Biographical Sketch of Thomas H. Bayless, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Thomas H. Bayless, P. O. Lexington, Missouri, was born in Rappahannock
county, Virgnia, August 27, 1827.  In 1835, he moved with his parents to
Garrett county, Kentucky, where they lived until 1843.  When he was 14
teen years old, his father died.  In consequence of ill health, he
received but a limited education.  In 1843, he moved, with his mother 
and family to this county, where he entered some land, and farmed it
until 1847.  He then clerked in a store in Lexington one year, and in
1848, engaged in merchandising at Utica, Livingston county, Mo., where 
he continued until 1851, and then went to Richmond, Mo., where he carried
on a store, and at the same time, one in Camden, and dealt largely in
tobacco and feeding stock, some years feeding as high as 200 cattle.  In
1869, he closed out his extensive business, and came to Lexington, in 
this county, where he engaged in the hotel business, purchsing the well
known City Hotel, of which he is now sole proprietor.  Beginning life
with a very small capital, by energy and management he has accumulated
a fortune of $30,000.  In 1869, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Hudgens,
daughter of Judge William Hudgens, of Lexington, Mo., formerly of Va.
They have had ten children, six of them living: John H., Fannie P., 
Bessie, Daisie B., Samuel and Blanche.  he has been a Mason for 22 years,
and a member of the Methodist Church, South, since 1865. 

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