Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Bailey, John D. 1836 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JOHN D. BAILEY, farmer of Beat No. 3, was born in Columbus, Ga., in 1836. He
is a son of Dawson and Louisa Bailey, natives of Pennsylvania, where they were
married and soon after removed to Columbus, Ga., where they both died, the
mother when John D. was an infant, the father about a year later. Both were
liberally educated and were Presbyterians. Mr. Bailey was a machinist by trade
and occupation. John D. Bailey was the youngest of three brothers, viz.:
Stephen, who went north at the breaking out of the war and has not been heard of
since. Duncan, a farmer of Barbour county, Ala., was a lieutenant in the late
war, and John D. The latter was raised on a farm by relatives and by James
Moore, Chambers county, Ala, receiving a good education at West Point. He began
life for himself when a mere youth, beginning at such work as he could find to
do. In 1856 he came to what is now Crenshaw county and engaged in farming. At
the breaking out of the war he joined company B. Fourteenth Alabama infantry,
serving in the Virginia army. His first fight was at the first battle of
Manassas. He served continuously with Lee's army from the first to the last,
fighting in all the principal battles of that army. He was wounded in the thigh
at Fredericksburg and at Gettysburg he lost the little finger of his left hand.
After this battle he was home on furlough thirty days. His position was that of
sergeant. He surrendered with Lee at Appomattox, and came to Atlanta with his
brigadier general, H. Clay King, who was sentenced to be hanged for the murder
in Memphis, Tenn., of D. H. Poston, but now serving in the penitentiary at
Nashville on a commutation of sentence by Gov. Buchanan of that state. After the
war he resumed farming, and in the fall of 1866 married Serena, daughter of
Simeon R. and Linnie A. May, natives of Alabama, where Mrs. Clay still lives,
aged about sixty-six. Mr. May was a farmer, served in the late war, was a Mason,
and died in 1879. Mrs. Bailey was born in the vicinity and is the mother of ten
children, as follows: Wilhelmina, wife of Robert H. Webster; John; Mollie, wife
of Clay Bright; Herbert; Cordelia, deceased; Lizzie, Viola, Lula, Edward and
Robert. Mr. Bailey has lived in the same neighborhood since 1856, and since the
war on his present farm of about 400 acres, mostly under cultivation. He has
acquired all his property by his own exertions, has always been a farmer, has
never held nor aspired to hold an office. He became a member of Helicon lodge,
No. 201, F. & A. M., in 1858, now Lapine lodge. He has been a Methodist from his
youth, while his wife is a Baptist, as were also her parents. She was one of a
family of eleven children, ten of whom are living, Both Mr. Bailey and wife are
exemplary members of society and are highly respected.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 766-767
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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