Lauderdale-Colbert County AlArchives Biographies.....Bayless, William W. 1841 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  WILLIAM W. BAYLESS, of the firm of Bayless & Reeder, Real Estate Agents,
Florence, is a native of Louisville, Ky., where he was born December 5, 1841,
and is the eldest son of William B. and Ann (Tannyhill) Bayless, natives of
Kentucky and Tennessee, respectively.

  The Bayless family removed from Kentucky to Nashville, Tenn. in 1842 or '43.
and from there several years later, to Giles County, that State.

  W.W. Bayless was educated at Nashville, and began business as a clerk in his
father's book establishment. At the outbreak of the war, he enlisted as a
private in Co. B, First Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A., and was in the army until
May, 1865. He was promoted first to a lieutenancy from the ranks and placed in
charge of a cavalry company in Nixon's regiment (1863), and was acting adjutant
with the rank of first lieutenant when the war ended. He participated in the
battles of Perryville, Johnsonville, and Franklin, Tenn. He was wounded at
Perryville so seriously as to retire him from active service for one year, and
again at Franklin, or Brentwood, laying him up for three months. At Perryville,
he fell into the hands of the enemy and was a prisoner from October, 1862, to
April, 1863. After the close of the war Captain Bayless returned to Tennessee
and in the following year removed to Colbert County, Ala., where he subsequently
married Miss Rebecca Thompson, daughter of Lawrence Thompson, Esq., one of the
pioneers of that county. For fifteen years he devoted his time to farming in
Colbert, and in 1881 removed to Florence.

  Captain and Mrs. Bayless are members of the Presbyterian Church, and the
Captain belongs to the Masonic fraternity and to the Knights of Honor.


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Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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