Biography:  William Lemmon Coleman Bailey of Monroe County, Mississippi

Source:  Rowland, Dunbar.  The Official and Statistical Register of the 
State of Mississippi, Centennial Edition, 1917.  Madison, Wisc.: Democrat 
Printing Company, 1917.

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MONROE COUNTY.

WILLIAM LEMMON COLEMAN BAILEY of Aberdeen, Representative from the County 
of Monroe, was born March 16, 1871, in that county.  His parents were 
James Asbury Bailey and Elizabeth Katherine (Armstrong) Bailey.  His 
father's family were South Carolinians.  His father, who was the son of 
Coleman and Frances (Shell) Bailey of Laurens District in that State, was 
born October 29, 1818, at Laurens.  He was a teacher, and followed that 
profession after he came to Mississippi in 1847.  Here he was elected 
County Surveyor, an office that he held for thirty years.  For four years 
he served with great gallantry in the Confederate Army in Company L of 
the 24th Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers, of which he was Orderly 
Sergeant.  The Bailey family is one of the best families of the state, 
having numerous branches that immigrated to America in the days of the 
Colonies.  Elizabeth Katherine (Armstrong) Bailey, mother of W. L. C. 
Bailey, was the daughter of James G. and Mary (Reneau) Armstrong of 
Monroe County, Mississippi.  Mary Reneau Armstrong was born October 23, 
1815, in North Alabama, removed to Mississippi in 1840, and lived at 
Aberdeen until her death.  Mr. Bailey was educated in the public schools 
of the State where he was carefully grounded in the English branches.  He 
has had considerable experience in local politics, having hled the office 
of County Surveyor from 1900 to 1905, and been Supervisor of the Fifth 
Beat in his county for eight years, an office that he filled very capably.  
His interest in all public questions that effect Mississippi prestige and 
welfare caused him to yield to the solicitations of the voters of his 
county and become their Representative in the State Legislature.  He is 
well equipped for his position and no truer man to the State's best 
interest occupies a seat in that body.  For the term of 1916-1920 he is 
serving as a valuable member of the following committees:  Ways and 
Means; Railroads; Immigration and Labor; Federal Relations.  He is a 
Democrat, a Methodist, a Master Mason, and a Woodman of the World, being 
Consul Commander of Post Oil Camp No. 405 Wren.  He married Lallie May 
Word, April 1, 1915.  She is the daughter of Charles and Mary Rebecca 
(Shell) Word of Monroe County, Mississippi.  Charles Word served for years 
as a faithful Confederate soldier.  His great-grandfather came from 
Ireland to Virginia, and during the Revolution was a drummer boy in the 
Fifth Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Charles Spotswood.