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Bailey Robert Virgil [Male] b. 28 DEC 1893 Tupelo, Baldwyn County Ms. - d. 7 FEB 1979 Mineola, Wood County, Texas

In this photo - standing-Bob, Gibbon, Lunford & Vada

Middle row - Fisher, Inell, Rene & Gene, and Silas & Marthe Anna

Bottom row - Kern & Aaron - isnt he cute; he's four when this is taken in 1905.



Robert Virgil Bailey

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Bailey Audie Fisher [Male] b. 30 JUN 1896 Baldwyn, Ms. - d. 4 OCT 1959 Cherokee, Texas

In this photo - standing-Bob, Gibbon, Lunford & Vada

Middle row - Fisher, Inell, Rene & Gene, and Silas & Marthe Anna

Bottom row - Kern & Aaron - isnt he cute; he's four when this is taken in 1905.


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Bailey Aaron Kirk [Male] b. 4 SEP 1901 Fulton, Ms. - d. 9 FEB 1997 Odessa, Ector County, Texas

Lela and Jim Bailey in 1932








In this photo - standing-Bob, Gibbon, Lunford & Vada

Middle row - Fisher, Inell, Rene & Gene, and Silas & Marthe Anna

Bottom row - Kern & Aaron - isnt he cute; he's four when this is taken in 1905.



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Bailey Wiley Kern [Male] b. 18 DEC 1898 Ms. - d. 1924 Kenna, NM

In this photo - standing-Bob, Gibbon, Lunford & Vada

Middle row - Fisher, Inell, Rene & Gene, and Silas & Marthe Anna

Bottom row - Kern & Aaron - isnt he cute; he's four when this is taken in 1905.









Kern Bailey


Aaron Kirk believed that he thought that Kern may have died of malnutrition due to illness.

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Bailey Mary Inell [Female] b. 4 FEB 1904 Baldwyn County, Ms. - d. 18 SEP 1994 Odessa, Ector County, Texas

CONC
In this photo - standing-Bob, Gibbon, Lunford & Vada

Middle row - Fisher, Inell, Rene & Gene, and Silas & Marthe Anna

Bottom row - Kern & Aaron - isnt he cute; he's four when this is taken in 1905.










Inell Bailey Lewis








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Bailey Silas Eugene [Male] b. 16 NOV 1906 Baldwyn County, Ms. - d. 7 JAN 1997 Odessa, Ector County, Texas

CONC
In this photo - standing-Bob, Gibbon, Lunford & Vada

Middle row - Fisher, Inell, Rene & Gene, and Silas & Marthe Anna

Bottom row - Kern & Aaron - isnt he cute; he's four when this is taken in 1905.




Gibbon & Mary Bailey










Gene & Rene Bailey







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Bailey Annie Eurene [Female] b. 16 NOV 1906 Baldwyn, Ms. - d. 27 DEC 2005 Kerrville, Texas

CONC
In this photo - standing-Bob, Gibbon, Lunford & Vada

Middle row - Fisher, Inell, Rene & Gene, and Silas & Marthe Anna

Bottom row - Kern & Aaron - isnt he cute; he's four when this is taken in 1905.




Gene & Rene Bailey







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Bailey Opal Lee [Female] b. 10 APR 1912 Grand Saline, Van Zandt County, Texas

Opal Bailey




Opal Bailey just before her 100th birthday










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Bailey William Monroe [Male] b. 1816 Georgia

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1. Signed name "Wyly Bailey" on marriage certificate of dau. Elizabeth "Bettie".
2. Had a penchant for naming some of his children after South Carolina heroes of the Ameican Revolution: to wit -- FRANCIS Marion (1732-1795), known as the "Swamp Fox." A shrewd, daring general whose men, sheltered by the swamps of South Carolina's 'three rivers' region, would dart out in never-ending raids on British troops and then disappear in the same swamps. Any troops fool enough to go into the swamps after them, seldom returned. -- PINCKNEY, a family of Revolutionary War patriots, headed up by ELIZABETH PINCKNEY, who created the family fortune by pioneering the growth of indigo, famous as a source of blue dye which was much in demand in Europe. She took over her father's plantation at the age of sixteen and created a family fortune and dynasty. She and her sons supported the Revolution with such fervor that upon her death in 1793, President Washington, himself, was one of her pallbearers.

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Barnett Mary Ann [Female] b. 1825 Georgia

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Mary Ann BUCE Barnett -- the Buce part of this name has surfaced from only one source, that being Joan Johnson of Oklahoma. It is a known fact that the cemetery in Baldwyn, Ms. has many graves with that family name. Whether she was formerly a Buce before she was a Barnett is pure speculation at this time (6-98).

Oral family history says that Mary was a full-blood Cherokee indian woman. She was an "herb doctor," that is, one who was possessed of extensive knowledge of the medicinal value and uses of various native plants for the treatment of various illnesses and ailments. She would be well-versed in the concoction of poultices, ointments, teas, etc. and the diseases and ailments to which each should be applied.

In 1838, the federal government began rounding up Cherokee families in Georgia to remove them to Oklahoma, then known as Indian Territory. This was the result of the Indian Removal Act which was passed by the U. S. Congress and signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1835. The Cherokee Nation, however, fought the removal in the courts but lost in 1837. The removal of the Cherokee began in 1838, and lasted throughout the winter of 1838-1839.

It was in 1839 that William "Wiley" Bailey married Mary Barnett, who was then only fourteen years of age. He was about twenty-two or twenty-three. While none of the descendants know the precise facts about the effects of the events swirling about them at this time, it is evident that Mary evaded the federal authorities, as did her husband, who would have been considered by the laws of the time to be a "Squaw Man," that is, a white man who was no longer considered to be a white man by virtue of his marriage to an indian woman. He would no longer have had the right to vote, to own land, nor would his signature have been legal on any contract or other binding legal document. Rather, they, like hundreds of others of their kind, ran away. They would, for all the years to come, lead a semi-clandestine existence. Mary and Wiley fled first to Alabama, and then, sometime between 1842 and 1846, moved to Mississippi. Mary lived a somewhat reclusive existence, according to bits and pieces of oral family anecdotes, because to be seen moving about widely would have exposed her as the indian that she was. They posed, my mother said, as white people and, as long as no one saw Mary, no one had to be the wiser. She never signed any government Indian roll. Her own children kept her origins a secret, even from their own children, until Mary died.

The only descriptions of Wiley indicate that he was a very tall man, perhaps six feet four or taller. He had blond hair when he was young. Mary was much shorter than Wiley, by a foot or more. She had jet black hair which never turned gray until the day she died. She never sat in a chair, according to her son, Silas, but chose to sit on the floor in front of the fireplace, smoking a cob pipe. Cleanliness was not held in high regard by those who lived in the early Nineteenth Century, especially by those who made their living from the earth on the frontier. The only time my mother, Mildred, heard her father,
Silas, and her mother, Martha Annie, argue was over the subject of Silas' mother and the fact that she never washed the leather skirt which she wore all of the time.

Mary Barnett died in Guntown, Lee County, Mississippi. She is buried in the Friendship Church cemetery. I have no facts at this time as to the year of her death, nor the date or place of Wiley's death.

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