Person:Jesse Bailey (6)

I was told Jesse went to Kansas. I found Jessie living in Norton Cnty.Kansas, Harrison TWP. in the 1900 census. Vol. 39 sheet 1 line 15. He wasn't in the Kan. census in 1880 census. I also found him in the 1920 Kansas census with no children at home. In his Obiturary is says he moved to Iowa from Penn. when he was 16 yrs. old then moved to Minnesota. His brother Sylvester's Obiturary says he(Sylvester) moved to Iowa when he was 4 years old. Sylvester was born in !849 and this means they would have moved to Iowa in 1853 and Jesse would have been 2 yrs old unless Jessie didn't move with the family.

OBITURARY JESSE LYMAN BAILEY

Jesse Lyman, son of Eli and Betsy Bailey, was born in Crawford county, Pa., Sept. 24, l951, and departed this life at 4 P. M. February 15, 1935, at his home in Almena, Kansas. He had been confined to his bed for the past ten weeks, and had been In poor health and a patient sufferer for a long time. He moved from Pennsylvania to Iowa when 16 years. years old and from there to Minnesota soon after. He was married in Wankon, Iowa, January 5, 1872, to Miss Sarah Rebecca Dodge, of Preston, Minnesota To this union were born six children, four of whom. are living, Willie of Norton, Kans.; Harry, of Snyder, Colo.; Mrs Lulu Johns, of Almena, Kansas. and Dexter of Densmore, Kansas. Two daugters having gone on before. With that sturdy pioneer spirit typical of people of that generation, they came to Norton county, Kansas in 1879 and homesteaded in Harrison township and Side View school district, and help to make this community what it is today. In those pioneer days, there were held religious services in the old Side View schoolhouse. Under these influences both our brother and his good wife were converted and baptized and united with the Christian' Church of that community. Like the stone cast into the pool of water making ripples which extend to the waters edge so has the influence of those religious services extended. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey had the unusual experience of passing together their 63rd weddirg anniversaxy, which is perhaps the longest wedded life of any in this entire community.January 6, 1892 he was made member of the 1. 0. 0. F. to which fraternity he was a life long member. He leaves to mourn his going his wife, four children, twelve grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandehild, making five generations of living relatives, and a host of relatives and friends.

Funeral services were conducted at the Almena Methodist Church, Sunday afternoon, by Rev. J. E. M. Chambers. The members of the IOOF. fraternity had charge of burial services at Mount Hope cemetery. I went to the Mount Hope cemetery and found the grave of his daughter and the cemetery register saying two unknown Bailey's buried in her grave. This had to be Jessie and Sarah.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T624).

   1910 Federal Population Census. T624, 1,784 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. W Union Twp, Norton, Kansas, ED 116, roll 449, part 1, page 193B.

2. ↑ United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623).

   Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. Norton, Kansas, ED 88, roll T623 493, page 1A.