Barry County Missouri Obituary Mrs. Lela Amelia Johnson Bailey 
 Feb 1880 - 1912 
(Dates courtesy of GNephew Richard Johnson) 
Source: Scrapbook bought at the estate sale of Vivian Roller by Ted W. Roller



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A great battle is over. A good woman has passed to  the  rewards  beyond
the flesh, and beneath the sun parched sod on the tranquil summit of Oak
Hill cemetery, in a conqueror's grave, rests the remains  of  Mrs.  Lela
Amelia Bailey, wife of Dr. W.T. Bailey. To most of the  readers  of  THE
GAZETTE, the long suffering and heroic fortitude of Mrs. Bailey is known
beyond the need of further description. Suffice it  to  say  that  after
more than two years suffering with cancer of the breast, and after  more
than two months lingering at the threshold of  death,  she  quietly  and
peacefully gave up the unequal struggle last Monday morning at a  little
after 9 o'clock.

GROWS WORSE

In the early spring Mrs. Bailey's condition became so critical that  she
was taken to St. Louis for treatment. But after remaining there for some
time under the care of the most expert physicians,  it  was  found  that
nothing could be done, and, at her  request  she  was  brought  back  to
Cassville on the 3 of July, and since that time  she  has  been  growing
gradually worse.

But, all during her long suffering and in the face  of  the  inevitable,
she resigned herself with a heroic fortitude and a Christian like  trust
that  was  truly  characteristic  of  her  noble  life  and  her  strong
character.

Mrs. Bailey was, before marriage Miss Lela Amelia Johnson,  daughter  of
Mr and Mrs. John T. Johnson of Weaton. In 1901 she was  married  to  Dr.
W.T. Bailey and has lived for the past few years in this city where  her
labor as a home builder, a church worker  and  a  charitable,  Christion
woman has be felt by all who knew her or came in contact with  her  good
and noble work. At the time of her death, Mrs. Bailey was just 33  years
and 6 months old, and up to the very last she was the picture of  beauty
and sweet life as is found in queenly womanhood.

The funeral services were held at the Christian church Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock and were conducted by the elder  Geo  Yarbrough.  Interment
followed in the Oak Hill cemetery.  She  is  survived  by  her  husband,
mother and father, 7 brother and one sister.

To Dr. Bailey her grief stricken husband, to the other  members  of  her
family and to the host of friends who will grieve for her as though  she
were one of their  blood,  THE  GAZETTE  extends  sincere  sympathy  and
condolence, and asks them to remember that their loss is her  gain,  and
in their suffering, she, for whim they suffer, has found rest and repose
and the sweet rewards of her noble life.