CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Bailey
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Bailey

  In 1754 William Bailey, a soldier in the Virginia militia, was killed at the
battle of the Meadows. Henry Bailey served in the French and Indian war. In 1784
Savage Bailey, son and heir of John Bailey, patented 475 acres lying on the west
side of Falling river. Marriages, 1788: Kesiah Bailey m. John Evans; 1789,
Robert Bailey married Lucy Smith; 1794 Thomas Bailey m. Temperance Bailey; Sarah
Bailey m. Adam Driskell. In 1803 Thomas Bailey married Elizabeth Timberlake. He
had moved in 18O1 from Goose Creek, Bedford county. In 1798 Susan Bailey married
Thomas Shepherd.

  Josiah Bailey moved from Dinwiddie in 18O2; married Susannah Ballard in 18O4;
was a member of Ivy Creek Meeting the same year, and clerk of South River
Meeting in 18O9; moved to Miami Meeting, Ohio, with seven children in 1812.

  Jonathan Bailey married, in 18O8, Sarah Butler: in 1821 Abner Bailey married
Charlotte Cocke. In 1817 John and Lucy Bailey sold Thomas Rudd 386 acres lying
on Big Falling river, land which Bailey had previously bought of Rudd. The same
year John Bailey bought of John and Nancy Rosser 215 acres on Bear Creek, lying
on both sides of Lawyer's road and adjoining the lands of Richard Daniel,
Micajah, John and William Hubbard, James Shannon and Lindsay Crawley: in the
deed of transfer Bailey records himself as then resident in Charlotte county.

  Exum and Anna Bailey moved to South River from Dinwiddie during 1817. Philip
Bailey was a Revolutionary pensioner, 85 years old, in 1835. In 1771 Richard
Bailey patented 2O3 acres on both sides of Maple creek a branch of Blackwater.
In 1798 Gregory Matthews sold Thomas Bailey 65 acres along Todd's and Driskell’s
old line ridge path crossing Ivy creek.


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