
and favorable acquaintance throughout the county and
everywhere he is held in high esteem by those who know him.
Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
Counties, Indiana;
Publ. Indianapolis, Ind. - B. F. Bowen & Co., 1914 - Page
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| HERSCHEL E. BAKER Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| ALEXANDER BARNES Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| HARRISON R. BARROW Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| IRA C. BATMAN Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| OSCAR E. BELL Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| J. W. BLAIR Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| WILLIAM O. BLAKELY Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
Counties, Indiana;
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| WILLIAM O. BLAKELY Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
Counties, Indiana;
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| JAMES E. BORUFF Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| SAMUEL BRAY Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| W. T. BREEDEN Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| THOMAS M. BRINKWORTH Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| THOMAS J. BROOKS Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| JOHN S. BROWN Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| WILLIAM A. BROWN Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| MARTIN A. BURTON Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| LAWRENCE V. BUSKIRK Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| PHILIP K. BUSKIRK Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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| CHARLES P. BUTLER Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
Counties, Indiana;
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| JAMES D. BYRUS Source: History of Lawrence and Monroe
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