Stephenson County IL Archives Obituaries.....Bailey, Judge J M  1895
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Inter-Ocean, Oct 18, 1895
The Obituary Record
Funeral of Judge Bailey

Freeport, Ill., Oct. 17-Special Telegram-The funeral of the late Judge J. M. 
Bailey will be held Saturday at 2:30 from the First Baptist Church of this 
city, of which church the Judge was a member over forty years, and was 
superintendent of the Sunday school for thirty years. In the early days of the 
church the membership was small and the male members did not number over a 
half a dozen. The gentlemen used to take turns acting as janitor, and one cold 
winter morning, while Judge Bailey was acting as janitor, the house of worship 
caught fire and burned down soon after he had lighted the fire in the stove. 
His funeral sermon will be preached by his old college mate and life-long 
friend, Dr. Galusha Anderson, of the University of Chicago, and the members of 
the Freeport commandery, Knights Templar, will act as an escort from the 
church to the cemetery and will have charge of the services at the grave. It 
is expected that the judges of the State Supreme Court will be present and act 
as honorary pallbearers. Mrs. Bailey has received telegrams of condolence from 
many prominent men in all parts of the State, including members of the Supreme 
Court, William R. Harper, president of the University of Chicago; Judge J. H. 
Cartwright, of Oregon, now serving on the appellate bench, and Judge J. D. 
Crabtree, of Dixon, one of the judges of this judicial circuit, are most 
prominently talked of here as Judge Bailey's successor.


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