BAILEY BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BAILEY, George W. - b: 1850 Edgar Co, IL
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 512
residence: Walker Twp

George W. Bailey - For over forty years, George W. Bailey has resided in Walker 
township and has accumulated a splendid farm of 281 acres. Three farm 
residences are located upon this large farm, two of which Mr. Bailey erected 
himself, and also placed all other buildings upon the land. For many years he has 
been an extensive breeder and feeder of Shorthorn cattle and has about fifty head 
of cattle on the place at the present time. Of late years, Mr. Bailey has been 
renting out the greater part of his land. George W. Bailey was born August 4, 
1850, in Edgar County, Illinois, the son of George W. Bailey (born 1800, died 
1861). Mr. Bailey, Sr., came to Missouri in 1857, and located upon a pioneer farm, 
three miles northwest of the present home of his son. He was shot down by 
guerrillas at the beginning of the Civil War because of his Union sympathies. He 
was taken from his home in company with his son James and shot down by a band 
of Southern men. Seven children were left fatherless: W. T., deceased; Mrs. 
Frances Holsten, deceased; John, deceased; Mrs. Amanda Paxton, Independence, 
Missouri; Mrs. Serena Lane, deceased; Mrs. Mary Laylock, Gentry County, Missouri; 
George W., youngest son of the family. The mother of these children was Julia 
Howard, prior to her marriage. She was born in 1814 and died in 1877. In 1863, 
she took her family and went to Cooper County, Missouri, and in the following 
spring they settled on a farm in Morgan County, where they resided until the 
spring of 1865. They then located on a farm southwest of Warrensburg in Johnson 
County. In the fall of that year they returned to the homestead in Henry County. 
George W. Bailey, subject of this review, remained at home until 1875 and then 
settled on a farm one mile east of his present home and resided there for three 
years. He then purchased his farm, buying it on time payments. He secured eighty 
acres of land from his father-in-law and later added forty acres to the original 
place. He bought an additional tract of land in 1910. Mr. Bailey was married in 
November, 1874, to Miss Margaret A. Long, who was born in Henry County, January 
17, 1857, a daughter of Nicholas Long, a pioneer of this county who came from 
Miller County in 1854 and became owner of two thousand acres of land. Three 
children have been born to George W. and Margaret Bailey, two of whom died in 
infancy. Henry Bailey, their only son, is located on a farm, three miles southwest 
of his father's home. He was born October 1, 1875, and has been twice married. 
His first marriage was with Daisy Tinsley, who bore him five children. Frank, 
deceased; Roy, George Alexander, Joseph Haven, and Tina. His second marriage 
was with Miss Bettie Stone. Mrs. Bailey is a Republican and is a member of the 
Baptist Church. He is one of the substantial citizens of Henry County.

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