OBIT: James G. BAILEY, 1862, formerly of Blair County, PA

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KILLED BY THE INDIANS

  James G. Bailey, formerly a resident of this place, but for some 
years past residing in Kansas, was killed by the Indians on the 15th of 
August last. The Kansas Journal says that Mr. Bailey, together with a 
company of emigrants to which he was attached on their way to the 
Salmon River Gold Mines, encamped on Greene river, some 80 miles north 
of Salt Lake City, when he, with another man, went two or three miles 
from camp to fish. While absent the Indians attempted to stampede the 
cattle and mules belonging to the train, but were driven off by the 
guards. In their retreat the Indians came upon the fishing party and 
attacked them with bows and arrows, killing Mr. Bailey instantly - one 
arrow wounding him in the head, and another passing through his heart. 
He leaves a large family, who reside at Rising Sun, opposite Lecompton, 
Kansas.

Democratic Standard, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, November 5, 1862